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Equity Politics and Market Institutions: The Development of Stock Market Policy and Regulation in China, 1984–2002, Stephen Green
Local Governments and the Politics of Listing on the Chinese Stock Market, Mary Comerford Cooper
China’s Languishing Credit-Rating Industry: Canary in the Mine? Scott Kennedy
Shareholder Litigation in the PRC: Material Disclosure about China’s Legal System? Walter C. Hutchens
Session 14: New Taxonomies of Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Disciplining the National Essence: Liu Shipei and His Reorganization of China’s Intellectual History, Joachim Kurtz
How Did Fossils Become National? Science and Nationalism in Republican China, Fa-ti Fan
The Discovery of Nerves in Modern China, Hugh L. Shapiro
From "Washing Away the Wrongs" to Modern Medicine: The Transmission of Forensic Medicine into China, Che-chia Chang
Session 15: Aftereffects of Silk Road Exchange in China
Exotica in the State of Zhongshan: Migration, Trade, and Cultural Contact, Xiaolong Wu
Glass in Early China: A Substitute for Luxury, Sheri A. Lullo
Exotic Goods as Mortuary Display in Sui Period Tombs: Li Jingxun’s Tomb, Jui-man Wu
Lotus Blooming under the Cross: Interaction between Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism in China, Hongyu Wu
The Life of Byzantine Coins along the Silk Roads, Annie Krieg
Session 16: Urban Lifeworlds and the Everyday: New Approaches to the Modern Experience
The Cinematic Mode in Shanghai: 1890–1935, Alexander des Forges
Petty Urbanite Lifeworld: Zhang Ailing’s Response to Modernity, Angel Lu
Public Space, Urban Everyday: Reading Qiu Huadong’s Beijing Fiction, Jie Lu
Session 17: The Nature of Culture: Collecting and Conceptualizing "Chinese" Natural History
Conceptualizing Nature and Antiquity: Rock Collecting in Mid-and Late-Imperial China, Yun-Chiahn Chen
Recreating China: Early Modern Japanese Visions of Chinese Natural Objects, Hans Bjarne Thomsen
Believing Is Seeing: Late-19th-Century Chinese Representations of Museums, Lisa Claypool
Fossils and Nation in Manchuria, Ruth Rogaski
Session 18: What is Medieval Literature?
Tang Tales in Song Texts, Sarah M. Allen
Tang Poetry in Tang Manuscripts, Christopher Nugent
Literary Sources of the Han Inscription, Suh-Jen Yang
Sources for Medieval Four-Syllable Poetry, Zeb Raft
Session 19: Manchu Acculturation: New Sources for Studying Change in the Qing
Negotiation through Translation: The Significance of Manchu Medical Sources, Marta E. Hanson
Manchu Language Education and Elite Identities in the Yongzheng Reign, Loretta E. Kim
The Role of Manchu Women in Acculturation: A View of Their Attitude towards Intermarriage, Shuo Wang
Early Manchu Expansion and the Development of Imperial Tombs: Insights from Monuments and Inscriptions, Alan Sweeten
Between Filiality and Fidelity: Parent-Daughter Conflict in Late Imperial China, Weijing Lu
Girl Trouble: Daoist Daughters and Their Struggles between Filial Piety and Religious Vocation in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 C.E.), Suzanne E. Cahill
Following Mother’s Admonition: Buddhist Mothers and Their Children in Tang China, Ping Yao
The Melodic Structure of the Prosimetric Type (shizan xi) of the Chinese Song-Prose Narratives: With a Focus on Dixi of Anshun, Akiko Inaba
The Mythology of Chinese Martial Arts, Meir Shahar
How to Understand Some Ostensibly Incomprehensible Miracle Stories of Zhenwu? Pierre-Henry De Bruyn
Ritual Theater in a Daoist Framework in 1980s Rural China, Shin-yi Chao
Session 35: Emperors as Collectors and Connoisseurs
