Full Schedule

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Publishing, Collecting, and Remembering: Japan as a Site of Korean Representation and Cultural Production

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Organizer: Sunyoung Kwak – Shizuoka University

Chair: Hyejin Jo (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Paper Presenter: Ria Chae – Indiana University

Paper Presenter: Susan Paige Taylor – Waseda University

Paper Presenter: Sunyoung Kwak – Shizuoka University

Discussant: Kayoung Kim – Aoyama Gakuin University

Discussant: Hannah Shepherd (she/her/hers) – Yale University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: First Drafts of a Colonial Intellectual: Korea and Self in Hakjigwang, a Magazine of Korean Students in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Ria Chae – Indiana University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Archives of Imperial Collections: Legacies of Japanese Collectors in the Korean Peninsula

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Susan Paige Taylor – Waseda University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Empowerment, Solidarity, and Invisibility: Colonial Korea and Its Students in the NHK Morning Drama Series “The Tiger and Her Wings”

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Sunyoung Kwak – Shizuoka University

Northeast Asia

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 110

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Translating Cultures: Representation of Non-Han People in Yuan Period Academy Inscriptions

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Linda Walton – Portland State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Mongol Yuan Rule as a Driver of Multilingual Consciousness

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Johannes Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 110

Presenting Author: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Genre in Fragments: Mobility, Sociability, and the Rhetoric of Commemorating Yuan Theater

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Erxin Wang – National University of Singapore

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Haunting Visions: Re-imaging Korean History and Nation in Transnational Visual Culture

Location: VCC, Room 111

Organizer: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University

Organizer: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University

Chair: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University

Paper Presenter: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University

Paper Presenter: Jung Joon Lee (she/her/hers) – Rhode Island School of Design

Paper Presenter: Hieyoon Kim (she/her/hers) – Brown University

Paper Presenter: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University

Discussant: Grayson Lee (he/him/his) – University of Toronto

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Shadows on the Tracks: Seeing Partition and War from Korea to Pakistan

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Elsewhere, with You: The Virtuality of Incarceration in Kyungmook Kim’s 5.25 m²

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Jung Joon Lee (she/her/hers) – Rhode Island School of Design

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Ghosts Across Ayotzinapa and Gwangju: Materializing Disappearance

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Hieyoon Kim (she/her/hers) – Brown University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Diasporic Livingness: Queering (National) Time/Space in Michael Vince Kim’s “Aenikkaeng”

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Liberal Economists and Liberal Economic Ideas in Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 112

Organizer: Tuong Vu (he/him/his) – University of Oregon

Chair: Alex-Thai D. Vo (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University

Co-Presenter: Tuong Vu (he/him/his) – University of Oregon

Discussant: Peter Zinoman (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley

Paper Presenter: Thanh D. Nguyen (he/him/his) – Vietnam Economic and Strategic Studies Center

Paper Presenter: Thanh Nguyen (he/him/his) – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Ha H. Pham (she/her/hers) – Vietnam Institute of History

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Reception of Adam Smith in Vietnam: Historical Observations and Political Economy Implications

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Thanh D. Nguyen (he/him/his) – Vietnam Economic and Strategic Studies Center

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Renovating Development: Nguyễn Xuân Oánh and the Economic Liberalization of Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Thanh Nguyen (he/him/his) – Yale University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Resilience of Liberal Economic Ideas and Their Contributions to Vietnam’s Market Reform in the 1980s

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Ha H. Pham (she/her/hers) – Vietnam Institute of History

Co-author: Tuong Vu (he/him/his) – University of Oregon

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Constructing Cultural, National, and Religious Identities in the Modern Era: Case Studies of the Chinese (Re-) Shaping of A Modern Buddhism

Location: VCC, Room 113

Organizer: Yiqiao Yan (he/him/his) – École Pratique des Hautes Études

Organizer: Todd Klaiman – University of Victoria

Chair: Philip Wei-li Hsu – National Cheng Kung University

Paper Presenter: Todd Klaiman – University of Victoria

Discussant: Justin Stein – Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Paper Presenter: Qinqin Peng – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Paper Presenter: Ying-Chun Lin (she/her/hers) – Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Buddhism as Soft Power in Taiwan’s Cold War Era Engagement with Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Todd Klaiman – University of Victoria

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Geyi (Matching Concepts): A Modern Narrative in Chinese Buddhist Historiography

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Qinqin Peng – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Master Hongyi and the Transnational Spread of Buddhist Networks in Twentieth-Century Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Ying-Chun Lin (she/her/hers) – Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Sustaining Southeast Asian Languages in Precarious Times: Crisis, Resistance, and Reimagination

Location: VCC, Room 114

Organizer: Juliana Wijaya (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles

Chair: Juliana Wijaya (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: . Agustini (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Discussant: Chan Lwin – Arizona State University

Discussant: Chhany Sak-Humphry (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Discussant: Jayson Parba – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Discussant: Thúy Tranviet – Cornell University

Southeast Asia

Sponsored By COTSEAL (The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Roots of the Rakyat: Counter-Ecologies and Epistemes in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 115

Organizer: Jasmine Gui (she/her/hers) – York University

Organizer: Zhi Ming Sim (they/them/theirs) – York University

Chair: Jasmine Gui (she/her/hers) – York University

Discussant: Zhi Ming Sim (they/them/theirs) – York University

Discussant: Joanne Leow (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Discussant: Vince Ha – Queen's University

Discussant: Romila ‎ (they/them/theirs) – Simon Fraser University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Sources, Methodologies, and Perspectives on North Korea-China Relations, 1940s–60s

Location: VCC, Room 117

Organizer: Claudius Kyung Yeob Kim – University of Texas at Austin

Chair: Andre Schmid (he/him/his) – University of Toronto

Paper Presenter: Claudius Kyung Yeob Kim – University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Adam Cathcart – University of Leeds

Paper Presenter: Haeyoung Kim – San Francisco State University

Paper Presenter: Hao Chen – University of Virginia

Paper Presenter: Gregg Brazinsky – George Washington University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: “Decentering China”: North Koreans Reimagine the Asian Revolution, 1950–53

