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  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    12:05 PM - 12:35 PM PDT
    5201314: XXXX XXXX (Fourth Cut)
    Location: VCC, Room 116
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    12:35 PM - 1:50 PM PDT
    Give and Take
    Location: VCC, Room 116
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    1:50 PM - 3:05 PM PDT
    The Returning Tide: Thirty Years On
    Location: VCC, Room 117
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    China Studies with Cyborg Characteristics
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Organizer: Yuchen Chen – City University of New York, Baruch College
    Organizer: Julie Yujie Chen – University of Toronto
    Chair: Silvia Lindtner (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Speakers: Susan Greenhalgh – Harvard University
    Speakers: Abigail Coplin – Vassar College
    Speakers: Nancy N. Chen (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Speakers: Bingchun Meng (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Speakers: Moira Weigel – Harvard University
    Speakers: Jamie Wong – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Beyond Market and State: The Political Origins of Economic Institutions in China
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Organizer: Jingtian Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Organizer: Xiao Ma (she/her/hers) – Harvard Law School
    Chair: Saul Wilson – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Qin Huang – Northwestern University
    Paper Presenter: Jingtian Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Xiao Ma (she/her/hers) – Harvard Law School
    Paper Presenter: Muyang Chen – Peking University
    Co-Presenter: Muyang Chen – Peking University
    Co-Presenter: Yufan Huang – Cornell University
    Discussant: Jean Oi – Stanford University
    Discussant: Tamar Groswald Ozery – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Border-crossings and Identity Strategies in Middle Period China - Sponsored by T'ang Studies Society
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Organizer: Nikita Kuzmin (he/him/his) – Elling Eide Center
    Chair: Jeffrey Kotyk – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Paper Presenter: Yalin Du (she/her/hers) – Princeton Day School
    Paper Presenter: Filippo Ugolini (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Di Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Nikita Kuzmin (he/him/his) – Elling Eide Center
    Discussant: Victor Mair (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
    Sponsored By T'ang Studies Society
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Contesting the “Villain”: History, Literature, and Narrative Antagonisms in Early Modern and Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Organizer: Jiaqi Wang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Organizer: Zixi (Peter) Zhang – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Sophie Volpp – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Wang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Zixi (Peter) Zhang – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Zhang – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Wendy Cui – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Sophie Volpp – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Cultural Technique, Media, and Literature: An Early Modern Chinese Reflection
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Organizer: Xinyi Fu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Yinghui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Yen-hao Liao – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Xinyi Fu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Decentering China in the Global Cold War: Gendered Labor, Cultural Diplomacy, and Eco-Media
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Organizer: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Chair: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Ailin Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Wentao Ma (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Geraldine Fiss (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Cassandra Guan (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    The Softest Power: Pandas and the Global Politics of Animal Symbolism
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Organizer: Jiaqi Yao (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Organizer: Yingqiu Kuang (she/her/hers) – European University Institute
    Chair: E. Elena Songster (she/her/hers) – Saint Mary’s College of California
    Paper Presenter: Yingqiu Kuang (she/her/hers) – European University Institute
    Paper Presenter: Cory Willmott (she/her/hers) – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    Paper Presenter: William A. Callahan – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Yao (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: E. Elena Songster (she/her/hers) – Saint Mary’s College of California
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    1: Cinematic Sisterhood and Trans-Socialist Solidarity: People on the Grasslands (1953) and the Gendered Ethnic Politics of Socialist China’s Film Diplomacy
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Presenting Author: Ailin Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    1: Disrupted Symbols: Pandas’ Deaths and China’s Changing Perception of the World
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Yingqiu Kuang (she/her/hers) – European University Institute
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    1: Doors as Medium and Cultural Technique in Further Adventures on the Journey to the West (Xiyou Bu) and Late Ming Literature
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Yinghui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    1: Legacies of Liberalism: Political Agency and the Making of Regional Economies in China
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Qin Huang – Northwestern University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    1: Like Human, Like Monster: The Calculated Merging of Shanxiao and Muke
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Yalin Du (she/her/hers) – Princeton Day School
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    1: The Eunuch in Forming: Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627) and the Late-Ming Jiangnan Community
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Jiaqi Wang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    2: Adapting Revolution in the Early Post-Cold War: The Silver Star Art Troupe (1966-1978) from Hong Kong to Singapore-Malaysia
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Presenting Author: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    2: In Medias Res: Cultural Techniques and the Mediated World of Rulin Waishi
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Yen-hao Liao – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    2: Kingly or Treacherous: Local Identities and Political Protest in Writing Wang Zhi (?–1560)
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Zixi (Peter) Zhang – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    2: “Pandamonium”: Misfits and Missionaries Creating Global Panda Values, 1919-1946
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Cory Willmott (she/her/hers) – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    2: The Political Origins of Market Structures in China
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Jingtian Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    2: To Be a Woman: Competing Models of Femininity Circa 712 CE
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Filippo Ugolini (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    3: Classifying the Unseen: Curiosity, Fantasy, and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    3: Municipal Bankruptcy in China—A Proposal and Political Considerations
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Xiao Ma (she/her/hers) – Harvard Law School
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    3: Pandas, Dragons, and China’s Soft Power
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: William A. Callahan – Singapore Management University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    3: Planetary Becoming Under Cold War Anxieties: Ecological Aporia and Necropolitics in Chinese Ecocinema
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Presenting Author: Wentao Ma (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    3: The “Hu” Conundrum: The Categorization of Sogdians in Tang China
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Di Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    3: Water, Villainy, and the Staging of the White Snake in Mid-Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Yifan Zhang – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    4: A Chinese Animal in London: Ming the Panda and the Politics of Cuteness
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Jiaqi Yao (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    4: Chinese Tropicality: Socialist China’s Infrastructural Investment in Decolonizing Tanzania
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Zhijian Sun (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    4: Shift of Alliances—Between Tibet and China: Tangut Identities During the Late Tang and Early Song Periods
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Nikita Kuzmin (he/him/his) – Elling Eide Center
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    4: The Domestic Political Economy of China’s Engagement with the International Sovereign Debt Regime
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Muyang Chen – Peking University
    Co-author: Yufan Huang – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    4: The Technics of Desire: Emotion, Gender, and List-Making in the Precious Mirror of Ranking Flowers (Pinhua Baojian)
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Xinyi Fu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    4: Ubiquitous Traitor, Forgotten Technocrat: Chen Gongbo’s Industrial Vision and the Politics of Nationalist Modernity, 1923–1935
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Wendy Cui – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    A Roundtable Discussion on The Seventies: Educated Urban Youth, the Countryside, Cultural Revolution, and Historical Memory
    Location: VCC, Room 306
    Organizer: Minlei Ye (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
    Chair: Theodore D. Huters – University of California, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Theodore D. Huters – University of California, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Shaogong Han – Hunan University
    Discussant: Richard King – University of Victoria
    Discussant: Andrea Lingenfelter – University of San Francisco
    Discussant: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Shit Talks: What Does the Study of Human Excrement in East Asia Offer the Humanities?
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Organizer: Benjamin AK Sinvany – Columbia University
    Chair: David L. Howell – Harvard University
    Discussant: David L. Howell – Harvard University
    Discussant: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes – Duke University
    Discussant: Daren Leung (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Sijia Cheng – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Discussant: Benjamin AK Sinvany – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Thursday, Mar 12th
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    Cut, Stitch, Resist! A Visual and Creative Workshop for Gender and Politics Scholars in Times of Precarity
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Organizer: Kimberley PW Manning – Concordia University
    Chair: Yunyun Zhou (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University
    Presenter: Kimberley PW Manning – Concordia University
    Presenter: Yunyun Zhou (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University
    Presenter: Yvette-Yuefan Wu (they/them/theirs) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Beyond Confrontation: Everyday Aesthetic Resistance in Sinophone Communities
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Organizer: An-Ru Chu – University of California, Irvine
    Chair: Yu-ning Liu (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yu-ning Liu (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yung-Ying Chang – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Eugene Yuchin Chen – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Tianding He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Lily Wong – American University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Beyond Its Usefulness: Rethinking Horses in Early Chinese Funeral Practices, Veterinary Care, and Transcultural Forms
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Organizer: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Tsz-yan Ho (she/her/hers) – École française d'Extrême-Orient, École Pratique des Hautes Études
    Paper Presenter: Chin-hau Lei (he/him/his) – Education University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Tianyu Zhou (he/him/his) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Discussant: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Beyond the Cold War: Early and Late Colonial Film Censorship in Hong Kong
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Organizer: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Organizer: Kristof Van den Troost (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Nicole Huang – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Kenny Ng – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Kristof Van den Troost (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Sheldon Lu – University of California, Davis
    Discussant: Nicole Huang – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Bodies in Transition: Gender, Space, and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism in Republican Shanghai
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Organizer: Wendy Sun (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Chair: Wendy Sun (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Discussant: Wendy Sun (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Paper Presenter: Bozhou Men (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Yun Liu – Shanghai International Studies University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaorong Li – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Borrowing and Rejecting: China and the Soviet Models
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Organizer: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    Chair: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Julia Zhou – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Sophia Charles – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    Discussant: Sergey Radchenko – SAIS Johns Hopkins University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Bridging the Institutional Divide: Making Sense of China’s Global Financial Integration
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Organizer: Denise van der Kamp – University of Oxford
    Chair: John Yasuda – Johns Hopkins University
    Discussant: John Yasuda – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Chen Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Hong Zhang – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Denise van der Kamp – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xinyi Wei (she/her/hers) – City St George's, University of London (UNCTAD)
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Buddhist Sacred Space: Material, Visual, and Ritual Constructions - Sponsored by Association for Chinese Art History
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Organizer: Yuchen LIOU (she/her/hers) – Ghent University/National Chengchi university
    Organizer: Jiayi Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Paul Copp (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen LIOU (she/her/hers) – Ghent University/National Chengchi university
    Paper Presenter: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Zixuan WANG (she/her/hers) – Lanzhou University
    Discussant: Paul Copp (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Jeehee Hong – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
    Sponsored By Association for Chinese Art History
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Building a Legacy: Canadian Visions and Formations of Chinese Art Collections
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Organizer: Wen-chien Cheng (she/her/hers) – Royal Ontario Museum
    Chair: Wen-chien Cheng (she/her/hers) – Royal Ontario Museum
    Paper Presenter: Kara Kaifang Ma (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Sisi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Regina
    Paper Presenter: Heng Wu (she/her/hers) – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
    Paper Presenter: Isabel Pifen Chueh (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta Museums
    Discussant: Laura Vigo (she/her/hers) – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Charting the Plurality of Chinese Feminisms: Socialist Legacies, Global Dialogues, Digital Futures
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Organizer: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Co-Presenter: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Shaopeng Song (she/her/hers) – Renmin University
    Paper Presenter: Yiping Cai (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Danchen Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Co-Presenter: Haoming Zhou (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Xiao Han (she/her/hers) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Discussant: Arianne Gaetano (she/her/hers) – Auburn University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    China and Global Capitalism: Interventions and Engagements from the 1950s to the 1980s
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Organizer: Yasser A. Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Chair: Gail Hershatter – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Discussant: Gail Hershatter – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Kelvin Ng – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Gina Anne Tam (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Paper Presenter: Yasser A. Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Yang (he/him/his) – University of York
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Currents of Power: Energy Infrastructures and Imaginaries in Modern China (1900 to Present)
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Yanping Ni (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Chair: Yurui Hu
    Discussant: Ying Jia Tan – Wesleyan University
    Discussant: Ralph A. Litzinger (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Yanping Ni (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Junfeng Xu – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Tianlin Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Democracy, Labor, and Information Technologies in a Tumultuous Taiwan
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Organizer: Margaret K. Lewis (she/her/hers) – Seton Hall University
    Chair: Margaret K. Lewis (she/her/hers) – Seton Hall University
    Paper Presenter: Richard Haddock (he/him/his) – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Wei-Ting Yen (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Lev Nachman (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Carl Minzner – Fordham University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Digital Humanities for Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Mongolian Studies Today
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Ning Chia (she/her/hers) – Central College
    Chair: Ning Chia (she/her/hers) – Central College
    Paper Presenter: Sainjargal Tumendemberel (she/her/hers) – National Archives of Mongolia
    Paper Presenter: Richard Ciolek-Torello (he/him/his) – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Dotno Dashdorj Pount (she/her/hers) – Harvard Divinity School
    Paper Presenter: Naran-Oyun Ganbaatar (she/her/hers) – Mongolian University of Science and Technology
    Discussant: Christopher Atwood (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Distance to the State: Rethinking State-Society Relations in Middle-Period China through Social Infrastructures, Political Practices, and Intellectual Orientations
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Organizer: Eric S. Lee (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Chair: Charles Hartman (he/him/his) – University at Albany, SUNY
    Discussant: Charles Hartman (he/him/his) – University at Albany, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Dongmei Zhao (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yitian Li (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Eric S. Lee (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Early Chinese Looks at the Past: Bronzes and the Crafting of Memory in Shang–Zhou China
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Organizer: Yuwei Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Organizer: Qiyu Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Yuwei Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Xiyang Duan (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Maria Khayutina (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Paper Presenter: Qiyu Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Felipe Rojas (he/him/his) – Brown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    An Exploratory Study on Social Workers’ Engagement in Policy Advocacy for Pension System in Hong Kong
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Ka Ki Leung (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    After the National Allegory: Memory, Vision, and Epistemic Ruins in a Chinese Nuclear City
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Chloe Rong – Haverford College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Agents of Change? American Missionaries and Social Reform in Modern Japan
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Shuma Iwai – University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    “Transparent Kaleidoscope”: Prototyping a Visual Archive of Twentieth-Century Yunnan
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: YUEHAN DAI – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Animal Vitality in Early China: Healing Horses and the Conception of Life in Manuscripts and Ritual Texts
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Beyond the Soviet Model—Min Naida and the Global Networks of Early Chinese Computing, 1949-1966
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Julia Zhou – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Border Spectatorship and the Performance of Dissent: Watching an Unfinished Film on Kinmen
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Yu-ning Liu (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Collecting for Knowledge: Bishop William C. White and the Making of Chinese Studies in Canada
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Kara Kaifang Ma (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Digital Democracy in Practice: Institutional Barriers and Breakthroughs in Taiwan
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Richard Haddock (he/him/his) – George Washington University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Financial Innovation in China’s Greater Bay Area: Financial Connectivity, Institutional Bridging, and China’s Financial Statecraft
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Chen Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: From Control to National Security: Colonial Film Censorship in Hong Kong (1908-1930)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Green Giants and Grinding Gears: The Hidden Circuits of China’s Clean Energy
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Yanping Ni (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Mutable Monuments: Modification, Displacement, and Reuse of Bronze Vessels in Shang and Zhou China
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Yuwei Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of “Women/Gender and Development” from the Perspective of Socialist Feminism: A Case Study of Danfeng Project in Shaanxi, China
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Shaopeng Song (she/her/hers) – Renmin University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Rooftop Waitresses and the Gendered Edges of Modernity in Republican Shanghai
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Bozhou Men (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: The Formation of Esoteric Buddhist Practice and Sacred Space: The uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Belief in Tang China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Yuchen LIOU (she/her/hers) – Ghent University/National Chengchi university
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: The Manchu Archives Under the Digital Management at the National Archives of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Sainjargal Tumendemberel (she/her/hers) – National Archives of Mongolia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Theorizing Capital in Revolution: Communist Intellectuals and the Overseas Chinese Question, 1945-1960
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Kelvin Ng – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Contentious Territorial Identity and Social Solidarity: Evidence from Taiwan’s Pension Policy Reform
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Wei-Ting Yen (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Defining Science: Soviet Influence on the Study of Geography in China, 1950-1953
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Sophia Charles – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Feminist Critiques of Global Capitalism in Late Colonial Hong Kong: The Case of the Hong Kong Women Workers Association
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Gina Anne Tam (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: From Demonized to Politicized: Cross-Dressing Prostitutes in Republican Shanghai
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Yun Liu – Shanghai International Studies University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: From Shielding to Pushing: Evolving Risk Management Regimes in China’s Infrastructure Export Industrial Policy
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Hong Zhang – Indiana University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Haunting Power: Ghost Busting and Spectral Resistance in Colonial and National Cantonese Cinema
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Kenny Ng – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Horses and Chariots as Grave Goods in the Guo State Necropolis During the Zhou Dynasty
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Tsz-yan Ho (she/her/hers) – École française d'Extrême-Orient, École Pratique des Hautes Études
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Interior Partitions Observed in Animal-Shaped Bronze Vessels from Pre-Imperial China
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Xiyang Duan (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Measuring the Energy: Water Meter-Charging and the Embodied Domestication of Infrastructure of Modern Urban Shanghai
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Pagodas in Southern Burials: Ascendance to the Heavenly Realm
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: The Circulation of Chinese Art in Imperial Networks: Norman Mackenzie’s Chinese Art Collection
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Sisi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Regina
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: The Politics of the “Bigger Picture”: How Sexual Violence Claims Are Framed, Challenged, or Silenced in Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Yung-Ying Chang – Rutgers University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: The Uyghur Cultural Heritage Project: Developing Urbanism in an Ancient Nomadic Landscape in Mongolia
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Richard Ciolek-Torello (he/him/his) – University of Arizona
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Translation, Vernacularization, and (Re-)Politicization: When the Concept of Gender Encountered China
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Yiping Cai (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Was the Government There? Looking Through “Commoners’” Construction of Bridges and Wells in Middle Period China
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Yung-chang Tung (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Collecting the Collectors: Shaping a Chinese Legacy at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Heng Wu (she/her/hers) – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Charting New Waters: International Finance and Institutional Risk in Hong Kong
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Denise van der Kamp – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Digital Humanities and Mongolian Textual Traditions: The Critical Edition of the Altan Bichig and the Qing Archives of the Chinggis Khan Cult
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Dotno Dashdorj Pount (she/her/hers) – Harvard Divinity School
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Glutinous Engineering: A Century of Maintenance at the First Chinese Hydropower Station
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Junfeng Xu – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: “How I Wish Heaven Could Turn Me into a Woman Instantly!”: Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968) and the Vogue of Male to Female Cross-Dressing in Early Republican China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Xiaorong Li – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Intimate Worlds, Invisible Wars: Feeling and Control in the BL Crackdown
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Eugene Yuchin Chen – University of Texas at Austin
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Memory-Making in Eastern Zhou Bronze Inscriptions
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Maria Khayutina (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Reconfiguring Commemorative Space: Dharani Sutra Pillars in the Wuyue Kingdom (907–978)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Jiayi Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Rejecting the Soviet Nationality Model: Why the Chinese Communists Opted for Ethnic Minority Autonomous Regions
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Remaking the Everyday: Sino-Japanese Technical Exchange and the Birth of Chinese Technocracy, 1978-89
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Yasser A. Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Rethinking the State-Society Boundary: The Integration of Local Institutions into Statecraft Thought in South China Under Mongol Rule
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Yitian Li (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: The Interrelation of Political and Moral Censorship in Handover Era Hong Kong
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Kristof Van den Troost (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: The Naming of the Eight Steeds in Mutianzizhuan and Its Cultural Implications
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Chin-hau Lei (he/him/his) – Education University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: What Is “Pink Feminism” in China?
