Abstracts of the 2001 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 22–25, 2001, Chicago, IL
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Session 14. Underground Ritual: Archaeological Perspectives on Ritual Action in Early China
Musical Offerings and Emotional Rhythm in the Ritual Practices of Early China, Scott Cook
Divination, Omens, and in Between: Ritual and Contingency from Wangjiatai to Wang Chong, Mark Csikszentmihalyi
Placing the Spirits: The Art of Sacrifice in Early China, Michael Puett
Session 15. The Public Realm in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing
Women on the Street: Gender, Class, and Female Expansion in Public Space in Early-Twentieth-Century Beijing, Weikun Cheng
The Twilight of the Beijing Gendarmerie, 1900–1924, Alison J. Dray-Novey
Muncipal Taxation in Early-Twentieth-Century Beijing, Mingzheng Shi
Echoes of the "Songs": Exemplar Poetry in Yuan China, Beverly Bossler
Mixed Messages in the Zhi buzu zhai Lienü zhuan, Katherine Carlitz
Exemplary Women of the Qing Dynasty: Lienü in an Early-Twentieth-Century Popular Pictorial, Joan Judge
Modeling Lives of/for Women: Late Qing Biographies, Ying Hu
Session 17. Mass-Elite Interactions in Post-Deng China
Elite and Mass Attitudes toward Democracy and Democratization in Urban China, Jie Chen
Private Entrepreneurs and the Party in China: Agents or Obstacles to Politcal Change? Bruce Dickson
Explaining Party Membership in Urban China, Pierre Landry
Session 18. Roundtable: Conducting Research on Japanese-Occupied China, 1937–1945
Institutional Compatibility and the Possibilities for Convergence of Legal and Political Culture in China-Taiwan Relations, Pitman B. Potter
The Transformation of Traditional Institutions of Power and Law in Mainland China and the Rule of Law, Jinfan Zhang
Administrative Governance in China: Imperial Antecedents and Contemporary Correlatives, Donald J. Lewis
The Interface of Traditional Legal Culture and Contemporary Legal Institutions in Taiwan, Jingjia Huang
Revising the Vision: Early Ming Social Policies and the Community Libation Ceremony, Sarah Schneewind
The Founder’s Legacy: Fifteenth-Century Views on Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ritual Policies, Anne T. Gerritsen
Zhu Yuanzhang’s Ritual and Institutional Legacy: A Sixteenth-Century Idealization, Jaret Weisfogel
Session 21. Narrative Ethics in Contemporary China
Questions of Bioethics in Recent Chinese Cinema, Deirdre Sabina Knight
Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life, Robin Visser
Shanghai Babe and the Impasse of Post-Modern Self-Promotion, John A. Crespi
City Mediums: Spirit-Mediumship in Urban Taiwan, Shin-yi Chao
Levels of Reality at the Hall of Bright Virtue, Scott Davis
Fashioning the Deity within Oneself: In Search of a Locus of Articulation, Brigitte Baptandier
The Moral Economy of Chinese Spirit-Mediumship, Philip Clart
Session 36. Canonical Texts and Contemporary Theories: A Chinese Connection
Deconstructing Life and Death: Variations on a Theme in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi, Shuen-Fu Lin
Intertextual Dissemination: Re-reading the "Great Preface" to the Book of Songs, Ming Dong Gu
Sequence and Significance in Sikong Tu’s Twenty-four Varieties of Poetic Experience, Dore J. Levy
Understanding History and Historical Understanding: Jin Shengtan’s Prefaces to Xixiang Ji, Liangyan Ge
The Origins of Modern Chinese Historiography: A Study of Zhang Taiyan’s Historical Thinking, Chiu-chun Lee
Imagining Love: Reinterpreting Su Manshu’s Romances, Hung-yok Ip
Babbit versus Dewey: Differing Images of the West in Critical Review and New Youth, Tze-Ki Hon