Location: VCC, Room 117

Presenting Author: Claudius Kyung Yeob Kim – University of Texas at Austin

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Infrastructural Coloniality: Railways and Sino-North Korean Relations in the Early Cold War

Location: VCC, Room 117

Presenting Author: Haeyoung Kim – San Francisco State University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: From Khabarovsk to Yanji: The Soviet 88th Separate Infantry Brigade, Manchurian Koreans, and the Origins of the China-North Korea Relationship

Location: VCC, Room 117

Presenting Author: Hao Chen – University of Virginia

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Culture Across the Yalu: North Korean Cultural Performances in Maoist China

Location: VCC, Room 117

Presenting Author: Gregg Brazinsky – George Washington University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Constructing Socialism: State-Building and Governance in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975

Location: VCC, Room 118

Organizer: Johnny Zhen – University of British Columbia

Chair: Christopher Goscha – Université du Québec à Montréal

Paper Presenter: Uyen T. Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Alec Holcombe – Ohio University

Paper Presenter: Hai-Chung Pham (she/her/hers) – British University Vietnam

Paper Presenter: Johnny Zhen – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Pierre Asselin – San Diego State University

Southeast Asia

Sponsored By Vietnam Studies Group

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Negotiating Boundaries: Merchants, Markets, and State Encounters in the Making of Socialist North Vietnam, 1954–1955

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Uyen T. Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Socialist Legality: Propagandizing the DRV’s 1959 Constitution

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Alec Holcombe – Ohio University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Media, Ideology, and the Socialist State in North Vietnam,1954–1975

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Hai-Chung Pham (she/her/hers) – British University Vietnam

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Revolution Across Borders: Cultural Diplomacy and Socialist State-Building in Sino-Vietnamese Relations, 1955–1969

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Johnny Zhen – University of British Columbia

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Childhoods at the Intersection of Literature and Education in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 119

Organizer: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Chair: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Paper Presenter: Pieter Van Lommel (he/him/his) – Tokyo Keizai University

Paper Presenter: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Paper Presenter: Joelle Nazzicone (she/her/hers) – Kyoritsu Women's University

Paper Presenter: Hyoseak (Stephen) Choi – Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Art versus Education in Nagai Kafū’s “Umi no tasogare”

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Pieter Van Lommel (he/him/his) – Tokyo Keizai University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Haga Yaichi: Textbooks for Children and the Birth of a Modern Literary Canon

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Dōyō and the “Artistic Child” in Early 20th Century Japan

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Joelle Nazzicone (she/her/hers) – Kyoritsu Women's University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Transwar Reconfigurations of Childhood in Japanese Children’s Literature and Education

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Hyoseak (Stephen) Choi – Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Japan Beyond the Sinosphere, c. 250–1250

Location: VCC, Room 120

Organizer: Ethan D. Bushelle – Western Washington University

Chair: Jeffrey Niedermaier – Brown University

Paper Presenter: Ethan D. Bushelle – Western Washington University

Paper Presenter: Abigail MacBain – University of Edinburgh

Paper Presenter: James Morris – National Institutes for the Humanities

Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Niedermaier – Brown University

Discussant: Sujung Kim – Johns Hopkins University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Inner Asian Origins of the Yamato Sky Cult

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Ethan D. Bushelle – Western Washington University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: A Japanese Cosmopolis: Gigaku Masked Drama and the Decentering of Tang China in Early Japan

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Abigail MacBain – University of Edinburgh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Reconstructing Japan’s Relations Beyond China Through the Lives of “Persian” Visitors

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: James Morris – National Institutes for the Humanities

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The Rime of the Speechless Mariner: Premodern Japan As/In Poetic Archipelago

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Jeffrey Niedermaier – Brown University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Decolonizing Cold War Histories in Mainland Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 121

Organizer: Sinae Hyun (she/her/hers) – Inha University

Organizer: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University

Chair: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University

Paper Presenter: Sinae Hyun (she/her/hers) – Inha University

Paper Presenter: Hisashi Shimojo (he/him/his) – Kobe University

Paper Presenter: Tatsuki Kataoka (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

Paper Presenter: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Missions for Empire: Expansion of the American Christian Empire In-Between Southeast Asia and China in the Twentieth Century

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Sinae Hyun (she/her/hers) – Inha University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: From the Reciprocal Village Model to the Rational Peasant: Reorganization of Villages in the Mekong Delta by Wartime South Vietnam’s State

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Hisashi Shimojo (he/him/his) – Kobe University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Beyond the Hill Tribes: Highlanders and the Realignment of Nationhood in Post-Cold War Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Tatsuki Kataoka (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: “For the Dignity of the Northern People”—Toward a Cold War History of Higher Education in Northern Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University

Southeast Asia

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Brains, Bodies, and Economies in the Age of Computation

Location: VCC, Room 201

Organizer: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis

Chair: Victor Seow (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis

Discussant: Victor Seow (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Xuenan Cao (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong

Paper Presenter: Yize Hu (he/him/his) – Keio University

Paper Presenter: Yue Zhao (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Governing Through Feedback: The Cybernetic Logic of China’s Economic Reforms

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Thriving on Deficits: Improvisations in Computing

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Xuenan Cao (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Structure of Hope: Artificial Brain, Expert Systems, and the Technological Imaginary of Computers in Japan, 1950‒1990

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Yize Hu (he/him/his) – Keio University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: A Feeling for the Information

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Yue Zhao (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Failure, Interruption and Delay: Media Infrastructures from the Perspectives of China and Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 202

Organizer: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Organizer: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chair: Carlos Rojas – Duke University

Paper Presenter: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Paper Presenter: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant: Shaoling Ma – Cornell University

Paper Presenter: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Cindy Lin – Georgia Institute of Technology

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Disconnecting Sentiments: The Failures of International Long-Distance Phone Calls as Media Infrastructure in Post-Cold War China

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Poor Remote Sensing Images of Environmental Disaster in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Radio as Infrastructure of Amateur Writing

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The New Public Goods for Southeast Asia’s Data Centers

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Cindy Lin – Georgia Institute of Technology

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Places Without History? Ambivalence and Paradoxes in Urban Asian Development Narratives