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Danchen Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Co-author: Haoming Zhou (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Co-author: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Who Are the Bad Guys? Framing (Non)democratic Governance During the Lai Administration
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Lev Nachman (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Art as a Bridge: Reflecting the Essence of Chinese Culture in the Mactaggart Collection
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Isabel Pifen Chueh (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta Museums
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: “Feminism Is Beautiful”: Making Sense of Feminist Data Visualization and Its Aesthetic Resilience from Below in China
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Xiao Han (she/her/hers) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: From Halloween Streets to Academic Bars: Ritualized Ambiguity as Tactical Performance in Post-2023 China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Tianding He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Inscribing the Vinaya: Text, Space, and Ritual in Mogao Cave 196
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Zixuan WANG (she/her/hers) – Lanzhou University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Repurposing WW2 Supplies for Maoist Industrialization: Power Trains, Private Utilities, and the (Re)making of Mobile Generators, 1944-1955
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Tianlin Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Sacred from the Margin: Ritual Commemoration and Divine Embodiment of Chu Women
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Qiyu Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: The Glimpse at Democratic Marxism in the 1978-81 Chinese Democracy Movement
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Kevin Yang (he/him/his) – University of York
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: The “Horn” of the Celestial Horse: The Origin and Evolution of the Forelock Ornamentation During the Han-Jin Period
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Tianyu Zhou (he/him/his) – Freie Universität Berlin
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: The Mongolian Documentary Archives for Modern and Contemporary Historians
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Naran-Oyun Ganbaatar (she/her/hers) – Mongolian University of Science and Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Undeserved Luck or Intentional Favor: The Making of Dynastic Constituencies Through the Protection Privilege System in Northern Song
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Eric S. Lee (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Unveiling the Mechanism of Offshore Financing Activities Through Hong Kong: A Study of the Bond Issuance Structure of Chinese State-Owned Banks
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Xinyi Wei (she/her/hers) – City St George's, University of London (UNCTAD)
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Aristocratic Cultures in Non-Han Regimes of Middle-Period China
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Organizer: Lance Pursey – Academia Sinica
    Chair: Peter K. Bol – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Soojung Han – Southwestern University
    Paper Presenter: Chao-Hui Jenny Liu (she/her/hers) – East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Zachary S. Hershey – College of William & Mary
    Paper Presenter: Zhouyang Ma – Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Discussant: Peter K. Bol – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Becoming World Literature: Gender, Emotion, and the Global Circulation of Chinese Poetry
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Organizer: Fay Feijie Zhen – Arizona State University
    Chair: Lucas Klein (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Fay Feijie Zhen – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Zheng Li (she/her/hers) – Beijing Foreign Studies University
    Paper Presenter: Ninghui Yuan (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne
    Discussant: Lucas Klein (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Between Hand and Mind: Labor, Knowledge, and Professional Identities in Republican and Socialist China
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Organizer: Mindi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Organizer: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
    Chair: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Discussant: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Mindi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Tianyue Zhang – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Boyao Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Between Science and Non-science: Alternate Sites, Untold Traditions, and State Building in 20th-Century Asia
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Organizer: Yuchen Yan (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen Yan (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Chan – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Yaming You (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Norman Smith – University of Guelph
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    From Bodies to Bureaucracies: Reproduction and Gendered State Power in Contemporary China
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Si Wu – Boston University
    Chair: Michael Puett – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Jolene Yiqiao Kong (she/her/hers) – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
    Paper Presenter: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Si Wu – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Clyde Yicheng Wang – Washington & Lee University
    Discussant: Katherine A. Mason (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Growing Tendencies: Chinese Agriculture from the Qing to the Republic
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Organizer: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    Chair: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Wáng Yōu 王悠 (she/they) – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Mingran Cao – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Spencer Stewart – Purdue University
    Discussant: Fa-Ti Fan – Binghamton University, SUNY
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Things, Creatures, and the Cosmos in Late Imperial China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Chair: Ya Zuo – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Presenting Author: Joo-hyeon Oh (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Presenting Author: Yanxi Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Presenting Author: Arthur Erqi CHENG (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Presenting Author: Siyi Zeng (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Presenting Author: Ziyu Qiu (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Presenting Author: Xiaoye Gu (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Apocalyptic Laughter: Science Fiction, Comedy, and the Critique of Late-Qing Utopian Discourse
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Alexander M. Harasymiw – University of Minnesota
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Between Material and Spectral: Vitalizing Ancestral Presence Through Contemporary Grave Goods Practices in Rural Shanxi
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Yuan Zhang – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Blue Apocalypse: Aging and Memory After the Great Flood in Sinosphere Speculative Fiction
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Xinming Liao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Refashioning the White Pagoda Blocks: Mapping Memory, Urban Aesthetics, and Utopianism in Beijing
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Yitong Guo (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: Bamboo Horses and Blue Plums: Universalizing Love in Li Bai’s “Changgan Xing”
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Fay Feijie Zhen – Arizona State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: “Beseeching for Babies” (Qiuzi): Embodied Devotion, Ritual Grammar, and the Contours of Reproductive Subjectivity
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Jolene Yiqiao Kong (she/her/hers) – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: For Culture or for Agriculture?: Hydrology, Technology, and Ideology on the Baimao River, 1403-1834
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Wáng Yōu 王悠 (she/they) – Georgetown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: The Dilemma of Professionalism: Librarianship, Information Work, and Professional Identity in Republican China, ca. 1910s–1940s
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Mindi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: The Identity Changes of the Elite Xianbei in Medieval China
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Soojung Han – Southwestern University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: The Intoxicated Warrior: Addiction and the Politics of Writing in Lu Xun’s Works (1925–1936)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Yuchen Yan (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: From Salt Fields to Cotton Plantations: The Making of Land in Coastal Jiangsu, 1895-1920
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Mingran Cao – Leiden University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: Governing Pregnancy in China: Gendered Care and Institutional Power in Prenatal Encounters
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: Ox Carriages: Engendering Sacred Sites of the Northern Dynasties (386-535 CE)
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Chao-Hui Jenny Liu (she/her/hers) – East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: Recreation and Rebirth: Female Epic Beatnik Diane Di Prima’s Loba
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Zheng Li (she/her/hers) – Beijing Foreign Studies University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: The Labor of Reading: Typesetting and Revolutionary Vision in 1930s Chinese Literature
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Tianyue Zhang – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: Two Types of Addicts: How Twentieth-Century China’s Experiences with Drugs Changed the Meaning of Addiction Across the Globe
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Thomas Chan – Indiana University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: From Irkin to Dawang: Titulary Translation and the Reproduction of Liao Aristocracy
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Paper Presenter: Zachary S. Hershey – College of William & Mary
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: From Reproduction to Protection? Shifting Discourses of the All-China Women’s Federation on Birth Planning and Domestic Violence
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Si Wu – Boston University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: New State, New Medicine: Herbal Injection in the PRC, 1950s-1970s
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Yaming You (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: Technocrats as Petty Bureaucrats: Industrial Accounting, Calculative Expertise, and Clerical Labor in Socialist China, 1950s–1960s
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Boyao Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: Translating Feminist Poetics: Gender, Voice, and Embodied Language in the German Versions of Zhai Yongming’s Poetry
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Ninghui Yuan (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: What Came After the Columbian Exchange?: Exchanges in Chinese Agriculture at the End of the Qing Empire
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    4: Bridging Empires: Buddhism Among the Tangut Aristocrats Under Mongol Rule
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Zhouyang Ma – Austrian Academy of Sciences
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    4: Different Shades of Anti-Feminism in China: The Campaign Against “Provoking Gender Conflict” and the Shadow of the “West”
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Clyde Yicheng Wang – Washington & Lee University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    4: Preaching Purity: American Seed Science and the Remaking of Chinese Cotton
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Spencer Stewart – Purdue University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    4: Telling the Revolution: Oral Performing Arts and the Contradictions of Amateur Storytelling in Mao-Era China, 1961–1965
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    4: Winter, Health, and the Great Outdoors
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Norman Smith – University of Guelph
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    2: Multispecies Healing: The Role of Animals in a Fourth-Century Chinese Medical Text
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yanxi Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    3: Medicine, Cosmology, and Pharmaceutical Politics in the Late Ming: Reinterpreting the Red Pill Case of 1620
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Individual Paper Presenter: Arthur Erqi CHENG (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    4: Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain: Bamboo Imagery, Gendered Authorship, and Social Function in Paintings Attributed to Guan Daosheng (1262-1319)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Individual Paper Presenter: Siyi Zeng (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    5: Silverstealers: Knowledge, Technology, and the State in the Making of Fake Silver in Qing China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Individual Paper Presenter: Ziyu Qiu (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    6: Beauties on a Bottle: Reinventing Spring Dawn in the Han Palace on a Qing Dynasty Vase
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Individual Paper Presenter: Xiaoye Gu (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    1: Finding Order out of Chaos Through “Things” in 17th-Century China: Fang Yizhi (1611-1671)’s Study of the Principles of Things
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Individual Paper Presenter: Joo-hyeon Oh (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    China Under Xi Jinping: A New Era?
    Location: VCC, Room 122
    Organizer: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
    Chair: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
    Discussant: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
    Discussant: Chenggang Xu – Stanford University
    Discussant: Carl Minzner – Fordham University
    Discussant: Holly Snape – University of Glasgow
    Discussant: Li Yuan – New York Times
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    China’s Export Scholarship: Are Sponsored Translations into Foreign Languages Increasing Chinese Academic Capital?
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Daniel Fried (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Chair: Daniel Fried (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Daniel Fried (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Joanna Krenz (she/her/hers) – Adam Mickiewicz University
    Discussant: Timothy Billings – Middlebury College
    Discussant: Hua Bai – Springer
    Discussant: Yanyu Zeng (she/her/hers) – Hunan Normal University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Chinese Responses to Climate Change during the Little Ice Age, ca. 1350-1850
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Organizer: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria
    Chair: Kenneth Pomeranz – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria
    Discussant: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University
    Discussant: Ruth Mostern (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Discussant: Qing Pei – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Peter C. Perdue (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Conceptualizing, Visualizing, and Mapping Global China Studies
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Organizer: Jennifer Rudolph – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Chair: Maria Adele Carrai – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Jennifer Rudolph – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Discussant: Maria Adele Carrai – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Lane Harrison – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Discussant: Xiaojiao Wang – North Carolina State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Taiwan's Security: Views from the East Asian Region
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Chair: Ashley Esarey – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Chih-jou Jay Chen – Academia Sinica
    Discussant: Jieh-min Wu
    Discussant: Victoria Hui – University of Notre Dame
    Discussant: Young-Im Lee (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Discussant: Shino Watanabe – Sophia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    The (Geo)Politics of PRC Law: Institutionalized Lawfare in China’s Quest for a “Law-based Governance”
    Location: VCC, Room 118
    Organizer: Tamar Groswald Ozery – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Chair: Keith Hand – University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
    Discussant: Tamar Groswald Ozery – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Discussant: Weijia Rao – Boston University
    Discussant: Chi-Ting Tsai (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Margaret K. Lewis (she/her/hers) – Seton Hall University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    The Cultural Revolution after Sixty Years: Mao’s Strategic Vision or Improvised Disorder?