Session 38. Narrative in the Second Degree: The Xushu (Sequel) and Chinese Fiction
What Is Not Xushu: The Boundaries of the Sequel in Chinese Xiaoshuo, Martin W. Huang
Daiyu as Zhiji or Principal Consort in Honglou meng Sequels up to 1850, Keith McMahon
Regulating Sexuality, Rectifying Patriarchy, and Reestablishing Order: Chen Tianchi’s Ruyijun zhuan as a Xushu, Hua Laura Wu
The World of "Male Women": The Anti-Feminism and Polemical Stance of the Xu Jinghua yuan, Ying Wang
Session 39. On the Reconstructed Memories of the Cultural Revolution
Why "Believe in the Future?" The Rediscovery of Guo Lusheng and a Case of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Memory, Yibing Huang
Courtyard after the Dark: Picturing the Literary Underground, Nicole Huang
A Blinding Red Light: The Displacement of Rhetoric in Post-Cultural Revolution Cinema, Yomi Braester
"Mao Zedong Thought Lights the Whole World": Keeping the Cultural Revolution Alive in 1980s Peru, Megan Ferry
Session 40. Constructing the Exemplary Woman: Sources and Later Developments of the Lienü zhuan
The Three Uglies of Qi: A Narrative Subgenre in Lie Nü Zhüan, Eric P. Henry
Rethinking Women in the Han Dynasty, Grant R. Hardy
Filial Suicide, Mutilation, and Infanticide: Representations of Dutiful Daughters From the Han to the Ming, Keith Knapp
Ventures in Polishing the Mirror of Tibetan Literary Theory (1980–2000), Lauran R. Hartley
Tibetan Authors, Chinese Texts, "Post-Liberation" Literature in the Diglossic Context of China’s Tibet: The Language Debate, Lara Maconi
The "Condor" Flies Over Tibet: The Emergence of a "Tibetan" Magical Realism and its Significance in Debates about Identity and Nation, Patricia Schiaffini
Shuddering on the Dim and Winding Path or Falling into a Deep, Dark Gorge: Translating "Snow Mountain Tears," Janet Upton
Session 42. Narratives of Power: Rhetorical Strategies in Republican China
Yuan Shikai’s Rhetorical Strategies at the Birth of the Republic, Peter Zarrow
Racializing Narratives in the Service of the Chinese Women’s Suffrage Campaign, Louise Edwards
Retrocession and Sinification: The Nationalists and Taiwan, 1941–1945, Steven Phillips
Legitimizing Modernity: The Rhetoric of Yi Nong Li Guo in Republican China, Margherita Zanasi
Session 57. Pygmalion Revisited: Female Image as Male Self-Representation
Through a Glass Darkly: The Hidden Male in Palace-Style Poetry, Pauline Chen
The Travelling Man’s Longing for One Left Behind: An Alternate Reading of the Lonely Woman in Song Dynasty Painting, Lara C. W. Blanchard
Saviors of the Nation? Pioneers of Women’s Liberation? Early Republican Anthologies of Female Knight Stories, Roland Altenburger
Woman on the Page and on the Screen in Early Modern Chinese Fiction and Film, Shuqin Cui
Evangelism or Charity? Charity or Evangelism? The "Damning Dilemma" of Protestant Development in Taiwan, 1945–2000, Murray A. Rubinstein
The Relief Work of the Tzu Chi Society in Taiwan: Welfare Orientalism in Action? Andre Laliberte
The Catholic Church and Social Work in Taiwan, Elise DeVido
Session 59. New Scholarship on Five Dynasties and Northern Song Painting
Format, Experience, and Narrative Structure in Early Northern Song Landscape Paintings, Minna Törmä
Intimate Landscape in the Northern Song, Ping Foong
Two Landscape Paintings by Wang Shen and Their Titles, Kenneth Eric Rasmussen
New Evidence for Five Dynasties and Northern Song Painting Styles and Sino-Korean Artistic Exchange, Cheeyun Lilian Kwon
Memories of Surviving the Great Leap Famine in Anhui: Evidence from Dingyuan County, Yixin Chen
Power, Entitlement, and Life Chances in the Great Leap Famine: Memory and Other Data on Two Anhui Counties, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr. and Shuobai Wang