Huizong and the Catalogues of His Collections, Patricia Ebrey
Connoisseurship and Identity at the Court of Yuan Wenzong, Ankeney Weitz
Knowledge and Action on Display: Philology and Politics in Emperor Qianlong’s Connoisseurship, Chin-sung Chang
Session 36: Making a Better State: Improving Governance in Contemporary China
Vanguard or Rearguard? Party Organizations and China’s New Governance System, Lance Guo
With Strings Attached: Improving the Administration of State-Financed Investment Projects in the PRC, Kun-Chin Lin
A New Call to Serve the People: Improving the Provision of Government Services at the Local Level, Kenneth W. Foster
Session 37: Principled Succession: Changing Perceptions of the Sage King in Early China
Sage King Yu, a Sacred Vessel, and the Way of the Former Kings: Zhou Period Sacrilege or Just Another Ancestor? Constance A. Cook
The Guodian Aristocracy-Meritocracy Hybrid, Kenneth W. Holloway
Mencius’ Treatment of the Yao Shun Legend, Moss Roberts
The Myth of Yao and Shun in the Evolution of Han Political Ideology, Gopal Sukhu
Session 38: Roundtable: Reconceptualizations: Late Qing China
Session 39: Individual Papers: Economics, Information, and Culture in Contemporary China
Che Guevara: Dramatizing China’s Divided Intelligentsia at the Turn of the Century, Yinghong Cheng
Appropriating Tradition: Classical Chinese Novels and Their TV Adaptations, Jing Shen
Everyday is Water Splashing Festival: Han Appropriation of Dai Culture in Ethnic Tourism, Monica Cable
Nationalism on the Market: Hybridization in Chinese Economic Reform, Dimitri Kessler
A Harbinger of the New(s)? The Chinese Internet and the Media, Nicolai Volland
Session 40: Individual Papers: Poetry, Politics, and Intellectual Transitions in Imperial China
Yuefu and Tonal Prosody? A Question in the Study of Wang Rong’s Poetry, Meow Hui Goh
The Xuanji tu: A Compass of Literary Textures in Commentary, Lei Chen
The Social Production of Sanqu in Literary Circles in Sixteenth-Century North China, Tian Yuan Tan
The Use of Wang T’ung (584–617) in the T’ang-Sung Intellectual Transition, Kwok-yiu Wong
The Political Thought of Tang Binyin in the Late Ming Dynasty, Harry Miller
Session 55: State, Elite, and Populace in Modern China
An Activist State and Changing Elite: Social and Political Change in a Mechanized Coalmining Enterprise in Qing China, Jeff Hornibrook
Elite Networks, Associations, and Activism in Late Qing Shanghai, 1895–1905, Zhongping Chen
Teahouses, Price Control, and Taxes: Relationships among Small Businesses, the Guild, and Local Government in Republican Chengdu, Di Wang
National Leaders and Local Leaders of the Chinese Peasant Movements, 1920–1937, Xiaorong Han
Session 56: The Appropriation and Representation of Confucianism in Modern China
Contending Memories of Confucian Myths: History Education in Wartime China, 1937–1945, Wai-Keung Chan
Confucian Cultural Education: Content and Form at Hong Kong’s New Asia College, Grace Ai-Ling Chou
The Discourse on Confucianism, Religion, and the State in Turn-of-the-Century China, Ivan Hon
Session 57: Monastic Codes and the Construction of Religious Identity in Tang and Song China
Medieval Daoist Monastic Codes, Livia Kohn
Xuefeng’s Rules and the Emergence of Chan Monastic Codes, Mario Poceski
Study of a Tiantai Monastic Code: Jiaoyuan Qinggui, Yifa
Session 58: Long-Term Perspectives on China’s Economy: Achievements, Capabilities, Risks
Measuring China’s Economic Achievements, Carsten Holz
Achievements, Problems, and Prospects for China’s Financial Sector, Guonan Ma
Achievements, Problems, and Prospects in Industry and Technology, Thomas G. Rawski