    Location: VCC, Room 111
    Organizer: Felix Wemheuer – University of Cologne
    Chair: Felix Wemheuer – University of Cologne
    Discussant: Andrew G. G. Walder – Stanford University
    Discussant: Patricia Thornton – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Challenges and Perils of a Transnational Political Community: Evidence from Global Hong Kong
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Organizer: Nathan Tsang – University of Southern California
    Chair: Kennedy Chi-pan Wong – The King's University
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Tsang – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Eva Cheuk-Yin Li – Lancaster University
    Discussant: Jeffrey Ngo – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Pamela P Tsui – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Eunice Leong-ming Chan – Lancaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    China in Global Circulation: Reconfiguring Knowledge, Institutions, and Resources in the Early Twentieth Century
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Organizer: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Chair: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Duoxiao Wu (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Yundi Jin (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Cheuk Huen Lee (she/her/hers) – Nankai University
    Discussant: Jiaying Shen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Discussant: Duanran Feng (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    China’s Zero-Covid Policy: Affective Governance, Diaspora Mobilization, Pandemic Controls, and Exit from the System
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Organizer: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto
    Chair: Patricia Thornton – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Liu (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Patricia Thornton – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Silvia Lindtner (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Hongshen Zhu – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Class and Contentious Politics in China
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Manfred Elfstrom (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Manfred Elfstrom (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Marc Blecher (he/him/his) – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Elaine S. Hui (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Presenter: Kayi Yiu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Zhihang Ruan (he/him/his) – City University of New York, Hunter College
    Paper Presenter: Eli Friedman (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Discussant: Manfred Elfstrom (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: William Hurst – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Composite Media: Communication and Its Material Forms from Song to Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Organizer: Lik Hang Tsui – City University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Danni Cai – Hangzhou Normal University
    Chair: Antje Richter (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Lik Hang Tsui – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Bruce Rusk (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Sylvia W. S. Lee – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Danni Cai – Hangzhou Normal University
    Discussant: Antje Richter (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Discussant: Grace S. Fong – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Constructing “the Hui” from Song to the PRC: Historical Research in Memory of Dru C. Gladney (1956-2022)
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Organizer: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    Chair: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    Discussant: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    Paper Presenter: Wlodzimierz Cieciura (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Haiyun Ma (he/him/his) – Frostburg State University
    Paper Presenter: Jing Xu (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Governing Family Through Women in Qing and Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Ruonan Wang – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Matthew Sommer (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Ruonan Wang – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Discussant: Xiaoping Cong – University of Houston
    Paper Presenter: Wilson Miu – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Chaoran Ma – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Wan Zhao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Healing Waters in Religious and Everyday Practices in Chinese Society (12th–20th Centuries)
    Location: VCC, Room 203
    Organizer: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen
    Chair: James Robson (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Changzhong (Bhiksuni) Lee – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Jingyu Liu – Rollins College
    Paper Presenter: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen
    Paper Presenter: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Michael Stanley-Baker – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Imagining China’s Transformation in Global Asia: Nationalism, Monarchism, and Citizenship in the Late Qing Period
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Organizer: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    Chair: Egas MONIZ BANDEIRA (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Paper Presenter: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    Co-Presenter: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    Co-Presenter: Egas MONIZ BANDEIRA (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Paper Presenter: Chengxin Peng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Wei Zhang (he/him/his) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Yue Zhou (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Discussant: Egas MONIZ BANDEIRA (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Inedible Food in Premodern China: Cultural, Sensory, and Epistemic Boundaries (12th–18th Centuries)
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Organizer: Wandi Wang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    Chair: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Wandi Wang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    Discussant: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Ari D. Levine (he/him/his) – University of Georgia
    Paper Presenter: Xiaosong Gao – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Narrating the Revolution: Theoretical Practice and Cultural Production in China’s Late Cultural Revolution
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Organizer: Harlan D. Chambers – Göttingen University
    Chair: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Harlan D. Chambers – Göttingen University
    Paper Presenter: Xuesong Shao – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Benjamin Kindler – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Fabio Lanza (he/him/his) – University of Arizona
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Reorienting Taiwan: Capital, Migration, and Maritime Networks in a Global Frame
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Organizer: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    Chair: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    Paper Presenter: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    Discussant: Douglas Fix – Reed College
    Discussant: Fei Hsien Wang – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Pao-Wen Huang – Ruhr University Bochum
    Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Reporting on Mao’s Last Revolution: Audio and Text from the Robert Elegant Collection
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Organizer: Zhao Ma (he/him/his) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Jan Berris – National Committee on U.S. China Relations
    Discussant: Tobie Meyer-Fong – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Joan Wang (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Jie Li – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Wang (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Zhao Ma (he/him/his) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Reshaping Sea and Hinterland: New Perspectives of Imperial China from the Southern Expanse
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Organizer: Joey Low (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Chair: Andrew Chittick (he/him/his) – Eckerd College
    Paper Presenter: Joey Low (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Paper Presenter: Jasmin Wai Tan Law (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Kangni Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: J. Travis Shutz (he/him/his) – California State University, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Cultural Coding of Color: A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Perspectives and Modern Applications
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Lokyan Vivian Li – University of California, Davis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Constructing Sanctity: Translation Rituals in Buddhist Biographies and Catalogues in Early Medieval China (266-907)
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Diyuke Wu (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Editing Harmony: Wang Ao, Gazetteers, and the Politics of Reconciliation
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Tony Yingchong Li – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Fashioning Resistance: Clothing, Definition and Vernacular Feminism in Late Qing Shanghai Pictorials (1884-1912)
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Zhiyue Gao (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Cantonese Collaboration and Native Official Trade in the Early Modern Upper Tongking Gulf Region
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Joey Low (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Becoming Latinos: Taiwanese Migration to Paraguay in the Twentieth Century
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Archiving Birth: Wise Mothers, Trained Midwives, and the Biopolitical Governance of Birth in Republican China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Ruonan Wang – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: From the Unpalatable to the Unthinkable: Recipes Beyond Edibility in Thirteenth-Century Literati Culture
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Wandi Wang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Genealogies as Charters for Hui Identity: Convergence from Late Ming to the Present
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Geo-Spiritual Assemblages in Premodern Chinese Buddhism: The Case of Miaoxi Spring at the Ningbo Ayuwang Monastery
    Location: VCC, Room 203
    Presenting Author: Changzhong (Bhiksuni) Lee – Brown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Imagining the International: China and the Making of Institutional Internationalism, 1919-1931
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Laying Down Ink Trails: Calligraphy and the Epistolary Gift in Song China
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Lik Hang Tsui – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Preserving and Accessing the Robert Sampson Elegant Audio Collection
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Joan Wang (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Reinvigorating Homeland Politics Overseas: Cultural Preservation Projects by Diasporic Hongkongers in the United States and the United Kingdom
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Nathan Tsang – University of Southern California
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Staging the Commune as a Practice for Thinking History (1974-1976)
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Harlan D. Chambers – Göttingen University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Marc Blecher (he/him/his) – Oberlin College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: The Reinvention of the Imperial Prerogative (Qiangang Duduan) in Late Imperial China: Qing Political Thought, Japanese Experience, and Modern Constitutionalism
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    1: Viral Interactions: Chinese Diaspora Politics During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Jiaqi Liu (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Beyond Being (Semi-)Colonized: Transnational Knowledge Production About Nanyang and China’s Expansionist Nationalism in Late Qing Period (1840s-1910s)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Chengxin Peng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Beyond Purification: Water as the Agent of Soul-Reconstitution in the Daoist Yellow Register Retreat
    Location: VCC, Room 203
    Presenting Author: Jingyu Liu – Rollins College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Eavesdropping on the Ming Court: A Fabricated Drama of Official Communications
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Bruce Rusk (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Engaging with Current Events: Morning Glow and the Present Tense of the Late Cultural Revolution
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Xuesong Shao – University of California, Davis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Exit as a Strategy: How Chinese Undocumented Workers in the U.S. Frame Their Migration
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Elaine S. Hui (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-author: Kayi Yiu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: From Littoral Landscapes to Oceanic Worlds: Reimagining Maritime Guangdong in the Ming-Qing Transition
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Jasmin Wai Tan Law (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Let’s Go to Chendai! Rereading Muslim Chinese Through Mid-20th-Century Hui Ethnographic Practice
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Wlodzimierz Cieciura (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Living in Taboo: Everyday Life Resistance and Resilience Amid Hong Kong’s Authoritarian Legality
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Living the Truth in Post-Pandemic China
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Negotiations Among Foreign Economic Organizations over the Shanghai Port Renovation in the Early 1920s: Public Goods and International Coordination Under the Treaty System
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Duoxiao Wu (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: Premarital Medical Examinations and Chinese Marriage Law Across the 1949 Divide
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Wilson Miu – Tsinghua University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: The Taiwan Customs Commissioners and Shifting Tariff Policies in Japanese Colonial Rule (1895-1909)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Pao-Wen Huang – Ruhr University Bochum
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: War on Nerves: Radio Sounds from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Jie Li – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    2: When Food Kills: Visual Evidence of Poisoning in Southern Song Criminal Cases and Coroners’ Manuals
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Ari D. Levine (he/him/his) – University of Georgia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Between Edible and Inedible: Transregional Exchanges of “Fragrant Tea“ and Its Cultural History in Yuan and Ming China (1270s–1640s)
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Xiaosong Gao – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Chen Shu’s Paintings: More Than Materializing the Exchange Between Qian Chenqun and the Qianlong Emperor
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Sylvia W. S. Lee – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: China’s Fifth Modernization: How Zero COVID Became a Technology for Affective Governance
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Silvia Lindtner (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: It Takes More Than One Village: Arbitrary Responsiveness and the Demolition Campaign in Huangpu, Guangzhou
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Zhihang Ruan (he/him/his) – City University of New York, Hunter College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Local Knowledge and Practice of Healing Hot Springs in Early Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 203
    Presenting Author: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Loyal Wives, Loyal Nation: Regulating Marriage and Fidelity in Wartime China, 1937-1945
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Chaoran Ma – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Private History in Exile: Yang Shen’s Writings on Yunnan
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Kangni Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Restoring the Past or Securing the Future: Yang Rongguo and the Late Cultural Revolution
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Shaping the New Citizen in Children’s Books: Geographic Imagery and Visual Modes in Enlightenment Pictorial, 1902-1904
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Wei Zhang (he/him/his) – University of York
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Sinicizing Missionary Lexicography: Chinese-English Dictionaries and Language Pedagogy in Late Qing Shanghai
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Yundi Jin (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Southeast Asian Dashi: Rethinking Early Quanzhou History and Legacies
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Haiyun Ma (he/him/his) – Frostburg State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: “The China Problem as a Data Problem”: Recording Technologies and Knowledge Production in Cold-War-Era China Studies
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Yu Wang (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    3: Unmaking Market Activism: A Cultural Explanation for the Decline of the Yellow Economic Circle
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Pamela P Tsui – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Cold War Intermediaries: China Watchers and Their Chinese Assistants in Hong Kong, 1965-1972
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Zhao Ma (he/him/his) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Beyond Inner and Outer Harbors: Nan’ao Island as a Secondary Port
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: J. Travis Shutz (he/him/his) – California State University, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Class Recomposition and Hong Kong’s Turbulent Return to the PRC
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Eli Friedman (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Correspondence on Fans: Literary Women’s Cultural Exchanges in Late Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Danni Cai – Hangzhou Normal University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Dewey’s China Visit and His Pragmatism: The Translation of the “Science” Concept in China (1919–1925)
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Cheuk Huen Lee (she/her/hers) – Nankai University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Fixing the Hui: State Taxonomies, Political Knowledge, and the Ethnic Reordering of Huihui
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Jing Xu (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Governing the Womb: Abortion, Adultery, and the State Anxiety in Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Wan Zhao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Japan’s Total Fish: Taiwan’s Overseas Fishing Enterprises and Its Imperialism in the Early Twentieth Century
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Miracles, Healings, and the Politics of Holy Water in Chinese Christian Texts
    Location: VCC, Room 203
    Presenting Author: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Overshadowed Voices: Transnational Repression and Internal Tensions in Hongkonger Political Engagement
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Eunice Leong-ming Chan – Lancaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Patriotism, Statism, and Nationalism: A Critical Analysis of Liang Qichao’s Early Concept of Zhonghua Minzu
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Yue Zhou (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Patronage Networks, Bureaucratic Management, and Local Government’s Pandemic Controls
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Hongshen Zhu – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: Producing and Consuming Inedible Music Like Edible Food: Four Case Studies from Ming-Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    4: The Proletarian Position: Collective Authorship and Amateur Writing During the Late Cultural Revolution
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Benjamin Kindler – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    An Unlikely Trajectory: Taiwan’s Leftism as Literary Practice and Historical Memory
    Location: VCC, Room 214
    Organizer: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Po-hsi Chen – Academia Sinica
    Chair: Ping-hui Liao – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Po-hsi Chen – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Mark McConaghy – National Sun Yat-sen University
    Discussant: Ping-hui Liao – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Eco-Encounters: Reconsidering Flora and Fauna in Chinese Art and Material Culture
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Organizer: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Organizer: Anran Tu (she/her/hers) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Chair: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Anran Tu (she/her/hers) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Discussant: Lisa Claypool – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Fa-Ti Fan – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Wilson Chan (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    Paper Presenter: Feng Guo – University of Edinburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Escaping Death and Returning to Life: Morality, Justice, and Power in the Commutation and Suspension of the Death Penalty in Modern China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Organizer: Yonglin Jiang (he/him/his) – Bryn Mawr College
    Chair: Yonglin Jiang (he/him/his) – Bryn Mawr College
    Paper Presenter: Yanhong Wu (she/her/hers) – Bryn Mawr College
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Buoye (he/him/his) – University of Tulsa
    Paper Presenter: Guanhong Chen (he/him/his) – Macau University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Bin Liang (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University
    Discussant: Nancy Park (she/her/hers) – California State University, East Bay
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Gaming Narratives: Towards a Ludic Epistemology in Early Modern East Asia
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Organizer: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    Paper Presenter: Kang-eun Kim – Sungkyunkwan University
    Discussant: Charlotte Eubanks – Pennsylvania State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Governing and Gauging the People: A Story of Chinese Population in the Long 20th Century
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Organizer: Yimang Zhou (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    Organizer: Zhelun Zhou (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: David Luesink (he/him/his) – Sacred Heart University
    Discussant: Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Yimang Zhou (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    Paper Presenter: Zhelun Zhou (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Weihan Sun (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xinyue Zheng (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    In a Sense: Early Modern Travels of China’s Sensoria across Borders, Geographies, and Cultures
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Organizer: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Chair: Qiong Zhang (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University
    Discussant: Qiong Zhang (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University
    Paper Presenter: Anna D’Ambrosio (she/her/hers) – Bibliotheca Hertziana
    Paper Presenter: Yixin Alfred Wang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Information Empire: Notation, Transmission, Translation, and Knowledge Production in Early China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Organizer: Qiran Jin – Princeton University
    Chair: Martin Kern – Princeton University
    Discussant: Tamara T. Chin – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Zev Handel (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Qiran Jin – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Yixin Gu (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Tao Guo – Wuhan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Plays of Power across Page and Stage
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Chair: Karin Myhre (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia
    Presenting Author: Yuyang Han (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Presenting Author: Cheuk Yee Wai (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Presenting Author: Lenore Szekely (she/her/hers) – University of Winnipeg
    Presenting Author: Chun Shan, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Exeter
    Presenting Author: Yizhuo Li (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Recasting the Qing-Russian Frontier: Economic Policy, Commercial Migration, and Settler Communities in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, 1850s-1900s