Location: VCC, Room 203

Organizer: Dodom Kim – Sophia University

Chair: Dodom Kim – Sophia University

Paper Presenter: Dodom Kim – Sophia University

Discussant: Jenny Chio – University of Southern California

Paper Presenter: Josh Babcock – Brown University

Paper Presenter: Meng-Hsuan Lee (he/him/his) – Columbia University

Paper Presenter: Zhiyan Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Between Hard Work and Economic Boon: The Development Miracle and the Moral Paradox of Belonging in Shenzhen, PRC

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Dodom Kim – Sophia University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Creative Destruction and (Re)inventing “Identity Nodes” in Singapore’s Master Plan 2025: Reminiscing Backward, Fantasizing Forward

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Josh Babcock – Brown University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Colonial Progress and Elite Collaboration: Model Colony Narratives in the 1935 Taiwan Exposition

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Meng-Hsuan Lee (he/him/his) – Columbia University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Artwashing the Urban Periphery: Museums, Place-Making, and Property Capital in Contemporary China

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Zhiyan Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

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 – University of London

Paper Presenter: Shamo Thar – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 – University of London

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Reconceptualizing the Secularization of Suffering Across Asia: From the 15th Century to the Present

Location: VCC, Room 205

Organizer: Chien-Cho Chan (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Chair: Jessica Starling (she/her/hers) – Lewis & Clark College

Paper Presenter: Chien-Cho Chan (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Paper Presenter: Jack Jiang (he/him/his) – The New School

Paper Presenter: Sonia Yuhui Zhang (she/her/hers) – The New School

Paper Presenter: George Bobyk (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Discussant: Jessica Starling (she/her/hers) – Lewis & Clark College

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Entangled Logics of Suffering: Disease Writings and Medical Metaphors in Late Ming Chan Buddhism

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Chien-Cho Chan (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: What Will the Unborn Suffer?: A Comparative Account of Secular Suffering Among Anti-Natalists in Bangalore and Tokyo

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Jack Jiang (he/him/his) – The New School

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: “Orihime Is Me”: Traversing the Loneliness Epidemic Through Robot Teleoperation in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Sonia Yuhui Zhang (she/her/hers) – The New School

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The Secularization of Suffering and Criminal Legal Reforms in Early Twentieth Century China

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: George Bobyk (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Redefining Girlhood and Womanhood in East Asian Manga and Webtoons

Location: VCC, Room 206

Organizer: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Chair: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Jon Holt (he/him/his) – Portland State University

Paper Presenter: Heekyoung Cho (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

Paper Presenter: Jamie J. Zhao (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Reconsidering Sazae-san: Women, Manga, and Postwar Japan in Four Panels

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Gender, Divorce, and Female Subjectivity in Anno Moyoco’s Go! Happy Mania

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Jon Holt (he/him/his) – Portland State University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Politics of the Everyday: Slice-of-Life Webtoons and Gender Issues in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Heekyoung Cho (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The “Queer Troubles” and “National-Style” of Chinese Girls’ Love Webtoons

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Jamie J. Zhao (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Reimagining Chinese Diasporic Spaces: A Linguistic Landscape Perspective

Location: VCC, Room 207

Organizer: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong

Chair: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong

Paper Presenter: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong

Discussant: Carl Kubler – Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant: Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja – Independent Scholar

Paper Presenter: Xinyu Li (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Yuan Xu – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: Zhaowei Yin – University of Glasgow

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Linguistic Landscapes as Affective Spaces: Chinese Cemeteries in Regional Australia

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Inter-Asia Immigration: Chronotopes and Self-Positioning of Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Xinyu Li (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Signs, Slogans, and Solidarity: Multimodal Expressions of #savechinatown Activism in Philadelphia

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Yuan Xu – University of Pennsylvania

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Redrawing Boundaries: Language, Religion, and Ethnic Identity in a Chinese Church in Glasgow

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Zhaowei Yin – University of Glasgow

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Movement and Therapeutics in South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 208

Organizer: Shagufta Bhangu (she/her/hers) – King's College London

Organizer: katyayni seth – Brown University

Chair: sarah pinto – Tufts University

Discussant: Shagufta Bhangu (she/her/hers) – King's College London

Discussant: katyayni seth – Brown University

Discussant: Mauricio Najarro (he/him/his) – King's College London

Discussant: Lawrence Cohen – University of California, Berkeley

South Asia

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Constructing the Cosmos: Religious World-Building in East Asian Art and Architecture

Location: VCC, Room 212

Organizer: Michael Norton (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Organizer: Jesse LeFebvre (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Chair: Wei-cheng Lin (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Discussant: Wei-cheng Lin (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Maya K. Stiller – University of Kansas

Paper Presenter: Michael Norton (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Jesse LeFebvre (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Overtext: A Hermeneutic Cosmos in Late Chosŏn Buddhist Architecture

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Maya K. Stiller – University of Kansas

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Liberated Both Within and Without: Spatial Metaphors as Organizing Principle in the Murals of Mogao Cave 428, ca. 557-581 CE

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Michael Norton (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Encounter in Context: The Dual Register of Karmic Depiction in Medieval Japanese Illustrated Narrative Scrolls

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Jesse LeFebvre (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Northeast Asia

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Choreographing National Identities: The Embodied Politics of Post-Socialist China and Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 215

Organizer: Hayana Kim (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University

Chair: Suk-Young Kim (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: Tara Rodman – University of California, Irvine

Paper Presenter: Hayana Kim (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University

Paper Presenter: Dahye Lee (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center

Paper Presenter: Yao Xu (she/her/hers) – Temple University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Materializing Grief Through Unbleached Cloth: South Korean Minjung Dancer Yi Aeju and an Affective Reconceptualization of Democracy

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Hayana Kim (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: “The World to Seoul, Seoul to the World”: Koreanness Through Changjak Chum in the 1988 Seoul Olympics

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Dahye Lee (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Choreographing Postsocialist Dissensus: Reconfiguring the Realist Emotional Governance in Transition 迁徙 (2019)

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Yao Xu (she/her/hers) – Temple University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Commodities in Motion: Transborder Industrialization and Japanese Goods in the Sinosphere

Location: VCC, Room 216

Organizer: Mindy Su – Yale University

Organizer: Lillian Tsay – University of Montreal

Chair: Jun Uchida – Stanford University

Paper Presenter: Mindy Su – Yale University

Paper Presenter: Lillian Tsay – University of Montreal

Paper Presenter: Lawrence Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Discussant: Timothy Yang – University of Georgia

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Branding the Kobe Match: Overseas Chinese, Treaty Port Industry, and the Making of Imperial Japan’s Trademark Regime

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: Mindy Su – Yale University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Cooling the Colony: The Ice Industry from Japan to Colonial Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: Lillian Tsay – University of Montreal

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Planting New Roots: Making Black Tea in Colonial Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: Lawrence Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Is the Future of Uyghur Studies Archival?