Long-Term Perspectives on China’s Farm Economy, Scott Rozelle
Session 59: Visualizing Cultural Intersectionality: Arts in Post-Mao-Deng China
Architecture in Motion: Visualizing Urban Landscapes in Contemporary China, Robin Visser
Cityscapes in Virtual Space: Urban Change and Recent Digital Art, Yomi Braester
Narrating the Revolution in Post-Revolution Chinese Popular Entertainment, Jin Jiang
Art for the World Market: Art in Post-Mao-Deng China, Hsingyuan Tsao
Session 60: Individual Papers: Society and Science in Republican China
The Nature of Chinese Science: May Fourth Idealizations and Scientific Practice in the Field, Grace Shen
Chinafication: The Deployment of a Discursive Stratagem in the Guomindang’s Baojia Discourses, 1927–1949, Lane J. Harris
Ling Long Women and the New Life Movement: Modernity and National Salvation, Hsiao-pei Yen
Crimes against Civility in Public Space: Littering, Street-Corner Urinating, and Misdemeanors in Republican Beijing, Yamin Xu
Establishing the Chinese Communist Team System of Farming in Northern China: A Case Study, 1944–1945, Minh-Hoang Ngo
Session 76: War and Modernity: Remapping Chinese Resistance Aesthetics and Politics, 1937–1945
Baptism by Fire: Chinese Cinema from Shanghai to Chongqing, 1938–1945, Weihong Bao
In Formation: Re-Imagining a Modern Chinese Literature and the National Forms Debate, 1938–1942, Steven P. Day
Sound, Silence, and Nationalist Modernity in China’s Wartime Poetry Recitation, John A. Crespi
Capital Management: Redefining Nationalist Ideology in Chongqing during the War of Resistance, Edna Tow
Session 77: Chinese Television
Between "Fallen Angels" and Corruption: Anti-Corruption and Its Representations in Chinese Television Drama, Xueping Zhong
Entertaining the Nation: Historical TV Dramas in Contemporary China, Rong Cai
Yongzheng Dynasty and Chinese Primetime Costume Drama, Ying Zhu
Chinese Television Documentary and Rethinking the Public Sphere, Chris Berry
Session 78: Long-Term Perspectives on China’s Economy: China’s People and Chinese Lives
Demography, Employment, Unemployment, Fang Cai
Education and Human Capital, Albert Park
Distribution and Inequality, Loren Brandt
The Hong Kong System under One Country being Tested: Article 23 and the Quest for Constitutional Reforms, Anthony B. L. Cheung
"Two Systems" in Conflict: Hong Kong’s Debate on the Chinese National Security Law, Shiu-hing Lo
Constitutional Crisis in the HKSAR: Are Judicial Decisions Legal under the Basic Law? Berry Hsu
Can the Hong Kong-Macau "One Country, Two Systems" Model Facilitate Taiwan’s Reunification with Mainland China? Wing-yat Yu
Session 80: Theory and Practice in Tang Government
From Wu to You: Tang (618–907 C.E.) Political Theory in the Organization of the Correct Meaning of the Five Classics, Andrew Meyer
The Changduanjing and Tang Political Thought, Anthony DeBlasi
Check and Seal: Procedural Control and Local Administration in the Tang, Ta-Ko Chen
Is Tanghuiyao a Historiographical Text? Political Performance and Historical Representation in a Tang-Song Textual Formation, Chia-Fu Sung
Death and Spirit Journeys in Early China as Seen through Road Rituals and Travel Paraphernalia, Guolong Lai
A "Psychology of Sound" in Recently Excavated Manuscripts from China, Erica Brindley
The Sweetpear Tree: Preserving the Historical Image of Historical Preservation, K. E. Brashier
Bestsellers, Banned Books, and the Cultural Discourse in China Post-1989, Daria Berg
Notions of Chinese Consumers: Teachers, Friends, and Trust in Multinational Retail Stores, Jocelyn Gamble
Flash From China!!! SARS Videos on the Net, Kenneth Klinkner
Political Dissidence and Accommodation: The Publishing History of Yang Lian from "Today" to Today, Jacob B. P. Edmond
The Impact of External Shocks on the Rise of Chinese Civil Society: SARS and Chinese Environmental NGOs, Jonathan Schwartz
Disorder in the Dining Halls: The Gendered Politics of Remembering the Great Leap Forward, Kimberley Manning
State Control of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in China, Jiang Ru
Social Policy Marketization and Decline of State Capacity: What Role for NGOs? André Laliberté
Session 96: By Will or By Way: Social Positioning and Global Context in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Bei Dao’s Paradox, Dian Li
Why Poetry, Or: Why Social Concern? Maghiel Van Crevel
Global Cities of Chinese Poetry, Paul Manfredi
Irrelevance of Poetry in the New World: Gu Cheng as a Case, Yibing Huang
Session 97: The Notions of "New" in Late Qing China: Newspapers, Magazines, and Novels
New Terms in Xin Zhongguo weilai ji, Ying-ho Chiang
The New in Early Chinese Newspapers: Actors, Texts, and Strategies, Natascha Vittinghoff-Gentz
The Problem of Two Contrasting Definitions of the "New" in Late Qing New Novels, Feng-ying Ming
Session 99: Material Culture and Sensibility in China: The Cultural Life of Things
From a Singing Bird to a Fighting Bug: A Cultural Study of the Cricket in the Chinese Zoological Lexicon, Ping-chen Hsiung
Foreign Silver Coins and Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century China, Richard von Glahn
Jiangnan Domestic Furniture in Taiwan: Sense, Memory, and the Construction of the Past, Shuenn-Der Yu
Session 113: Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture
Where did the Model Theater Start? Tian Han’s Operatic Reform in the Republican Period, Xiaomei Chen
Flower Girl Encounters White Haired Girl: Intercultural Dynamics of the PRC and the DPRK during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76), Suk-Young Kim
Destroying the Old and Teaching Black Material: The Three-Character-Classic and the Cultural Revolution, Barbara Mittler
Music, Memory, and Nostalgia: Multiple Meanings in the Contemporary Legacy of Chinese Cultural Revolution Songs, Lei Ouyang Bryant
Session 114: Cultural Interactions in Neolithic/Bronze Age China
Stone Working as Cultural Interaction in Neolithic China, Gwen P. Bennett
The Carved Bones Art as an Independent Tradition in Anyang, Ying Wang
Ancient China circa 1200 BC: Anyang, Sanxingdui, and Xin’gan, Jay Xu
Art, Identity, and Cultural Interactions in North China during the Early Western Zhou Period, Yan Sun
The Artistic Styles on the Dian Bronzes from Yunan, TzeHuey Chiou-Peng
The Politics of Keeping Peasants Away from the Cities: Urban Workforce Reduction and Peasant Workers in China, Lei Guang
Coming Out of Retirement: Ideas and Institutions in China’s Pension Policy Reform, Mark W. Frazier
Chinese Laid-off Workers: A Class Remade, Divided, or Forgotten? William Hurst
What Are Chinese Workers Thinking? Marc Blecher
Texts that Sound, Beauties that Sing: The Showing of Dialect in Seventeenth-Century Courtesan Literature, Kathryn Lowry
The Matriarch’s Private Ear: Performance, Reading, and the Question of Censorship in the Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), Ling Hon Lam
Music Hath Charms: Musical Activities and Enlightenment in the Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), I-Hsien Wu
The Spectacular Sound of the Martial-Arts Scene: Printing the Storyteller’s Voice in Martial-Arts Novels of the Late-Nineteenth Century, Paize Keulemans
Session 117: Roundtable: Intellectual Cross-Fertilization: Dialogues in Women’s Studies in China
Qing’s "Modern" Reforms in Eastern Tibet in the 1900s, Xiuyu Wang
Educated Youths: The Rise of a New Social Class in Late Republican Bathang, William M. Coleman, IV
Han Chinese Immigration to Eastern Khams during the Qing Dynasty and the Period of the Republic of China, Yudru Tsomu
Ethnographic Practices and Aesthetics of Politics in Modern Khams, Wenbin Peng
Session 119: New Wine in Old Bottles: Alternative Chinese Lyric Modernities
The Paradox of the Xiushou Ren: Chen Sanli and Modernity in Late-Qing/Early-Republican Era Poetry, Jon von Kowallis
Fermenting Western Wine with Chinese Words: The Late Qing Woman Poet Xue Shaohui (1866–1911) and Foreign Knowledge, Nanxiu Qian
Translating European Landscapes into Ci Poetry: The Case of Lü Bicheng, Shengqing Wu
How to Write a Tang Quatrain in Baihua Prose: Fei Ming’s Use of Tradition, Haoming Liu
Battling the Shadows: Classical Chinese Poetry in Contemporary Culture, Joseph R. Allen
Session 134: Collective Violence in Modern China: Representation and Reality
Dongshan Rebellion: The Romance of Rural Violence, William T. Rowe
Banditry and the Culture of Violence in Late Imperial South China, Robert J. Antony
From Xiedou to Jiaoan: Explaining Intragroup Violence and Anti-Christian Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Chaozhou, South China, Joseph Tse-hei Lee
Social Cleavages and Sectarian Violence: Xinyang Red Spears during the Northern Expedition, Odoric Y. K. Wou
Session 135: The Northern Qi Dynasty (550–577): A Reassessment
Changing Buddhist Aspirations and Imagery in the Northern Qi, Katherine Tsiang Mino
Envisioning Death: Ascent and Expansion in Tombs of the Northern Qi, Bonnie Cheng
Buddhist Patronage and Social Life During the Northern Qi Dynasty: Zhang Yuanfei at Shuiyusi, Kate A. Lingley
Ethno-Political Factors Related to the Military Collapse of the Northern Qi, Andrew Eisenberg
Beyond Developmental State: Food and Drug Safety and the Rise of the Regulatory State in China, Xiaobo Lu
From Administrative Discretion to the Rule of Law: The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in China, Martin Dimitrov
The Shareholders’ Private Right of Action in China: Considering the Courts and a New Regulatory Mechanism? Nicholas Howson
Session 137: The Cultural Politics of Class in Reform-Era China
Serving the People: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in China’s Emergent Service Sector, Eileen M. Otis
Privatizing Housing and the Making of China’s New Middle-Class: An Ethnographic Inquiry, Li Zhang
Historical Memory, Community-Building, and Place-Making in Neighborhood Shanghai, Tianshu Pan
Session 138: Constructing Paradigms of Female Pathology in Medieval and Late Imperial China
The Role of Foreign Medicine in Shaping Sui and Tang Gynecology, Vijaya J. Deshpande
From Leaking Discharge to Irregular Menstruation: The Reconceptualization of Female Pathology in Medieval China, Sabine Wilms
A Vessel of Blood, a Gate of Life: Metaphors of Uterine Function and the Construction of Female Illness in Ming-Qing Gynecology, Yi-Li Wu
Remembering the Death of Bian Zhongyun, Weili Ye
Morning Sun: The Culture of the Cultural Revolution, Carma Hinton
Collective Memory vs. Collective Amnesia: Issues around the Building of a Cultural Revolution Museum, Hari Venkatesan
Censorship on the Discussion of the Cultural Revolution in the PRC, Liang Xiaoyan
Session 154: The Practice of Theory among Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals
Theory and Its Catalytic Function in Chinese Discourse, Gloria Davies