Memory, Great Leap Suffering, and the Agency of Popular Rebellion and Retaliation in the Cultural Revolution: What the Oral History Interviews from Anhui, Shandong, and Henan Tell Us, Dongping Han
Session 61. Old Models for New Women: Evolving Female Exemplars in Qing and Modern China
From Model Subjects to Model Victims: Chastity Awards in the Rise and Fall of the Qing, Janet M. Theiss
"Anyone Can Be Good in the Country": Chaste Widows and the Nationalist Mandate, Susan Glosser
The Political Evolution of a Twentieth-Century Martyr: Mao Liying in History and Memory, Allison Rottmann
Session 62. Critical Theory, Popular Religion, and Chinese Inventions/Traditions of "Civil Society"
Narratives of Community in Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Religion, David Ownby
The State, Local Governance, and Leadership: Collective Ritual as a Form of Power in Southern Taiwan, Fiorella Allio
Modernity and Popular Religion in Contemporary Rural Fujian, Kenneth Dean
Spatial Struggles: The Re-appropriation of Sites for Ritual, Museum, State, and Industry in Rural Wenzhou, Mayfair Yang
Session 63. Individual Papers: Pre-Twentieth Century China
The Death of Qin Keqing: Psychological Voices in The Red Chamber Dream, Halvor Eifring
The Taiping jing: Transcripts of a Missionary Pursuit, Barbara Hendrischke
Tracing the "Sections and Sentence Commentaries" (zhangju) of the Han Dynasty, Michael Schimmelpfennig
The Nü Lun Yü and Its Place in the Nü Ssu Shu, Terry Woo
Session 78. Roundtable: China’s Sixties Generation in the Post-Mao Era
Session 79. Conflict and Cooperation across State-Society Frontiers in Contemporary China
The Emergence and Development of Urban Associations in Reform Era China: The Role of Individual Government Agencies, Kenneth W. Foster
Professionalizing the Neighborhood Associations in "Luwan’s Siberia" (Five-Mile Bridge), Tianshu Pan
Neighbors and Comrades: Residents’ Committees in Urban Chinese Communities, Benjamin Read
Social Networks and the Provision of Public Services in Rural China, Lily Tsai
Session 80. Shifting Boundaries of Mongol Identity (Sponsored by The Mongolia Society)
Conflicting—and Reinforcing—Loyalties in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, 1900–1915, Christopher Atwood
Muslim Warlords, Christian Missionaries and Buddhist Warriors in Nineteenth-Century Inner Mongolia, Johan Elverskog
False Victims and True Purges: The Instrumentality of Victimhood in Mongolia, Christopher Kaplonski
An Illegitimate Solution to a Legitimate Problem: Nationalism as a Movement for National Independence and Female Dependence, Undarya Tumursukh
Mongols and Buddhism: Notes on Rebuilding Mongol Identity in Contemporary Mongolia, Agata Bareja-Starzynska
Early Buddhism in China: The View From Niya, Valerie Hansen
Christianity as a Chinese Religion, Nicolas Standaert
The Importance of Studying Luo-ism, Barend ter Haar
The Yellow Peony Party, Yasushi Oki
Poetic Exchanges and the Question of Meaning in Early Qing Poetry: An Analysis of Wu Weiye’s Poems on the Western Fields, Dietrich Tschanz
Beyond the A-List: Parties of Merchants and Women during the Qing, Ellen Widmer
Session 83. Social and Cultural Explorations of Work in Late Imperial and Republican China
Skill, Silence and Speed: Boat Workers on the Rapids in Qing Dynasty Fujian, Grant Alger
Captain, Comprador, and Crew: Work aboard a Yangzi Steamship, 1860–1937, Anne Reinhardt
"Doctor Tea" and Public Life: Teahouse Workers in Republican Chengdu, Di Wang
Losing Your Innocence, Losing Your Job: Work and Chinese Youth in the Post-May Fourth Era, Ling Xiao
Session 84. Prisons and Punishment in Republican China