Location: VCC, Room 217

Organizer: Rachel Harris – SOAS University of London

Chair: Rachel Harris – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Mediating the Occupation: Radio, Typography, and Landscape in Postwar Japan and Korea

Location: VCC, Room 218

Organizer: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler

Chair: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler

Paper Presenter: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler

Paper Presenter: Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

Paper Presenter: Akinobu Matsumoto (he/him/his) – Waseda University

Discussant: Franziska Seraphim (she/her/hers) – Boston College

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Occupied Landscapes

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Misshapen, Miswritten, Misguided: Typographic Reforms in Postwar South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Radio Training and Its Reception Under the Influence of the U.S. Military After WWII

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Akinobu Matsumoto (he/him/his) – Waseda University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Merely from “West” to “East”? Knowledge Transfer and Transfiguration in Late Cold War East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 219

Organizer: Manyong Moon (he/him/his) – Chonbuk National University

Organizer: Max Altenhofen (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University

Chair: John P. DiMoia – Seoul National University

Paper Presenter: Kuo-Hui Chang (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University

Paper Presenter: Manyong Moon (he/him/his) – Chonbuk National University

Paper Presenter: Dahye Jeong (she/her/hers) – Korea University

Paper Presenter: Max Altenhofen (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University

Discussant: John P. DiMoia – Seoul National University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: How Electronics Reshaped Taiwan’s Science Parks: Materialization and Cross-Network Collaboration

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Kuo-Hui Chang (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: The Seoul Olympics and the Compressed Development of Science and Technology in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Manyong Moon (he/him/his) – Chonbuk National University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Community Medicine Between Aspiration and Reality: The Quest for “Medicine Suitable for Korean Conditions” in Cold War South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Dahye Jeong (she/her/hers) – Korea University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Reconfiguring Transnational Forest Research in South Korea, 1950-1970s

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Max Altenhofen (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University

Northeast Asia

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: Hairong Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

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 and Inner Asia

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Pigs as Factories, Manure as Treasure: Manure Politics, Animal Labor, and Agricultural Governance in Maoist China

Location: VCC, Room 220

Individual Paper Presenter: Hairong Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Rethinking the Cultural Revolution: Art, Politics, and Radicalism in 1960s’ China, Eastern Europe, and the Global South

Location: VCC, Room 221

Organizer: Chien-Wen Kung (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Chair: Els van Dongen – Nanyang Technological University

Discussant: Els van Dongen – Nanyang Technological University

Paper Presenter: Minerva Inwald – University of Melbourne

Paper Presenter: James Evans – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Chien-Wen Kung (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Matthew Galway – Australian National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Class Struggle on the Artistic Front: Repudiating Professional Expertise in the Early Cultural Revolution

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Minerva Inwald – University of Melbourne

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Importing the “Flames of Revolution”: Albania and China’s Cultural Revolutions as Anti-Revisionist Worldmaking

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: James Evans – Harvard University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Maoist Turn: Politics, Theater, and the Cultural Revolution in 1960s-70s Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Chien-Wen Kung (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Agents of Maoism: Overseas Chinese, Communist Spies, and Radicalism in Cambodia’s Global Sixties

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Matthew Galway – Australian National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

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 – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 – University of South Florida

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Migration in East Asia from the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries: Circulating Religion, Knowledge, and Localized Networks

Location: VCC, Room 304

Organizer: Gregory Sattler – University of California, Los Angeles

Chair: Mikael Adolphson – University of Cambridge

Paper Presenter: Gregory Sattler – University of California, Los Angeles

Paper Presenter: Lina Nie (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

Paper Presenter: Graeme R. Reynolds (he/him/his) – University of Southern California

Discussant: Thomas Conlan – Princeton University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Literati Defectors to Koryŏ and Its Chinese Diaspora in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Gregory Sattler – University of California, Los Angeles

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: A Ship That Never Floats: A Japanese Warrior Leader’s Migration Plan to China in the Thirteenth Century

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Lina Nie (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Supporting Yuan, Supporting Koryŏ: King Ch’ungsŏn's Sponsorship of Intellectual and Religious Activities in the Yuan

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Graeme R. Reynolds (he/him/his) – University of Southern California

Northeast Asia

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Research Frontiers from the History of Sino-Japanese Relations—WWII through the Era of Reform and Opening Up

Location: VCC, Room 306

Organizer: Barak Kushner – University of Cambridge

Organizer: Motoya Nakamura (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo

Chair: Barak Kushner – University of Cambridge

Paper Presenter: Masahito Kaneko (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo

Paper Presenter: Sanae Yamaguchi (she/her/hers) – Keio University

Paper Presenter: On I Lam (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge

Discussant: Motoya Nakamura (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo

Paper Presenter: Masaya Inoue (he/him/his) – Keio University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Wartime Origins of Sino-Japanese “Cultural Exchange” and the Postwar Legacy

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Masahito Kaneko (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Japanese Travelogues of China and Pre-postwar Political Continuity in Sino-Japanese Relations

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Sanae Yamaguchi (she/her/hers) – Keio University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Comrades in the Shadows: Japanese Communists in China and the PRC’s Early Explorations of Sino-Japanese Engagement (1950-1965)

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: On I Lam (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: People’s Diplomacy and Press Politics: The (Un)Making of the Sino-Japanese Journalists Exchange Agreement, 1956-1964

