| 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 |