The Promise of Repentance: Prison Reform in Republican China, Frank Dikötter
Making the Prison into a Temple: The Buddhist Influence in Republican-Era Jiangsu and Zhejiang Prison Instruction, Jan Kiely
Transforming the People: The Chinese Prison Regime in Historical Perspective, Michael Tsin
Making a Living of the Prison Reform: A Study of Prison Officers and Staff in Republican China, Xiaoqun Xu
Session 85. Individual Papers: Current Issues in Chinese Foreign Policy
Domestic Factors and China’s Entry into the WTO, Zheya Gai
China’s Grand Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era, Dixia Yang
China’s Changing "Normative" (and "Realist") Perceptions toward Territorial Disputes, Chien-peng Chung
Session 99. The Steppe People after the Mongol Conquest: Changes of Identity and Ethnicity
"Like Leaves Scattering in the Storm": The 13th-Century Tangut Diaspora, Ruth W. Dunnell
Uyghur Elites in Mongol China: A Case of Preserved Identity? Michael C. Brose
Mongols, Chinese, or Muslims: The Khitans under Mongol Rule, Michal Biran
"Leopards in the Garden" or the Bureaucratic-Literary Construction of Mongol Identity during the Early and Middle Ming Period, David Robinson
The Mythological Conflation of Pentad Spirits: The Case of Wuchang and Wutong in Late Imperial Jiangnan, Qitao Guo
The Thief Who Guards the Official Seal: Fox Spirits and Local Officials in Late Imperial China, Xiaofei Kang
Fox Spirits and Xiangtou: Religious Healing in the Local Culture of Village North China, Thomas DuBois
A Buddhist Goddess for the Tai? Folklore, Practice, and Cross-Border Exchange in Yunnan, Sara Davis
Session 101. Welfare Matters: Chinese Society in Transition
Making Up China’s "Black Population," Susan Greenhalgh
Protecting, Fostering, Adopting: The Search for Coherent Policies toward China’s Children, Catherine Keyser
Who Will Care for Our Parents? Changing Boundaries of Domestic and Public Roles in Providing for the Aged in Contemporary China, Hong Zhang
Strategizing for the Future: Women in Dalian’s Economic Zone, Nancy Riley
Session 102. The Changing Contours of Chinese Labor Relations: New Data in Comparative Perspectives
Manufacturing the TVE Miracle, Calvin Chen
Grafted Capitalism: Ownership Change and Labor Relations in Chinese Firms, Mary E. Gallagher
Changing Labor Relations in China’s New Global Economy, Douglas Guthrie
The Revenge of History: Collective Memories, Unemployment, and Labor Protests in Northern China, Ching Kwan Lee
Poets, Martyrs, and the Ming-Qing Transition in the Construction of Guangzhou Elite Identity, Steven B. Miles
The Problem of Multiple Identities in a Trans-Regional World: Linji Buddhism, Maritime Trade, and the Case of Da Shan, Charles Wheeler
Political Exile, Chan Buddhism Master, Poetry Club Founder: A Cantonese Monk in Manchuria during the Ming-Qing Transition, Chi-Hung Yim
Session 104. State Coercion in China: Policing, Campaigns, and Rule by Law
Campaigns: A "Police" Story? Michael Dutton
Central-Local Relations and State Legal-Coercive Power: Decentralized Policing, Social Control, and "Rule by Law" in China, Jianfeng Wang, Shu Huai, and Murray Scot Tanner
State Coercion, Deterrence, and the Death Penalty in China: Official Discourse and Legal Debates, Marina Svensson
Session 105. From the Brushes of Ancient Scribes: Thousands of Covenant Tablets from Wenxian
A Discussion of the Institution of Covenant in Early China with Special Reference to the Wenxian Covenant Tablets, Benxing Hao
The Relationship between the Wenxian and Houma Covenant Tablets, Shigang Zhao
The Palaeographic and Philological Significance of the Wenxian Covenant Tablets, Crispin Williams
From the Brushes of Ancient Scribes, Susan Weld