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Masaya Inoue (he/him/his) – Keio University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Staging, Drawing, and Narrating Empire: Japanese Imperial Discourse Across Transregional Media

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Organizer: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University

Chair: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University

Paper Presenter: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University

Co-Presenter: mengda jiang – Good Shepherd United Church of Christ

Paper Presenter: Wenhsin Yu – Kobe University

Paper Presenter: Jianing Li – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Xuefei Luo (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Satoru Hashimoto (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Between Stage and State: Takarazuka’s Manchuria-themed Performances in Japan, 1937-1941

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University

Co-author: mengda jiang – Good Shepherd United Church of Christ

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Manga and Propaganda: Four-Panel Manga in Taiwan Daily News During the Second Sino-Japanese War

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Wenhsin Yu – Kobe University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Japanese East Asian Consciousness Propaganda in Manchukuo During World War Two—A Case Study on the Shengjing Times

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Jianing Li – National University of Singapore

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Towards “The New World in Greater East Asia”: Female Intimacy in the Political Journey of Women to Japanese-Occupied Southeast Asia (1942-1945)

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Xuefei Luo (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Crisis, Cosmology, and Historical Consciousness in Late Edo and Early Meiji Japan

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Organizer: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University

Chair: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University

Paper Presenter: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University

Paper Presenter: Nobuko Toyosawa – Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Paper Presenter: Yusuke Furuhata – Dokkyo University

Paper Presenter: Morgaine Setzer-Mori (she/her/hers) – Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Discussant: Timon Screech – International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Seeking Renewal Among the Dead: Gamō Kunpei’s Research on the Imperial Tombs

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Reforming with Heaven’s Will: Cosmological Vision and Ecological Thought Under Matsudaira Sadanobu

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Nobuko Toyosawa – Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Western Learning and Nativism from the Late Edo to Early Meiji: The Astronomical Research of Inoue Yoshikage

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Yusuke Furuhata – Dokkyo University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Portraying the Ideal Warrior: Takai Ranzan’s Yomihon as Popular Historical Accounts of Samurai Behavior

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Morgaine Setzer-Mori (she/her/hers) – Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Repression and Representation: Indonesia’s Pluralism Challenges

Location: VCC, Room 109

Organizer: Irene Poetranto – The Citizen Lab

Chair: Edbert Gani Suryahudaya – University of Toronto

Discussant: Edbert Gani Suryahudaya – University of Toronto

Discussant: Jacques Bertrand – University of Toronto

Discussant: Alexandre Pelletier – Université Laval

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Convergence of AI and Popular Culture: Cultural Perspectives

Location: VCC, Room 110

Organizer: Dal Yong Jin (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University

Chair: Kyong Yoon (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia at Okanagan

Paper Presenter: Dal Yong Jin (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University

Paper Presenter: Pei-Sze Chow (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University

Paper Presenter: Takao Terui (he/him/his) – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Paper Presenter: Qiaoyu Cai (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: AI in Cultural Production in the Korean Wave: Critical Interpretation

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Dal Yong Jin (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Inter-Asian Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI in Popular Media

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Pei-Sze Chow (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Embracing AI in Japanese Cultural Production

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Takao Terui (he/him/his) – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: The Senses of History in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Kling AI and the Shaping of China’s Postsocialist Modernity

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Qiaoyu Cai (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Reflections on Feminist Knowledge-Making in Burma Studies

Location: VCC, Room 111

Organizer: Jenny Hedström – Swedish Defence Univeristy

Organizer: Chie Ikeya – Rutgers University

Chair: Jenny Hedström – Swedish Defence Univeristy

Discussant: Chie Ikeya – Rutgers University

Discussant: Khin Khin Mra – Manchester University

Discussant: Emily Hue – University of California, Riverside

Discussant: Tharapi Than – Northern Illinois University

Discussant: MK Long – Dartmouth College

Southeast Asia

Sponsored By Burma Studies Group

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Queering Aging in East Asia: Beyond Care, Crisis, and Kinship

Location: VCC, Room 112

Organizer: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas

Chair: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas

Paper Presenter: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas

Discussant: Nam Lee – Chapman University

Paper Presenter: Hee-seung Irene Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Auckland

Paper Presenter: Yeori Park – University of Seoul

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: How Queer You Laugh: Aging Humor in Japanese and Korean Storytelling

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Radical Anxiety and the Biopolitics of Ageing: Femininity, Fantasy, and Temporal Disruption in Miss Granny and the Light in Your Eyes

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Hee-seung Irene Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Auckland

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Performing Social Distinction in Later Life: Eldercare and Class Construction in an Urban Chinese Retirement Home

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Yeori Park – University of Seoul

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Reversing the Gaze: Southeast Asia as the Critical Mirror in Global Japanese Studies

Location: VCC, Room 114

Organizer: Vilashini Somiah (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya

Organizer: Kisho Tsuchiya – Kyoto University

Chair: Kisho Tsuchiya – Kyoto University

Discussant: Tian Jing Teh (he/him/his) – University of Southern California

Discussant: Dom Roongruang (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

Discussant: Hazman M.B. Baharom – Waseda University

Discussant: Ma. Christina A. Cañones (she/her/hers) – Ateneo de Zamboanga University

Discussant: Thaw Dar – Japan Foundation

Southeast Asia

Sponsored By AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Practicing Political Ecology: Fieldschool Pedagogies and Politics in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 115

Organizer: Ming Li Yong – Singapore University of Social Sciences

Organizer: Ian Baird – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair: Tani H. Sebro (she/her/hers) – California Polytechnic State University

Discussant: Mary Mostafanezhad (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Discussant: Areerat Worawongwasu (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Discussant: Micah Fisher (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Discussant: Nick Kontogeorgopoulos – University of Puget Sound

Discussant: Chaya Vaddhanaphuti – Chiang Mai University

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Rethinking Gender and Family: Migration Dynamics in and from East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 118