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? On the Search for a Theory of Practice among Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals, Timothy C. Cheek
The Theoretical and Literary Configuration of the "Past", Hong Jiang
Session 155: Printing, Profit, and Kinship: Travel and Merchant Culture in Late-Imperial China
The Merging of Shi and Shang in Sojourning: The Production of Knowledge for Travel in Late Ming Books, Kai-wing Chow
Contesting Spatial Order: Merchant Geography in Late-Ming China, Yongtao Du
Travel, Exchange, and Circulation in Late-Ming Huaben, Tina Lu
Sojourning Merchants and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Late-Imperial Huizhou, Qitao Guo
Cartel as a Means of Survival: The Case of the Refrigerated Egg Packers’ Association of China, 1930–1950, Jennifer Ning Chang
Growing an Industry: The Role of Cartels in Shanghai Flour Milling, Daniel James Meissner
Cliques, Collusion, and Cooperation: Myth and Reality in Republican Period Banking, Brett G. Sheehan
Patriots’ Game: Imperial Chemical Industries, PLC and the Yongli Chemical Co., Ltd., 1917–1937, Man Bun Kwan
Session 157: Hunlei: The Manipulation and Reconfiguration of Genre in Ming-Qing Fiction
An Improbable Lover: Rewriting the Wei Zhongxian Story in Taowu Xianping, Hua Laura Wu
The Secularization of Honglou Meng: Amalgamation of Chivalric and Scholar-Beauty Novels in Ernü yingxiong zhuan, Ying Wang
Blurring the Boundaries: Authentics and Counterfeits in Rulin waishi, Maram Epstein
The Early History of Hybrid gongan-wuxia Fiction, Stephen Roddy
The Cultural Revolution as Retaliatory Protest: What Happened to a Perpetrator of the Great Leap Forward Famine in a Henan Village and Its Irony, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr
Differentiating Motivations for "Peasant Rebellion" against Local Cadres in the Cultural Revolution: A Comparison of Two Anhui Villages, with Special Reference to Their Great Leap Histories, Yixin Chen
Justifying Rebellion in the Cultural Revolution: Competing Conceptions of "Social Justice" in the Transcripts of Great Leap Forward Victims and the Transcript of Maoist Cadres, Dongping Han
Session 159: The Reporter, the Plaintiff, and the Defendant: Women and Law in Republican China
The Ceremony Requirement in the Republican Civil Code: Adjudicating Concubinage as Bigamy, Lisa Tran
Neglected Murderesses: Gender and Testimony in Republican-Era Criminal Courts, Jennifer Neighbors
Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in Women’s Discourse, Yuxin Ma
Session 173: Field Research on Christian Communities in China Today: Insights and Implications
Catholicism and Local Culture in a North China Village, Xiao-qing Wang
"Many Sheep, Few Shepherds": Organizational Problems of Aboveground and Underground Chinese Protestant Churches, Carsten T. Vala
The Protestant Ethic and Market Morality in China Today: From Coastal to Inland Cities, Fenggang Yang
Identity and Belief in Chinese and Latin American Protestantism: Comparative Perspectives in World Christianity, Candi K. Cann
Session 174: Political, Legal, and Pedagogical Conflicts in Late Imperial Examination Culture
The Civil Service Examinations and Chinese Culture: Suppression of Cultural Diversity, Takatsu Takashi
The Twelfth-Century Context and the Later Reception of Zhu Xi’s Testament of Examination Reform, Hilde De Weerdt
Acting Out: Critiquing the Examination System in 18th-Century China, Iona Man-Cheong
The Shuntian Examination Scandal of 1858: The Legal Defense of Imperial Institutions, Carsey Yee
Is There a Pathway of Great Buddhas in Sichuan? Sonya Lee
Celestial Ascensions through Stone: Meaning and Visual Properties in Medieval Sichuan, Yudong Wang
Shimenshan: A Study of Religious Mutuality and Syncretism in the Cliff Sculpture of Dazu during the Song Dynasty, Tom Suchan
Text as Relic: Another "Reading" of the Carved Stone Inscriptions at Baodingshan, Karil J. Kucera
Session 176: Institutional Legitimacy in Contemporary China
Institutional Legitimacy of an Authoritarian State: China in the Mirror of Eastern Europe, Cheng Chen and Rudra Sil
Institutional Legitimacy in Chinese Industrial Relations: The China Labor Bulletin (CLB) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), Teresa Wright
Institutional Legitimacy in the Chinese Military: The People’s Liberation Army in a Changing Society, Thomas J. Bickford
Session 177: Working the System: The Qing State and the Making of Status, Money, and Love
Gentlemen at the Gate: The Role of the Provincial Examination in the Early Qing, John Williams
Seals, Buttons, and Power: Borrowing State Authority in the Middle Qing, Mark McNicholas
A Slandered Woman’s Revenge: The Intimate Role of the State in a Family’s Rise and Fall, Janet M. Theiss
Session 178: Diverse Visions: The Role of Mass Education in Twentieth-Century China’s Modernization
From Military Regionalism to Civic Nationalism: Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang’s Mass Education Movement in Northeast China, 1916–1931, Elizabeth VanderVen
Reorganization and Empowerment of Rural China: Tao Xingzhi’s Work-Study Union Movement (1932–1936), Yusheng Yao
Preferential Policies: Expanding Educational Opportunities for Chinese Minorities, Rebecca Clothey
Session 179: China’s Cultural Revolution Revisited: The Politics of Memory and Nostalgia
Freedom Fries and Dead Fish: Cultural Revolution Restaurants in Contemporary China, Jennifer Hubbert
"Tempering Ourselves for Reform": Nostalgia and the Spirit of the Cultural Revolution, David J. Davies
Memory and Diaspora: Cultural Revolution Nostalgia in Three Transnational Chinese Novels, Ming-Bao Yue
Naming a Generation: Memory, Discourse, and Power in the Making of China’s Cultural Revolution Generations, Guobin Yang
Session 192: Space, Text, and Ritual: New Approaches to Chinese Buddhist Painting
Staging Mount Wutai: A Case of Topographic Transfer in 10th-Century Dunhuang Hao Sheng
What is a Zan? Rethinking Inscriptions on Chan Paintings Lara I. Ingeman
Visualizing Late Ming Buddhist Ideas: A New Look at Wu Bin’s (ca.1583–1626) Sixteen Lohans, Wen-ch’ien Cheng
Image Making: The Production and Presentation of the Jade Mountain, Great Yu Regulating the Waters (1787), Erica Yao
Xu Yang, Cityscapes, and the Relationship between the Court and Suzhou in the Eighteenth Century, Ya-Chen Ma
The Southern Tours and the Courting of Jiangnan Elites in 18th-Century China, Michael G. Chang
Production of Local Histories in Suzhou during the Mid-Qing Period, Seunghyun Han
Session 195: One Nation, Divided Loyalties: Family, Gender, and Politics in Wartime China
"The Mother of China": Song Meiling and Patriotic Women in Wartime Service, Helen Schneider
The Effects of Migration and Mobilization on the Family in Wartime China, 1937–1945, Lu Liu
A Case of Divided Loyalties: The Trial of Liang Hongzhi, Timothy Brook
Puppets Pulling Strings: The Post-War Trial of Chen Bijun, April 1946, Charles Musgrove
Session 196: Gender, Generation, and Modes of Memory in China
Time, Narrative, and Self in Memoirs of the Cultural Revolution, Klaus Mühlhahn
In Praise of Female Kin: Hong Liangji’s Remembrances of My Mother’s Family, Grace S. Fong
The Zhuang History Inquisition in Chinese Memory, Allan Barr
Grief, Memory, and the Strange: Qian Xiyan’s Ting lan zhi, Rania Huntington
Session 197: New Directions in Tao Yuanming Studies
Rewriting a Poet: Tao Yuanming and Problems of Manuscript Culture, Xiaofei Tian
Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Works of Tao Qian, Zong-qi Cai
Tao Qian and the Rhetoric of Social Exchange, Robert Ashmore
The Changing Nature of Literary Naturalness: Tao Yuanming as a "Natural" Writer, Wendy Swartz
Session 198: The Body in Imperial China: Contestation, Dispute, and Synthesis
The Embodied Virtues from Warring States through Han China, Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi
The Body and Empire: Social Contestation in Han China, Aihe Wang
The Body and the Cosmos in the Eastern Han, Michael Puett
The Body Seen Whole, Nathan Sivin
Session 199: Media and Technology Literacy in Contemporary China
New Media, New Possibilities, and New Challenges: Being Literate in Internet Discussion Forums in Contemporary China, Xiaobin Jian
Video Literacy in Modern Chinese Media: A Must-Have Competency, Jianqi Wang
Text-Messaging on Cell Phones: A Semi-Hidden Information Flow in Modern China, Patrick McAloon
Old Media, New Discourses: Technological Advances and Chinese Radio Call-In Shows, Eric Shepherd
Session 213: New Directions in Comparative Studies of Ancient Greece and China
Moral Charisma in Early Confucianism and Plato, Eric Hutton
Han and Hellenistic Didactic Writings on Women, Yiqun Zhou
Visions of Beginnings: Confucius, Thales, and the Imagination of Philosophical Tradition in Han China and Hellenistic Greece, Wiebke Denecke
The Accidental Canon: The Hostile Anecdote and the Centrality of Socrates and Confucius, Alexander J. Beecroft
Orthopraxy, State Formation, and Cultural Citizenship: Civic Ritual in China’s Nanjing Decade Secondary Schools, Robert M. Culp
Imperial Rituals, National Education, and Citizen Formation in the Xinzheng Reforms, 1901–1911, Ya-pei Kuo
No Ceremonials: School Rituals and the Anti-Communitarian Spirit at Beijing University (1917–1922), Fabio Lanza
Shehui Xinwen and the Novelization of News in Republican-Era Newspapers, Eileen Chow
Read All About Her! Passionate Women and Social Ambivalence in Republican-Era Newspapers, Eugenia Y. Lean
Seeking Truth from Facts versus Seeking Facts from Truth: Tensions in the Theory and Practice of Newspaper Journalism in 1920s China, Timothy B. Weston
Session 216: Roundtable: The Cultural "State" of Contemporary Taiwan
Session 217: China’s Responses to Decentralization: Structure, Process, and Policy Change
Do Decentralization and Informal Networks Subvert Formal Institutions? Pierre-Francois Landry
Gauging the Impact of the 1994 Fiscal Centralization on County-Level Budgetary Status, Victor Shih and Mingxing Liu
Reining in Local Protectionism through "Soft Centralization", Andrew C. Mertha
Session 218: Distance and Separation: Its Impact on Chinese Families
Village to Distant Village: The Opportunities and Risks of Long-Distance Marriage Migration in the PRC, Laurel Bossen
Marital Construction of Family Decision-Making Power among Male Outmigrant Couples in Rural China, Jiping Zuo
Migration and New Configurations of Intergenerational Relations in Rural China, Hong Zhang
Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits, Ellen Oxfeld
Session 219: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations in Post-Reform China
Rethinking Central-Provincial Relations in China, Dali Yang
Strategic Interaction between Central and Local Governments: A Formal Analysis of China’s Fiscal Reforms, J. Vivian Zhan
Clientalism or Developmentalism? The Political Economy of Promotion/Demotion of Provincial Officials in China, Tingting Zhang