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Organizer: Hekang Yang – Columbia University
    Chair: Willard Sunderland – University of Cincinnati
    Paper Presenter: Hekang Yang – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Ilya Vinkovetsky – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Loretta Kim – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Willard Sunderland – University of Cincinnati
    Discussant: Sören Urbansky – Ruhr University Bochum
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Responses to War and Conquest in Middle Period China (916-1368): Emotion, Ideology, Politics, and Practice
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Organizer: Ting Cheung Wong (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Chair: Linda Walton – Portland State University
    Paper Presenter: Ting Cheung Wong (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Qian Zhan (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Paper Presenter: Wuliang Qu (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Ruixue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Peter Bol (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Staying and Going: Navigating the Hong Kong LGBTQ+ Lived Experience in Political Precarity
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Organizer: Ho Lam Roland Cheng (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Howard Chiang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Ho Lam Roland Cheng (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ying-Chao Kao (he/him/his) – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Paper Presenter: Javier Pang (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Leo Zephyrus Chow (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    “Taking Life Lightly” across Empire and Republic: Chinese Histories of Suicide
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Organizer: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Bryna Goodman (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    Paper Presenter: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Linh D. Vu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Painter (she/her/hers) – SUNY Old Westbury
    Discussant: Xiaocai Feng (he/him/his) – East China Normal University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Technological Change and Continuity in Early Asia: Archaeological Perspectives on Craft, Materials, and Innovation
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Zhen Ren (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Bo Yuan (he/him/his) – Xibei University
    Paper Presenter: Anne-Julie Robitaille (she/her/hers) – Université de Montréal
    Discussant: Michelle C. Wang – Georgetown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Foundational Bioarchaeological Baseline for Mixed Rice-Millet Farmers at Nanshan Cave, Fujian (4500–4000 BP)
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Meixu Ye – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    From “Periphery” to Governance Unit: The Nationalist Government’s Political Penetration and Social Reconstruction of the Huarui Tibetan Region
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: GUANGYE QI (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Gender Order and STEM Track Selection in Japanese Universities: Findings from a Questionnaire Survey
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Mayumi Saegusa (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    German Philology, Texts, and Politics: Central Asian Collections at Leipzig University During the Nazi Era (1933–1945)
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Dagmar Schwerk (she/her/hers) – Leipzig University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Continuity and Change in Chinese Legal Archives of Suicide from Empire to Republic
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Commerce and Consuls: Qing Statecraft and Chinese Merchant Networks in Vladivostok, 1880s to 1900s
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Hekang Yang – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Constructing Population: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Demographic Knowledge in Republican China (1911-1945)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Yimang Zhou (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Encounters in the Land of Flowers: Ju Lian (1828–1904) and the More-Than-Human History of Painting in Late-Qing Guangdong
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Is Market Necessarily a Foe? Queer(ing) Geographies Through the Lens of Queer Spaces in Post-2019 Hong Kong
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Ho Lam Roland Cheng (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Legalizing the Imperial Grace: The Pitiful and the Doubtful Cases in Ming China, 1368-1644
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Yanhong Wu (she/her/hers) – Bryn Mawr College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Reconceptualizing the Syllabic Information Encoded in Phonetic Components of Early Chinese Characters
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Zev Handel (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Revenge for the Jingkang Calamity 靖康之難 (1126-1127)? Reinterpreting the Emotional Responses and Motivations of Refugees During the Early Southern Song
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Ting Cheung Wong (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Rolling Through Numbers: Dice, Narrative, and Historical Reading in the Game Han Guan Yi
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Senses and Sensibility in and Beyond the Mediterranean: Chinese Materials in Early Modern Rome and Naples
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Anna D’Ambrosio (she/her/hers) – Bibliotheca Hertziana
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Technological Exchange and Continuity: Jade Crafting and Cross-Material Innovations in Early Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Utopianism and Decadence: Leftist Practice of Yang Kui and Lü Heruo
    Location: VCC, Room 214
    Presenting Author: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Alcohol and Rituals: The Development of Alcoholic Beverage Brewing Technology and Consumption Traditions
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Zhen Ren (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Emotional Tensions and Visual Responses: Rethinking Zhao Mengfu’s Service to the Yuan
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Qian Zhan (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Nature in Migration: Coastal Explorations and Marine Lives in Chines Literati Painting During the Nineteenth Century
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Anran Tu (she/her/hers) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Ouroboros Format and Orality: Organization of Linguistic and Textual Information in the Dunhuang Han Manuscripts
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Qiran Jin – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Playing Stories: When Storytelling and Gameplay Criss-Cross
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: “Promoting [birth Control] Among Workers and Peasants”—Reading Population from the Peiping Morning Post in the Early 1930s
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Zhelun Zhou (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Reframing Mercy: The Juridical Reconfiguration of Filial Clemency Amid Qing Penal Reform
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Thomas Buoye (he/him/his) – University of Tulsa
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Sensing Alterity: Ming and Italian Accounts of Sixteenth-Century Macau
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Yixin Alfred Wang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: The Authoritarian Capitalism Absorption of LGBTQ+ Movement in Post-2019 Hong Kong
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Javier Pang (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: The “Kiakhta System” Debates: Supporters and Critics of Continental Chinese-Russian Trade in the 1850s-1860s
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Ilya Vinkovetsky – Simon Fraser University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: The Rivalry Between the Leftist and Liberal Ideologies in Guo Songfen’s “Moon Seal”
    Location: VCC, Room 214
    Presenting Author: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang – University of Texas at Austin
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Worthy of State Honor?: Widow Suicide in Republican China
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Linh D. Vu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Adjudicating Male Suicide: Husbandly Virtue on Trial in the Qing
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Stephanie Painter (she/her/hers) – SUNY Old Westbury
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Between Idealism and Instrumentalism: The Death Penalty in Republican China, 1912–1937
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Guanhong Chen (he/him/his) – Macau University of Science and Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Familiar Foreigners: Russian Villages in the Eastern Chinese-Russian Borderlands
    Location: VCC, Room 205
    Presenting Author: Loretta Kim – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Inscribing Nature on Everyday Objects: Materializing Natural History on Chinese Inksticks from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Wilson Chan (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Neo-Confucianism, the Military, and the Mongol Invasions of Song China: The State Councilors Border Defense System
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Wuliang Qu (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Playful Rivalry and Abbreviated Storytelling: A Poetry Jam in 17th-Century Korea
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Poetry in Trans-Lingual and Intra-Lingual Practices: The “Song of a Yue Person” and Its Implications
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Yixin Gu (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Politicizing Sexual Wellbeing: The Intersection of Sexuality and Political Identity of Hong Kong Gay Migrants in Canada
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Leo Zephyrus Chow (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: “So Much a Musical Language:” Chinese Soundscapes and the Sound of the Chinese Language in Early Modern European Sources
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: The Gospel According to Chen Yingzhen: Christianity and Revolutionary Consciousness in Postwar Taiwan
    Location: VCC, Room 214
    Presenting Author: Po-hsi Chen – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: The Integration of Qin and the Xirong: Pottery Making, Production, and Distribution at the Shanjiabao Site, Guyuan, Ningxia, China
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Bo Yuan (he/him/his) – Xibei University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: What Counts as a Population Crisis? Technocratic Anxiety and Demographic Debate in Late-1980s China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Weihan Sun (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: From Northeast Asia to the World: On the Emergence, Dispersal, and Transmission of Early Mouth Harps Traditions
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Anne-Julie Robitaille (she/her/hers) – Université de Montréal
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Information Organization and Communication at the Periphery of the Qin and Han Empires
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Tao Guo – Wuhan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Rediscovering China’s Inner Asian Borderlands: The Camel in Western Travelogue and Chinese Painting, 1920s–1940s
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Feng Guo – University of Edinburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Remembering Taiwanese Socialism: Xie Xuehong in Cross-Strait Historical Memory
    Location: VCC, Room 214
    Presenting Author: Mark McConaghy – National Sun Yat-sen University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Simulated Narratives and Genre Transformation: Rethinking Female Hero Novels in Late Joseon Korea
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Kang-eun Kim – Sungkyunkwan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Sworn Brotherhood and Emperor-Subject Ties: Emotional Contexts of Liao-Song Diplomacy
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Ruixue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: The Suspended Death Sentence Practice of the People’s Republic of China: Its Aim, Operation, and Challenges
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Bin Liang (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Uterine Governance: The Practice and Evolution of the Birth Planning Policy in Rural Areas (1979-1983)—The Case of Y County
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Xinyue Zheng (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    1: Performing the Vernacular: Local Narrative Performance Traditions and Storytelling Conventions in Shanghai Dialect Novel Fanhua
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yuyang Han (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    4: Stage as Concession: The Reception of Agatha Christie’s Plays in Shanghai and Cultural Self-Colonization
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Individual Paper Presenter: Chun Shan, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Exeter
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    5: Pocket Plays: Lithography, Cultural Censorship, and Peking Opera in Late-Qing Shanghai
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yizhuo Li (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    3: Actresses Born and Bred: Commodification and Mythologizing in Li Yu’s “Collective Biography of Two Concubines”
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Individual Paper Presenter: Lenore Szekely (she/her/hers) – University of Winnipeg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    2: Staging Gods for the Emperor: Use of Religious Elements in Qing Court Theatre
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Individual Paper Presenter: Cheuk Yee Wai (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    America's China Talent Challenge: Initial Findings from Forthcoming Report
    Location: VCC, Room 306
    Organizer: Jean Oi – Stanford University
    Discussant: Jean Oi – Stanford University
    Discussant: Margaret Lewis – Seton Hall University School of Law
    Discussant: Rosie Levine – US-China Education Trust
    Discussant: Neysun A. Mahboubi – University of Pennsylvania
    Discussant: Mary Gallagher – University of Notre Dame
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Thinking Comparatively About China: Interarea and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Location: VCC, Room 109
    Organizer: Martin Dimitrov – Tulane University
    Chair: Martin Dimitrov – Tulane University
    Discussant: Mohammed Alsudairi – Australian National University
    Discussant: Cheng Chen – SUNY Albany
    Discussant: Zhang Xin – East China Normal University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Friday, Mar 13th
    4:30 PM - 5:05 PM PDT
    Who has seen the sounds?
    Location: VCC, Room 117
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Chinese Muslim Networks and State Power: Agency, Adaptation, and Resilience from the Late-Qing through the Xi Jinping Present
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Organizer: Qianyu Ma – Carnegie Mellon University
    Organizer: Xian Wang – Australian National University
    Chair: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    Paper Presenter: Qianyu Ma – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Xian Wang – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Susan K. McCarthy – Providence College
    Discussant: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Face Value: Identity and Meaning in Portraiture in China - Sponsored by AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC)
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Organizer: Dora C.Y Ching (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Chair: Jan Stuart (she/her/hers) – Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
    Discussant: Jan Stuart (she/her/hers) – Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
    Paper Presenter: Dora C.Y Ching (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Yunru Chen (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Junyao He (he/him/his) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Paper Presenter: Roberta Wue (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Joseph Scheier-Dolberg (he/him/his) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    East & Inner Asia
    Sponsored By AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC)
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Infrastructural Frontiers: State and Society in the PRC’s Western Borderlands
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Organizer: Jason Chan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Chair: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jason Chan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Junyi Han (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Brian Spivey (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Discussant: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Intercardinal Imaginaries: Mapping (Un)avowable Sinophone Borderlands Through Literature, Film, and Media
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Organizer: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University
    Discussant: Mark Bender – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Levi S. Gibbs – Dartmouth College
    Paper Presenter: Lina Qu (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Kyle Shernuk – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Knowledge Production and Speculative Fiction in the Sinosphere—Part I: Writings of Technology
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Organizer: Nick Stember (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Chair: Nick Stember (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Bo Ærenlund Sørensen (he/him/his) – University of Copenhagen
    Paper Presenter: Zhange Ni – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuheng Ko (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Emily X. Jin (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Knowledge Production in the Making and Unmaking of Empire and Nation: Languages, Ethnicities, and Cultural Authority
    Location: VCC, Room 216
    Organizer: Rhonda Ran Huo – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Loretta Kim – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Matthew Mosca – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Bramao-Ramos – Bates College
    Paper Presenter: Rhonda Ran Huo – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Kin Ian Monica Chang – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Mian Chen – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Literary Cartographies of Empire in Premodern China
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Organizer: Amy Zhang (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Chair: Manling Luo (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Amy Zhang (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Manling Luo (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Thomas J. Mazanec (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Christopher Elford (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Paper Presenter: Meimei Zhang (she/her/hers) – Occidental College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Longue Durée Perspectives on Secularization in the Sinophone World
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Yegor Grebnev – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Elena Valussi – Loyola University Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Yegor Grebnev – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Jiahui Shen (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Aymeric Xu – Scuola Superiore Meridionale
    Discussant: Ting Guo – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Making “Textbooks” for Cultural Expertise in Premodern China
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Organizer: Zijing Fan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Lucille Chia – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Lili Xia – Barnard College, Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Mo Zhai – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Zijing Fan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Vedal – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Lucille Chia – University of California, Riverside
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the History of U.S.-China Relations
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Organizer: Yike Zhang (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Chair: Shellen Wu – Lehigh University
    Discussant: William C. Kirby (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Thomas B. Gold – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Weiyu Dang – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Ruiheng Wang – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Yan – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Yike Zhang (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    The Spatial Dynamics of Military Power: Military Mobility and Imperial Control in Early Modern China, 13-18th Centuries
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Organizer: Yiming Ha (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Steven B. Miles – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Discussant: Yi Wang – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Aaron Molnar – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Sean Cronan – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Yiming Ha (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Lei Lin (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Transnational Mobility and Global Entanglements in 20th-Century East Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Chair: Marc Andre Matten (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Presenting Author: Robert Winstanley-Chesters (he/him/his) – University of Leeds
    Presenting Author: Shen Qu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Presenting Author: XIAOQING YANG (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Cheuk Him Ryan Sun (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Presenting Author: Yoke Kuan Wong (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Travel, Dwell, Mull: Embodied Experiences of Land and Landscape in Middle Period China
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Lucien Sun (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoshan Yang – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Lucien Sun (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Kindall – University of St. Thomas
    Discussant: Cong Zhang – University of Virginia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: An Imam from Pu’er: Muslim Networks in an Era of Muslim Rebellion
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Correlative AI in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Zhange Ni – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: A Perilous Crossing: Ambivalence About Marriage Reform in Tales from the Yellow Earth
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Levi S. Gibbs – Dartmouth College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Forging the Third Pole: Global Polar Engineering and the National Campaign on Permafrost Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, 1974-1978
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Jason Chan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: “Have Them Settle on Land with Good Water and Grass”: The Role of the Yuan-Ming Militaries in Climate Change Adaptation and Migration, 14th–15th Centuries
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Aaron Molnar – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future: Manchu-Language Publishing and the Making of Qing Legitimacy
    Location: VCC, Room 216
    Presenting Author: Sarah Bramao-Ramos – Bates College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Portraits in China: Constructs of Identity and Meaning
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Dora C.Y Ching (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Reconstructing a Warring States Theory of Secularization from an Excavated Manuscript from the State of Chu
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Yegor Grebnev – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Re-Coordinating Chang’an: Linked Verse and the Poetics of Movement
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Amy Zhang (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Social Science, Knowledge Production, and Academic Collaboration Under Empire: Korean and Japanese Fieldwork in Mengjiang (Mōkyō) 1939-1945
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Individual Paper Presenter: Robert Winstanley-Chesters (he/him/his) – University of Leeds
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: The Asian Business: The Interwar Origins of Area Studies, the Crisis of the Humanities, and the Moral Cultivation of U.S. Empire
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Weiyu Dang – New York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: The Rise of Oceanic Imagination in Song Poetry
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Xiaoshan Yang – University of Notre Dame
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    1: Yuan Haowen and the Afterlife of the Jin Literary Model in Late Imperial China
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Lili Xia – Barnard College, Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: American Experts in China: Cultural Assistance and the Formation of Transpacific Intellectual Networks, 1942-1947
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Ruiheng Wang – Nanjing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Empresses Apart: Visual and Ritual Contexts of Song Imperial Female Portraiture
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Yunru Chen (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Food and Friendship: The Touchstone of Xiao Hong’s Borderland Identity in Wartime China
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Lina Qu (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Imperial Projects and Individual Research: Studies of Mongolia and Xinjiang by Han Chinese from 1700 to 1850
    Location: VCC, Room 216
    Presenting Author: Rhonda Ran Huo – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Living with Earthquakes: Rethinking the Iconographic Program of the Main Hall at Lower Guangsheng Monastery
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Lucien Sun (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Military Mobility and Local Collaboration on the Ming Empire’s Southeast Asian Frontier, 1382–1427
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Sean Cronan – University of Virginia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Narrating the Sacred: Imperial Religion in the Hanshu “Treatise on the Suburban Sacrifices”
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Jiahui Shen (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Reconstructing Calligraphic Theory in a Multicultural Context: A Study of Zheng Jin’s Yanji in the Mongol Yuan Period
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Mo Zhai – Fudan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Shadian: Struggle, Revival, and Networks of Hui Muslim (1911–2000s)
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: Qianyu Ma – Carnegie Mellon University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: The Buried Lineage of Informational Writing: From Technical Manuals to Sci-Fi Poetics in Ghost Blows out the Light
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Yuheng Ko (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: The Diffusion of Violence: Landmines and Illegal Weapons in Yunnan After the Sino-Vietnamese Border Conflict
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Junyi Han (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: The Making of Tiger Hill: Haunted Poetry from Yan Zhenqing to Qianlong
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Thomas J. Mazanec (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    2: Transpacific Diasporas: Asian Migration from Cuba to the U.S. Through the Case Study of the Cheng Family
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Individual Paper Presenter: Shen Qu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: A Chinese Novel as Manchu Generals’ “Ancient Military Manual”: The Readership of Sanguo Zhi Yanyi from Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Zijing Fan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: Crossing the Frontiers and Working for the Mongols: Migration and Militarization Along the Northern Frontiers in 16th-Century Ming China
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Yiming Ha (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: “Expel the Barbarians”: Impacts of the Late Qing Anti-Manchu Propaganda on China’s Frontiers and Peoples
    Location: VCC, Room 216
    Presenting Author: Kin Ian Monica Chang – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: In Painful Territory: The Spatial Representation of Dynastic Anxiety in Lu Zhi’s Imperial Rescripts
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Christopher Elford (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: Reincarnating Genre: Translating Between the Lexicons of Science and Magic in Internet Fiction
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Emily X. Jin (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: Religion, Superstition, and Statecraft: Secularizing China from the Mainland to Taiwan and Manchuria
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Aymeric Xu – Scuola Superiore Meridionale
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: The Emperor’s Two Faces: Verisimilitude and Multimedia Portraits of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1795) as the Bodhisattva Manjushri
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Junyao He (he/him/his) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: The Socialist Education Movement and the Cultural Revolution: Entangled Conflicts of Islamic Religiosity, Maoism, and Factional Struggles, 1963–1969
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: Xian Wang – Australian National University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: The “Tea Leaf Reader”: Richard H. Solomon, the National Security Council, and U.S.-China Negotiations, 1971-1976
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Yuan Yan – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: The Zepu Model: Modeling Ethnic Unity in Reform-Era Xinjiang
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Brian Spivey (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: Travel and Transformation in the Yandang Mountains
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Elizabeth Kindall – University of St. Thomas
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: Traversing Borders, Inventing the Self: Post-Secular Visions of Hanness in Wang Anyi’s Myths
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Kyle Shernuk – Georgetown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    3: When Western Printing Meets Eastern Culture: The Localization of the Collotype Technology in Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Individual Paper Presenter: XIAOQING YANG (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Borderland Eschatology Through Hodopoetics: Tong Mo, Southwest China, and Becoming Xenophone
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Chinese Muslim Responses to Religious Repression: Adaptive Compliance in the New Era
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: Susan K. McCarthy – Providence College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Moving Across Frontiers: Manchu Elite Mobility and the Spatial Politics of Qing Rule Under Qianlong
    Location: VCC, Room 208
    Presenting Author: Lei Lin (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Possibilities in Exile: Jewish Refugee Photography and Writings Across Colonial Asia (1933-1949)
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Individual Paper Presenter: Cheuk Him Ryan Sun (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Reappraising Frontier Sovereignties: KMT Enclaves and Infrastructural Afterlives in the Yunnan-Burma Borderlands
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Sacred Landscapes of Yanzhou in Inscribed Texts from the Tang to Yuan Periods
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Meimei Zhang (she/her/hers) – Occidental College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Socialist Polyphony: Cantonese, Print Culture, and Vernacular Phonocentrism in Guangdong (1949–1966)
    Location: VCC, Room 216
    Presenting Author: Mian Chen – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: The Global Chinese Official in 19th-Century Portraits and Types
    Location: VCC, Room 212
    Presenting Author: Roberta Wue (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: Translation as Literature: Manchu-Language Textbooks and Literary Aesthetics
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Nathan Vedal – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    4: U.S.-China International Studies Exchange and the Making of “Engagement,” 1979—1989
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Yike Zhang (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    5: Cold War Textbooks Across Borders: Union Press and the Construction of Literary Memory in Colonial Hong Kong and Malaya
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yoke Kuan Wong (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    “Bad” People in the People’s Republic of China: Criminals, Enemies, and Villains under Mao
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Organizer: Puck Engman (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    Organizer: Damian Mandzunowski (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University
    Chair: Haiyan Lee (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Wenqing Kang (he/him/his) – Cleveland State University
    Paper Presenter: Puck Engman (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Aminda Smith (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Damian Mandzunowski (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University
    Discussant: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Becoming (In)Visible: Gendered Work and Reproductive Politics from Republican to Post-Socialist China
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Organizer: Ruochen Cao (they/them/theirs) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: Margaret M. Tillman (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Discussant: Margaret M. Tillman (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Paper Presenter: Ruochen Cao (they/them/theirs) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Yiqun Mao (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Xinyang Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Charlotte Pu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Between the Land and the Word: Place-Making as a Mode of Knowing in Late Imperial China
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Organizer: Jian Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    Paper Presenter: Jian Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    Paper Presenter: Sunkyu Lee (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Paper Presenter: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Discussant: Ruth Mostern (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Making the Sacred Resonate: Interpreting Chinese Religious Art in International Classrooms, Galleries, and Museums
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Organizer: Lan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: James A. Benn (he/him/his) – McMaster University
    Paper Presenter: Lan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yongshan He – University of Winnipeg
    Paper Presenter: Fletcher Coleman (he/him/his) – University of Texas at Arlington
    Discussant: Chen Shen – Royal Ontario Museum
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Mapping Territory in the Making: Cross-Border Cartographic Practices, Knowledge Politics, and Nation-Building in Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Organizer: Cruz (Wenhao) Guan (he/him/his) – Ohio State University
    Chair: James Millward – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Cruz (Wenhao) Guan (he/him/his) – Ohio State University
    Discussant: Nianshen Song – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Xue Zhang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    Paper Presenter: Sijian Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Yu-chi Chang – Vassar College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Medicine at the Margins: Rethinking the Production of Medical Knowledge in the Landscape of Resource Scarcity from Imperial to Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 109
    Organizer: Shumin Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Chair: Ming Tak Ted Hui (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Shumin Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Yinghua Luo (she/her/hers) – Nankai University
    Paper Presenter: Qi Dai (she/her/hers) – Sichuan University
    Discussant: Ming Tak Ted Hui (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Nanjing’s Literary Layers: Constructing, Curating, and Recalling the Literary Legacy of the Southern Capital
    Location: VCC, Room 122
    Organizer: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    Chair: Ping Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Kay Duffy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    Paper Presenter: Mengling Wang (she/her/hers) – Colgate University
    Discussant: Andrew Chittick (he/him/his) – Eckerd College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Negotiating Legitimacy in Tang and Song China: Tradition, Innovation, Identity - Sponsored by T'ang Studies Society
    Location: VCC, Room 201
    Organizer: Xiaojing Miao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    Chair: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Qian Jia (she/her/hers) – Defense Language Institute
    East & Inner Asia
    Sponsored By T'ang Studies Society
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Neural Networks and the Making of “Intelligence” in East Asia, 1980s-2020s
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Jianqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Jonathan E. Abel – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Jianqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: David Humphrey (he/they) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Zina Wang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Jonathan E. Abel – Pennsylvania State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    People’s Republic of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Classification and Personnel in the Chinese State
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Organizer: Kevin Luo – University of Minnesota
    Chair: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Discussant: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Discussant: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg
    Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Dartmouth College
    Paper Presenter: Katharin Tai – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Luo – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Mike Thompson-Brusstar – Trinity College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Performativity in Sinophone Translation and Adaptation
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Elaine Wong (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Chair: Wen-chi Li (he/him/his) – University of Bern
    Paper Presenter: Elaine Wong (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Paper Presenter: Rosa Lombardi (she/her/hers) – Roma Tre University
    Paper Presenter: Silvia Schiavi (she/her/hers) – G. D'Annunzio University
    Paper Presenter: Chris Song (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Jessica Tsui-yan T. Li (she/her/hers) – York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Personnel Management and Political Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Daniel Knorr (he/him/his) – Illinois State University
    Chair: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Daniel Knorr (he/him/his) – Illinois State University
    Paper Presenter: Yueran Hou (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Amy Gordanier (she/her/hers) – College of Charleston
    Discussant: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Poetics and Politics in the “Rebirth” of China’s Northeastern Rust Belt
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Organizer: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Xingming Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Chair: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Wen Xie (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Siyu Tang – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xingming Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Hongzhe Wang – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Policing PRC Universities, Ku’er Autoethnography as Resistance
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Organizer: Heng Wang (she/they) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Shana Ye (she/they) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Heng Wang (she/they) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Zihan Lin (she/they) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Zhuhao Yang (they/any except he) – Waseda University
    Co-Presenter: Yuhan Liu (she/her) – Sorbonne University
    Co-Presenter: Zhenyi Zhang (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Zhuang Xu (he/they) – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Ian Liujia Tian (he/him/his) – Mount Saint Vincent University
    Discussant: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Manchester
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Qing History Reimagined: Margins, Agency, and Hidden Actors
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Organizer: Yan Hon Michael Chung (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Chair: Yan Hon Michael Chung (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Chong Li (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Jun Chen (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    Paper Presenter: Ian Huen (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Cameron Campbell – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Stones of Meaning: Lithic Materiality and Cultural Imagination in Late Imperial China (10th–19th Century)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Organizer: Piaopiao Yang – Freie Universität Berlin
    Chair: Tao Wu (she/her/hers) – China Academy of Art/Freie Universität Berlin/Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Paper Presenter: Yixiong Cui (he/him/his) – Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Paper Presenter: Piaopiao Yang – Freie Universität Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Tao Wu (she/her/hers) – China Academy of Art/Freie Universität Berlin/Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Discussant: Michael J. Hatch (he/him/his) – Trinity College
    Discussant: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Governing and Experiencing “Free Choice of Reproduction” in Everyday Social Media: Ninkatsu Discourse in Contemporary Japan
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Xiaofei Guo – Beijing Foreign Studies University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Hong Kong Identity: What It Means to Be a Hong Konger
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Helena Cunningham – Queen's University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Inescapable Others: Senses, Self, and Epistemic Life in Chinese University Dormitories
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Yinan Zhang – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Invisible Sacrifices: Pneumoconiosis as Marginalized Health
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: jihui Kuang – University of Manitoba
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: A Virtuous Cycle of Water: The Hydrological Turn in the 1342 Gazetteer of Ningbo
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Jian Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Being There: Constructing Imperial Legitimacy in the Southern Capital
    Location: VCC, Room 122
    Presenting Author: Kay Duffy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Chip as Brain and Oppo’s Production of “Smart” Photography
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Jianqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Industrial Echoes: Emotion, Decline, and Political Legacy in Two “Rust Belts”
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Wen Xie (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Interpretation, Reconstruction, and Recontextualization of Chinese Buddhist Archaeological Sites in International Classrooms
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Presenting Author: Lan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Legitimacy Through Reform: The Problem of Official Appointment and the Articulation of a Bureaucratic Mission in Eighth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 201
    Presenting Author: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Making “Authentic” Medicine for War: “English Asafoetida” as Qing Military Supplies Across the Miasma-Filled Frontier During the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sino-Burmese War
    Location: VCC, Room 109
    Presenting Author: Shumin Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Materialized Spirit, Eternal Stone: Dhāraṇī Pillars and Khitan-Han Cultural Hybridity in the Liao Dynasty
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Yixiong Cui (he/him/his) – Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Red Childrearing: Women, Motherhood, and Collective Childcare in Socialist China
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Ruochen Cao (they/them/theirs) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Sanitized Knowledge: An Autoethnography of Doing LGBTQ+ Research in PRC University
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Heng Wang (she/they) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Secrets in the Stacks: The Politics of Declassification in Chinese Archives
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Yi Lu – Dartmouth College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Sexual Deviance and Contradictions in Socialist China
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Wenqing Kang (he/him/his) – Cleveland State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Taiwan Travelogue and the Performativity of Pseudotranslation
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Elaine Wong (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: The Making of the Chinese Nation-State in Foreign Maps: Transnational Knowledge Production, Print Culture, and Nation-Building
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Cruz (Wenhao) Guan (he/him/his) – Ohio State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: The Provincialization of the Shandong Salt Trade in the Daoguang Reign
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Daniel Knorr (he/him/his) – Illinois State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    1: Unseen Hands in the Grand Council: Information, Agency, and War in the Qianlong Era
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Chong Li (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Affective Interpretation and Public Engagement: The Case of ROM Daoist Murals
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Presenting Author: Yongshan He – University of Winnipeg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Crisis, Credential, and Career: Career Pathways of Qing Local Civil Officials (1830-1870)
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Yueran Hou (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Collapse and Diffusion: The Paradoxical Legacy of the Peking Union Medical College in Wartime China, 1942-1947
    Location: VCC, Room 109
    Presenting Author: Yinghua Luo (she/her/hers) – Nankai University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Building Cradles Amid the Flames: Women Workers in the National Association of Refugee Children (NARC) and Wartime China’s Childcare, 1938-1945
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Yiqun Mao (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Circulating Knowledges: Place Names and Global Imagination in Early Modern Sino-Spanish Exchanges
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: “Closet” as a Technology of the Self: Vanguardism, Policing, and Degenderization in a Chinese Student Marxist Society
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Zihan Lin (she/they) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Images Only? The Textuality of Cartography in Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Xue Zhang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Keeping Tabs: Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Construction of State Databases in China Since 1985
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Katharin Tai – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Meditating on the Past and Capturing the Present: Ma Guangzu’s Creation of a Capital Gazetteer Through His Curation of Jiankang’s Literary Layers
    Location: VCC, Room 122
    Presenting Author: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Overload as Intelligence: Early Japanese Neural Networks and Informatic Noise
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: David Humphrey (he/they) – Michigan State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Poetry Translation in Language and Culture Teaching as a Case of Double Agency
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Rosa Lombardi (she/her/hers) – Roma Tre University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Prisoners Under Mao: New Evidence, New Interpretations
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Puck Engman (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Rock Bound and Rock Being: Objecthood in Ni Yuanlu’s Painting
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Piaopiao Yang – Freie Universität Berlin
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Teleological Reversal of Developmentalism: Imagining Home of Future in Chinaʼs Rustbelt
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Siyu Tang – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: The Politics of Ghostwriting Self-Recommendation Letters: Forging Legitimacy and Authority in the Tang Dynasty
    Location: VCC, Room 201
    Presenting Author: Xiaojing Miao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    2: Trends and Patterns in the Banner Affiliation and Qualifications of Low- and Mid-Level Military Officers in the Late Qing
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Jun Chen (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: AI, Ink, and Audiences: A Critical Reflection on Technologically Driven Pedagogies of Chinese Religious Art
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Presenting Author: Fletcher Coleman (he/him/his) – University of Texas at Arlington
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: An Arts Funding Crisis, 1820s-style? Imperial Household Policy and the Great Court Theater Layoffs of the Daoguang Period
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Amy Gordanier (she/her/hers) – College of Charleston
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Documenting the Sea: Mental Maps and Knowledge Transmission in Nineteenth-Century Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Sijian Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: “Dragon King Palace” in Disguise of a Grotto Aquarium
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Tao Wu (she/her/hers) – China Academy of Art/Freie Universität Berlin/Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Enduring Memory: Literary Genre and Temporal Layers of Nanjing in Banqiao Zaji and Qinhuai Guangji
    Location: VCC, Room 122
    Presenting Author: Mengling Wang (she/her/hers) – Colgate University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Late Legitimacy: Gao Zhongwu’s “Collection of the Ministerial Spirit of the Restoration” (Zhongxing jianqi ji) and the End of High Tang Poetry
    Location: VCC, Room 201
    Presenting Author: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Mapping City Walls and Making Urban Space in Ming-Qing China
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Sunkyu Lee (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Negotiated Function and Limits: Zhu You Shu Within Ming-Qing China’s Medical Social Stratification
    Location: VCC, Room 109
    Presenting Author: Qi Dai (she/her/hers) – Sichuan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Not Living up to the Ideal: Li Shunda and Models “Gone Bad” in Socialist China
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Aminda Smith (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Performativity in Translation and Beyond: A Study of Yu Guangzhong’s Self-Translation and Oral Performance of Poetry
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Silvia Schiavi (she/her/hers) – G. D'Annunzio University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Qian Xuesen and the Marxist Thinking Machine
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Zina Wang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: The Cruel Effects of Acoustic Designs in Ban Yu’s Short Stories About Layoff Waves in Northeast China
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Xingming Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: The Helen That Never Was: The Woman Who Shaped the Unification of the Jurchens (1593–1619)
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Ian Huen (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: The Ship of Theseus on the Revolutionary Seas: Reorganizing the PRC Bureaucracy, 1949-1998
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Kevin Luo – University of Minnesota
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Turning Manure into Gold: Women and Fertilizer Work in Rural Socialist China
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Xinyang Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    3: Undoing Liberal Exceptionalism: Postsocialist Policing, Queer Activism, and the Affect of Exception in Pandemic Shanghai
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Zhuhao Yang (they/any except he) – Waseda University
    Co-author: Yuhan Liu (she/her) – Sorbonne University
    Co-author: Zhenyi Zhang (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: A State in Many Shapes: Cartographic Patriotism and Territorial Imaginations in China, 1920s-1940s
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Yu-chi Chang – Vassar College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: Building a Chinese Bureaucracy: The Origins of the Chinese Civil Service in Early Reform
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Mike Thompson-Brusstar – Trinity College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: A Gallery of Villains: Standardizing Images of Enmity in Chinese Socialist Comics (Lianhuanhua)
    Location: VCC, Room 218
    Presenting Author: Damian Mandzunowski (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: Ku’er as Disguise: Performing Tactical Identity in Chinese Campus Dissent
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Zhuang Xu (he/they) – Tsinghua University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: Mothering Anxieties: Docu/fictional Surrogacy and the Neoliberalized Body in China
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Charlotte Pu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: Thirty Cents for Empire: Performing Suzie Wong in the Cold War Sinophone
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Chris Song (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: Underground Dongbei Renaissance: Narrativizing the Loss of Northeast China in the Independent Publishing Sphere of Contemporary China
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Paper Presenter: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: Unrefined Yet Influential: Literary Legitimacy and Cultural Legacy in Song Dynasty Wupu (960-1279)
    Location: VCC, Room 201
    Presenting Author: Qian Jia (she/her/hers) – Defense Language Institute
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    4: What Makes a Frontier Province? Genre Questions in the Southwest Borderlands of Late Imperial China
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Tibetan Art in the Teaching Museum: Reflections on Forms of Awakening
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Organizer: Benjamin Bogin – Skidmore College
    Organizer: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho
    Chair: Benjamin Bogin – Skidmore College
    Discussant: Nawang Tsering Gurung – Himalayan Language and Culture Program
    Discussant: Uranchimeg Tsultem (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Discussant: Tsepak Namgyal (he/him/his) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Discussant: Andrew Quintman (he/him/his) – Wesleyan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Between the State and Market: Practices of Meaning-Making in Contemporary China
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Chair: Maria Repnikova (she/her/hers) – Georgia State University
    Individual Paper Presenter: Leyun He (she/her/hers) – Queen's University Belfast
    Individual Paper Presenter: Ziyi Yu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: XINYI YIN – King's College London
    Presenting Author: Colin Y. Yang (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Presenting Author: Yuping Zhang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Technopolitics with Chinese Characteristics: Technological Modernization through Central Governance and Distributed Practice
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Lufei Wu – University of Sydney
    Chair: Tianle Huang – Communication University of China
    Paper Presenter: Lufei Wu – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Yuxin Jia – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Ling Ding – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yiqing Chen – University of Manchester
    Discussant: Yiming Qian – Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Discussant: Ji You – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    The Aquatic Frontier in Late Imperial and Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Organizer: Xiaofei Gao (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Denver
    Organizer: Martin Fromm – Worcester State University
    Chair: Stevan Harrell – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Rui Liu – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaofei Gao (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Denver
    Paper Presenter: Martin Fromm – Worcester State University
    Discussant: Micah Muscolino – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    The Body in Japanese Visual Media during the Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Organizer: Kari Shepherdson-Scott (she/her/hers) – Macalester College
    Chair: Kari Shepherdson-Scott (she/her/hers) – Macalester College
    Discussant: Maki Kaneko (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Klaus J. Friese (he/him/his) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Paper Presenter: Jorinde Wels (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Paper Presenter: Hanae Kramer (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Threshold Bodies: Care, Spectacle, and Witness in Chinese Buddhism
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Organizer: Echo Weng – Princeton University
    Chair: Kelly Carlton – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Wan-Chun Chiu – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Nelson Elliott Landry – University of Hamburg
    Paper Presenter: Echo Weng – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Hsin-Yi Lin – Fo Guang University
    Discussant: James A. Benn (he/him/his) – McMaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Tibet in a Transregional Frame
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Chair: Ya Zuo
    Presenting Author: James A. Moallem (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Presenting Author: FNU Wangmu – Columbia University
    Presenting Author: Yingxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Presenting Author: Hanung Kim (he/him/his) – Korea University
    Presenting Author: Yijun Li (she/her/hers) – Huazhong University of Science and Technology/University of Washington，
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Transcultural Theater as Cultural Reclamation: Rewriting Identities in Sinophone Performance
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Organizer: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    Chair: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Shelby Kar-yan Chan (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Jon von Kowallis (he/him/his) – University of New South Wales
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Transnationalizing Hong Kong in Cold War Asia
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Organizer: Tracy Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Chair: Angelina Chin – Pomona College
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: John M. Carroll – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Chi Keung Charles Fung (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University
    Discussant: Leo K. Shin – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Unexpected, Unwanted, Unspoken: The Margins of Reproduction in Mid-to-Late Imperial China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Organizer: Tianyu Shi (they/them/theirs) – University of Hamburg
    Organizer: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Chair: Fei Deng (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Discussant: Ann Waltner (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Tianyu Shi (they/them/theirs) – University of Hamburg
    Paper Presenter: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Young Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Shiau-Yun Chen (she/her/hers) – Ball State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Unmaking and Making Medical Facts: Rethinking “Scientific Medicine” in 19th–20th-Century China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Organizer: Jingwen Li – Princeton University
    Organizer: Daisy Yunshi Liang – York University
    Chair: Marta E. Hanson (she/her/hers) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: David Luesink (he/him/his) – Sacred Heart University
    Co-Presenter: Emily Graf – University of Tübingen
    Paper Presenter: Jingwen Li – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Daisy Yunshi Liang – York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Visions of a Better Tomorrow: Utopian Dreams in Late Classical and Early Imperial China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Organizer: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    Chair: Václav Algirdas Zheng (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    Paper Presenter: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Balkwill (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Lisa Indraccolo (she/her/hers) – Tallinn University
    Discussant: Václav Algirdas Zheng (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Visual Orders and Cultural Shifts: Reimagining Himalayan Art across Religion, Politics, and Modernity
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Organizer: Qianru He – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Anshu Hu (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Jing He – Tibet Thangka Art and Culture Association
    Paper Presenter: Qian Zhang – Hubei Museum of Art
    Paper Presenter: Yuechen Wang (she/her/hers) – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Yuhan Zhang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Discussant: Wenxin Hao (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Discussant: Tianyi Chen – Heidelberg University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Wang Guowei and the Conundrums of Freedom in Modern China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Organizer: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Axel Schneider – Göttingen University
    Paper Presenter: Yiqun Zhou – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Laikwan Pang – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kuan-yun Huang (he/him/his) – Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    Discussant: Axel Schneider – Göttingen University
    Paper Presenter: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    War and Its Medical Remediation: Destroying and Healing the Body in East Asia
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Organizer: Barend Noordam – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Chair: Robin Yates – McGill University
    Discussant: Robin Yates – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Barend Noordam – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Baihui Duan – Lancaster University
    Paper Presenter: Yi-Li Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Hugh Shapiro – University of Nevada, Reno
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Musical Images in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1600-1868)
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Sofia B. f. Silva – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Rethinking the History of Asian Linguistic Contact Through the DABD (Database of Ancient Buddhist Dictionary)
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: LI Naiqi – Nagoya University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Rooted Secrets: Reimagining Ginseng as an Epistemic Object in Medieval to Early Modern China
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Ke Zhao – University of California, Santa Cruz
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Temporal Fractures and Repairs: The Nostalgic Practices for a Lost New Millennium Among Chinese Youth Leftist Activists
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Ai Gu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    The Symbiosis with Plants in Historical Violence: The Later Life and Writings of Zhou Shoujuan
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Yi Zheng – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Brackish Frontier: Sea Rising, Intertidal Ecology, and Salinity in the Making of Modern Yangzi Delta, 1870-1930
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Dying for Truth and Freedom: From Qu Yuan and Socrates to Wang Guowei and Wu Mi
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Yiqun Zhou – Stanford University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Enhancing Governance Through AI: China’s Pursuit of Technological Sovereignty
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Lufei Wu – University of Sydney
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Even in Paradise Death and Taxes Are Unavoidable: Confucian Utopias in Early Medieval China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Figures In-Between Cultures: Transnational Formative Experiences of Contemporary Global Chinese Drama
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Incapable yet Innocent: Discursive Strategies of Male Sexual Dysfunction in Southern Song China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Tianyu Shi (they/them/theirs) – University of Hamburg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Japanese War Motif Textiles: Fashioning the Body During Times of War
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Klaus J. Friese (he/him/his) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: “Making the Most of Your Spare Time”: Provision of Youth Leisure and the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Tracy Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Ming Military Medical Epistemology and the Differentiation of Friend from Foe
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Barend Noordam – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: The Hidden Power Scene: The Dual-Seated Portrait of Emperor and Imperial Preceptor and Its Historical Role in Addressing Tibet’s Political-Religious Crises
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Jing He – Tibet Thangka Art and Culture Association
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: The Incorruptible Tongue: Bodily Remains and Post-Mortem Agency in Lotus Sutra Miracle Tales
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Wan-Chun Chiu – Kyoto University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: The Normal and the Pathological in the ROC and the PRC: Specimens and Anatomical Museums
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: David Luesink (he/him/his) – Sacred Heart University
    Co-author: Emily Graf – University of Tübingen
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Can Impersonal and Impartial Algorithms (AI) Create a World of Justice? Insights from Confucian Criticism of Chinese Legal Philosophy and Practice
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Climate, Diseases, and Medicine: The Relief of Soldiers During the East Asian War of 1592–1598
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Baihui Duan – Lancaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Don’t Sweat It: The Affective Dimension of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Images
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Nelson Elliott Landry – University of Hamburg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Healthy Bodies for the Nation: Tuberculosis and Dysentery Campaigns In Wartime Japan
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Jorinde Wels (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Identity and Theater Translation: Rupert Chan’s Cantonese Adaptation of Twelfth Night
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Shelby Kar-yan Chan (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Sacred and Secular: A Dual Transformation in Thangka Cultural Dissemination across Tibet and Qinghai—Based on the Mechanism Transfer and Innovation of the “Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art”
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Qian Zhang – Hubei Museum of Art
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Save the Girls, Save the Children: Rethinking the Children’s Relief in Song China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Seeing Like a Chive: Cryptocurrency Mining, Residual Energies, and Technopolitical Landscapes in China
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Yuxin Jia – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: “The Most Incredible Bundle of Complexities, Anachronisms, Contrasts and Contradictions in East Asia”: American Tourism Writing in Cold-War Hong Kong
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: John M. Carroll – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Transplanting Seaweeds and Making Oceans: Jeju Haenyeo’s Underwater Experiments in the Yellow Sea, 1935-1944
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Rui Liu – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Wang Guowei’s Theorization of the Human World: A Non-Metaphysical Approach to Will
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Laikwan Pang – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: What Counts as Medical Efficacy? Clinical Evidential Technologies in Sight-Restoring Surgeries (1800–1850)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Jingwen Li – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Contested Approaches to Cholera: Bacteriological Authority and Lay Agency in Republican South China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5
    Presenting Author: Daisy Yunshi Liang – York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Buddhist Utopianism in Luoyang: Poltical Hope and the Certainty of Collapse
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Stephanie Balkwill (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Contested Shores: Gender, Labor, and the Politics of Coastal Conservation in Maoist China
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Xiaofei Gao (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Denver
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Beyond Ethnicity: Wang Guowei’s Ideal of a Cultural Unity
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Kuan-yun Huang (he/him/his) – Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Disenchanting the Sacred: From Socialist Realism to New Tibetan Art Movement
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Yuechen Wang (she/her/hers) – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Maneuvering Against the Protectionist Tides: Hong Kong-United States Bilateral Negotiation and Commodity Circulation During the Cold War
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3
    Presenting Author: Chi Keung Charles Fung (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Of Blades, Arrows, and Bullets: Conceptualizing Weapon Wounds in Ming-Qing Military Medicine
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Yi-Li Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Policy or Perseverance: Assessing the Expansion of Chinese Tech Giants, 1991-2015
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Ling Ding – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Revolution + Monster: On Mo Yan’s Recent Plays
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Royal Babies: Visual and Material Practices Surrounding Birth at the Qing Imperial Court
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Young Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Strange Bodies and Buddhist Ethics in Medieval Chinese Narratives
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Echo Weng – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Suicidal Patriotism: A Case Study
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Presenting Author: Hanae Kramer (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Aesthetics in the Television Tibetan Losar Galas (2003-2025) and their Alignment and Negotiation with National Narratives
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7
    Presenting Author: Yuhan Zhang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Anarchy in Ancient China? Utopian Egalitarianism and the Myth of the “Commune” in the Agriculturalists’ Thought
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
    Presenting Author: Lisa Indraccolo (she/her/hers) – Tallinn University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Caring for Pregnant Bodies Month by Month: Maternal Embodiment in the Sūtra Spoken by the Sage Kāśyapa (T.1691)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Hsin-Yi Lin – Fo Guang University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Diseases of Jealousy: Punitive Infertility in Ming China (1368-1644)
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4
    Presenting Author: Shiau-Yun Chen (she/her/hers) – Ball State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Disinformation as Technological Governance: Language, Ideology, and Public Discourse in China’s Digital Sphere
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Yiqing Chen – University of Manchester
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Firearm Violence and Its Medical Response in 19th and Early 20th-Century China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Hugh Shapiro – University of Nevada, Reno
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Fractured Environmental Governance: Wetland Restoration, Land Resettlement, and the Legacies of Settler Colonialism
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Presenting Author: Martin Fromm – Worcester State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Taiwan Soft-Power on Mainland China (?): Playwright, Director, and Dramaturge Lai Sheng-chuan’s Activities in China
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2
    Presenting Author: Jon von Kowallis (he/him/his) – University of New South Wales
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Wang Guowei’s Philosophy and the Problem of Freedom
    Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8
    Presenting Author: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: Between Lhasa and Beijing: Qing Involvement in the Tibetan Civil War of 1727-28
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Individual Paper Presenter: James A. Moallem (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    5: Lying-Flat as Revenge: Youth Resistance and Philosophical Rediscovery Amid State Capitalism in Contemporary China
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Individual Paper Presenter: XINYI YIN – King's College London
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Constructing the Other: Interpreting the Chinese Monk Hva Shang in the Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Cult of Arhats
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yingxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Reperforming Culture: How Do Chinese Queer Digital Visual Art Performs Subversive Queer Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism?
