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Session 15, Reassessing the Rule of Law in China

Disaggregating the Rule of Law in China, Martin Dimitrov

What's Just? What's Legal? Generational Effects on Legal Mobilization in China, Mary E. Gallagher

Administrative Law and Political Transition in China, Neysun Mahboubi

Markets and Civil Justice in China, Margaret Woo


Session 16, Understanding Chinese Prime-Time Television Drama: Narrative Forms and Social Agencies

Remaking "Red Classics" in Chinese Television Series, Qian Gong

Chronicling the Personal: Narrative Forms and Social Agencies in Chinese Prime-Time TV Drama, Shuyu Kong

Dealing with Official Corruption on Primetime Television: A Study of Lu Tianming’s Three Anti-Corruption Dramas, Ruoyun Bai

The Maid in the City: Televisual Representation of Domestic Workers in Contemporary China, Wanning Sun


Session 17, Political Regulation and High Technology Development in China: The Case of Telecommunications and the Internet Network

Building China’s Telecommunications Network: Market Competition and Technology Transfer, Eric Harwit

Is China Emerging as a High Tech Standards Maker: Government Policy and Institutional Restructuring, Alex Zixiang Tan

Between Bureaucrats and Markets: China's Frustrating Involvement in Standards Wars, Scott Kennedy


Session 18, Political Theory and Political Theorists in Early Republican China

Unity, Representation and Accountability, Don C. Price

Tang Qunying and Her Sisters: Women’s Rights in the First Year of the Chinese Republic, David Strand

Re-casting Liberalism: ‘Rule by Man’ versus ‘Rule by Law’ in Early Republican China, Leigh Kathryn Jenco

"Culture" in Chinese Political Discourse: Then and Now, Theresa Lee


Session 19, Changes in the Pattern of Women’s Lives in Contemporary China

"To Return or Not to Return Home?" New Dilemmas and Opportunities Facing the Young Female Migrant Workers, Hong Zhang

Economic Reforms, Gender, and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Turning Discourse into Practice: Rural Women’s Pathways in Urban China, Nancy E. Riley

The Effect of Chinese Women’s Migration on their Fertility and other Reproductive Health, Rachel Connelly


Session 20, Understanding Chinese Liberalism and Marxism in the 1930s

New Enlightenment Movement (1936), Chen Boda, and Political Reform in China Today, Shiping Hua

Enlightenment and National Salvation: The Politics of Lu Xun, Hu Shi and Lin Yutang in the 1930s, Qian Suoqiao

An Alternative Approach to Marxism in the 1930s: Feng Youlan and the Search for "Society", Xiaoqing Diana Lin


Session 21, Ideas as Power: Language, Thought, and Memory in Maoist and Post-Maoist China

Yi shi xing tai: How an Anti-Marxist Concept Became State Policy with the Rise of the PRC, Josef Gregory Mahoney

The Pen and the Gun: Mao in the Power Struggle of the Great Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976, Jing Li

Maoist Style and New Chinese Culture, Jin Wu

Old Photos and the Popular Memory of the Cultural Revolution, Li Zeng


Session 38, The Sensory Landscape of the Nineteenth-Century Chinese City

Visuality and Street Spectacle in Early 20th-Century Beijing, James A. Flath

Scents and Sensibility: Perceiving Fragrance (Xiang) in Nineteenth-Century Chengdu, Alexander des Forges

Reading the Acoustic Landscape of Late-Imperial Beijing: Vendor Calls and Storyteller Voices in Nineteenth-Century Martial-Arts Novels and Drumsongs, Paize Keulemans

The Taste of Peaches: The "Water Honey" Variety and the Politics and Poetics of Place in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai, Mark S. Swislocki


Session 39, Modern Chinese Drama and Its Japanese Other

"Civilized Drama" (Wenmingxi) Reconsidered: The Birth of Sino-Japanese Tragedies in Late Qing China, Natascha Vittinghoff-Gentz

Five Faces of Salome: Theatrical Metamorphoses from Tokyo, Shanghai, to Beijing, 1920s–1950s, Liang Luo

The Vision of a Transnational Theater: On the Production of Roar, China! in Japan and China, Xiaobing Tang

Six Taiping Uprising Tragedies as War Dramas: Japanese Invaders and Their Historical Competitors, Xiaomei Chen


Session 40, Between and Around Empires: Resolving Ideological Space within the Tang-Song Transition

"Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern": Political Geography and State Power in the Tang-Song Transition, Ruth Mostern

Loyalties in the Borderlands: Changing Masters in the Early Tenth Century, Naomi Standen

The Tang-Song Transition and the "Imagining" of Guiyi jun Dunhuang (848–1036), Lewis Mayo

Peripheral Visions: Painting in the Five Dynasties–Ten Kingdoms Period, De-nin Deanna Lee


Session 41, Social Service Provision in Contemporary China: Civil Society and State Responses to a Changing Welfare Regime

From the "Iron Rice Bowl" to "Compassionate Relief": Towards a Residual Welfare Regime in China, Andre Laliberte

The Role of the Chinese State in Child Welfare, Catherine H. Keyser

The Struggle for Village Public Goods Provision: Informal Institutions and Accountability in Rural China, Lily Tsai

Causes of Effective Policy Implementation: China's Public Health Response to SARS, Jonathan Schwartz


Session 42, Local Visions of the Ming in the Late Qing: Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies

The Revival of Wang Fuzhi, Stephen R. Platt

The Ming Capital, 1819–1911, Chuck Wooldridge

Pioneer, Martyr, Eccentric: Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Readings of Kuang Lu, Steven B. Miles

The Present of the Past: Different Uses of the Late-Ming in the 1911 Revolution, Tze Ki Hon


Session 43, Analyzing China's Emerging Social Forces

Migrant Labor under Differential Citizenship in China, Jieh-min Wu

Negotiating Women’s Space and Position: The NGO Discourse and Women’s Organizing in China, Yun Fan

From Entrepreneur to Rentier: The Fiscal Crisis of the Local State in Rural China, Yia-Ling Liu

How Political Reforms Respond to Social Forces in Chinese Local Politics, Szu-chien Hsu


Session 57, Social Science Legacies from the 19th Century and Sinology Today

Chinese Cosmology in Social Scientific Theories, Aihe Wang

Unilineal Evolutionism, Essentialism, and Its Sinological Alternatives, Miranda Brown

How Confucianism became a World Religion: Max Muller and the Birth of Comparative Studies of Religion, Anna Sun


Session 58, Roundtable: The Role of Period Journals in Chinese Studies


Session 59, Creating Baihua, Contesting Baihua: Publishing and the Production of China’s Vernacular Language

Baihua Journalism in China before 1911: A New Medium between Propaganda and Commerce, Elisabeth Kaske

Teaching Baihua: Textbook Publishing and the Standardization of China’s Vernacular Language and Literature, Robert M. Culp

Modern, Commercial Classicism: Lin Shu as Textbook Writer and Anthologist, Michael G. Hill

Vernacular Chinese and the Making of the Mass Media in 1930s China, Sei Jeong Chin


Session 60, Common People and the Artist in Republican China: Visual Documents and Historical Narrative

The Female Impersonator and the Image of China: Mei Lanfang’s Visit to Japan (1919), the United States (1930) and the Soviet Union (1935), Catherine V. Yeh

Male and Female Advertising: The Making and Breaking of a Tradition, Barbara Mittler

The Making of Modern Icons: The Actresses of Lianhua Film Company, Anne Kerlan-Stephens

China Floating Population Photographs: A Missionary Vision, 1930s, Christine Cornet


Session 61, Science and Power in Twentieth-Century China

Quantifying the Quality of Rice: Agricultural Science and Rice Control Policy in Guomindang, 1927–1937, Seung-joon Lee

From West to East: The Epistemological Transformation of Birth Control in China, 1920s–30s, Michelle King

The Very First Lesson: Teaching about Human Evolution in Early 1950s China, Sigrid Schmalzer

Criticizing Einstein and Relativity: Chinese Scientists and Politicians during the Cultural Revolution, Danian Hu


Session 62, Land, Law, and Labor: Re-thinking "Women’s Liberation" as Theory and Praxis in Modern China

Reconsidering Women’s Emancipation in Maoist China as a Discourse of Global Liberation, Tina Mai Chen

Marriage Law across China's Revolutionary Century, Margaret Kuo

Where in the Liberation is Funü? The CCP's Internal Struggles to Fix the Figure of Woman and Women-Work (1929–1949), Kimberley Manning

No Change for Thirty Years, Ellen R. Judd


Session 63, Writing the Self: Tibetan Technologies of Subjectivity and Power

The Medical Autobiography of a Scholar-Statesman in Central Tibet, 1703, Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Self as a Faithful Public Servant: Secular Autobiography in Eighteenth-Century Tibet, Lauran R. Hartley

Boiling Water for Tea: Life History and Testimony in the Tibetan Refugee Community, Carole McGranahan

From Tibet to Exile, and Back to China, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy


Session 64, The Late Qing Frontier Integration Drive: Expansion and Consolidation in the High-Imperialist Era

Late Qing Incorporation of Northern Kham, Xiuyu Wang

Consolidating the Empire in Its Last Years: The New Ideology of Late Qing Reforms in Xinjiang, James Millward

Governing Beyond the Pass: Shanxi and Southwestern Mongolia in the Late Qing, Justin Tighe


Session 65, Individual Papers: Financial Institutions, Development, and the State in Republican and Reform Era China

China’s Multilateral Diplomacy toward Asian Financial Cooperation, Injoo Sohn

Women as Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of the Woman’s Commercial and Savings Bank (1924–1955), Yi Lo

Scars of Development: Natural Resources, Development, and War in Sichuan, 1920–45, Jack Hayes

Holding Half the Sky in Chinese Politics? Empirical Findings from Provincial Elites, Fubing Su

The Last State-run Enterprises: Reforms and Regresses in Chinese Universities, Qian Forrest Zhang


Session 82, Making Local Development Transnational: Foreign Investment and Institutional Transformation in China

Fortress in the Air: The Organizational Model of Taiwanese Export Manufacturing Factories in China, Ming-chi Chen

Forging Social Capital in the Alien Motherland: Taiwanese Business Associations in China, Chih-jou Jay Chen

Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Innovation and Local Economic Development in China: The Pathway of Kunshan, Sue-Ching Jou

Banking Reforms and the Intensification of FDI-Led Growth in Coastal China, Yifeng Tao


Session 83, Political Reform and Regime Continuity in China: The CCP's Strategy for Survival

What Kind of Party Is This? Joseph Fewsmith

The Lessons of Collapse: CCP Assessments of the Soviet and East European Implosions, David Shambaugh

Turning Wealth into Power? The Evolving Political Influence of "Red Capitalists", Bruce J. Dickson

Official Candidate Losses and Communist Party Gains? Electorates, Selectorates, and Delegates in Mainland China, Melanie Manion


Session 84, Before China Studies: Amateurs, Profession Builders, and the Revolution Paradigm

Anson Burlingame and China’s First Embassy to the United States, John Schrecker

To Educate China in the Humanities and Produce China Knowledge in the United States: The Harvard-Yenching Institute (1924–1928), Shuhua Fan

Snow, White, and the Wartime China Reporters’ Books: Adventures in the Revolution Paradigm, Charles W. Hayford

Jesuit Confusionism: Persistence of Vision in American Cold War Constructs, Martin Powers


Session 85, Polygyny, Concubinage, and Prostitution: Continuations and Aftereffects from the Late 19th Century to the Present

The Polygynous Politics of the Modern Chinese Man, Keith McMahon

Concubinage: Institutions and Imaginaries, Naifei Ding

Back to the Future: Nostalgia and Prostitution in China and Beyond, Paola Zamperini

Prostitution, State Feminism and "Sage-Queen" Sexual Order in Taiwan: A Queer Intervention, Hans Huang


Session 86, What is a Commentary before Eastern Han?

Interpreting "Mourning Garments": Commentarial Forms and Content in Relation to the Mourning Rites, with a Focus on the "Sangfu zhuan", Joachim Gentz

Yang Xiong's Fayan as Commentary on the Analects, Michael Nylan

A Reading of Master Fu’s Great Commentary to the Shang shu, Griet M. Vankeerberghen


Session 87, Entangled Rhetorics: Taiwan, Coloniality, and Literary Modernity

Origins of the Modern Novel in Colonial Taiwan, Huei-chu Chu

Entertaining the Greater East Asia: Popular Fiction in Colonial Taiwan during the War Time, Chun-yu Lu

Ode to the Island of Glory: Nishikawa Mitsuru, Exoticism, and Taiwan, Chien-Hsin Tsai

(Re)Mapping Taiwan: Metamorphoses of an Island in Public Discourses and Literature 1945–2005, Shr-tzung Shie


Session 88, Empires and Frontiers

Text and Textile: Han Brocade in the Western Regions, Lillian Lan-ying Tseng

O Pioneers! The Birth of the "Frontier" in Early Medieval China, Xiaofei Tian

The Spread and Use of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in Early Korean Society, Charlotte Horlyck

The "Middle Kingdom" that was India: Discourses on Indian Culture in Medieval China, Yang Lu


Session 104, Studies of Chinese Politics in Asia: A Comparative Perspective

Japan's Chinese Political Studies and Comparative Perspectives, Go Ito

Studies of Contemporary Chinese Politics in Korea, Jae Ho Chung

Chinese Political Studies in Singapore, Hongyi Lai

Politics of China Studies in Taiwan, Tse-Kang Leng


Session 105, Trajectories: The Lives, Rebirths and Afterlives of Modern Chinese Authors, Texts and Themes

Modernity Remembered: Shi Zhecun’s Century of Writing, Ann L. Huss

Yu Dafu and the Path away from Revolutionary Literature, Charles A. Laughlin

Mang Ke's Wild Things: Flattening the Revolutionary Past, Wendy Larson

Master of the Web: Chen Cun’s Continuous Avant-Garde, Michel Hockx


Session 106, The Elusive Realm of the Real: Historiographies of Chinese Cinematic Realism

Dialectics of Development: Realism and the Chinese Screen in 1933, Andrew Fredrick Jones

Duck and Bicycle Modernity: Taiwan’s Healthy Realism 1965–80, or Nationalism Caught between Shanghai’s Leftist Film and Italian Neorealism, Guo-Juin Hong

Hou, Kiarostami, Panahi, and the Realist Elusion, Jason McGrath


Session 107, Recent Work and Two Discoveries Concerning the "Modern Text" Bamboo Annals (Jinben Zhushu jinian )

The Modern Text of the Bamboo Annals: A Review of the Major Scholarship and Recent Debates, Dongfang Shao

Recovery of the Bamboo Annals Strip Texts for Shang and Western Zhou, David S. Nivison

One Annals or Two? The Case of the Bamboo Annals, Edward L. Shaughnessy


Session 108: Roundtable: China Studies 40 Years after the Cultural Revolution


Session 109, Equality and Its Discontents in Late Qing China

The Rhetoric of Pingdeng in Transition: From Religious to Political "Equality", Hsi-yuan Chen

Friendship and Equality in Tan Sitong’s Concept of Equality, Jeng-Guo Chen

Zhang Taiyan ’s Vision of "Equality", Viren Murthy

Fear and Loathing: Anti-Egalitarianism in the Late Qing, Peter G. Zarrow


Session 110, Individual Papers: Gender Issues in China Studies

The Significance of Blood Disembodied: Female Body in Medieval Chinese Soteriology, Jiun-Chyi Jessey Choo

The Bed-Sharing Friend: Friendship in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jie Guo

Lin Daiyu's Bildung: Gendered Reception of the Poetics of Reclusion, Luying Chen

A Cage of Voices: Producing the Dagongmei in Modern China, Diana Fu

Bringing Beauty to China's Countryside: Gendered Labor Value and Postsocialist Rural Development, Eileen M. Otis


Session 126, Spatial Mobility and Cultural Formation in Late Imperial China: Local Places, Literary Genre, and Geographical Knowledge

The Temples of Yunnan: Literati Travel Writing during the Jiajing Reign (1522–1567), Ihor Pidhainy

Sight-Seers, Free-Thinkers and Ascetics: The Many Shapes and Sizes of Travel in Late Imperial Yunnan, Julian Ward

Nodes of Cultural Production: Chinese Local Gazetteers, Travelers, and Travel Writing in Ming China, Joseph R. Dennis

Homeland Faraway: Sojourning and the Reinterpretation of the Native Place, Yongtao Du


Session 127, Political Change in China: Perspectives on Recent Developments

Governance-Driven Democratization? An Exploration into Recent Administrative Reform Initiatives in China, Kenneth W. Foster

Deliberative Institutions and Urban Governance in China, Baogang He

Property Rights, Community Building, and the Democratization of the Urban Planning Profession in China, Dan Abramson

Shaped by Social Protest: Evolution of the Letters and Visits System in Contemporary China, Xi Chen


Session 128, Male Friendship in Ming China

Friendship through Fourteenth-Century Fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Henian, Anne T. Gerritsen

Friendship and Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) in Sixteenth-Century China, Martin W. Huang

Music and Male Bonding in Ming China, Joseph S. C. Lam

Dreams of Friendship: Fan Juqing and Zhang Yuanbo in the Ming Dynasty, Kimberly Besio


Session 129, New Identities, Different Memories: Women in the War of Resistance against Japan

"I'm Also Human": Experiences and Activism among Wartime Chongqing's Women Workers, Joshua Howard

Gender and Remembering the War: Negotiating Gender Identity in Public and Private Memories of the Anti-Japanese War in Chongqing, Danke Li

Their Own Voices: Communist Women in the War of Resistance against Japan, Yihong Pan


Session 130, The Contemporary Chinese Poet in the World: How Modern Chinese Verse Situates its Subjects

Zheng Chouyu and the Search for a Poetic Voice in Modern China, Christopher Lupke

Wang Xiaobo: An Existential Poet in Disguise, Yibing Huang

Laws of Nature: Yan Li and the Natural Environment, Paul Manfredi


Session 131, Faith on Display: Tourism, Pilgrimage, and the State in Contemporary China

Spirit Money: Tourism on the Sacred Slopes of Mount Tai, Brian R. Dott

Pilgrimage Tourism and Existing Problems among the Uyghurs, Reyila Dawuti

Red or Green: The Transformation of Revolutionary Sacred Sites in China, Yu Luo


Session 132, Opening up Tibet: Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Development under the Xibu Da Kaifa Campaign

Rhetorics of Development and the Politics of Exchange among Tibetans in Qinghai Province, Charlene Makley

Migrant Farming, Urbanization, and Idioms of Development in Lhasa, Tibet, Emily T. Yeh

Modernity, Religion and Urban Space in Contemporary Lhasa, Robert Barnett

Tibetan Unicode becomes "Duo-code": Social and Technical Pressures of Minority Language Computing in China, Christopher E. Walker


Session 133, The Spatial Analysis of Chinese History and Society

Spatial Ontologies in China's History: Points, Polygons, and Networks, Peter K. Bol

Reconstructing Past River Courses with Remote Sensing and Ancient Sources, Zhimin Man

Migration in North China, 1985–2000: Insights from the Hierarchical Regional Space Model, Mark G. Henderson

Child Sex Ratios in Jurong Xian, 1933–2000: A GIS-based Longitudinal Analysis, William R. Lavely


Session 148, Establishing "Intellectuals": The Politics of Literary Canonization in Twentieth-Century China

The "Shanghai Way": Xia Yan and the Post-Revolutionary Politics of Left-Wing Cinema, 1949–1995, Matthew D. Johnson

"Qing" as Social Relations, "Qing" as Social Action: Lin Shu, the Politics of Feeling and Translating Fiction, 1897–1908, Ellen Huang

The Making of Lu Xun: Patronage, Publishing, and Cultural Production in China, 1918–1938, John Danis


Session 149, The Politics of Female Virtue in China: Eighth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries

The Controversy of Virtue: The Case of Building Daoist Convents for Tang Princesses Jinxian and Yuzhen, Ping Yao

Rethinking Male Loyalty and Female Fidelity: Gendered Virtues? Weijing Lu

The Politics of Female Virtue in Turn-of-the-20th–Century-China: The Case of Tongzhou, Joan Judge

The Changing Context of Female Virtue in Republican Shanghai: Controversy over an Opera Star’s Suicide, Jin Jiang


Session 150, Re-Narrations of Ethnicity: Tourism, Ethnic Politics, and Sustainable Development in Southwest China

From Namu to Najie: Tourism, Titillation and the Reshaping of Mosuo Identity, Eileen Rose Walsh

"Chaos (luan)" and "Order": Tourism Enterprise, Social Status, and the Multiple Narratives of Kinship in a Dai Village, Jing Li

Cosmopolitanism and Gender Performance among Sani Yi and Bai Women in Yunnan, Margaret Byrne Swain

Sustainable Tourism, Community Participation, and Ethnic Voices: Why Always A Muddy Pool, Fuquan Yang


Session 151, The Material of Tang Literature

Becoming Material: From Story to Object, Sarah M. Allen

Variations in Dunhuang Poetic Manuscripts, Christopher Nugent

The Idea of Writing as Demonstrated in the Technical Poetics of the Tang and Five Dynasties, Yugen Wang

Word Markets: Producing, Purchasing, and Marketing Literature in the Tang Dynasty, Alexei Ditter


Session 152, Micromanaging Authoritarianism: Party, Local Interests, and Policy Outcomes

Rightful Resistance in the Chinese Countryside: Opportunities and Perceptions, Kevin J. O'Brien

Inner Party Democracy? An Exploration of Three Townships in Sichuan, Victor Shih

Knowledgeable Citizens, Informed Community and Democratic Practices in Rural China, John Kennedy

Local State Capacity and Expenditure on Education in China, Gang Guo


Session 153, Transmuting Trauma: Representations of Twentieth-Century History in Chinese Literature

Loss beyond Telling: Chinese Lyric Poetry in 1900, Shengqing Wu

Writing the Nanjing Massacre between New Culture and New Life: Ah Long's Nanjing, Michael S. Berry

From Traumatic History to Everyday Life: Constructing the Mundane "Realities" of the Cultural Revolution in the Fictions of Yu Hua and Wang Anyi, Yue Ma

A Personal Matter: The New Century's Poetic Response to the Tiananmen Tragedy, Chaohua Wang


Session 154, Individual Papers: Issues of Local Governance in Contemporary China

Accountability and Corruption in China's Village Elections, Hiroki Takeuchi

Korea Town in Beijing: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Class in a Globalized China, Kwang-Kyoon Yeo

Gender Differences within the Danwei System: Intimacy, Women's Work and Family life in Urban China, Jieyu Liu

The Role of the Government in Voluntary Environmental Scheme: The Case of ISO 14001 in China, Sangbum Shin

Identifying the Economic Governance in China: The Case of Automobile Industry, Yukyung Yeo


Session 169, Revisiting Imperialism in China: New Light from the Chinese Maritime Customs Archives

The Ambiguities of an Imperial Institution: Crisis and Transition in the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1899–1911, Richard S. Horowitz

The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the Chinese Native Customs, 1901–1931, Weipin Tsai

"Disparate Things into a Whole": Shipping Rights Recovery on the Upper Yangzi River, 1929–1935, Anne Reinhardt

The American I.G.: L.K. Little and the End of the Foreign Inspectorate, 1943–50, Robert A. Bickers


Session 170, Local Knowledge and the State in Chinese Inner Asia

Water and Irrigation in the Oasis of the Tarim Basin: A Preliminary Study of History and Current Situation, Yasin Ashuri

Religion, Culture, and Uyghur Personal Names, Mahire Yakup

"Words of the Ancestors": Cultural Heritage and Modernity in a Lost Wedding Tradition of the Salars, Arienne M. Dwyer

Words Have Memories: Semantic Identity and Conflict in Mongolian and Chinese, Naran Bilik


Session 171, Aesthetic Synergy in Northern Song China: Poetry and the "Four Arts" of the Qin, Weiqi, Calligraphy, and Painting

Flowing Water and the Qin Music in Ouyang Xiu's (1007–72) Chuzhou Poetry, Sujane Wu

Shao Yong's (1011–77) "Great Chant on Observing Weiqi": An Archetype of Neo-Confucian Poetry, Zu-yan Chen

Creative Verve in Su Shi’s (1037–1101) Calligraphy and Ci Poetry, Madeline Men-Li Chu

Poet-Painters and Poetic Paintings in the Northern Song, Elizabeth Brotherton


Session 172, Forty Years After: The Cultural Revolution through Multidisciplinary Perspectives

The Fall of Liu Shaoqi in the Cultural Revolution, Yongyi Song

Mao Zedong, Althusser, and the Cultural Revolution, Jian Guo

Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussions on Physics and the Cultural Revolution, Yinghong Cheng


Session 173: Roundtable: Historians of China as World History Authors


Session 174, Chinese Fiction and Other Forms of Writing: Some Theoretical and Critical Considerations

Techniques of Poetic Expression in The Story of the Stone, Dore Levy

Hongloumeng: A Portrait of the Novelist as a Young Man, Liangyan Ge

Illustrating the Strange in the Era of Lithography: Wang Tao’s Hou Liaozhai zhiyi in the Dianshizhai huabao, Ling Hon Lam

The Aesthetic Turn in Xiaoshuo: Poeticization of Fiction in Chinese Tradition, Ming Dong Gu


Session 175, Re-inscriptions: Poetic Engagement and Late Socialist Cultural Identity

Online Poetry and New Cultural Populism in Contemporary China, Michael Day

Exile, Audience, and Aura: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Place of Translation, Lucas Klein

"Erotic Photos" and "The Obsession of Refusal": Repositioning Chinese Women Poets at the Turn of the New Century, Rui Shen

Rewinding the Lines: Lyric Minoritarianism and Depoeticization in New Chinese Cinema of Poetry, Jiayan Mi


Session 176, Shaping the Literary World: Li Kaixian's (1502–1568) Songs, Plays, and Biographies

Li Kaixian (1502–1568) and the Gaiding Yuanxian chuanqi (Changed and Edited Plays by Yuan-Dynasty Masters), Wilt L. Idema

Li Kaixian, Early Song Drama, and Discourses on Dynastic Legitimacy, Patricia A. Sieber

The Making of a Master in Drama and Sanqu in the Mid Ming: Li Kaixian's Role, Influence, and Self-Fashioning, Tian Yuan Tan

"So then He Sez to Me, He Sez": Li K’ai-hsien as Biographer, Daniel Bryant


Session 192, Chinese Chuanqi Drama in the Qing Dynasty: Evolution and Naturalization

Can Tears Suffice? Meng Chengshun (1599–ca.1684) Responds to the Fall of the Ming, Katherine Carlitz

The Onstage Life of Two Politically Sensitive Plays by the Suzhou Playwright Li Yu (c. 1591–1671), Catherine Swatek

Theatricality, Historicity, and the Interplay of Text and Commentary in Taohua shan, Lei Chen

Ritual into Play: The Theatricality and Social Functions of Qing Court Pageantry, Liana Chen


Session 193, The Chinese City: A Critical Multidisciplinary Assessment of Recent Research

From the Mountains and Fields: Urban Transition in the Anthropology in China, Li Zhang

The Great Disconnect: Is History Relevant in Chinese Urban Studies? Kristin Stapleton

The "Third Spring" of Urban Planning in China: Resurrecting Professional Planning in the Post-Mao Era, Michael Leaf

Urbanization, Urbanism and Urbanity in China: A Critical Assessment of the Literature in Geography, Laurence J. C. Ma


Session 194, Reassessing Village Governance and Its Future in China: Findings from Three Recent Rural Surveys

Political Participation in Chinese Villages: The Impact of Micro-Communities on Individual Behavior, Pierre-Francois Landry

"Peasants' Burdens" and State Response: Explaining the Causes and Predicting the Consequences of State Concession to Popular Tax Resistance in Rural China, Ethan Michelson

Grassroots Governance, Rural Tax-For-Fee Reform and Public Goods Provision in Rural China, Scott Rozelle


Session 195, Knowledge, Power, and Practice in Qing Scientific and Medical Illustrations

Cultivating Auspiciousness, Curing Gentlemen: Daoist Iconography in the Golden Mirror of Medical Learning (Yi zong jin jian , 1742), Yi-Li Wu

Illustration and Authority in late Qing Missionary Publications, Ryan Dunch

Diagrams, Charts, and Symbolic Representation in Late-Qing Textbooks on Logic, Joachim Kurtz


Session 196, East-Asianism in Chinese Mass Media

Japan in Chinese Language Films Financed by Japanese, Tonglin Lu

Chinese Television and "Chinese Revitalization", Kang Liu

Initial D as an "East Asian" Film, Gary Xu


Session 197, Prosody and Metrics in the Early Medieval Chinese Literature: Perceiving the Generic and Linguistic Links

Prosodically Motivated Genre Evolution of Sao and Fu, Shengli Feng

The Prosody and Its Poetic Effect in the Han Trisyllabic Lines, Suh-Jen Yang

Poem or Essay? The Poetic View of the Inscription and Its Significance for the History of Chinese Poetry, Zhangcan Cheng

The Consistency of Shen Yue's Poetic Metrical Theory and Poem Composition: A Linguistic Perspective, Hongming Zhang


Session 198, Environmental Governance and State Capacity in China

Public Participation and Environmental Policymaking in China, Timothy Hildebrandt and Jennifer L. Turner

The Problems with Regulatory Innovation in China, Ruth Greenspan Bell

Public Participation in China’s Environmental Enforcement: A Cash Reward Informant Program, Xuehua Zhang

Translating Regulatory Promise into Environmental Progress: Institutional Capacity and Environmental Regulation in China, Wanxin Li


Session 203, Individual Papers: Reflections on Religion: Buddhism, Shamanism, and Protestantism

Eroticized Gender Relations among Shamans and Deities in the Jiu Ge (Nine Elegies) of Early China, Thomas Michael

Bringing the Kingdom to the Southwest: The Consonance of Theology and Scientific Border Research at Chengdu’s West China Union University, 1920s–1940s, Jeff McClain

When the Buddha was a Woman: Innovation in the Theravada, Karen Derris

Bhutapratyavaksa: A New Basis for the Hinayana-Mahayana Distinction? Martin Adam


Session 216, Commodification and Social Activism: Cases from Mainland China and Taiwan

Commodification and Worker Protests in China, Ching Kwan Lee

Commodification of Farmland in China, Youtien Hsing

When Labor and Nature Strike Back: A Double Movement Saga from the Industrialization of Postwar Taiwan, Hwa Jen Liu

Cooperating with the Central, Confronting at the Local: How Chinese Environmental Movements Flourished in the Early 2000s, Jun Jin

Of Revolution and Reform: Two Faces of Environmental Activism in China, Guobin Yang


Session 217, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Republican Legal System in Transition

Minor Wife and Household Member: The Concubine’s Dual Identity in Republican China, Lisa Tran

Custom and Adjudication in an Early Republican Rural Court, Qin Zhang

Suing the State: The Pingzhengyuan Administrative Court in Early Republican China, Danny Hsu

Coming to Blows: Killing in an Affray and the Intent to Harm in Republican Law, Jennifer Neighbors


Session 218, Integrating Content and Skills: Curricula and Resources

Curriculum Development for Training Advanced CFL Learners: Rationales, Resources, and Possibilities, Chuanren Ke

Moving toward the Superior Level through Chinese Filmic Comedy, Cynthia Y. Ning

On Teaching Traditional Chinese Opera in Chinese Culture Courses, Marjorie K. M. Chan

Web Resources for Contents and Skills: How do We Find and Use Them? Tianwei [Tim] Xie


Session 219, Negotiation and Self-Invention: Our Studies of Chinese Women's Autobiographical Practice

Male Patronage and Cultural Exchanges: Ling Shuhua's Literary Transactions, Eileen J. Cheng

With this Lingo, I Thee Wed: Language and Marriage in Yang Buwei's Autobiography of a Chinese Woman, Jin Feng

Chinese Women's Autobiographical Storytelling Abroad, Jing M. Wang

Autobiographical Mode of Cinematic Representation: A Study of Contemporary Chinese Women Directors, Lingzhen Wang


Session 233, News, Rumors, and Hearsay in Imperial China: Three Cases from Song, Ming, & Qing

"Court Gazettes" and "Short Reports": The Blurry Boundaries between Official News and Rumor, Hilde De Weerdt

The Perception of Late Ming Nanjing, Siyen Fei

Rumors, Hearsay and the Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tours, Michael G. Chang


Session 234, Western Influence on Chinese Mass Media in the Republican Era

Way Down East, Way Down West: Hollywood Films in 1920s China, Qiliang He

The Impact of the Foreign Press on Modern Chinese Literature, Jue Wang-Rice

American Impact on the Professionalization of Chinese Journalism, 1910s–1930s, Yong Volz

Representations of Place and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Commercial Art, Warner Brown


Session 235, Popular Urban Culture and Sexuality in Republican China: A Comparative Study

Shanghai Dance Halls and China's Sexual Revolution in the 1930s, Andrew Field

Construction and Identity: Ta Kung Pa: Family and Women, and Urban Women’s Culture, Jie Hou

Urban Consumption and Sexuality in Beiping during the Nanjing Decade (1928–1937), Rachel Hui-chi Hsu

Writing for Entertainment in 1920s Guangzhou and Hong Kong, Angelina Chin


Session 236, Learning to be Chinese? History Education and National Identity in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore

Quantitative and Qualitative Nationalisms: History Education and the Limits of Chineseness in the People’s Republic of China, Alisa Jones

History Education, Museums and the Drive to Promote "National" Consciousness in Post-1997 Hong Kong, Edward Vickers

A Dualistic Self: Taiwanese History Teachers’ Perceptions of how Ethno-National Consciousness is Taught through "National" History, Stephane Bruno Corcuff

History and National Education in Singapore, Chor Boon Goh


Session 237, Encounters between City and Countryside: Migration in the People's Republic of China, 1960–2005

The Great Downsizing of 1961–1963 and Rural-Urban Relations in the Tianjin Region, Jeremy Brown

Native-Place Organization in Urban China: A Conduit for Migrants’ Demands? Erik Mobrand

Settling into Uncertainty: Migrants in Suburban Beijing, Friederike Fleischer

The Rural-Urban Divide and the Politics of Labor Market (Trans)formation in China, Guang Lei


Session 238, China in the Developing World

China's Growing Interest in Latin America and Its Implications, He Li

China and Africa: Lodestone of the Beijing Consensus, Barry Sautman

Marginality Transformed: The Political Economy of China's Relations with the Middle East, Yitzhak Schichor

China's Changing Political Economy with Southeast Asia, Samuel C. Y. Ku


Session 239, Blurring Boundaries: Excavated Texts and the Reconceptualization of Genre and School in Warring States China

Forging a Path through the "Thicket of Sayings", Scott B. Cook

Divination, Sacrifice and Knowledge in Warring States China, Mark Csikszentmihalyi

The Embodied Mind: Self and Self-Cultivation in the Guodian Texts, Edward G. Slingerland


Session 240, Zones of Contact: Identity and Cultural Practice in Modern Inner Asian Borderlands

A Chinese yinyang in Ordos, Ellen McGill

Borderlanders in Empire and Nation: Banner People, Manzu, and Manchuria (1909–1985), Dan Shao

Whose is the Dominant Culture? Han Chinese Parishioners of Tibetan Buddhist Temples, Gray Tuttle

The "Middle Ground" in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland of Eastern Tibet: Indigenes, the Qing Empire and the Republic of China, Yudru Tsomu