Tradition and the Wandering Individual: Diaspora Literature in "Cultural China," Feng Lan
Strategies of Self-Redemption in Su Xuelin’s Autobiographies, Jing Wang
Three Madmen on Alienation: A Literary Pathology of Cultural Change in 20th-Century China, Birgit Linder
A Genealogy of Xungen Fiction, Andrew Stuckey
Session 120. Legacies and Social Memory: Missionaries and Scholars in the Ethnic Southwest
Ritual and Politics: Missionary Encounters with Local Culture in Northwest Yunnan, Stephane Gros
Resurrection and Redemption of Paul Vial in Yunnan’s Cultural Politics, Margaret Byrne Swain
Imaginings: Romanticism and Nationalism of Early British Plant Hunters in Southwest China, Denise M. Glover
Healing Bodies to Save Souls: Dr. A. J. Broomhall in Independent Nuosuland, Linying Ma and Eric S. Diehl
Session 121. Media, Market, and the Masses: Cultural Production in Contemporary China
The Making of Chinese Harlequins: The Cloth Tiger Series and Literary Publishing in the 1990s, Shuyu Kong
The Economy of Home: On TV Sitcoms in China in the 1990s, Donghui Helen He
The Mainland "Other" in the Hong Kong Commercial Mainstream: Political Change and Cultural Adaptation, Vivian Lee
Session 122. Painting Likeness: Identity and the Cultural Work of Ming Portraiture
Ming Imperial Portraits as Icons of Rulership, Dora C. Y. Ching
Picturing Tanyangzi: Text and Image in Yu Qiu’s Portrait, Ann Waltner
Models of Subjectivity in Ming Self-Encomia (Zizan), Hajime Nakatani
Session 123. From Yamen to Danwei: Change and Continuity in the Bureaucratic Management in China
Creating a Personnel Base: Zongli Yamen Efforts to Penetrate the Qing Hierarchy, Jennifer Rudolph
Establishing a System of Accountability: Managerial and Philological Origins of the Unit System in State-Owned Enterprise, 1938–1945, Linan Bian
Manufacturing Comrades; The Imposition of Organizational and Behavioral Norms in Post-Revolution China, Patricia Thornton
The Transformation of Danwei from the 1960s to the 1990s, Zhanxin Zhang
Session 124. Wen or Ren: The Person of the Author in Modern Chinese Literary Criticism
The Art of Abuse or the Abuse of Art? Critics’ Attacks on Authors in Republican China, Michel Hockx
A Chinese Morality Gender Tale: Publication, Reception, and Criticism of Yu Luojin’s Autobiographical Fiction in the Early 1980s, Lingzhen Wang
Did You Say Poem, or Poet? A Late 1990s Polemics, Maghiel Van Crevel
The Mad Genius or Just Mad? The Poet in Modern China, Michelle Yeh
Session 125. Representing "Western Medicine" in Qing and Republican China
Introducing the Uterus to China: Benjamin Hobson’s New Treatise on Women’s and Children’s Diseases (Fuying xinshuo), 1858, Yi-Li Wu
Sober Science: Representations of Western Hygiene in the Late Qing, Ruth Rogaski
Judging Western Medicine by Chinese Values: Zhang Xichun and His Work, Bridie J. Andrews
Session 127. Individual Papers: Economic Reform and Public Policy in the P.R.C. and Taiwan
In Search of Xiagang, William Hurst
Between Maoism and the Market: Redefining the Role of the State in the Health Sector, Yanzhong Huang
Competing Standards: The Emergence of Business Influence on Public Policy in China, Scott S. Kennedy
The One-Child Birth Policy and the Consumption of Education in Yangzhou, Ann Veeck
Earnings Inequality in Taipei under a Worldwide Economy, Kanghu Hsu
Session 142. How to Study the History of the Chinese Book: Practical Tips and Wishful Thinking
Counting and Recounting Chinese Imprints, Lucille Chia
Field Work on the Social and Economic History of the Chinese Book, Cynthia J. Brokaw
Popularization of Print Culture in Late Imperial China, Anne McLaren
Session 143. Is Religion Dying in China?
Religion, Capitalism, and the "Institutional Forgetting" of Poverty in the Xi’an Muslim District, Maris Boyd Gillette
The Buddhist "New Life" Movement in Taiwan in the 1990s, Chien-yu Julia Huang
Festival Site, Museum, and Tourist Attraction: A Rebuilt Tian Hou Temple in South China, Tik-Sang Liu
Catholic and Modern in a Chinese Village: Young Adults "Keeping the Faith," Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr
Session 144. Educations, Incentives, and Market Rewards in Contemporary China
Using Performance Incentives to Reward the Value Added by Educators: Theory and Evidence from China, Weili Ding and Steven F. Lehrer
Wages, Human Capital, and Work Incentives in a Transition Economy: The Case of Mainland China, Xiaojun Wang
The Effects of Education and Training on Labor Market Outcomes in China’s Urban Labor Markets, Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Strategic Labor Supply Decisions and Education Attainment in Periods of Boom and Bust in Rural China, Scott Rozelle
Reform on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: The Linchpin of a Rule-of-Law Society in China, Andy Y. Sun
Explaining the Ineffectiveness of U.S. Threat Tactics against China: The Case of Intellectual Property Rights, Ka Zeng
Infringement, Institutions, and Immobilism: Structural Impediments and Administrative Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in China, Andrew Mertha
Session 146. Re-excavating Early China: Alternative Methodological Applications
Defining Zhou: Image and Reality in Ancient China, Constance A. Cook
Some New Thoughts about Western Zhou "Feudalism," Feng Li
The Social Background of the Kong Family of Lu and the Origins of Ruism, Robert Eno
Narrative Jurisprudence and Legal Reform: An Alternative Reading of the First of China’s "Treatises on Penal Law" (The Han Shu "Xingfazhi"), Laura A. Skosey
Session 147. Roundtable: Legacy: The Cultural Revolution and Contemporary China
Session 148. Individual Papers
Tang Blue-and-White Wares: Uncovering Their Origin and Their Significance in the History of China, Heekyung Lee
Dying to Be Young: The Shift in Ritual Performers from Female to Child in Chinese Ecstatic Religion, Alison Marshall
The Mirror and the Casket: Representations of Identity and Status in Tang Princess Tombs, Jenny Chao-Hui Liu
Chinese Metaphysics in The Tribute Horse, Cliff McMahon
Session 163. Cinema and the Politics of Culture in Early Twentieth-Century China
New Perspectives on Film Censorship during the 1920s and 1930s, Zhiwei Xiao
Metamorphoses from Stage to Screen in Prewar Chinese Cinema, Kristine Harris
Art and Politics in Chinese Cinema of the 1930s, Vivian Shen
Modern Screen, The Sports Queen, and Chinese National Culture of the Early 1930s, Zhen Zhang
Session 164. Metamorphosis of European Knowledge in Late Imperial China (1580–1800)
Imperial Control and Western Learning: The Kangxi Emperor’s (r. 1662–1722) Performance, Catherine Jami
Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy (1664–1722), Minghui Hu
Penance, Chastity, and Common Rituals in the Christian Community of Fuan in Late Imperial Fujian, Eugenio Menegon
Shengmu Hui and Tianshen Hui: Rural Communities and Jesuit Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century China, Liam Brockey
Session 165. Between Developmentalism and Cronyism: The Janus Face of the State
Developmentalism and Entrepreneurialism in the Chinese Local State, Jane Duckett
Institutional Basis of Developmentalism and Cronyism in China, Maria Edin
The Rise of the Social and the Banalisation of the State in China, Jean-Louis Rocca
State-Led Development and State-Sanctioned Rent Seeking in Taiwan, Tak-Wing Ngo
Session 166. The Tibet Question: Internal and International Dimensions
Waging Human Rights: Issues and Efficacy for the Tibetan Cause, Amy Mountcastle
Is Tibet China’s Colony? Barry Sautman
Economic Development in Tibet: 1950–2000, June Teufel Dreyer
The Post-Commune Era in Rural Tibet, Melvyn C. Goldstein
Session 167. Locating the Nation in the Province: Shanxi in the Twentieth Century
Localism, Provincialism, and the National Project: The Rights-Recovery Movement in Shanxi, 1898–1908, Roger R. Thompson
Using the Nation Locally and Provincially: Territorial Communities, Modern Technologies, and Appeals to the (Sub)national Interest in Ante-bellum Shanxi, Hakan Friberg
Structuring Local Identity: Nation, Province, and County, David S. G. Goodman
Session 168. Looking through Space: The Mutability of Place and Time in Chinese Literature
Flights in Time: The Li Sao, Stephen Owen
Memorials of a Lost Ark: Place and Transition in the Shiyi Ji, Yuan-Ju Liu
Wei Yingwu and the Shifting Boundaries of Rustic Space, Robert Ashmore
Shifting Ground: Space, Place, and Doorways in the Yi Jian zhi, Stephen H. West
Session 169. Globalization and Social Transition: Views from China (CIAC Designated Panel)
The Fate of Chinese Media in the Context of Globalization, Xiaoyan Liang
Consumerizing Global Culture and Negotiating Local Identity: Dagongmei in Contemporary China, Ngai Pun
Revitalizing "Ancient Global Networks": The Emergence, Decline, and Resurgence of Maritime Trade in the City of Quanzhou, Mingming Wang
Tourism and the Recreation of Naxi Culture in Lijiang, Naiqun Weng
Session 183. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Torture in China
The Pragmatics and Ethics of Torture in Qing China, Nancy Park
Torment with No Name: Lingchi as a Semantic and Normative Aberration, Jérôme Bourgon
Early Photographic Rendition of Justice and Punishment in China, Régine Thiriez
"Supplices chinois": China as a Belle-Époque Sadistic Heterotopia, Claire Margat
Session 184. Pictures in Motion: Film, Border-Crossing, and the Chinese Nation
"What’s Big about the Big Film?" China’s Blockbuster Discourse, Christopher Allen Berry
Dubbing the Future: Soviet Film and Nation Building in 1950s China, Tina Mai Chen
Same Bed, Different Dreams: Hollywood and American Film in the China Shop, Stanley Rosen
Almost a Well-Tempered Country, Esther Yau
Session 185. On the Other Hand: Reflections on the Writings of Benjamin Schwartz
Benjamin Schwartz’s Work in Ancient Chinese Thought, Julia Ching
In Search of Universal Ideas: Benjamin Schwartz and Yan Fu, Theodore Huters
Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao: Reflections on Ideology and History, Brantly Womack
Benjamin Schwartz as an Essayist, Joshua A. Fogel
Session 186. Textual Production and the Agency of Late Ming Subjects
Empowering the People: Lü Kun’s Strategies and Late Ming Military Discursive Practices, Robin D. S. Yates
Choosing to Die: The Role of Filial Avenger and Individual Agency in the Late Ming, C. D. Alison Bailey
Agency and Autobiography: Ye Shaoyuan’s (1589–1648) Journey through Loss, Grace S. Fong
Session 187. Bodies and Boundaries in Late Imperial Chinese Culture
Stranger than Strange: Figure Painting of Seventeenth-Century China, Katharine Burnett
Qing Law and the Regulation of the Body, Maram Epstein
What Confucius Wouldn’t Talk About: The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei’s Zibuyu, Sing-chen Lydia Francis
Performing the Uncanny: Emergence of a Sexed Body in the Good-to-Be-Man Country, Gang Gary Xu
Session 188. Pigs, Tigers’ Dens, and Social Survey: Ding Xian (Ding County) Revisited
Into the Tiger’s Den—Only to Do Its Bidding: Anglo-American and Radical Critiques of the Dingxian Model during the 1930s, Yung-chen Chiang
Breeding a Modern China: The Making of the Dingxian Pig, 1929–1937, Sigrid Schmalzer
Achievements and Problems of Two Social Surveys of Dingxian, Jun Jing
Session 189. A Still Neglected Genre: The Fu (Rhapsody) in Classical Chinese Literature
"To Recite without Singing": The Western Han Fu as Text and Performance, Martin Kern
The Debate over Style and Moral Efficacy in Han Epideictic Fu, Ding Xiang Warner
Fu on the Lost Game of Tanqi, or "Shooting Chess," Mark Laurent Asselin
The Significance of the Fu in the History of Tang Poetry, Paul W. Kroll
Session 190. Visualizing Tradition: National and Regional Monuments in Twentieth-Century China
Visual Symbolism in the Design and Decoration of Chairman Mao’s Memorial Hall, Dian Fan
Creating a National Symbol of Art: Dunhuang Motifs in Modern Chinese Art, Qiang Ning
Session 201. Mapping the PRC in Embodied Memory
Tragedy of Idealism: A Reading of Yang Shiyi’s Diary, James Gao
Lived Experience, Collective Memory and Official History: Different Expressions of Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution, Jin Qiu
Growing Up with the PRC: Memories of the "Cultural Revolution Generation," Weili Ye
Session 202. Confucian Martyrdom and Its Uses in Late Imperial and Modern China
Reinventing the Clan in South China: The Wen Tianxiang Connection in Jiangxi, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, 1283–1999, James L. Watson
Reconstructing Fang Xiaoru: Shifting Concerns in Mid-Ming Thought, Peter Ditmanson
The Posthumous Career of a Ming Martyr: Yang Jisheng, 1555–1999, Kenneth J. Hammond
Session 203. Mediating Global Flows: Sexuality and Subversion in Small Town China
Heavenly Dragons and Earthly Demons: Marketing and Subverting Hong Kong Popular Culture in Dali, Yunnan, Beth Notar
Pride and Prejudice in Lijiang, Emily Chao
Sexuality and Culture in the Global Media Market: The Film Shuang Zhuo and Debates over Representing "the Hui’an Woman," Sara Friedman
Commodifying Corporeality: Sexuality and Social Change on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, Charlene Makley
History as Rhetoric: The Jesuit Use Chreia in Late-Ming China, Sher Shiueh Li
Forging Chinese Equivalents for God: Matteo Ricci’s Translation in 16th-Century China, Dongfeng Xu
Translation and the British Imagination of China, James St. André
Session 205. Individual Papers: Pursuing Truth, Beauty, and Health in Republican China
Theatrical Self and Early Republican Subjectivity: Zhou Shoujuan’s Pillow Talk "In the Nine-Flower Curtain," Jianhua Chen
From Protecting Public Morals to Protecting Public Health: Changing Governmental Attitudes towards the Ban of Prostitution in Nanjing, 1928–1937, Zwia Lipkin
A "Modern" Traditional Connoisseur: Wu Hufan’s (1894–1968) Use of Photographic Techniques in His Inscriptions on Paintings and Calligraphies, Clarissa von Spee
A Modern Challenge to Modernism from the Village: The Chinese Rural Educational Movement and Village Teachers’ Schools in the 1920s, Xiaoping Cong
Session 215. Between Mission and Empire: Protestant Missionaries in Ninteenth-Century China
For God and Queen: James Gilmour in Mongolia, Kathleen L. Lodwick
Missionizing Conquest: John Macgowen and the Construction of China Knowledge, Wah K. Cheng
K. F. A. Gützlaff: Missionary Maverick or Visionary? R. G. Tiedemann
Session 216. Popular Media, Popular Bodies
Beggars Can Be Choosers: Tang Yin’s Portrayal of Zheng Yuanhe and the Practice of Self-Mythologizing, Lauren Nemroff
A Case of Mistaken Identity: How Europeans Learned about Smallpox in China, Larissa Heinrich
Painting Manual as Museum Space: The 1897 Jieziyuan huazhuan, Lisa Claypool
Session 218. Love and Romance, Virtue and Valor: The Politics of Passion in Modern China
The Republic of Virtue: Freedom, Ethics, and the Education of Love in the Post-May Fourth Era, Haiyan Lee
Adjudicating Female Sentiment: Crimes of Passion in 1930s China, Eugenia Y. Lean
Consuming Desires: The Meanings of Romance in Post-socialist China, Kathleen Erwin
Session 219. "How to Speak in a Time of Crisis"? Early Modern Chinese Discourses on Language — PANEL CANCELLED
Compromise, Incorporation, and Confrontation: Language and Politics in the May Fourth Era, Timothy B. Weston
The Disintegration of Meaning? Conservative Reflections on Language, Axel Schneider
Buddhist Aspects in the Modern Chinese Discourse on Language, Alexander Mayer
Session 220. Nature, Culture, Text: Siting Feminine Values in Imperial China
Loyalty and Lineage: Female Buddhist Monastics of the Ming-Qing Transition, Beata Grant
Gendered Landscapes, Maureen Robertson
Mother of the Empire: The Influence of the Empress Ma on Early Ming Autocracy, Anita M. Andrew
Daoism and Feminism: A Three-Way Critique, John A. Rapp