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Session 1: Associational Life in Contemporary China: Emerging Civic Organizations in Urban Communities
Buddha’s Bricolage: Innovating Organizational Forms in Urban Lay Buddhism, Alison Denton Jones
Accommodating for a Green Home: Homeowner Organizations in a Community-based Environmental Dispute in Shenzhen, Chun Liu
Community-based Social Service Organizations: The Role of Homespun NGOs in the Neighborhoods of Contemporary Urban China, Leslie Shieh
Governing Civic Organizations: The Role of Revolutionary Methods of Control in Contemporary China, Nara Dillon
Of Karma, Congee and Community: Faith-based Charity and Civic Engagement in Urban China, Susan McCarthy

Session 16: Chinese Modernity and Contemporary Confucianism
The Revival and Reinvention of Confucian Ceremonies in Contemporary China, Sebastien Billioud
Confucianism, Chinese Tradition, and the CCP’s Modernised Propaganda and Thought Work, Anne-Marie Brady
Harmony and the Use of Confucian Concepts in China's Foreign Policy, Valerie Niquet

Session 17: Theorizing Conversion: Chinese Religiosity and Modernity in Practice
Searching Inward, Pushing Out: Buddhism as Alternative Modernity in Contemporary China, Gareth J. Fisher
Converting to Buddhism: Lay People’s Religious Participation in Southern Jiangsu, Keping Wu
The Other Face of Conversion to Catholicism: Apostasy in Mid-Qing China (1724-1860), Pierre-Emmanuel Roux

Session 18: Roundtable: Approaches to Writing Biographies of Late Qing and Republican Subjects

Session 19: Glimpsing the Hand behind the Text: New Perspectives on Excavated Texts from Early China
Texts as Practice: The Production of Fourth-Century B.C.E. Chu Tomb Texts from Baoshan, Jue Guo
How to Read the Guodian Texts, Kevin Huang
Patron and Practitioner: Participatory Roles in Early Chinese Divination, Adam D. Smith
Inscribing the Northwestern Frontier of the Han Empire: The Production and Power of Administrative Documents, Meiyu Hsieh

Session 20: Trajectories of Chinese Citizenship: Consumption Norms, Media Spectacles, and Olympic Productions
A Filmic Response: Dialectic Citizenship, Cultural Capital, and Olympic Rhetoric, Ping Fu
Consuming Dignity: Internalized Discipline and the Struggle for Citizenship in China's Unregulated Consumer Service Sector, Eileen M.
Otis
The Empire Strikes: Global Citizenship, Darfur and the 2008 Olympics, Jennifer Hubbert
Work to Be Normal: Consumption Aesthetics and Politics in China, Hai Ren

Session 21: Redrawing National Space: Scientific Knowledge and a New Territorial Imagination in Republican China
Vast in Territory and Abundant in Natural Resources: Scientific Narratives of Scarcity and Plenty in Modern Chinese Geology, Grace Y. Shen
From Nation to Empire and Back Again: Marine Environmental Encounters between China and Japan, 1895-1945, Micah Muscolino
Granary of the Empire, Laboratory of the Nation: The Canton-Hankow Railway and China’s Food Problem, 1927-1937, Seung-joon Lee

Session 22: Metals for the Mints: New Perspectives on Regional Economies, Societies and Environments in Qing China, 1700-1850
Copper, Colonial Society and Environmental Change in North-eastern Yunnan: Historical and Spatial Explorations, Nan-tsung A. Kim
Geographical Approaches: Carrying and Shipping Copper from the Yunnan Mines to the Beijing Mints, Stefan Dieball
The Copper Trade between China and Japan in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative Approach, Keiko Nagase-Reimer and Thomas Hirzel
Global Center of Zinc Production in a Frontier Area: Issues in Zinc Mining in Guizhou Province, Hailian Chen

Session 40: Rights Consciousness vs. Rules Consciousness in Chinese Society: Data and Debate on Farmers, Migrant Workers and Intellectuals
Chinese Migrant Workers: Right Attainment Deficits, Rights Consciousness and Personal Strategies, Linda Wong
Uncertainty, Governance and Rights: Intellectual Strategies and Conflicting Frames of Reference in China, David Kelly
Rights Consciousness in Rural China, Lianjiang Li

Session 41: Chinese Internationalism, Discourse and Practice: 1930s/1960s
Chinese Uhuru: Maoist Internationalism on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution, Alexander C. Cook
Fragments of the US-Sino Cultural Front: How to Save Ding Ling’s Life, 1932-1937, Richard Jean So
Weak Nations of the World Unite: Chinese Fascist Analyses of the 1935-36 Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, Maggie Clinton

Session 42: From Local to National to International: Contextualizing the Development of Chinese Archaeology
The American Roots of Chinese Archaeology: The Freer Gallery of Art Expedition in China, 1923-1934, Clayton D. Brown
Amateur Archaeologists in Republican China: From Salvage Archaeology to Popular Education, Hwei-shuan A. Feng
The Rock of Sages: David Crockett Graham and the Birth of the Archaeological Museum in Republican Southwest China, Jeff Kyong-McClain
Mapping Chinese Art in America, 1914-1950, Yiyou Wang

Session 43: Parodic China: Subversion and Mockery in Modern Chinese Entertainment Culture
The Comic and the Tragic in Qian Zhongshu, Lao She and Lu Xun, Alexander Huang
Parody and the Public Sphere in Late Qing and Internet Age China, Christopher G. Rea
Strategic Counter-construction of Penis Envy and Phallocentrism: Qing Nü and Wan'er in "The Banquet" and Ophelia in "Hamlet", Ya-Chen Chen

Session 44: Visualizing Order: Images and the Construction of Legal Culture in Ming and Qing China
Punitive Yet Not Legal? Representations of Underworld Justice in Late Imperial China, Paul R. Katz
Conception, Praxis and Perversion of Legal Order in Eighteenth-Century China, Thomas Buoye
Symbolic Expressions in Ming Legal Philosophy, Yonglin Jiang
Familial Courts and Unrecognizable Judges: Legal Order as Presented in the Illustrations in Ming Case Stories, Yanhong Wu

Session 45: The New Military History of Mid-imperial China (Song and Ming)
Institutions, Families, Communities: Toward a Social History of the Ming Military in Southeast China, Michael Szonyi
Border Garrisons as Transitional Nodes: Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), David Robinson
A General for His Time: Chong Shiheng (985-1045) and the Remilitarization of the Northern Song State, Paul Jakov Smith
The Perfected Warrior and the Military during Song Times, Shin-yi Chao

Session 46: Cultural and Linguistic Exchange in Inner Asia
Negotiating and Consuming Ethnicity: Mongolian Elite Production of "National Culture" and Its Use by the State in 21st-Century Liaoning, China, Dr. Hurelbaatar
The Gift of the Song: Traditional and Modern Practices in Inner Mongolia , China, Anne M. Henochowicz
Lexical Parallels between Xiongnu and Tokharian: The Case of Chiliad Naming, Penglin Wang
Surname Adoption and Social Power in Mongol China, Michael C. Brose

Session 47: The Evolution and Impact of China Central Television
CCTV Dramas and the Re-making of Heroes in the 2000s, Ruoyun Bai
The Rise of "Star-search" Reality Shows and Its Cultural Ramification, Shixian Huang
Variety Shows on CCTV, Xuguang Chen
State, Market and Public Interest: The Role of CCTV in China’s Political Reform in the New Century, Zhifeng Hu
The Relationship between CCTV and Provisional Stations, Yik-Chan Chin

Session 66: Rethinking Warring States History in the Light of Recently Unearthed Bamboo Manuscripts. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early China
Defining Leadership and Promoting Action in the Warring States: A First Look at the Recently-discovered Military Manuscript, Cao Mo's Battle Formations, P. Ernest Caldwell
A Case of Graphic Misrepresentation: New Possibilities for Classical Readings Suggested by the Shanghai-Museum Text "Lord Jing Suffered a Chronic Illness," Scott B. Cook
Political Mythology and Dynastic Legitimacy in the Rong Cheng shi Manuscript, Yuri Pines

Session 67: China at Play: Excavating the Ludic Tradition in Modern China
Under Cinematic Eyes: Romance of the Western Chamber (1927) and the Comedy of Voyeuristic (Dis)Play, Xinyu Dong
Physical Play: Liu Jialiang and His Kung Fu Comedy, Xiangyang Chen
Politics at Play: Ideology, Sports and Popular Culture During China’s Cultural Revolution, Daniel Leese
Are We Having Fun Yet? Levity and Play in Chinese Revolutionary Narratives, Charles A. Laughlin

Session 68: War, Political Economy and State-making in Late Imperial and Republican China
The Potential and Limit to Centralizing Indirect Taxes in Late Qing China: A Re-examination of the Central-provincial Relationship, 1860–1895, Wenkai He
State-making and the Fiscal Revolution in Modern China and Early Modern Britain, Stephen R. Halsey
Do Mention the War: The Collapse of Guomindang Fiscal Policy, 1937-1945, Felix A. Boecking

Session 69: What Do Documentaries Document? Modes of Visual Testimony in Contemporary China
Chinese Docu-Animation, Paola Voci
Chinese Documentaries as Critical Discourse, Yingchi Chu
Before the Flood as “Rubble Documentary”: Loss and Creation of Value through Visual Testimony, Paola Iovene
Watching Documentary: Genesis of Critical Public Discourses in Contemporary Urban Chinese Film Clubs, Seio Nakajima
The New Documentary Movement and Film Theory, Xinyu Lu

Session 70: Roundtable: Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry. Sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council

Session 71: Situ Panchen, Tibetan Polymath of 18th-Century Dergé
The Medical Teachings of Situ Panchen, Frances Garrett
Situ Panchen’s Activities and Artistic Legacy in Yunnan, Karl Debreczeny
Situ Panchen and the Arbitration of Buddhist Origins, Nancy G. Lin
Situ Panchen and Sectarian Relations in 18th-Century Dergé, Jann Ronis

Session 72: The Evolution of State-Labor Relations in Contemporary China: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives
Building Danwei: The Cultural Construction of a New Economic Institution in the 1950s, Juanjuan Peng
Market Reform, Labor Unrest and Changing State-labor Relations in China, 1980s to the Present, Lu Zhang
Rhetoric and Reality of Democratic Management in Chinese Factories Since 1949, Joel Andreas
Broken Iron Rice Bowls: Severing Ties between the Chinese State and Socialist Workers, Jin Zeng

Session 91: Engaging the Other: Han Encounters with non-Han in Southern China
Vassals as Lords: Markets, Migration, and Overlapping Frontiers along the Southwestern Silk Road through the Late Song Dynasty,
James A. Anderson
"Living in the Tang": South Seas Maritime Merchants and their Chinese Hosts, 750-1368, John W. Chaffee
Wu Xing Fights a Jiao: An Allegory of Cultural Tensions, Hugh R. Clark

Session 92: Approaching Land Reform: Politics, Literature, and History in Revolutionary China
Performing Revolution: Drama Troupes in the Land Reform Era, Brian J. DeMare
Revolution on the Mind: The Practice of Fanxin in Land Reform, 1946-48, Fangchun Li
Fanxin: The Literary Representation of Land Reform in Ding Ling’s The Sun Shrines on the Sanggan River, Zhuo Liu

Session 93: Chinese Lay Buddhists in the Early Twentieth Century and the Question of Secularization: Four Case Studies. Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
Bourgeois Buddhism in Republican China: The Religious Life and Thought of Nie Yuntai (1880-1953), James Brooks Jessup
Secularization and Education among Lay Buddhists: The Case of Jiang Yiyuan (1876-1942), Beverley N. Foulks
Secularization and Science Among Lay Buddhists: The Works of Wang Xiaoxu (1875-1948), Erik J. Hammerstrom
Secularization and Statecraft: The Buddhist Nationalism of Dai Jitao (1890-1949), Gregory Adam Scott

Session 94: The Pursuit of Happiness and Freedom: Discoursing and Practicing Romantic Love in Modern China
Adopting Romantic Love: Lin Shu’s Translations of Joan Haste and Beatrice, Shaw-Yu Pan
What's Love Got to Do with Sex? The Discourses of New Sexual Morality and Its Variations in 1920s China, Rachel Hui-chi Hsu
Artists and Their (Nude) Models: Discourses on Love and Sex in Chinese Popular Culture (1920s-1940s), Li-ying Sun
Conjugal Love and Law in Republican China, Margaret Kuo

Session 95: The Dialectics of Patriarchy: New Reflections on Gender and Class in Late Imperial China. Sponsored by the Society for Qing Studies
Childbirth in a Time of Cholera: Wang Shixiong (1808-1868) and Male Medical Criticisms of "Doing the Month", Yi-Li Wu
Chosen Kinship as a Framework for Non-normative Sexual Alliances in Qing China, Matthew H. Sommer
Female Offenders and the Traffic in Women and Children in Late Qing Beijing, Johanna S Ransmeier
Social Melodrama and the Sexing of Political Complaint in Nineteenth-Century Commercial Kun Opera, Andrea S. Goldman

Session 96: Reading between War and Peace: the Commercial Strategies of Journals in East Asia from 1894 to the 1950s
Imaging the Reading Public: Wind and Moon News and its Strategies of Going Popular, Pei-Yin Lin
The Provincial Press in Interwar Japan, Louise Young
One Magazine, Two Cities: Whose Companion?, Yuen Sang Leung
The First Casualty: Truth, Lies and Commercial Opportunity in China’s First Media War, Weipin Tsai

Session 97: Issues of Child Welfare in Contemporary China
Children's Agency and Educational Inequality in Rural Northwest China: Linking Early Educational Attitudes, Behaviors, and Achievement to Later School Outcomes, Emily Hannum
From Charity to Welfare: Restructuring Child Relief in the Early People's Republic of China, Norman D. Apter
In Who’s Best Interests? Collaborations between the Chinese State and Western NGOs over the Care of Institutionalized Children, Leslie K. Wang
Chinese NGOs in Child Walfare: State Pawns or Savvy Partners? Carolyn L. Hsu

Session 114: Jesuit Book Culture in Late Imperial China
Motives and Methods of Jesuit Book Production in Late Imperial China, Anthony E. Clark
The Imprimerie de T’ou-sè-wè in Late Qing Chinese Book Culture, Joachim Kurtz
The Pattern of an Inter-culture Border: Macau in the Ming Period, Luis F. Barreto
Chinese Literature, Jesuit Book Culture and the Emergent Canon of Belles Lettres in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Europe, Patricia A. Sieber

Session 115: Performing Memory and Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Chinese Autobiography
Geopolitics of Memory and Forgetting: Memoirs of the Cultural Revolution in Hong Kong, Chunhui Peng
Privilege and Privation: Discursive Duality in Ying Ruocheng's Memories of the Cultural Revolution, Claire Conceison
Speaking about the Unspeakable: Trauma in Overseas Chinese (Auto-)biographical Writings, Monika Lehner
The Language of Chinese Autobiography: Yang Jiang's "Six Chapters of a Cadre School", Jesse Field

Session 116: Smashing the Four Olds: The Cultural Revolution and Chinese Culture
"Enjoying the Four Olds!” Oral Histories from a Cultural Desert, Barbara Mittler
The Ideology of Cultural Things: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution, Denise Y. Ho
The Four Olds through Three Writers: Excavations, Exhibitions, and Conflagrations, Jie Li

Session 117: Lycanthropy and Other Forms of Self-improvement: Human-Animal Transformation in Early Chinese Art, Literature, and Philosophy
Weretigers in Medieval Chinese Tales: A Case Study of Xiaoshuo as a Textual Category in the Early Song Dynasty, Sing-chen L. Chiang
The Weretiger, or He Ain’t Fattening, He’s My Brother: The Strange Case of Gongniu Ai, Andrew S. Meyer
Man and Animal in Shang Dynasty Bronze Art: The Taotie Revisited, Sarah Allan
The Transformation of Things: A Butterfly’s Dream of Zhuangzi, Brian Hoffert

Session 118: The Mandate of Heaven at the Local Level in Imperial China - Sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies
Shrines to Living Officials in Imperial China, Sarah Schneewind
Gu-Poisoning in the Bonds between Official and Locale in the Northern Song (960-1126 c.e.), T. J. Hinrichs
Rectifying Injustice in Song Dynasty Legal Cases, Natasha Heller
Magistrates and Miracles: The Supernatural Arsenal of Fine Officials in Early Medieval China, Keith N. Knapp
Officials and Local Society Meet at the City God Temple, Vincent Goossaert

Session 119: Roundtable: May Fourth - Requiem or Revival?

Session 120: Disaggregating Rule of Law: State, Law, and Society in China
Harnessing the Law? Environmental Litigation in China, Rachel Stern
Legal Rights in the Ivory Tower: The Legal Rights Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese College Students, Ran Zhang
Divorce, Chinese Style: The Metamorphosis of the Intersection between the State and Marriage, Ke Li
How China Can Achieve High Growth with Weak Rule of Law?, Yuhua Wang

Session 121: Individual Papers: Papers on Chinese History and Tourism
Negotiated Power: Local Government in 12th-13th Century Mingzhou, Sukhee Lee
Status, Silver and Crime: Scamming the Contribution System in Qing China, Mark McNicholas
Appeal for Social Justice? Public Notices in Republican Chinese Newspapers, Chia-Lan Chang
A Landscape of Travel: Ethnic Tourism and the Production of Distance in Rural China, Jenny T Chio

Session 138: Seeing in Early Medieval Chinese Religions - Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
Contemplation of the Impure in Kumarajiva, Sylvie Hureau
Making Scenes: Buddhist and Daoist Visualization Practices, Robert F. Campany
Seeing Buddhas in Cave Sanctuaries, Sunkyung Kim
Through a Mirror Darkly: Envisioning the Dao, Gil Raz

Session 139: Hungry People, Hungry Ghosts: Chinas Great Leap Famine in Comparative Perspective
People’s Dictatorship against People: The Criminal Charges during the Great Leap Forward, Yixin Chen
Eating Bitterness: The Failure of Maternalist Reform in the Chinese Famine, Kimberley Manning
Famine and Nationalism: Hunger and Food in the Propaganda War between Beijing and Dharamsala, Felix Wemheuer
Evolving Icons of Starvation in Chinese Famines: 1877-1961, Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

Session 140: Historicizing China and the Chinese
Hushuo: The Northern Other and Han Ethnogenesis, Mark C. Elliott
"China" as a Historical Signifier, Peter K. Bol
Is There Still A China after the Linguistic Turn? Q. Edward Wang
Ethnic Identity, Political Legitimacy and Zhu Yuanzhang’s Reinvention of "Zhongguo," Gang Zhao

Session 141: Roundtable: Theorizing Gender in Ethnic China

Session 142: Ethical Wellness and Environmentalism in Chinese Societies: Cultural Approaches in Ecocriticism
Xu Gang and the Beginnings of China's Green Literature, Thomas Moran
Can the Boat Sink the Water? Witnessing Nature Degradation through Chinese Indie Documentaries, Xinmin Liu
Steward of the Ineffable: "Anxiety-Reflex" in/as the Nature Writing of Liu Kexiang (Or: Nature Writing against Academic Colonization), Nicholas A. Kaldis

Session 143: The Changing Ecology of Schooling in Rural China: How Marketization, Townization and Migration Impact Teachers, Students, and Parents
"To Walk Out": Understanding the Motivations of Rural Parents in China, Peggy A. Kong
Internet Bar, School and the Greater Society: Students’ Cynicism in a Polluted Countryside, Jingjing Lou
Workplace De-politicized: A Rural School under Corrupted Bureaucracy, Dan Wang
Student Teachers’ Implementation and Perception of the Rural-related Summer Social Practice Curriculum: A Case Study, Hailing Wu

Session 144: E-volutions? Technology and Transformation in Modern Chinese Poetry
For Poetic Effect: Uses of Chinese Language in Electronic Poetry, Michel Hockx
Hypertext and the Pragmatics of the “Untranslatable,” Cosima Bruno
Cyber Folk? Multimedia Poetry in the Aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake, Heather Inwood
Goodbye Stranger: Consummating the Human and the Mechanical in Hsia Yü’s Pink Noise, Jennifer L. Feeley
Smelling Machines: The Poetics of Ecology in Wen Yiduo’s Chicago Poems, Liansu Meng

Session 145: Border Crossings: Borders, Frontiers and Cultural Contact Zones
China's 56th Ethnic Minority? Classifying the Macanese, Cathryn H. Clayton
Beyond the Governance of Global City-Regions: Discourses and Representations of Hong Kong’s Cross-border Identities, Tsung-yi Michelle Huang
Chinatown’s Gates: A History of Traveling Borders, Eileen Chow
A Totality of Gaps: The Great Wall in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination, Carlos Rojas

Session 146: Qing Political Counter-Discourse: Reconsiderations of Three Texts
The Political Lineage of Tan Sitong’s Renxue, Stephen R. Platt
The Mixed Constitution of Gu Yanwu, John Patrick Delury
Hidden Transcripts: Bao Shichen’s Advice for the Prince, William T. Rowe

Session 165: Recent Shifts in Chinese State-Society Relations: Accommodating the Winners and Losers of Political and Economic Reform
Economic Development and Political Participation in China: An Analysis of Petition Frequencies 1994–2004, Wooyeal Paik
The Coercive Capacity of the State in Transition: Analyzing Institutional Changes in Public Security in Reform-era China, Peng Fan
Institutional Conversion in Community Politics: Engaging Homeowners as New Stakeholders in Urban China, Yousun Chung
China's "Harmonious Society" and the UNDP’s Human Development Approach: What's the Difference? Devin K. Joshi

Session 166: Pursuing Substance for Masculinity in Taiwan and China
The Political Economy of Jinmen Sorghum Liquor and Masculinity, Chang-hui Chi
Smoking Manhood: Heroin and Nuosu Modernity in Southwest China, Shao-hua Liu
"Drinking Flower Wine" in Taipei Hostess Clubs, Paul Festa
"Masculine" Shopping for Prenatal Health: Prenatal Vitamin Consumption in Urban China, Jianfeng Zhu

Session 167: Help in Times of Trouble: The Politics of Philanthropy in Modern China
The Perception of Overseas Chinese’ Philanthropic Governance: Colonial Spaces, Hybridity and Nationalism, Jens Damm
Death and Philanthropy in Tianjin 1890–1914, Klaus Muehlhahn
Governance, Philanthropy and Profit: Disaster Relief in North China (1876-1908), Mathias Heinrich
Schools, Welfare, and the State in East Guangdong, 1900–1911, Hajo Froelich

Session 168: Appropriating Crafts, Owning Knowledge: Chinese Handicrafts and Proprietary Issues from Pre-modern to Present Day
Shufu Wares and the Limits to Imperial Control over Ceramic Technologies during the Yuan Dynasty, Anne T. Gerritsen
Managers and Manufacturers: Claims on Practical Knowledge and Artisan Work in 16th-century China, Dagmar Schaefer
Locations of Practical Knowledge in a Chinese Craft Industry, Jacob Eyferth
Just like a Prime Minister: The Middleman between Craftsmen and Owners in the Cotton Industry in the 18th Jiangnan Area, Pengsheng Chiu

Session 169: Beijing in the Shadow of Globalization: The Reshaping Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Art, Architecture, Film, and Literature
In the Name of the Olympic Games: Public Monuments and Private Place in the Changing Cityscape of Beijing, Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu
Historic Beijing in the 21st-Century, Robert L. Thorp
Borrowed Beijing: The City as Theme Park, and its Workplace Ecology, Jerome Silbergeld
Paradigms of Flexible Configurations: I-Generation and Beijing-Punks in Wang Meng, Xu Xing, and Chun Shu, Jing Nie

Session 170: Representing Childhood and Youth in Modern China
Being Homeless: The Child, Realism and the Nation in the 1930s and 1940s Chinese Films, Lanjun Xu
Back to Future: The Juvenilization in Chinese Political and Military Fantasy Literature on the Internet, Feng Yan
Performing the Colonial Child: Gender, Nature, and East Asian Colonial Modernity, Weihong Bao
Inventing Youth: Liang Qichao and the Politics of Late Qing Youth Discourse, Mingwei Song

Session 171: Missionaries at Leisure, or Not? Courtly and Transnational Networks at the Qing Court
Tensions Proceeding from Funeral Rituals, Nicolas Standaert
Interpreting Lord Macartney, Henrietta Harrison
Kangxi's Imperial Hunts and the Jesuits, Eugenio Menegon
Imperial Patronage of Jesuit Medicine in the Palace, Beatriz Puente Ballesteros

Session 189: Girls Doing for Themselves: The Rewriting of Sexual Politics in Tanci
The Brave New Woman in Jingweishi, Rui Shen
Female Same-Sex Desire and Women’s Subjectivity in Feng shuang fei, Wenjia Liu
Fathers and Lovers in Tianyuhua, Maram Epstein
Women’s Fantasy: Cross-dressing and Other Disguises in Zaisheng yuan, Ying Zou

Session 190: Gendered Voice in Medieval Chinese Literature
The Fantastical Female in Tang Narrative, Sarah M. Allen
The Voice and Voiceless: On Han Yu’s (768–824) Commemorative Works on Female Characters and Their Rhetoric, Suh-Jen Yang
Who Is Speaking? The Construction of Gendered Voice in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry, Qiulei Hu
What does being a Literary Man Mean?, Graham M. Sanders

Session 191: Discovering China's Biocapital, 1900–1937
The Penalized Body and the End of Torment, Timothy Brook
Why Weisheng is Not about Guarding Life: Alternative Conceptions of Hygiene, Self, and Illness in Republican China, Sean H-L Lei
"Living Capital" (Shengming ziben), Naturalness, and Vital Statistics in Republican China, Malcolm D. Thompson
Dissecting Bodies in Chinese, David N Luesink

Session 192: The Sinew of Power: Capital, Trade and Gunpowder in East and Southeast Asia , 1100-1683
Defending the Great Wall with Paper? The Salt Ticket and its Military-fiscal Function in the Ming Dynasty, Wing-Kin Puk
Smugglers, Pirates and Firearms: The Transmission of Western Style Firearms in Maritime East Asia in the 1540s, Yoshiaki Nakajima
The Economic Implications of Gunpowder Technology in Eastern Asia , c. 1368-1683, Laichen Sun
Warfare, Public Debts and Capitalism: A financial Study of the Military Defense in Twelfth-century Sichuan, Guanglin Liu

Session 193: Unity through Dissent: Reconciling Paradoxical Visions of the Post-Revolutionary Peoples Republic of China
Between Business and Bureaucracy: Pingtan Market in Maoist Era, Qiliang He
Social and Institutional Histories of Cultural Reform: China, 1949-1966, Matthew D. Johnson
Staging Capitalists: Literature and Film of the 1950s, Christopher R. Leighton
Resistance Forged or Forgery? Disobedience and Disorder in Early PRC Reeducation Centers, Aminda M. Smith

Session 194: Blood Talks: Presentation and Practice beyond Body in Modern China
From “Good Blood” to the “Right to Rebel”: Politics of Class in the Beijing Red Guard Movement, Yiching Wu
The Ties that Bind: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Era, Peggy Wang
Blood Lineage, Loyalty, and Identity: A Genealogy of Chinese Nationality Law, Dan Shao
What Counts as “Blood”? Reproductive Politics and Social/Ethnic Differentiations in Postsocialist Rural China, Junjie Chen

Session 195: The Formation of the Discipline of History in Early Twentieth Century China
Out of the Wilderness: The First Generation of Qing Historians, Madeleine Yue Dong
Myth and the Making of History, Brian Moloughney
Marking the Boundaries:The Rise of Historical Geography in Republican China, Tze Ki Hon
Textbook History in Early Twentieth-century China, Peter G. Zarrow

Session 196: Individual Papers: Society and Politics in Contemporary China
Life is to Enjoy: Changing Ideals of Happiness and Childbearing in Rural Northeast China, Lihong Shi
Making New Gendered Subjects: an Ethnographic Study on Suicide Prevention Programs in Northeastern Rural China, Hyeon Jung Lee
Dividing "The Poor": Contrasting Responses to State Appropriation among Urban Laid-off Workers and Rural Migrants in Contemporary China, Mun Young Cho
State versus Corporate Power: How Chinese Government Regulates Powerful Central State Firms? Yukyung Yeo

Session 213: Roundtable: Spreading Feng Menglong's (1574–1646) "Words"

Session 214: Constructing the Home: Domestic Space in Republican China
From Production to Consumption: the Home in City and Country, Toby Lincoln
Revolutionary Real Estate: Housing Redistribution Campaigns in Soviet-occupied Dalian, 1945-1948, Christian A. Hess
Designing the Modern Home in Tianjin, Elizabeth LaCouture

Session 215: Writing and Un-writing Taiwan's Ethnic Past
Researching or Romancing the Formosan Aborigine? Wu He’s Ethnographic Fiction, Darryl C. Sterk
Narrating Hakka Ethnicity and Constructing an Alternative History for Taiwan, Christopher Lupke
The Impossibility of a Taiwanese Past: History, Ethnicity, and Documentary Films, Sylvia L. Lin

Session 216: Roundtable: The Chinese Student Movement Twenty Years After: Continuities and Changes in Popular Contention since 1989

Session 217: Individual Papers: Film Festivals, Ritual Music, Detective Fiction and Chinese National Culture
Film Festivals under the Clouds: Documentary Screenings in Yunnan, China, Tami Blumenfield
The State Religion of National Culture, Kevin Carrico
Ritual Function and Aesthetic Value in Wutai Shans Monastic Buddhist Music, Beth M. Szczepanski
The Discourse of Science and Chinese Detective Fiction by Cheng Xiaoqing, Yan Wei

Session 218: Organizational Linkages between State and Society in Contemporary China
Institutional Imperative: Constituency Service in Chinese Local Congresses, Melanie Manion
Who Wants To Be a Communist? The Appeal of Party Membership in Contemporary China, Bruce Dickson
Corporatist Competition: Labor, Capital, and the State in Globalizing China, Mary E. Gallagher
Too Much of a Good Thing: Economic Opportunities and NGOs in China, Timothy Hildebrandt

Session 228: CANCELED - 2/26/09 Roundtable: The Future of Confucianism

Session 229: Assessing Ten Years of Great Western Development (Xibu da kaifa)
Labor Supply, Migration and Regional Development of Western China, Shuming Bao
City Water and Rural Peasants in the West, Shejiao Wang
Getting the Money to Stick: The Flypaper Effect and Increasing Local Government Expenditures in Northwest China, Yaojiang Shi
Great Western Desertification: Land Use and Water Management in Northwestern China, James A. Cook