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Individual Paper Presenter: Colin Y. Yang (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    3: Through Her Lens: Chinese Women Directors and the Creation of Women’s Space Between the State and the Market
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yuping Zhang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: Listening as Becoming: Feminist Podcasting and Affective Solidarity in Contemporary China
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Individual Paper Presenter: Ziyi Yu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    5: The Speaking of “The Minor”: A New Generation of Chinese Tibetan Filmmakers in Amdo Region
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yijun Li (she/her/hers) – Huazhong University of Science and Technology/University of Washington，
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    1: F-bombs & Firewalls: The Covert Art of Translating Western Rap by Fan Translators on Chinese Censored Music Platforms
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Individual Paper Presenter: Leyun He (she/her/hers) – Queen's University Belfast
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    4: Moderating the Frontier of a Fading Empire: Functions and Limitations of a Qing Imperial Resident in Early Twentieth-Century Tibet
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Individual Paper Presenter: Hanung Kim (he/him/his) – Korea University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    2: In-Betwixt Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Movement Across the Himalayas by Kashmiri Merchants of Tibet
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: FNU Wangmu – Columbia University
    Individual Paper Presenter: FNU Wangmu – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    CANCELED-Luce/ACLS Mentorship Workshop for Early Career China Scholars - Sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    East & Inner Asia
    Sponsored By 
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    2:25 PM - 4:25 PM PDT
    All Static & Noise
    Location: VCC, Room 117
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Littoral Commons: Rethinking the South China Coast through Everyday Lives
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Organizer: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Chair: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University
    Paper Presenter: Robert James Antony (he/him/his) – Guangzhou University
    Paper Presenter: Di Mao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Kwan – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Discussant: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Technologies of Transformation: Crafting Stones and Knowledge in Chinese Material Culture - Sponsored by Association for Chinese Art History
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Organizer: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Chair: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang (she/her/hers) – Boston College
    Paper Presenter: Yixu Eliza Chen (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Michael J. Hatch (he/him/his) – Trinity College
    East & Inner Asia
    Sponsored By Association for Chinese Art History
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Text and Tech: Scriptal Technologies in Modern Japan
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Mark Yu Shan Chen (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Chair: Raja Adal – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Zahid Daudjee – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Natsuki Ishida (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Mark Yu Shan Chen (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Raja Adal – University of Pittsburgh
    Discussant: Chigusa Kita (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Discussant: Chelsea Foxwell – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    The Many Faces of the Medium in China’s Past, 400-1700
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Jeehee Hong – McGill University
    Chair: Jeehee Hong – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Bonnie Cheng (she/her/hers) – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Christian de Pee (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Yiren Zheng – Dartmouth College
    Paper Presenter: Sizhao Yi – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Paula Varsano – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    The Materiality of Backdrops in Early Modern and Modern Chinese Media
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Organizer: Yuhang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Organizer: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Chair: Weihong Bao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Weihong Bao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Yuhang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Mia Yinxing Liu (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Mengyang Xu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    The Poiesis of Embodiment: Crafting Experience and Desire through Play in Early Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Organizer: Nellie Ting Yang (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Chair: Allison Bernard (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Nellie Ting Yang (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
    Discussant: Allison Bernard (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Susanna Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    The Politics of Arabic in China
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Organizer: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Organizer: Tatsuya Nakanishi (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Chair: Noriko Unno – Osaka University
    Paper Presenter: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Tatsuya Nakanishi (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Michael Gibbs Hill (he/him/his) – William & Mary
    Paper Presenter: Hale Eroglu – Bogazici University
    Discussant: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Waterscapes, Fluid Space, and Symbolic Power in South China
    Location: VCC, Room 202
    Organizer: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    Organizer: Xiaomian Wu – Fuzhou University
    Chair: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    Co-Presenter: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Wei Chen – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Haohui Huang – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Muyan Zheng – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Xiaomian Wu – Fuzhou University
    Discussant: Yutong Wang (she/her/hers) – University of York
    Discussant: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Co-Presenter: Bin Hu – Chongqing University
    Co-Presenter: Kai Zhou – Chongqing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    What Can Christianity Do in a World at War? Transnational Religious Networks and Social Engagement in East Asia, 1930s–1940s
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Organizer: Jordan Zhixi Wang (he/him/his) – Trinity Western University
    Organizer: Aixin Yi (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Chair: Ryan Dunch (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Jordan Zhixi Wang (he/him/his) – Trinity Western University
    Paper Presenter: Aixin Yi (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Yosuke Matsutani – Kinjo Gakuin University
    Paper Presenter: Penelope Ching-yee Pang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ryan Dunch (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    What Makes an Accurate Map? Authority and Knowledge in Late Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Organizer: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    Organizer: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Chair: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Paper Presenter: Mimi Cheng (she/her/hers) – Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
    Paper Presenter: Sayantani Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    Paper Presenter: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Worldmaking in Chinese Cities—Between Local Connections and Transnational Ties
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim, Suite 1
    Organizer: Björn Alpermann (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Chair: Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Ruoxi Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Michael Malzer (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Paper Presenter: Angela Man Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Björn Alpermann (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Co-Presenter: Vivien Markert (she/her/hers) – University of Tübingen
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Scraping Channels, Restoring Agency: Cancer Healing Beyond Biomedicine in Rural China
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Shuzhe Wang – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Shanzhai Economies: The Contradictions of Capitalism in Global China
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Victoria Maung (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Technology, Environment, and Capital in Contemporary Korean Art: Random Access Project 4.0
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Kyungmin Noh (she/her/hers) – National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Three Paths to the Future: Political Dilemmas of Chinese Intellectuals in Wartime China
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Lei Duan – Sam Houston State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Transmission of Gender Knowledge Between China and Japan in the Late Qing Dynasty: A Study of Sun Qingru and the “Female Teacher Training Lectures”
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: DOU JIN – Ritsumeikan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Visualizing Hydraulic Knowledge and Spatial Order: Maps of Rivers and Canals in Ningxia During Ming and Qing China
    Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1
    Poster Presenter: Ting-chih Wu – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Enacted Simulations: Chinese Games Between Hermeneutics and Stagecraft
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Nellie Ting Yang (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: “First to an Alehouse, Then to a Whore”: Jack Tar in Canton During the Age of Sail
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Robert James Antony (he/him/his) – Guangzhou University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Kana as Epistemology, Kana as Technology: Discourses on Phonography and the Writing Subject in the Debate over Kana Reform in Late Meiji Japan
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Zahid Daudjee – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Media and Mediations in Early Medieval North China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Bonnie Cheng (she/her/hers) – Oberlin College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Outward Cultural Activism of Alternative Communities in China: Everydayness, Inter-Asia Connections, and Gendered Tensions
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim, Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Ruoxi Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Quarried Landscapes: Nature, Craft, and Connoisseurship in Dali Stones
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang (she/her/hers) – Boston College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Signs of Subversion: Ornamental Arabic and the Politics of Public Space in China
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Theatrical Landscape: Creating Space Through Interaction with Backdrops
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Yuhang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Tracing the Copy: Authoritative and Artisanal Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Maps of Beijing
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Mimi Cheng (she/her/hers) – Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Transpacific Social Gospel: Y.T. Wu, the YMCA, and Christian Social Thought in an Age of Revolution
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Jordan Zhixi Wang (he/him/his) – Trinity Western University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1: Water Radicals and Spatial Imagination in Chinese Characters: Landscape, Governance, and Settlement in the Waterscapes of Southwest China
    Location: VCC, Room 202
    Presenting Author: Wei Chen – Chongqing University
    Co-author: Bin Hu – Chongqing University
    Co-author: Kai Zhou – Chongqing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: An Expert in the Field: Discovering the Traditional Borders of Late-Qing Geoknowledge in the Himalayas
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Sayantani Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: Carrying the Dead Across Borders in Wartime Macao
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Di Mao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: “Christianizing” the Village in Wartime China: Christian Networks and Rural Self-Help in 1940s West China
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Aixin Yi (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: Composite Picture: Backdrops of Photo Portraiture in China
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Mia Yinxing Liu (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: Crafting Touch Through Vision: Yingta Translation of Mount Tai’s Rock Face
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Yixu Eliza Chen (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: Global Aspirations Through a National Lens: Ningxia Wine and the Sinicization of “China's Bordeaux”
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim, Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Michael Malzer (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: “It’s Not Because of the Garden Itself”: Virtual Gardens in Eleventh-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Christian de Pee (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: Mapping Power Along the Yangtze: Digital Humanities Approaches to Travel Writing and Spatial Imagination in the Song Dynasty
    Location: VCC, Room 202
    Presenting Author: Haohui Huang – Chongqing University
    Co-author: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: Rethinking the Japanese Word Processor: Gendered Skill and Script Technologies
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Natsuki Ishida (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    2: The More “Arabicized” Islam Was, the More “Sinicized” It Could Be: Reconsideration on the “Arabization” of the Hui During the Nineteenth Century
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Tatsuya Nakanishi (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: A Missionary Society “By the Japanese, of the Japanese, for the Chinese”: Empire, Evangelism, and Ambiguity in Wartime East Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Yosuke Matsutani – Kinjo Gakuin University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: Arabic and China’s Language Reforms: Voices from the 1930s and 1940s
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Michael Gibbs Hill (he/him/his) – William & Mary
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: Carving Jade: Machinery and Design in the Beijing Jade Factory in the 1950s and 1960s
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: Historical Perspectives on Trafficked Women in South China, 16th-19th Centuries
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Nathan Kwan – University of Macau
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: How Brokers Make Transnational Markets: The Relational Work of Hui Muslim Translators in Yiwu’s Trade Economy
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim, Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Angela Man Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: I Dream, Therefore, I Write: Dream-Generated Writing and Virtuality in Seventeenth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Yiren Zheng – Dartmouth College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: Imperial Currents: Waterscapes and the Spatial Politics of Locating British Settlements Along the Yangtze River
    Location: VCC, Room 202
    Presenting Author: Muyan Zheng – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: Scratching Modernity: Publishing with the Gariban Mimeograph
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Mark Yu Shan Chen (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: The Blue Terrestrial Maps of the Qing: Accuracy, Authority, and Agency
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: The Depth of Flat Surface: Painted, Matted, and Projected Backdrops in Early Chinese Cinema
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    3: The Poisonous Touch: Haptic Modes of Reading and Playing Jin Ping Mei in the Late Ming and Early 21st Century
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Appropriating Arabic: Ma Jian and the Selective Translation of Islamic Reform
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Hale Eroglu – Bogazici University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Beyond the Fixed Universe: Backdrops as Emotional and Aesthetic Agents in Chinese Ink Animation
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Mengyang Xu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Double Materiality: Revisiting Chen Hongshou’s Early Paintings of Objects
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Sizhao Yi – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: How Some Technologies Made Sinographs into a Technological Problem (but Most Did Not)
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Raja Adal – University of Pittsburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Improvised Governance: The Fragile Order of Penal Reform in Some Southern Chinese Counties
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: “Men Make War, Women Must End War”: Michi Kawai and Japanese Christian Women During the Rise of Japanese Imperialism
    Location: VCC, Room 221
    Presenting Author: Penelope Ching-yee Pang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Militarizing the Margins: Cold War Statecraft and the Reconfiguration of Boat Dweller Identity in Coastal Fujian
    Location: VCC, Room 202
    Presenting Author: Xiaomian Wu – Fuzhou University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Navigating the Past: The Reinterpretation of a Thirteenth-Century Star Chart in Nineteenth-Century Suzhou
    Location: VCC, Room 215
    Presenting Author: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: “Playing with the Portrait”: Performing the Male Erotic Fantasy in the Peony Pavilion
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Susanna Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    4: Unmaking and Remaking Social Worlds Through the Urbanization of Southern Xinjiang
    Location: Pan-Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim, Suite 1
    Presenting Author: Björn Alpermann (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Co-author: Vivien Markert (she/her/hers) – University of Tübingen
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Contesting the Idea of China
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Organizer: George Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College
    Chair: jian chen – New York University Shanghai
    Speaker: George Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College
    Book Author: Guoqi Xu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Speaker: James Millward – Georgetown University
    Speaker: macabe keliher – Southern Methodist University
    Speaker: Lei Ping – The New School
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Contingency, Repositioning, and Ambiguous Relations in Chinese Religion
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Chair: Karin Myhre (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia
    Presenting Author: Ting Zhang – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: N. Libuše Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Presenting Author: Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Presenting Author: Xiaowen Zhou (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Presenting Author: Diyuke Wu (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Presenting Author: Yuen Nga Iris Li (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Dangerous Texts, Dangerous Emotions: Cases from Early Modern and Modern China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Eileen Yiran Zhao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Organizer: Mengdie Zhao – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Scott W. Gregory – University of Arizona
    Discussant: Keith McMahon – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Guojun Wang – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Eileen Yiran Zhao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Paper Presenter: Mengdie Zhao – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Lennart Riedel – Heidelberg University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Diplomacy from the Bottom-Up: Perspectives of Soft Power Practitioners from East Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Chair: Maria Repnikova (she/her/hers) – Georgia State University
    Presenting Author: Meghan Peters – University of Nottingham
    Presenting Author: Sharpay Qiong Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Canberra
    Presenting Author: Hai Wang (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Emotional Encounters with the Unseen: Fear, Anger, and Remorse in Early Medieval Chinese Narratives (3rd–5th Centuries CE)
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Organizer: Yifan Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Chair: Yuqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Paper Presenter: Mengyi Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Discussant: Mitcham Carl (he/him/his) – Colorado School of Mines
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Feeling a Turbulent Nation: Written Intimacies, Mobilizations, and Social Formation in 1930s and 1940s China
    Location: VCC, Room 110
    Organizer: Tianyi Sheng (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Chair: Sophia Lee (she/her/hers) – California State University, East Bay
    Paper Presenter: Tianyue Li (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne
    Paper Presenter: Tianyi Sheng (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Chuwei He (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    Discussant: Linh D. Vu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Discussant: Linshan Jiang (she/her/hers) – Missouri State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Forging Authority on the Margins: Art, Place, and Cultural Power in Shandong from the Late Ming to Republican China
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Organizer: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    Organizer: Henning VON MIRBACH – University of Cambridge
    Chair: Julia K. MURRAY – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    Paper Presenter: Henning VON MIRBACH – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Yangang ZHAO – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Aida Yuen WONG – Brandeis University
    Discussant: Julia K. MURRAY – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Industry, Infrastructure, and Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Greater China
    Location: VCC, Room 111
    Organizer: Niall Chithelen (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Organizer: Chad Westra – University of Washington
    Chair: Yuting Dong – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Niall Chithelen (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Chad Westra – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Covell Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
    Paper Presenter: Ying Jia Tan – Wesleyan University
    Discussant: Judd Kinzley – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: Concrete in Mao-Era Housing and the Political Ecology of Self-Reliant Design
    Location: VCC, Room 111
    Presenting Author: Niall Chithelen (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: How Is Fear Constructed in Early Medieval Chinese Tales?
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Presenting Author: Yuqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: Illicit Desires and Righteous Sentiments: Emotion and Sexuality in Late Ming Fiction
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Guojun Wang – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: Recreating Calligraphy Models in the Confucian Land: Xing Tong (1551-1612) and His Followers
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: The Politics of Tears: National Sorrow, Emotional Discipline, and Gendered Expression in Women’s School Diaries in Republican China
    Location: VCC, Room 110
    Presenting Author: Tianyue Li (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    2: Dangerous Empathy: Women, Drama, and Literati Discourse in Seventeenth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Eileen Yiran Zhao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    2: Inventing Yellow Hill: Fa Ruozhen (1613-1696) and the Cultural Geography of Early Qing Eastern Shandong
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Henning VON MIRBACH – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    2: Overcoming Paper Famines: Banknote Production in Sichuan During the War of Resistance
    Location: VCC, Room 111
    Presenting Author: Chad Westra – University of Washington
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    2: Training the Dead: Remorse as Disciplinary Practice in Early Chinese Buddhist Afterlife Narratives
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Presenting Author: Yifan Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: The Dilemma of Writing: Carving the Scandalous Space in Biographical Writings in Late Ming China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Mengdie Zhao – New York University Shanghai
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: The Emotional Landscape of Epitaph Curses and Tomb-Guarding Texts in the Hexi Region (3rd–5th Centuries CE)
    Location: VCC, Room 103/104
    Presenting Author: Mengyi Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: The Three Gorges Dam and the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
    Location: VCC, Room 111
    Presenting Author: Covell Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: Unmasking the Kong Family’s Forgery of “Han” Ritual Vessels for Qufu’s Temple of Confucius in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Yangang ZHAO – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: When Lovers Made Modern China: Emotions, Intimacy, and Social Formation in Wartime Shanghai and Beiping, 1937–1945
    Location: VCC, Room 110
    Presenting Author: Tianyi Sheng (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    4: Censorship Lessons from a Dangerous Classic: The Jin Ping Mei as Testing Ground for Anti-Obscenity Regulation in the PRC
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Lennart Riedel – Heidelberg University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    4: Imagined Revolution: A Study of Hunanese Youth Autobiographical Writing in Postwar Nationalist China
    Location: VCC, Room 110
    Presenting Author: Chuwei He (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    4: Plastic Glue and the Rise of the Diversified Petrochemical Corporation in Taiwan
    Location: VCC, Room 111
    Presenting Author: Ying Jia Tan – Wesleyan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    4: Sino-Korean “Confucian Religion” in the Early Twentieth Century: On Kang Youwei’s Calligraphy at the Baesan Seowon
    Location: VCC, Room 107/108
    Presenting Author: Aida Yuen WONG – Brandeis University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    2: Independent Art Spaces as Diplomats: Cultural Diplomacy Beyond the State in East Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Individual Paper Presenter: Meghan Peters – University of Nottingham
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    6: Orphaned Daughters in “Barbaric Land”: Song Guangdong Women as Buddhist Patrons in Monastery Gazetteers
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yuen Nga Iris Li (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: Telling China Stories Globally? Reflections from Interviews with Animation Producers
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Individual Paper Presenter: Sharpay Qiong Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Canberra
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    5: Constructing Sanctity: Translation Rituals in Buddhist Biographies and Catalogues in Early Medieval China (266-907)
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Individual Paper Presenter: Diyuke Wu (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    4: Only for a Chinese Soft Power? How Chinese Journalists in Thailand Define “Best Work” Under Soft Power Mandates
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Individual Paper Presenter: Hai Wang (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    4: Reframing Demons: The Daoist Adaptation of Buddhist Child-Protecting Spirits (Bāla-grahā) in Late Medieval China
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Individual Paper Presenter: Xiaowen Zhou (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: State Interests, Global Platforms: How Foreign-Aimed (Wai Xuan) Chinese Journalists Use American Platforms at Work
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Individual Paper Presenter: Hai Wang (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    3: Structures of Justification in East Asian Buddhism
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Individual Paper Presenter: Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1: A Tentative Analysis of the Development and Characteristics of Pure Land Rituals in Early Medieval Northern China (5th-7th Centuries)
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Individual Paper Presenter: Ting Zhang – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    2: To Sin, to Unsin: Tang Eunuchs and Buddhist Repentance
    Location: VCC, Room 210
    Individual Paper Presenter: N. Libuše Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Prospects of Diasporic Activism Amid Repression and Regression: The Case of Hong Kong
    Location: VCC, Room 216
    Organizer: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University
    Chair: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University
    Discussant: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University
    Discussant: Cindy Au – Association of Professional Chaplains
    Discussant: Victoria Hui – University of Notre Dame
    Discussant: Eunice Leong-ming Chan – Lancaster University
    Discussant: Shue Fung Chow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Saturday, Mar 14th
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Teaching Himalayan Art: Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Organizer: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah
    Chair: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
    Discussant: Mariachiara Gasparini (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    Discussant: Janice Glowski (she/her/hers) – Otterbein University
    Discussant: Karil Kucera – St. Olaf College
    Discussant: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah
    Discussant: Catherine Stuer – Denison University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Cultural Entanglements: Multilingualism and Ethnicity Across Administrative, Commemorative, and Theatrical Texts in Mongol Yuan China
    Location: VCC, Room 118
    Organizer: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University
    Chair: Shih-pe Wang – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Linda Walton – Portland State University
    Paper Presenter: Johannes Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Erxin Wang – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Shih-pe Wang – National Taiwan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Language and Strategic Belonging in the Shadow of the Chinese State
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Organizer: Shannon Ward (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Shamo Thar (she/her/hers) – Columbia University/ SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Shamo Thar (she/her/hers) – Columbia University/ SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: James C. Meador – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Bendi Tso – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Sabrina Wu – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Material Culture and Practices in China and Taiwan
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Chair: Marc Andre Matten (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Presenting Author: Yiying YAO (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Yin Cai – University of Chicago
    Presenting Author: Wuyutong Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Presenting Author: Qingyi Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Presenting Author: DENG Haoxian (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    PRC Propaganda across Platforms and Beyond Borders
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Organizer: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Chair: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Paper Presenter: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Discussant: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Paper Presenter: Magnus Fiskesjo – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Duoji Jiang – Columbia Business School
    Paper Presenter: Wanning Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Reading as Remaking: Literary Agency and the Afterlives of Chinese Texts
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Niping Yan (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Chair: Bruce Rusk (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Niping Yan (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Kejian Shi – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Wei SI – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Mengxiao Wang – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Reconstructing Gendered Identity through Spatial Divide and Artistic Expression in Late Imperial China
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Organizer: Manning Chan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Organizer: Yiqing Ran (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Chair: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
    Discussant: Madeleine Dong (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Ya-Hui Cheng (she/her/hers) – University of South Florida
    Paper Presenter: Jing Zhang – New College of Florida
    Paper Presenter: Manning Chan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Yiqing Ran (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Reinterpreting Law in the People’s Republic of China
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Organizer: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Chair: Ying Zhang – Leiden Institute of Area Studies
    Paper Presenter: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Sida Liu – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Qian Liu – University of Calgary
    Paper Presenter: Jacques deLisle – University of Pennsylvania
    Discussant: Ying Zhang – Leiden Institute of Area Studies
    Discussant: Ji Li – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Remaking the Book in Medieval East Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Organizer: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Chair: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Devin Fitzgerald – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Heng Du – Wellesley College
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Discussant: Kay Duffy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part I
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Organizer: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Chair: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Paper Presenter: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Discussant: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Paper Presenter: Cameron Foltz (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Voice, Number, and Memory: Rethinking Democratization with China
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Shoufu Yin – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Hsin-hsin Pan (she/her/hers) – Soochow University
    Paper Presenter: Siyen Fei – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Shoufu Yin – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Leigh Jenco – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Simon Sihang Luo – Nanyang Technological University
    Discussant: Mark E. Warren (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Writing as Their Own Readers: Authorship, Multisensory Experience, and Knowledge Flow in Ming China’s Book World
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Organizer: Yiqing Liu (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Chair: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    Paper Presenter: Yuanzhi Liao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yiqing Liu (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Paper Presenter: Deyi Zhang (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Yung-Fang Hsu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Discussant: Ji Hao (he/him/his) – College of the Holy Cross
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Democracy with “Chinese Characteristics”? A Historical Perspective on Two Populist Fiscal Reforms of Late 16th and Early 21st Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Siyen Fei – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Federal Femininity: Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute for Cai Yan
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Ya-Hui Cheng (she/her/hers) – University of South Florida
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Medieval Chinese Information Orders: Paper, Stone, and Wood Reconsidered
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Devin Fitzgerald – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Negotiating Multilingualism in Education: Ideologies and Inequalities in China for Minoritized Tibetans
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Shamo Thar (she/her/hers) – Columbia University/ SOAS University of London
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Publishing for Experience: Rethinking Huangbian and the Commercial Books Publishing in Late-Ming China
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Yuanzhi Liao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Reading Worlds: Literati and Commoners’ Readings of the Shanhai Jing and Its Cross-Cultural Afterlives
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Niping Yan (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Televised Confessions in the International Age: Ethnonationalism in Transnational Media Spectacles
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: The Commemorative Context of Cultural Change: Shifting Textual Tactics in Song-Yuan Academy Inscriptions
    Location: VCC, Room 118
    Presenting Author: Linda Walton – Portland State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: The Imperial Agro-Pastoral Consequences of Distance in Xinjiang
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: What’s Criminal About Economic Crime? Law, Ideas, and Revenue in Transitional China
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Juan Wang – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: 1156 and Beyond, the Wang Zhiwang Moments of Democratization
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Shoufu Yin – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: A Distant Authority: Qing Governance in Qinghai
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Cameron Foltz (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Book as Being: Guo Xiang and the Ontological Transformation of the Zhuangzi
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Heng Du – Wellesley College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Excessive Legalism: Chinese Lawmaking as Policy Declaration
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Sida Liu – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Foreigners Performing for the Chinese State, Voluntarily
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Magnus Fiskesjo – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: From Excerpt-Based to Authorial Leishu: Knowledge Renewal and Compilation Innovation in the Late Ming
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Yiqing Liu (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Mongol Yuan Rule as a Driver of Multilingual Consciousness
    Location: VCC, Room 118
    Presenting Author: Johannes Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Placemaking Strategies in the Writing and Anthologizing of Women Musicians’ Biographies in Gen Shi
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Jing Zhang – New College of Florida
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Reading Fish: Reading as Knowledge-Making in Ming-Qing Ichthyological Texts
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Kejian Shi – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Rediscovering Soviet Chinese Proletarian Literacy Pedagogy
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: James C. Meador – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Converging Discourse, Diverging Audiences: Authoritarian Propaganda with Strategic Differentiation
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Duoji Jiang – Columbia Business School
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Creating Experts to Govern Distant Lands: Bajung and Qing Tibet
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Obligations and Legal Consciousness of Chinese Leftover Women
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Qian Liu – University of Calgary
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Pivot of the Gods: Book-Making and Scriptural Authority in Early Medieval China
    Location: VCC, Room 303
    Presenting Author: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Rapping Tibetanness: Minority Visibility and Voice in China
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Bendi Tso – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Reading Revenge: George Thomas Staunton’s Cross-cultural Adaptation of Dou E Yuan
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Wei SI – Chongqing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: “Songs of the Streets and Alleyways”: Urban Space and Commoner Voice in Chinese Thought and Practice
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Leigh Jenco – London School of Economics and Political Science
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Sounding Authority: Qin-Zither Publishing, Social Space, and Gendered Identity in Early Qing China
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Manning Chan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: The Multilingual Origins of Theatrical Language: Yuan Zaju Texts and Yuan Period Language Practices
    Location: VCC, Room 118
    Presenting Author: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3: Vulgarizing the Poet: The Appropriation and Visualization of Du Fu’s Poetry in Ordinary Reading in the Ming Dynasty
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Deyi Zhang (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Acting Out “Glocal” Issues: Multimodal Performance in Taiwanese Bilingual Classrooms
    Location: VCC, Room 204
    Presenting Author: Sabrina Wu – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: China’s Rethinking of International Law
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Jacques deLisle – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Democratization and the Cultural Revolution as Mistake, 1976-1992
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Simon Sihang Luo – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Digital Transnationalism: Chinese-Language Media in Australia
    Location: VCC, Room 211
    Presenting Author: Wanning Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Genre in Fragments: Mobility, Sociability, and the Rhetoric of Commemorating Yuan Theater
    Location: VCC, Room 118
    Presenting Author: Erxin Wang – National University of Singapore
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Mapping Unreachable Spaces: Rhetorical Vision and Poetic Epistemology in Late-Qing Chinese Women’s War Poetry
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Yiqing Ran (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Multisensory Reading and Perception of Performance: A Sensory History Approach to Late-Ming Qu Anthologies
    Location: VCC, Room 213
    Presenting Author: Yung-Fang Hsu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: Reading Ritual: A Lay Guide to Feeding Hungry Ghosts in Early Twentieth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Mengxiao Wang – University of Southern California
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: The Influence of Distance on the Development of Human and Animal Logistical Efficiency During the Yongzheng Reign
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    5: Evolution of Hong Kong’s Textile Industry (1920s–1960s): Insights from the Cheongsam
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Individual Paper Presenter: Qingyi Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    2: Making Nature Work: Peacock Feathers, Manchu Court, and Jiangnan Imperial Workshop
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yin Cai – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1: Visual Modernity Beyond the City: Local Artisans and the Desire for Realism in Republican Teochew
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Individual Paper Presenter: Yiying YAO (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    4: From Collection to Cultivation: Transformation of the Sourcing of Chinese Medicine Drugs in the 1950s
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Individual Paper Presenter: Wuyutong Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    6: The Identity Politics of Formosan Black Bear: A Material-Semiotic Analysis of Nation Branding in Taiwan
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Individual Paper Presenter: DENG Haoxian (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Gender and Chinese Politics Across Three Generations: Scholarly Evolutions and New Frontiers
    Location: VCC, Room 122
    Organizer: Kimberley PW Manning – Concordia University
    Chair: Manon Laurent – Collège de France
    Discussant: WANG Zheng (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Bohong Liu – China Women's University
    Discussant: Xiajuan Guo – Zhejiang University
    Discussant: Xinhui Jiang – Nanjing University
    Discussant: Xiaoxia Huang (she/her/hers) – Syracuse University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Is the Future of Uyghur Studies Archival?
    Location: VCC, Room 217
    Organizer: Rachel Harris (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Chair: Rachel Harris (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Discussant: Rian Thum – University of Manchester
    Discussant: Jun Sugawara – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Joshua Freeman – Brown University
    Discussant: Mukaddas Mijit – Université Libre de Bruxelles
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Politics of Knowledge in Times of Transition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on China and Its Broader Entanglements
    Location: VCC, Room 214
    Organizer: Mara Y. Du (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Chair: Joanna Waley-Cohen – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Yiwen Li – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Dominic Sachsenmaier – University of Gottingen
    Discussant: Mara Y. Du (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Discussant: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    New Methods, New Materials: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Ethnic Imagination and National Belonging in Contemporary China
    Location: VCC, Room 207
    Organizer: Jing Qiu – Jinan University
    Chair: Jing Qiu – Jinan University
    Book Author: Yanshuo Zhang – Pomona College
    Speaker: Emily Wilcox (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
    Speaker: Rui Jie Peng – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Speaker: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Speaker: Susan K. McCarthy – Providence College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part II
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Organizer: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    Chair: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    Discussant: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    Paper Presenter: Austin M. Hudgins (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Jin Peng (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: George Remisovsky (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Resonant Thought: Early Chinese Texts and Their Soundscapes
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Organizer: Avital Rom (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Organizer: Gian Duri Rominger (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Chair: Lisa Indraccolo (she/her/hers) – Tallinn University
    Discussant: David C. Schaberg (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Avital Rom (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Gian Duri Rominger (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Oscar Qiu Jun Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Rethinking Gendered Bodies: Women’s Health and Contested Medical Authority in Chinese History (900s-1930s)
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Organizer: Yating Li (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Yi-Li Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Joan Judge – York University
    Paper Presenter: Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Jingya Guo – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Yating Li (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Ling Ma – SUNY Geneseo
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Rethinking the Labor of Culture in Socialist China and Beyond
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Organizer: Feifan Li – University of Chicago
    Chair: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    Discussant: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Alissa Elegant (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Feifan Li – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Yucong Hao – Vanderbilt University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Rivers and Deserts: Space, Time, and Environmental Histories of Frontiers in North and Northwest China
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Organizer: Yuan Gao (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University
    Organizer: Peng Hai – University of Pittsburgh
    Chair: Tomoko Shiroyama – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Gao (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University
    Paper Presenter: Peng Hai – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Tristan Brown – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Matthew King – University of California, Riverside
    Discussant: Sakura Christmas – Bowdoin College
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Science, Material Culture, and Everyday Life in Modern East Asia
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Organizer: Leo Chu – University of New South Wales
    Chair: Eugenia Lean – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Leo Chu – University of New South Wales
    Paper Presenter: Yu-Hsuan Jade Wang (she/her/hers) – History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Lejie Zeng – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Discussant: Jia-Chen Fu – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    Societal Mobilization and Statecraft in Communist China: From Revolution to Pandemic
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Organizer: YuanChong Wang (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Chair: Jeremy Brown – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Yi Ren (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas, Little Rock
    Paper Presenter: YuanChong Wang (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Paper Presenter: Yan Long – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Jeremy Brown – Simon Fraser University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    The Undercurrent: Empowerment and Reconfiguration of Marginal Discourses in Late Imperial China
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Organizer: Zhijun Ren (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Zhijun Ren (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Moxuan Luo – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Xintong Wang – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ning Xu – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Yixuan Cai – Randolph-Macon College
    Discussant: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    The Worlds of Chinese Furniture: Makers, Materials, and Expertise
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Organizer: Jennifer Altehenger (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Chair: Anne Gerritsen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Discussant: Anne Gerritsen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Discussant: Yao Wu – Peabody Essex Museum
    Paper Presenter: Kyoungjin Bae – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Di Liu – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Jennifer Altehenger (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Between When the Snow Falls and the Spring Growth Arises: The Qing-Kazakh Land Lease System, 1768-1810
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Austin M. Hudgins (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Coercive Sounds: Musico-Political Thought in Early China
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Avital Rom (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Female Patients and New Healing Narratives in Song Medical Writings
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Fresh Flower and Plain Fruit: Folk Religion and Frugality Campaign in Rural Taiwan, 1950–1969
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Leo Chu – University of New South Wales
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Making Culture Work Union Work: Creating an Intellectual Basis for Socialist Workers’ Artistic Practice in the PRC
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Alissa Elegant (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Propaganda and State-Making from the Ground Up: An Opera Troupe in Shanxi, 1940-49
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: Yi Ren (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas, Little Rock
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: Return with Empty Hands: The Circulation of Beijing Goods and the Anti-Qing Gesture of Korean Envoys
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Zhijun Ren (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: The Material Economy of Indian Red Sandalwood in Early Modern China and Europe
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Kyoungjin Bae – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1: What Was Lop? The Politics of Aridity on the Qing Desert Frontier
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Yuan Gao (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: “A Dragon’s Eye Left Unfinished”: Mothers, Glass Bottles, and the Politics of Nutrition in Japanese Taiwan (1930-1945)
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Yu-Hsuan Jade Wang (she/her/hers) – History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: Amateurs of the Industrial World: Performing the Worker in Huang Baomei (1958)
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Feifan Li – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: Calendars, Mass Indoctrination, and Mass Mobilization in Communist China, 1949-79
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: YuanChong Wang (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: “Chinese Domestic Furniture” as a Site for Transnational Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Di Liu – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: From Ritual Gesture to Cosmic Embodiment: Qi Rhythm and the Reconfiguration of Marginal Dance Discourse in Han Bangqi’s Yuanluo Zhiyue
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Moxuan Luo – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: Lumps, Coagulation, or Phlegm? Case Study of the Blood Myriad in Women’s Bodies in Seventeenth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Jingya Guo – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: Rafting, Timber, and Matchsticks: Economic Territorialization and Hui Identity Along the Upper Yellow River
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Peng Hai – University of Pittsburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: Sounds That Associate, Sounds That Control: On Paronomasia, Pitch Pipes, and the Production of Meaning in Western Han Texts
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Gian Duri Rominger (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    2: Steam, State Power, and Cross-Border Merchants: Collapsing Distance in the Making of Hankow's Sino-Russian Tea Hub, 1880-1913
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: Jin Peng (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Chinese Furniture Designers and 1980s Global Material Networks
    Location: VCC, Room 220
    Presenting Author: Jennifer Altehenger (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Crossing the Frozen Frontier: Seasonal Ice, Climate, and Warfare on the Ming Northern Frontier
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Tristan Brown – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Dressing the Nation: Indanthrone Blue and the Making of National Womanhood in Republican China
    Location: VCC, Room 206
    Presenting Author: Lejie Zeng – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Leaves Unturned: Distance, Trade, and Imperial Neglect in Taiwan’s Tea Economy, ca. 1850-1895
    Location: VCC, Room 305
    Presenting Author: George Remisovsky (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Mediating Labor from Afar: The Representation and Embodiment of Labor in Baodiao Media, 1971-1976
    Location: VCC, Room 301
    Presenting Author: Yucong Hao – Vanderbilt University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Semantic Association and Sound Correspondence in Early Chinese Hemerological Manuals
    Location: VCC, Room 209
    Presenting Author: Oscar Qiu Jun Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Transcultural Negotiation and Artisanal Agency in Early Chinese Catholic Illustrated Books
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Xintong Wang – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    3: Womb Maladies: Epistemic Pluralism and the Making of a Female Disease in Early Twentieth-Century China (1902–1930)
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Yating Li (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    4: Making the Present with the More Than Human Gobi Desert
    Location: VCC, Room 302
    Presenting Author: Matthew King – University of California, Riverside
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    4: Men, Masculinity, and Maternal Events in Early Twentieth-Century China
    Location: VCC, Room 222
    Presenting Author: Ling Ma – SUNY Geneseo
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    4: Primary Literacy Texts and Vernacular Knowledge Production in Late Imperial China from a Gendered Perspective
    Location: VCC, Room 219
    Presenting Author: Ning Xu – Tsinghua University
    East & Inner Asia
  • Sunday, Mar 15th
    10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    4: Volunteering Without Voluntarism: Unobtrusive Control and State‑Building at the Community Level During the COVID‑19 Pandemic
    Location: VCC, Room 304
    Presenting Author: Yan Long – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia