Sessions Related to Qing History in 2013 AAS Conferences |
Session14:Art Production and Remediation in the Qianlong Court |
Mei Mei Rado (Bard Graduate Center): Petrified Silk: Remediation and Illusionism in High Qing Trompe-l'œil Representation of Textiles |
Eleanor Hyun (University of Chicago): Emperor’s Toys: Qianlong Curio Boxes |
Yuhang Li (Grinnell College): Remediated Antiquarianism: A Case Study of Qianlong’s Copy of Li Di’s “Two Chicks” |
Sun-ah Choi (Columbia University): Legacy of the True Image: Qianlong’s Replication of Buddhist Sacred Icons |
Session26:Beyond Trade and War: Exploring the Cultural, Geographical, and Temporal Boundaries of the Canton Trade Period |
Songchuan Chen (Nanyang Technological University): Death in Canton: A Social History of Criminal Death on the Maritime Frontier, 1608-1843 |
Matthew W. Mosca (The College of William and Mary): Scholars and the Sea: The Guangdong Tongzhi Project and the Expansion of Qing Academic Research into the Maritime World, 1818-1838 |
John M. Carroll (University of Hong Kong): China’s Teeming Millions: Western Observations on China’s Population in the Canton Trade Period |
Patricia Sieber (Ohio State University): The Other Illegal Commodity: The Sino-European Book Trade in Canton, ca. 1831 |
John D. Wong (University of Hong Kong): Fashioning a Global Brand: Houqua’s Portraits in the China Trade of the Early Nineteenth Century |
Session 27: Borderland by the Sea: China’s Southeast Coast in Interesting Times, 16th-18th Centuries |
Siyen Fei (University of Pennsylvania): Pirate Raids, Coastal Identity, and Female Chastity in Early Seventeenth-century China |
Melissa Macauley (Northwestern University): The Coastal Evacuation and the Evolution of a Masculine Ethic in Chaozhou |
Kenneth Dean (McGill University): The Qing Coastal Evacuation and the Spread of Chinese Overseas Temples in Southeast Asia |
Lucille Chia (University of California, Riverside): Moving People, Pots, and Money: The Export Ceramics Trade in Southeast China, 16th-18th Centuries |
Session 65: Consolidating Russia’s Conquest of Asia: The Flow of People, Ideas and Currency across the Vast Sino-Mongol-Russian Border, 1860-1920 |
Victor Zatsepine (Hong Kong University): For Conquest and Learning: Imperial Russia’s Explorers in Central, Inner and East Asia, 1860-1917 |
Chia Yin Hsu (Portland State University): The Ruble, Russian Gold, and the Color of Money in Manchuria, 1890s-1920s |
Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnati): Baron Ungern’s China |
Session 66: Constructions and Representations of Space in Qing and Republican China |
Ching-ling Wang (Kunsthistoriches Institut in Florenz): Emperor Qianlong’s Private Paradise: Reconstructing the Hall of Infinite Goodness |
Ying-chen Peng (University of California, Los Angeles): A Gift to the Empress Dowager: The Late-Qing Summer Palace Revisited |
Session 110: Friendship in Discourse and Deed as a Key to Social Change in Late Imperial China |
Ying Zhang (Ohio State University): Friendship in the Shadow of Factionalism and Loyalism in the Early Qing |
Joanna Handlin Smith (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies): Friendship and Trust among Early Qing Literati |
Session 117: Fujian in a Maritime World: A Boundary-Crossing Perspective on Local Histories |
Nanxiu Qian (Rice University): Transformation of the Min (Fujian) Cainü Culture in the Late Qing Reform Era |
Guotong Li (California State University, Long Beach): Fujian Coast: The Home of Boundary-crossers in the Eighteenth Century |
Dahpon D. Ho (University of Rochester): Fujian’s Seafaring Culture from the Heyday of Piracy to the Ming-Qing Wars |
Man Xu (Tufts University): Gender and Vehicles: Redefining the Inner-Outer Boundary in Song China |
Session 181: Justice on Trial: Practice and Perception of Law in Late Imperial and Republican China |
Margaret Wan (University of Utah): Justice and Corruption: Legal Ideals in Late Qing Ballads |
Nancy Elizabeth Park (California State University, East Bay): The Prosecution and Politics of Official Corruption in Qing China |
Thomas Buoye (University of Tulsa): Death in Detention: The Dilemma of Eighteenth-century Chinese Criminal Justice |
Session 198:Luxury Commodities and Imperial Politics in the High Qing Era (1660-1795) |
Elif Akcetin (Durham University): Corruption and Conspicuous Consumption in Eighteenth-Century China |
Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado, Boulder): Jade and the Imperial Politics of Contraband Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Empire |
Yulian Wu (Stanford University): Manufacturing the Best Commodities for the Qianlong Emperor in Eighteenth-Century Jiangnan |
Eugenio Menegon (Boston University): Who was using whom? Europeans, Western Commodities, and the Politics of Gift-Giving in Qing Beijing |
Session 211:Military Men, Veterans, and Legacies of War in 19th and 20th Century China |
James Bonk (Princeton University): War Stories: Writings on Military Experiences in the Early 19th Century Qing Empire |
Charles Wooldridge (Lehman College): Subjects and Agents: Military Men in Post-Taiping Jiangning Prefecture |
Session 212: Millions on the Edge of Empires: Migrants, Diasporic Subjects, and Borders across the Asian Continent |
Devon Dear (Harvard University): Mixed Modes of Migration: Nomads, Newcomers, and the Problem of the “National Economy” on the Qing-Russian Border, 1860-1911 |
Alyssa Park (University of Iowa): Caught Between Empires: Korea Migrants and Border Control in the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1880-1920 |
Shelly Chan (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Diaspora before the Nation: Three Early Chinese Visions of Migrants Abroad, 1890-1911 |
Session 215: Modern China at Gunpoint: Militarists and Military Organizations in Chinese State Construction, 1864-1937 |
Christopher Heselton (University of California, Irvine): Moving the War to the Frontier: Post-Taiping Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Xiang Army in the Southwestern Frontier |
Session 227: Negotiating the Material Body in Qing Society and Culture (Sponsored by the Society for Qing Studies) |
Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke (College of Idaho): Afterlives of the Dead: Uncovering Graves and Mishandling Corpses in Qing Law and Society |
Yi-Li Wu (University of Westminster): Words and Images for Healing Bones and Flesh: Innovations in Mid-Qing Trauma Medicine (Shangke) |
Roberta Wue (University of California, Irvine): Body, Object, Affect: Portraiture and the Gentleman in the Late Qing |
Session 289: Rule of Experts: Intersecting Art and Science in the Statecraft of Qing China |
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg (Metropolitan Museum of Art): From Painter to Visual Expert: Yu Zhiding’s (1646-1716) Drawings of the Taihedian |
Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University in St. Louis): The Mathematics of Art: Polyhedrons, Perspective, and Porcelain |
Kaijun Chen (Columbia University): Handicraft and Statecraft: Tang Ying’s Porcelain Manufacture from 1728 to 1756 |
Kang Tchou (University of Cambridge): The Role of Technocrats in the tekhnê and ars of the Taiping-Qing Civil War |
Session 348: Transport and Communications Revolutions and the Global Late Qing |
Joseph D. Lawson (Academia Sinica): The Bridges of Liangshan: Infrastructure and Violence in Southwest China, 1800-1912 |
Tong Lam (University of Toronto): The Veins of the Empire: Railway Development in Late Qing China |
Shirley Ye (Harvard University): German Shipping and Empire in the Making of the China Coast |
Roger R. Thompson (Western Washington University): The Wire: Progress, Paradox, and Disaster in the Strategic Networking of China, 1881-1901 |