Session 230: The Circulation of Cultural Images of China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Ancient Lands, Modern Territories: Transnational Circulation of Landscape Representations of Central Asia in the Early Twentieth Century, Fa-Ti Fan
Empire, Cultural Translation and Western Colonization of Chinese Law, Li Chen
Enumerating Female Infanticide in China: Western Narratives from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Michelle T. King

Session 231: Workshop: Happy Birthday Mazu - Empress of Heaven, Goddess of the Sea
"Happy Birthday Mazu": Topics and Issues for Taiwan Scholars and Students, Hsun Chang
"Happy Birthday Mazu": Topics and Issues for Hong Kong Scholars and Students, Tik Sang Liu
"Happy Birthday Mazu": Topics and Issues for American Scholars and Students, Vivian-Lee Nyitray
Filmaker's Response to Comments and Critiques of "Happy Birthday Mazu", Jonathan H. Lee

Session 232: New Perspectives on Wang Xizhi
Sending Regards to a Friend: A Letter by Wang Xizhi and Its Role in Shaping the Canonical Calligrapher Sage, Uta Lauer
A Glimpse Beyond: Analyzing the Langye Wang Tombs, Annette Kieser
Reading Wang Xizhi’s Notes, Antje Richter
Wang Xizhi Remembered – From Calligrapher Sage to Environmental Polluter: Changing Images of a Cultural Icon, Thomas Jansen

Session 233: New Dimensions for Study in China: Integrating Academic and Internship Programs Abroad with Those at Home Institutions - Sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association
Articulated Study Abroad for Advanced Chinese Learners: A Direct Enrolment Flagship Model, Dana Scott Bourgerie
Bridging Language and Culture Gaps at Home and Abroad: “Preparing Global Professionals”, Jennifer Li-Chia Liu
Exploration of the Logistics of an English-taught Cultural Course in the Study Abroad Context, Carolyn (Kunshan) Lee

Session 245: What Science Offers the Asian Humanities: Cognitive Science and Early Chinese Thought
Cognitive Science and Early Chinese Moral Psychology, Hagop Sarkissian
The Cognitive Science of Wu Wei, Brian J. Bruya
Cognitive Science and Confucian Reciprocity, Bongrae Seok
Cognitive Science and the Study of Chinese Thought, Edward G. Slingerland

Session 246: Re-assessing State Capacity in Reform-era China
The Institutional Origins of Tax Reform in Rural China, Hiroki Takeuchi
Migration and Discrimination: Urban-rural Categories and Chinese State Capacity, Jeremy Wallace
The Incoherent State: State Capacity and Policy Implementation in Reform-era China, Martin K. Dimitrov
The Revenue Imperative and the Role of Local Government in China's Transition and Growth, Dali Yang

Session 247: Theater beside Itself: Transmutations of the Theatrical in Thirteenth to Seventeenth-Century China
What is Wrong with the Wrong Career? The Archaeology of a Theater That Refutes the Metatheatrical, Ling Hon Lam
Thinking Southern: In Search of the Flavor of "Southernness" in the Nan Xixiang ji, Peng Xu
Between Performance, Manuscript and Print: Imagining the Musical Text in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Drama, Judith T. Zeitlin
"Closet Drama" Onstage: A Case Study of Ding Yaokang's Ramblings of the Transformed One, Xiaoqiao Ling

Session 248: The Social Life of Boudoir Arts in Late Imperial China
A Woman’s Woven Painting in Literati Circles: Zhu Kerou’s Camellia, Alexandra Tunstall
"How Should Her Skill Attain Such Heights": Han Ximeng and the Making of Gu Family Embroidery in Late-Ming Shanghai, I-fen Huang
Communicating with Guanyin through Hair: Hair Embroidery in Late Imperial China, Yuhang Li

Session 249: Himalayan Inner Asian Art and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Panel
Paintings of the Eight Great Events of the Buddha’s Life, Sacred Places and Religious Identity, Elena Pakhoutova
Zanabazar: Building of a Buddhist State in Medieval Mongolia, Uranchimeg Tsultem
Politics and Paeans: The Ritual of Offering Eulogy-Scarfs to the Jowo Sakyamuni [statue], Cameron D. Warner
Biographical Relics in the Consecration of Tibetan Portraiture, Andrew H. Quintman
Producing Contemporary Tibetan Art in Lhasa: A New Approach to Memory Work and Agency, Leigh M. Sangster