Organizer: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield

Chair: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield

Paper Presenter: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield

Paper Presenter: Mati Choi (she/her/hers) – Chonnam National University

Co-Presenter: Julia Jiwon Shin – Chonnam National University

Paper Presenter: Tori Yang – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Siyuan Yin – Simon Fraser University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Determinants of Bilingualism Amongst Mixed-Ethnic Children in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Gendering Queer Migration: Evidence from Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Tori Yang – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Transnational Livelihoods and Gendered Labor Migration: A Narrative Study of Filipino Seasonal Agricultural Workers in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Mati Choi (she/her/hers) – Chonnam National University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Rethinking Militarism and Mobilization in World War II in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

Organizer: Jeremy A. Yellen – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chair: Rana Mitter (he/him/his) – Harvard Kennedy School

Paper Presenter: Yuting Dong – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Kirsten L. Ziomek – Adelphi University

Paper Presenter: Kelly Hammond – University of Arkansas

Paper Presenter: Jeremy A. Yellen – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Building up for the Asia-Pacific War in Manchuria

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Yuting Dong – University of Chicago

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: On the Writing of a Military History of Indigenous Taiwanese During WWII

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Kirsten L. Ziomek – Adelphi University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Between Violence and Altruism: Rethinking Masculinity and Militarism in the Greater East Asia War

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Kelly Hammond – University of Arkansas

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Storytelling and the Politics of Hope in Wartime Japan

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Jeremy A. Yellen – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Rethinking Settler Colonialism in the Japanese Empire and Cold War Northeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 120

Organizer: Michael Roellinghoff (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong

Chair: Wendy Matsumura (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Paper Presenter: Michael Roellinghoff (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong

Discussant: Wendy Matsumura (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Paper Presenter: Hyesong Lim (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Paper Presenter: Asako Masabuchi (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University

Paper Presenter: Kyrie Vermette (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Clash of Settler Colonialisms on the Russo-Japanese Borderland

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Michael Roellinghoff (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: From Internal Frontier to Imperial Archipelago: Settler Colonialism in Jeju’s Cold War History

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Hyesong Lim (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Storied Land: U.S. Settler Militarism and Okinawan Resistance

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Asako Masabuchi (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: “I Cannot Talk About Korea without Battling that Emotion”: The Emotional Power of Japanese Settler Girls in Korea

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Kyrie Vermette (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Individuality in Ancient Japanese Women’s Poetry

Location: VCC, Room 121

Organizer: Lise Bénézet (she/her/hers) – Université Paris Cité

Organizer: Axel Michel (he/him/his) – École Pratique des Hautes Études

Chair: Ivo Smits – Leiden University

Discussant: Ivo Smits – Leiden University

Paper Presenter: Danica Truscott (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Lise Bénézet (she/her/hers) – Université Paris Cité

Paper Presenter: Axel Michel (he/him/his) – École Pratique des Hautes Études

Paper Presenter: Eric Esteban (he/him/his) – Yale University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Man’yōshū and the Curious Case of the Elder Daughter of Sakanoue

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Danica Truscott (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Could It Be That My Heart Became a Deep Hollow? Izumi Shikibu’s Place Among the Female Poets of the Heian Court

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Lise Bénézet (she/her/hers) – Université Paris Cité

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: A Veiled Aspect of Power and Poetry: Women Poets in Early Twelfth-Century Japan

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Axel Michel (he/him/his) – École Pratique des Hautes Études

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Poetess Performance and Intertextuality in the Work of Kunaikyō

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Eric Esteban (he/him/his) – Yale University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Intellectual Curiosity Beyond Boundaries: Alternative Channels of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Location: VCC, Room 122

Organizer: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University

Organizer: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University

Chair: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University

Paper Presenter: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University

Paper Presenter: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University

Paper Presenter: Mijin Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Ulsan

Paper Presenter: Margarita Winkel (she/her/hers) – Leiden University

Discussant: Fumiko Kobayashi (she/her/hers) – Hosei University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat: Naitō Shigeko and Intellectual Curiosity

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: A Samurai Who Became a Master of Women’s Manners: An Alternative Channel of Knowledge Exchange in the Late Tokugawa Period

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Alternative Knowledge and Foreign Representations in Early Modern Japan: Joseon Dynasty in Aoki Kon’yō’s Kon’yō Manroku

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Mijin Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Ulsan

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Antiquarian Passions and Collaborations: The Case of Morishima Chūryō and Matsudaira Sadanobu

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Margarita Winkel (she/her/hers) – Leiden University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Japan in the Russian Civil War: Rethinking the Siberian Intervention (1918-1922)—In homage to Paul Dunscomb

Location: VCC, Room 201

Organizer: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chair: Frederick R. Dickinson (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discussant: Frederick R. Dickinson (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Paper Presenter: Nadine Willems – University of East Anglia

Paper Presenter: Paul D. Barclay – Lafayette College

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: The Road to Ivanovka: The Siberian Intervention and the Brutalization of the Japanese Army

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Dying an Honorable but Meaningless Death: The Experience of Japanese Soldiers in the Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Nadine Willems – University of East Anglia

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Military Honors in a Dishonorable War: The Siberian Intervention and Imperial Japan’s Bureau of Awards and Decorations

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Paul D. Barclay – Lafayette College

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Sacred Island, Worldly Realities: Post-War Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Location: VCC, Room 202

Organizer: Anushka S. Kahandagama – Harvard University

Organizer: Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him/his) – Virginia Wesleyan University

Chair: Prabhath Sirisena (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar

Discussant: Tharupathi Munasinghe – University of Melbourne

Discussant: Catherine M. West – Deakin University

Discussant: Jessica A. Albrecht (she/her/hers) – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Discussant: Anushka S. Kahandagama – Harvard University

Discussant: Tyler A. Lehrer (he/him/his) – Virginia Wesleyan University

South Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Complexities and Methodological Challenges in Knowledge Production: Testimonies from Indigenous Researchers from South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 203

Organizer: Rosie Rai (she/her/hers) – Kathmandu University

Chair: Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Discussant: anudeep Dewan (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Discussant: dinalo Chakma – University of Florida

Discussant: Parboti Roy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

South Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Decolonization and Diplomacy in Cold War Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 204

Organizer: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paper Presenter: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Asra Virgianita (she/her/hers) – University of Indonesia

Discussant: Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia (he/him/his) – Universitas Indonesia

Paper Presenter: Mike Hawkins (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Paper Presenter: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College

Paper Presenter: Naoko Shimazu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Decolonization or Recolonization? Bandung and the Territorial Imperatives of Indonesia and the Two Vietnams, 1955-65

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: On Manila’s Waterfront: Labor and Anti-Communism at the Port of Manila in 1950

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Mike Hawkins (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Small Countries’ Diplomacy in Southeast Asia, 1947

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Visualizing Diplomacy in Cold War Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Naoko Shimazu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo

Southeast Asia

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Recovering Marginalized Voices in Modern Asian History

Location: VCC, Room 205

Organizer: Vivian Kong (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol

Chair: Thomas M. Larkin (he/him/his) – University of Prince Edward Island

Paper Presenter: Vivian Kong (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol

Paper Presenter: Catherine Ladds – Hong Kong Baptist University

Paper Presenter: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers) – Yale University

Discussant: Gina Anne Tam (she/her/hers) – Trinity University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Writing an Intimate History of Anglo-Chinese Eurasians Through Postcards

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Vivian Kong (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Childhood Journeys Across Colonial Seas: Locating Children in Maritime Archives

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Catherine Ladds – Hong Kong Baptist University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: The Kulim Case (1914-15): Locating Girlhood in Archives of Legal Pluralism

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers) – Yale University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Beyond Rescue: Reframing Sex Work and Trafficking in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 206

Organizer: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science

Chair: Rohit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science

Paper Presenter: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science

Paper Presenter: Chihiro Toya (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London

Paper Presenter: Eunbi Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Paper Presenter: Pankhuri Agarwal (she/her/hers) – King's College London

Discussant: Yasmin Y. Ortiga (she/her/hers) – Singapore Management University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Strange Bedfellows: U.S. Influence, Paternalistic Feminisms, and the Politics of Anti-Trafficking in the Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: The Politics of “Trafficking”: Legal Expansion and Its Implications for Sex Workers in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Chihiro Toya (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Sexual Land: Reimagining of Red-Light Districts in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Eunbi Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Decolonizing Trafficking and Modern Slavery: Rethinking Freedom through Caste

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Pankhuri Agarwal (she/her/hers) – King's College London

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

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: Ruijie peng – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Susan K. McCarthy – Providence College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Inter-Asia Intermediality: Creative Labor, Co-Production, and Outsourcing

Location: VCC, Room 208

Organizer: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Organizer: Brian Bernards – University of Southern California

Chair: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant: Brian Bernards – University of Southern California

Discussant: Junting Huang – Binghamton University, SUNY

Discussant: Bliss Cua Lim (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

Southeast Asia

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Chinese Labor in Diaspora: Gender, Identity, and the Bamboo Ceiling in the Modern World Economy

Location: VCC, Room 211

Organizer: Anna Zhang (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University

Chair: Carl Kubler – Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant: Carl Kubler – Carnegie Mellon University

Paper Presenter: Anna Zhang (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University

Paper Presenter: Shunan You – Northeastern University

Paper Presenter: David Kwok Kwan Tsoi – University of Oxford

Paper Presenter: Maria Ryabova – University of Pittsburgh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Regulated Solidarity in the Digital Age: Agency and Control Among Chinese Restaurant Workers in the United States

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Anna Zhang (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: The Myth of Bamboo Ceiling? How Chinese Immigrant Professionals Perceive and Experience Workplace Inequality in the U.S. Biopharmaceutical Industry

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Shunan You – Northeastern University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: “A Death Sentence of His Wife”: Shifting Gendered Role and Moral Shock of Hong Kong Migrant Couples in the UK

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: David Kwok Kwan Tsoi – University of Oxford

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: “Engineering the Good China Robot Story”: Affective Labor of Chinese Roboticists in the U.S.

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Maria Ryabova – University of Pittsburgh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Sporting Bodies, Shifting Borders: Reimagining Sports in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 212

Organizer: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Chair: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Discussant: Paul Pickowicz – University of California, San Diego

Paper Presenter: Rachael Joo (she/her/hers) – Middlebury College

Paper Presenter: Yichun Huang (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan Sport University

Paper Presenter: Le Tao – Simon Fraser University

Paper Presenter: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Eco-Believability and Virtual Natures in Korean Golf

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Rachael Joo (she/her/hers) – Middlebury College

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Indigenous Women in the Football History in Taiwan, 1970s-1980s

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Yichun Huang (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan Sport University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Football Diplomacy in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976): The Case of Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Le Tao – Simon Fraser University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Authenticating My Star: Female Fan Photography, the Playful Gaze, and Chinese Table Tennis Stars

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

State Power and Administration in China’s Southern Frontier

Location: VCC, Room 213

Organizer: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside

Chair: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside

Paper Presenter: Thùy Lan Thị Thùy Đỗ (she/her/hers) – Vietnam National University

Paper Presenter: Joshua Herr – DePauw University

Paper Presenter: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside

Paper Presenter: Aimee Pizarchik (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

Discussant: C. Patterson Giersch (he/him/his) – Wellesley College

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Narrative Gaps on the Early Modern Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands: The Bầu Lords and Two Runs to the Mountains (16th-17th Centuries)

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Thùy Lan Thị Thùy Đỗ (she/her/hers) – Vietnam National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: In the Aftermath of Border Regulation: Lê Vietnam’s Responses to Mining Disturbances in the China-Vietnam Borderlands in the 1770s

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Joshua Herr – DePauw University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Fossil Frontiers: Geology, Mining, and the Territorialization of Yunnan

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Paving the Way for the Modern Frontier State: Labor Recruitment, Ethnic Ambiguity, and the Making of Yunnan Province’s Highway System, 1930-1950

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Aimee Pizarchik (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Stowaway, Study-Abroad, and Human Trafficking: The Ordeals of Early Japanese Migrants to the U.S. and Beyond

Location: VCC, Room 214

Organizer: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

Chair: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

Paper Presenter: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

Paper Presenter: Miya Shichinohe-Suga (she/her/hers) – Tokyo Gakugei University

Paper Presenter: Manako Ogawa (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University

Discussant: John Van Sant (he/him/his) – University of Alabama, Birmingham

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Rutgers Meets Japan: The First Japanese Students in the U.S. and the Ryūgakusei Network of the Late Nineteenth Century

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Japanese-born Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War: Rethinking Transpacific Migration in the Late Tokugawa Era

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Miya Shichinohe-Suga (she/her/hers) – Tokyo Gakugei University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Women Trafficking and the Transnational Activism of the World’s Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the U.S. and Kyōfūkai in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Manako Ogawa (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Taking History Personally: Reflections on Biography in Asian Studies

Location: VCC, Room 215

Organizer: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY

Chair: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY

Paper Presenter: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY

Discussant: Zhiyi Yang (she/her/hers) – Goethe University

Paper Presenter: Audrey Truschke (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University-Newark

Paper Presenter: Chunmei Du (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University

Paper Presenter: Yunte Huang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Approaches to Biography in Asian Studies: A Survey of the State of the Art

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Biography Is Dead, Long Live Biography!

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Audrey Truschke (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University-Newark

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: The Injured Woman in Modern China

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Chunmei Du (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: The Art of Chinese Biographical Writing and the Asian American Story

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Yunte Huang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

The Building of Modern Bureaucracy in East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 216

Organizer: Wei Wu (she/her/hers) – Norwegian Institute of Philology

Chair: Lars P. Laamann (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London

Paper Presenter: Lars P. Laamann (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London

Paper Presenter: Wei Wu (she/her/hers) – Norwegian Institute of Philology

Paper Presenter: W. Puck Brecher – Washington State University

Paper Presenter: Alison Marshall – Brandon University

Discussant: Jeffrey Newmark (he/him/his) – University of Winnipeg

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Inter-Government Relations Between Russia and China from Tulišen’s Journey to the Torghut Mongols (1712–15) to the Boxer Rebellion (1900)

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: Lars P. Laamann (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Two Models of Meritocracy in Republican China

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: Wei Wu (she/her/hers) – Norwegian Institute of Philology

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Cavalry Blues in the Meiji Wars: The Bureaucratization of the Japanese Warhorse

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: W. Puck Brecher – Washington State University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: KMT Culture and Bureaucratic Campaigns in 1920-1940s Canada

Location: VCC, Room 216

Presenting Author: Alison Marshall – Brandon University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Asian Solidarities in a Time of Global Struggles

Location: VCC, Room 217

Organizer: Yawen Li (she/they/her/hers/them/theirs) – University of Edinburgh

Organizer: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough

Chair: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough

Paper Presenter: Ajay Bhardwaj (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University

Paper Presenter: Yawen Li (she/they/her/hers/them/theirs) – University of Edinburgh

Paper Presenter: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough

Paper Presenter: Tracy Ying Zhang (she/her/hers) – York University

Co-Presenter: Chikako Nagayama (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University

Discussant: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Third World Anti-Imperialism in the Imperial Core: Indian People’s Association in North America

Location: VCC, Room 217

Presenting Author: Ajay Bhardwaj (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Essaying Palestine Solidarity in Contemporary China: Zhang Chengzhi’s Anticolonial Internationalism in Constraint

Location: VCC, Room 217

Presenting Author: Yawen Li (she/they/her/hers/them/theirs) – University of Edinburgh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Moments of Left Feminism and China: Transnational Connection and Political Possibility

Location: VCC, Room 217

Presenting Author: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Friendship and Rebellion: The Agency and Emotional Labor of a Panda Entertainer and His Trainer in Trans-Regional Cultural Diplomacy

Location: VCC, Room 217

Presenting Author: Tracy Ying Zhang (she/her/hers) – York University

Co-author: Chikako Nagayama (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Intimacies of Empire and Nation-Building across Asia and Latin America

Location: VCC, Room 218

Organizer: Shannon M. Welch (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo

Chair: Sidney Lu (he/him/his) – Rice University

Paper Presenter: Shannon M. Welch (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo

Paper Presenter: Evan Fernández – Boston College

Paper Presenter: Seth Jacobowitz – Independent Scholar

Paper Presenter: Andre Kobayashi Deckrow (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota

Discussant: Sidney Lu (he/him/his) – Rice University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: The Caboclo in Japanese Brazilian Literature: Records of Settler Colonial Collusions in 20th-Century Brazil

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Shannon M. Welch (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Japanese Immigration and Nation-Building in the Chilean Nitrate North

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Evan Fernández – Boston College

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Digital Diasporas: Computational Analysis of Japanese Brazilian Community Formation Through the Hōji Shinbun Collection (1917-1969)

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Seth Jacobowitz – Independent Scholar

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

4: Harvesting Knowledge: Global Modern Agriculture in Pre-World War II Japanese Brazil

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Andre Kobayashi Deckrow (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

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 – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)

Paper Presenter: Zhijun Ren – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: Performing After-hours: Workers’ Amateur Art in Great-Leap-Forward Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Feifan Li – University of Chicago

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Science, Material Culture, and Everyday Life in Modern East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 303

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 – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paper Presenter: Lejie Zeng – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Discussant: Jia-Chen Fu – Academia Sinica

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 303

Presenting Author: Leo Chu – University of New South Wales

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 303

Presenting Author: Yu-Hsuan Jade Wang – University of Wisconsin-Madison

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 303

Presenting Author: Lejie Zeng – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Military Power, Imperial Authority, and Claims to Overseas Sovereignty in the Toyotomi Regime of Late Sixteenth-century Japan

Location: VCC, Room 306

Organizer: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Chair: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Paper Presenter: Kizaki Braddick (he/him/his)

Paper Presenter: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Paper Presenter: Tim R. Romans (he/him/his)

Discussant: Rebekah Clements (she/her/hers) – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

1: Taking Tea with the Emperor: Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Relationship with the Imperial Court

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Kizaki Braddick (he/him/his)

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

2: An Economy of Cruelty, Mistrust, and Subservience Under the Toyotomi Regime

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

3: Narrating an Empire—Hideyoshi’s Letters to Asia’s Monarchs

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Tim R. Romans (he/him/his)

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused