Abstracts of the 2000 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 9–12, 2000, San Diego, CA
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How the West Was Written: Qiao Zhou and the Historiography of Early Medieval Sichuan, J. Michael Farmer
Local Customs and Local History: The View from Xiangyang, Andrew B. Chittick
Early Buddhist Historiography: The Convergence of Local and Universal Paths, Tanya Storch
Squabbling Over Land: Political and Moral Dilemmas in Local Development, Xiaolin Guo
A Second Stage of Rural Industrialization: Elite Formation and Stratification in Taicang (Jiangsu) and Xuanwei (Yunnan) Compared, Frank N. Pieke
Cultural Life and Cultural Control: Where Is the Party? Stig Thogersen
Han and Tibetan Cultural Elites: Does Ethnicity Make a Difference? Mette Halskov Hansen
Women, Nation, and Narration in Late Qing Fiction, Jianmei Liu
Masculinizing Confucianism: A Reading of Chen Zhongshi’s The White Deer Plain (Bailu Yuan, 1993), Bai Di
Lu Xun: Defining What It Means to be ‘Chinese,’ Eva Shan Chou
Whereto "the Nation"? Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Novels and the Allusive "Chinese Identity," Ann L. Huss
Tserendash Namkhainyambuu: A Contemporary Mongolian Herder, Mary Rossabi
The Modern Mongolian Herder Economy: The End of Nomadism? Morris Rossabi
The Wool, Skin and Live Animal Trade in Mongolia and Khölön Buir: Geopolitics, State-Building, and the Pastoral Economy, 1908–1936, Christopher Atwood
Horses for Courses: The Making and Remaking of Land Policy in Mongolia, Robin Mearns
Fists of Fury? or the Jingwu hui Before Bruce Lee, Ruth Rogaski
National Skills: Guoshu Martial Arts and the Nanjing State, 1928–1937, Andrew Morris
Kung Fu Fighters Without History: Imagining Tradition with Shanghai Taijiquan Players, Adam Frank
The Commodification of Chi: Remythologizing Martial Arts in the 20th Century, Drew Herman
Spirit of Stone: Technical Considerations in the Treatment of the Jade Body, Vivienne Lo
Refining the Form (lianxing) in Inner Alchemy (neidan), Fabrizio Pregadio
Self-Cultivation and Self-Immolation: Preparing the Body for Auto-Cremation in Chinese Buddhism, James Benn
Charting a New Itinerary of Perfection in Medieval China: The Formation and Uses of the Diagram on Cultivating Perfection (Xiuzhen tu), Lowell Skar
Practicing Erotic Fiction and Romanticizing Writing Practice, Richard G. Wang
How to Read a Love Letter, Kathryn Lowry
Living What You Read: Meta-Fiction in the 19th-Century Popular Novel, Margaret Baptist Wan
The Case of the Disappearing Reader: The Decline in Commentary and the Transformations of Address in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction, Alexander Des Forges
Internationalizing Urban China: Do Development Zones Play a Role? David Zweig
Returned Scholars in China’s Universities: The Role of Transnational Capital, Changgui Chen and Minqiang Zhang
Internationalization and Professional Autonomy: The Academy in Shanghai and Hong Kong, Gerard Postiglione
Youth and Internationalization: Chinese Youth in the Year 2000, Stanley Rosen
Poetry as Ideology: Han Yu’s Representation of "South Mountain," Robert Ashmore
Painting as Politics: Representation of the min (People) and the Competition between Court and Literati in Song Painting, Martin Powers
Mapping as Practice: The Representation of Cartography in the Song Textual Record, Ruth Mostern
Tomb as Discourse: Joint Burial and the Representation of Weddings in Premodern China, Christian de Pee
Meal Rotation and Filial Piety, Jun Jing
Filial Daughters, Filial Sons: Comparisons from North China, Eric Miller
"Living Separately" and the Rural Elderly: Strategy and Agency in Post-Mao China, Hong Zhang
Filial Piety: When is Enough Enough? Charlotte Ikels
"Kominka" and Taiwan’s Local Culture Movement: An Alternative Context for the Emergence of Minzoku Taiwan, Micha Wu
"Orientalising" Taiwan?: Japanese Travel Writing on Colonial Taiwan, Naoko Shimazu
Colonialism and Architecture in Taiwan, Yoshitaka Mori
Volatile Location of Taiwanese Art and Crafts: From Colonial Taiwanese Identity to Diversity, Yuko Kikuchi and Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak
Writing the "Nation" into the Nation: Hui Historians and the Invention of the Hui "National Minority" (shaoshu minzu), Zvi A. Ben-Dor
Remembering (Hui) Women’s History: Urban Chinese Muslims Reflect on Social Change during the Chinese Revolution, Maris Boyd Gillette
Ma Yuanzhang: A Modern Sage in Two Traditions, Jonathan N. Lipman
Polemical Nostalgia: Zhang Chengzhi’s Xinling Shi and its Cultural Aftershocks, Xinmin Liu
Self, Temporality, and Nature in Ancient Chinese Thought, Mark Berkson
Person, Persona, and Moral Power in the Analects, Joel D. Sahleen
A Metaphor Analysis of Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi, Edward Slingerland
The Daughter, the Singing-Girl, and the Seduction of Suicide, Katherine Carlitz
Legislating Pathos: Female Suicide and Statecraft in 18th-Century China, Janet M. Theiss
Untamed Hearts: Eros and Suicide in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction, Paola Zamperini
The Archiving of Empire at the Qing Imperial Summer Villa at Jehol, Cary Y. Liu
The Kangxi Emperor’s Letters from Mongolia (1696): The Imperial Heterology of Landscape Perception, Philippe Foret
Back in the Saddle Again: Imperial Touring and the Material Forms of Manchu Authority in the High Qing, Michael G. Chang
Rendering the Locale Imperial: The Transformation of Yangzhou During the Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Tour, Tobie Meyer-Fong
"Small Government" Is Not Enough: The Case of Government Restructuring in Hainan Province, Chongyi Feng
Social Demography of a Hainan Meifu Li Community, William R. Lavely
The Advent of Ethnic Tourism and the Change in Social Values Among the Li, Beining Zhang
Managing Relations with the "Homeland" in a Chinese Diaspora: The Organization of International Congresses Among Overseas Hainanese, Keng-Fong Pang
Survival Strategies Among Laid-off Workers: Notes from Wuhan, Dorothy J. Solinger
Forming Alliances Between Laid-off Workers and Migrant Entrepreneurs in Beijing, Li Zhang
A Divided Class: The Politics of Private Enterprise and Self-Employment in China, Kellee S. Tsai
Hidden injuries? The Impact of Xiagang on Workers’ Social Lives, Eva Hung and Stephen Chiu
Su Che’s Gushi and the Logic of Historiographical Operation in the Northern Song, Chia-Fu Sung
A Mirror with Many Reflections: The Use of the Huo Guang Analogy in Northern Song Politics and Political Thought, Xiao-bin Ji
Awaiting Reception: The Political Meaning of Institutional History, Hilde De Weerdt
Act Like a Ham: The Amateur Radio Operator in Republican China, Carlton Benson
Chinese Women in Combat in the Early Twentieth Century (1911–1927), Haini Guo
The Class Project: Radical Readers, the Press, and the Chongqing Labor Movement, 1937–1946, Joshua Howard
Educating of Women’s Bodies in Republican China: Hygiene, Physical Education, Sex Education, and Female Sexuality, Sarah E. Stevens
Silenced Newspaper Voices: Liang Qichao and the Condition of Chinese Journalism in Late Qing China, Natascha Vittinghoff
Economic Planning and the Initiation of China’s Planned Economy: The National Resources Commission and Its Industrial Activities (1932–1949), Linsun Cheng
The State-Controlled Economy of Manchukuo and Its Wartime Inflation, 1937–1945, Yasutomi Ayumu
The Making of the Administrative Factory in State Enterprises during the Sino-Japanese War: The Case of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, Linan Bian
Restructuring Control and Ownership: Managerial and Financial Reforms in the Chinese Textile Industry, 1937–1949, Elisabeth Koll
Military Officers/Mongol Collaborators: Visual Production, Poetic Genre, and Cultural Capital in Fujian Circuit During the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368), Jennifer G. Purtle
Regulating the Qi and the Xin: Military Strategies in Art of the Late Ming, Kathleen Ryor
A Chinese Bannerman’s Artful Self-Representation, Nixi Cura
When Civil and Martial Were Combined: Profession, Art and the Death of an Orphan Warrior, Hongxing Zhang
Tibet and the Question of "Genuine Autonomy," Barry Sautman
The Communist Party of China’s Minority Policy and Ethnic Autonomy in Guangxi, Katherine E. Palmer
Autonomy in the Xinjiang: A Rubric in Search of a Reality, Gardner Bovingdon
Federalism and the Autonomy of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions: Political Implications for the PRC, Shiu-hing Lo
"Changing with the Times": The "Confucian" Career of a "Legalist" Dogma in Western Han Ritualism, Martin Kern
Early Imperial Genre Theory as a Model of History, Mark Edward Lewis
Fictions of History in Liu Xiang’s Shuoyuan, David Schaberg
Neo-Confucian Discourses on the Mind in Late Fifteenth-Century China, Youngmin Kim
Local Shrines, Family Rituals, and the Cult of Loyalty in Mid-Ming Guangdong, Wing-Kai To
The Uses of Community Schools in Three Periods of the Ming, Sarah Schneewind
Enhancing China’s International Prestige: The 1948 Sino-American Scientific Expedition to Mount Amne Machin, Shiwei Chen
The Abortive Cooperation: American Technology and Expertise in the Development of China’s "TVA" in the 1940s, Liangwu Yin
Scientific Experts and Modernization in Taiwan: Academia Sinica, the National Science Council, and Manpower Policy in the 1960s and 1970s, Megan Greene
Inquisitions Under Hui-tsung: The Register of the Yuan-yu Party, Charles Hartman
Huizong’s Relations with Daoist Masters, Patricia Ebrey
The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection Between Literati and Huizong’s Court, Ronald C. Egan
Huizong and the Aesthetics of Agency, Maggie Bickford
Implementing the 1994 Fiscal Reform in China’s Provinces, Peter Tsan-Yin Cheung
Between Plan and Market: Explaining the Logic of Inter-regional Economic Linkages in China, Jae Ho Chung
Uneven Political Development in China: A Comparative Study of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Zhimin Lin
Local Property Rights in Urban China: Continuities Between the Prereform and Reform Eras, Shawn Shieh
Talking Like Heaven: Deviation as the Language of the Sage, Joachim Gentz
Renovating the Canon: Wang Yi’s Reinstatement of the True Poet Qu Yuan, Michael Schimmelpfennig
Discovering Confucius’ "Embodying Negativity": Wang Bi’s Commentary on the Lunyu, Rudolf Georg Wagner
Commenting Across Boundaries: Kuiji’s Yogacara Exegesis of a Prajnaparamita Scripture, Alexander Mayer
Where Do We Go From Here?: The 1505 Chin-shih Cohort Under Liu Chin, Daniel Bryant
Huang Zuo and the Construction of Late Ming Nostalgia, Peter Ditmanson
Literati, Confucianism, and Imperium in Sixteenth-Century China: Kuan Chih-tao Invokes the Early Ming, Jaret Weisfogel
Ties that Bind and Ties that Rend: Politics and the Craft of Intellectual Networking in the Late Ming Capitals, Jie Zhao
The Li Family Network and the Military Consolidation of the Tang Dynasty, David A. Graff
Military Social Networks of the Late Northern Song 1068–1127, Paul C. Forage
Networking the Wuhan Defense of 1938, Stephen R. MacKinnon
Women and the Formation of Wartime Grassroots Service Networks, Odoric Y. K. Wou
Patriot or Traitor? Literature of the Collaborators Produced in the Occupied Areas of China During WWII, Daniel D. Baird
It Runs in the Family: Madness and Familial Propagation in "The Golden Cangue" and "Miss Sophie’s Diary," Jin Feng
Historicizing the Past: Hu Shih’s cheng-li kuo-ku and the Implications, Ya-pei Kuo
Decadent Symbol: Contending Modernities in Modern Chinese Poetry, Paul Manfredi
The Appropriation of Traditional Fiction in the May-Fourth Agenda of Literary Reform, Hongyuan Yu
Getting Up and Giving a Speech Isn’t Easy: Public Speaking, Public Life and Political Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century China, David Strand
Democratic Calisthenics, or the Political Aesthetics of Associational Life in the Early Republican Period, Bryna Goodman
Personal Woes in Public Representation: Hardship Tales and Shanghai Urbanites in the 1930s, Wen-Hsin Yeh
Bandit Heroes Come to the Rescue: Anti-Modernization and Anti-Westernization in Local Drama at the Turn of the Century, Daphne Pi-Wei Lei
The Fall of the Dynasty: A Transcultural Tragic Passion in Beijing Opera at the Turn of the Century, Yue Meng
The "Playboy" of the Western World in the Formation of Modern Chinese Drama, Xiaomei Chen
Anti-Americanism in Chinese Spoken Drama of the 1990s, Claire Conceison
Prison Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century China, 1901–1937, Xiaoqun Xu
Drawing Lines: Western Distinctions and China’s Modern Courts in the Early Republican Period, Mary Buck
Contemporary Evolution of the Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China, Pamella Seay
Is Chinese Criminal Justice Unique? Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Modernization in the People’s Republic, 1979–1996, Harold M. Tanner
The Production of Artifacts in Yongwu Shi (Poetry on Objects) in the Southern Dynasties, Fusheng Wu
The Exchange of Poetry and the Poetry of Exchange: A Perspective on Bai Juyi and Su Shi, Xiaoshan Yang
Plucking Hairs to Save the World? Northern Song Poets on Their Writing Tools, Colin Hawes
Huang Tingjian’s "Incense of Awareness": Poems of Exchange, Poems of Enlightenment, Stuart H. Sargent
Two Women’s Kingdoms: Gender, Hierarchy, and Space in Jinghua yuan, Ying Wang
The Shaping of Hsia (Xia): The Conceptualization of Chinese-ness, Zhi Chen
Poetic Sequences in Modern Poetry from Taiwan, Silvia Marijnissen
An Impossible Farewell: Duoduo, Modernism and the Cultural Revolution, Yibing Huang
The Early Formative Phase of Dizang’s Netherworld Function: A Missing Link in the Medieval Chinese View of the Afterlife, Zhiru Ng
The Image of Xu Xun under the Tang Reflected in Record of an Ancient Mirror, Jue Chen
The Woman Behind the Screen: Inner/Outer Revisited, Yiqun Zhou
Buddhist Nuns in Song China (960–1279), Ding-hwa E. Hsieh
The China Inland Mission: An Archivist’s View, Rosemary Seton
The China Inland Mission’s Chefoo School, Rhonda Semple
French, Cable, and French: Women Evangelists of the China Inland Mission, Linda Benson
Guji and National Subjectivity in Suzhou’s Republican Modernist Urban Reconstruction, Peter J. Carroll
Preserving the Future and Planning the Past in 1920s Harbin, James H. Carter
A Beacon to the World: The Modernist National Project in Changchun (Shinkyo), Bill Sewell
Highway to Hell? Su Shi’s (1037–1101) Hainan Exile, James M. Hargett
Jiang Kui (1155–1221), a Winner and a Loser, Joseph S. C. Lam
Shifting Identities: Courtesans and Concubines in the Song, Beverly Bossler
Is Pan Jinlian the Azure from Wu Zetian’s Indigo? Charles Stone
Sodomy and Hierarchy in Jin Ping Mei, Matthew H. Sommer
The Decline and the Fall: Reflections on Jin Ping Mei cihua’s Conclusion, Tina Lu
Painted Illustrations for Jin Ping Mei and Chinese Erotic Albums, James Cahill
Gender in the Spatial Economy: Occupational Differentiation in Contemporary China, Mark Henderson
The Gender Gap in Education: Spatial Differentiation in Contemporary China, Wei Wang
Gender Bias in Infant Mortality: Regional Differentiation in Contemporary China, William M. Mason
Shaping the Gender Configuration of Offspring Sets: The Spatial Patterning of Reproductive Strategizing in Contemporary China, Jianhua Yuan
Remembering and Forgetting the Opium War in Occupation Cinema, Poshek Fu
Lin Zexu, Maoism and the Great Leap Forward, Paul G. Pickowicz
Text, Context, and Subtext: A Post-Socialist Film Representation of the Opium War, Zhiwei Xiao
Producing (for) the People: Film, Power, and Visuality in Maoist China, Tina Mai Chen
Latent Orientalism in the Portrayal of Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Anbin Shi
Sinners and Educators: Discipline and Punishment of Chinese Schoolteachers under Maoism, Eddy U
The Role of the Village and Impact of Former Class Labels in Contemporary Rural Stratification in China, Tamara M. Perkins
Socialist Religion: The Door of Hope in Post 1949 Shanghai, Sue Gronewold
The Ties That Bind? A Re-Evaluation of Sino-American Economic Interdependence, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Norrin M. Ripsman
China’s Search for Economic Security: Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis and Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy, Thomas G. Moore
Who’s the Boss? Comparing Chinese and Japanese Economic Influence in Asia, Phillip C. Saunders
Maritime Modernity: Fujian Huaqiao and the 1920s Qiaoxiang Reform Movement, James A. Cook
Colonialism, Race, People: Constituting Chinese Nationalism, 1900–1930s, Rebecca E. Karl
Most of the World’s a Stage: Peking Opera Maps the World, 1900–1930s, Joshua Goldstein
Manifestations of Zhenwu in Ming Painting, Stephen Little
The Making of Gods: "Three Officials of Heaven, Earth and Water" as a Case Study of the Religious Painting Practice in the 12th and 13th Centuries, Shih-shan Susan Huang
The Iconography of Daoist Salvation From Hell: Re-identifying "The Classic of the Yellow Court" Handscroll Attributed to Liang Kai (ca.13th Century), Sheng-chih Lin
Transformation of Liu Haichan’s Image: Who is "Toad Immortal"? Insoo Cho
Things and Intent: Late Ming Imitations of the Shih-shuo hsin-yu, Nanxiu Qian
Genre and Aesthetics in Chinese Leisure Writing Across the Ming-Qing Transition, Glenn S. Perkins
The Passionate Hero/Heroine: Reconfiguring Self and Community in 19th- and 20th-Century China, Haiyan Lee
Legacies of Leisure: Late Imperial Influences on the 20th-Century Chinese Essay, Charles A. Laughlin
Chicken-Beheading Rituals and Dispute Resolution in Taiwan During the Japanese Occupation, Paul Katz
Fetus-Ghost Appeasement in Modern Taiwan, Marc Moskowitz
The Production of Myth and the "Meaning of Myth," P. Steven Sangren
The Case of Liao Chengzhi: Politics, War, and Intelligence, Hans J. van de Ven
SACO Re-examined: Sino-American Intelligence Cooperation During World War II, Yu Shen
The Business of a Secret War: Operation Remorse and SOE Salesmanship in Wartime China, Robert A. Bickers
An Aborted Scheme: The Chinese Effort to Create a Provisional Thai Government During World War II, E. Bruce Reynolds
The Other Side of Filial Piety: Reflections on Compassion and Loyalty in Late Imperial Chinese Family Ties, Ping-Chen Hsiung
Filial Piety and the Eternal Infant in Popular Narratives, Siao-chen Hu
Sons and Mothers: Narratives of Filial Piety and Desire in Ming-Qing Fiction, Maram Epstein
Unfilial Subjects or Three Readings of Jin Ping Mei, Naifei Ding
Intertextual Meditations on Human Suffering: Su Shi’s Conversation with Boethius and Milton, Longxi Zhang
The Relevance of Gender Studies Theories for Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, Kang-I Sun Chang
Canons Without Authors: The Honglou Meng Before Cao Xueqin, Haun Saussy
Theories of Literary Openness in Chinese Thought: A Dialogue with Contemporary Literary Theories, Ming Dong Gu
New Drama and Shanghai Drama Societies from 1913–1915, Dietrich Tschanz
Reconsidering Xueheng: Neo-Conservatism in Early Republican China, Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker
The Lunyu Group: Attracting the Modern Style of Gentlemen, Jun Qian
A Literary Organization with a Political Agenda: The Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
Bureaucratic Hierarchy, Informal Politics, and State Transformation in Late Qing China, Richard S. Horowitz
The Political Functions of Native-Place Ties in Late Imperial Beijing, Richard Belsky
Prostitution Taxes and Local State Building in Republican China, Elizabeth J. Remick
Constructing an Ancestor: Architecture, Identity, and the Jin Shrines, Tracy G. Miller
Doorways as Ritual Sites in the Vinaya of Daoxuan, Eric Reinders
The Production and Transformations of the Southern Marchmount, James Robson
Profiting the Treasury: Buddhist Monasteries, Exchange, and the Possibilities of Capital, Michael J. Walsh
Revolution, Monstrosity and Phantasmagoria in Maxu Weibang’s Song at Midnight, Yomi Braester
Filial Assassins, Dead Warlords, and the GMD State: The Role of Violence in National Rule, Eugenia Y. Lean
Shanghai Savage, S. William Schaefer
Representation of the Female Alchemical Body, Elena Valussi
Substantiating the Body: "Scientification" of Neidan Discourse in Early 20th-Century China, Xun Liu
The Deathbed Photograph of Master Hongyi, Raoul Birnbaum
Northeast China’s Forests, 1644–1945: Transforming the "Sea of Trees," Patrick Caffrey
Cultivating the Nation in the Nursery: Fujian Timber Trade and State Afforestation in Republican China, 1911–1937, Elena Songster
Flood and Famine in Zhexi, Anne R. Osborne
China’s Ecological Shadow: Deforestation, Accumulation, and Core-Periphery Relations, A.D. 1– A.D. 1800, Sing Chew
An Early Hong Kong Voice, Elizabeth Sinn
Pathways to Success: Life Stories and the Hong Kong Dream, Thomas Wong
The Sense of Place: Identity, Community, and Social Memory, Ngai Pun
Hong Kong Cultural Discourses in the Age of Theory, Li-fen Chen
Barbarian Backwater or Peach Blossom Spring? Images of Korea in Dianshizhai huabao 1884–1895, Nan-tsung Anna Kim
Shaping the Image of the Star: Theater Illustrated (Tuhua jubao) and the New Entertainment Culture (1912–17), Catherine V. Yeh
Spectacular Novelties: Huabao, Photography, and the "News" Culture of the 1920s, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
Of Elegance and Eloquence: Linglong and the Art of Being a New Woman in 1930s China, Barbara Mittler
"Painting in Poetry, Poetry in Painting": The Canonization of Wang Wei’s Poetry, Jin Gao
Re-presenting the Past: Qian Xuan (c.1235–c.1307) and Images of Emperor Ming Huang and Yang Guifei, Elizabeth M. Owen
The Image of Falling Leaves in Poetry and Painting, Alfreda J. Murck
Genealogical Imagination and the Politics of Hyphenation: The "Daur-Mongol" Identity in China, Uradyn E. Bulag
Ethnic Reincarnation in Southwest China: "Miao" Identities and Indigenous Writing in the Republican Period, Siu-woo Cheung
Recalling the Vanished: Provincial and Ethnic Narratives in the Former Xikang Province, Wenbin Peng
Constructing "Frontier Peoples" Through the Writing Works in Three Major Periodicals During the Republican Era: A Viewing Angle from Yunnan’s Writers, Shih-Chung Hsieh
Silkworm Disease and Slumping Markets: How Officials, Scientists, and Local Elites Failed to Save Guangdong’s Silk Industry by 1930, Alvin Yiu-Cheong So
Rural Entrepreneurs in the Pearl River Delta: The Shift from Silk To Sugarcane in the 1930s, Winston Hsieh
"Competing with the People for Profit"? The Tragedy of Feng Rui and the Shortcoming of His Guangdong Sugar Industry Revival Plan (1933–1936), Emily M. Hill
Cai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York: Globalism or Nationalism? Xiaoping Lin
Postmodernism, Post-Orientalism, and Strategies of Self-Representation in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Art, Sheldon H. Lu
From the Domestic to Globalization: Chinese Women Artists, Hsingyuan Tsao
Forest Destroyers, Forest Creators: The Akha in Xishuangbanna, Janet Sturgeon
Never Say Die: Tai Minority Pop Music and the Buddhist Revival, Sara Davis
"Making Waves Without Wind": Modernity, Disease and Moral Economy in Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, Sandra Teresa Hyde
Constraining Culture, Framing Dissent: Religious Freedom and Cultural Activism Among the Xishuangbanna Dai, Susan McCarthy
Writing Images: Signification in Pre-Han Visual Culture, John Hay
The Sensory Experience of Writing in Early Chinese Philosophical Texts, Jane Geaney
Land Rites: Shanshui Writing in the Six Dynasties, John Keenan
Imaging the Intent: Visual Figuration of Textual Signification from Song to Qing China, Hajime Nakatani
The Organizational Determinants of Bosses’ Wives’ Empowerment in Taiwanese Small Family Businesses, Yu-hsia Lu
Gender and the Meaning of Work in Taiwan: A Transgenerational Perspective, Anru Lee
Women in Business: Gender, Family and Entrepreneurship in Urban Taiwan, Scott Simon
Men Go Out Working, Women Stay In: The Gender Division of Labour and Economic Rationality in Japan and Taiwan, Wei-hsin Yu
