THE CHUS PROGRAM AT THE 2025 AHA, NEW YORK, JANUARY 3-6, 2025

Time SlotsFriday 1/3Saturday 1/4Sunday 1/5Monday 1/6
8:30-10am   (Note the slightly different schedule for the Sunday session) CHUS #2: Transformation of Information in Modern China: Technologies, Ideas, and Mediums
(New York Hilton, East Room)

Co-Sponsored Session (AHA #65) Corporations in US–China Trading Relations, 1870s–1980s: A Century of Interaction and Interdependence
(New York Hilton, Nassau East)  
CHUS #6: Bridging Global Medieval/Modern Studies: Rethinking Medieval Transitions, the Great Divergence, and the Making of Modern China in Global History
(New York Hilton, East Room)  

Co-Sponsored Session: (AHA #188) Slavery in Chinese History (New York Hilton, Nassau West)
9-10:30amCHUS #10: US-China Engagement: A Historical Assessment   (New York Hilton, East Room)      
10:30am-12:00pm   (Note the slightly different schedule for the Sunday session) CHUS #3 Human Trade and Slavery in and Beyond China, 1600-1900
(New York Hilton, East Room)  

Co-Sponsored Session (AHA #94) Cultures of Information in 20th-Century China (New York Hilton, Clinton Room)
CHUS #7 Beyond the Body-Mind Dichotomy: Labor and Intellect in Twentieth-Century China (New York Hilton, East Room)  

Co-Sponsored Session: (AHA #208) The Power of Education and Cinema–Transpacific Making of Modern Chinese Womanhood (New York Hilton, Nassau East)
11am-12:30pm: CHUS #11 Surveying the Nation: Re-discovering the “People” in China’s Republican Era (New York Hilton, East Room)  
1:30-3:00pmCo-Sponsored Session (AHA #22)   After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia   (New York Hilton, Nassau West)CHUS #4 Many Lives of Confucianism: Political, Ideological, and Cultural Appropriations of Confucianism in Contemporary China
(New York Hilton, East Room)  

Co-Sponsored Session (AHA #118) Cross-Border Trade, Silver, and Capitalism in Early Modern East Asia, 1600–1900 (Sheraton New York, Chelsea)  
CHUS #8 Transcultural China: Women and Christianity, 1899-1945 (New York Hilton, East Room)     
3:30-5:00pm   (Please see evening events on the next page!)CHUS #1 Book Reviews in the Age of Internet (New York Hilton, East Room)      CHUS #5 Multiple Shifts of Twentieth Century China (New York Hilton, East Room)  

Co-Sponsored Session (AHA # 152) Gender, Care, and Labor Dynamics in the Early People’s Republic of China
(New York Hilton, Bryant Room)  
CHUS #9 Zhou Enlai: His Life, Thought, and Legacies  
(New York Hilton, East Room)  
 
7:00-8:00pm   CHUS Book Launch
(New York Hilton, New York Room)  
5:45-7:45pm (?) CHUS and Friends Self-Funded Group Dinner
(venue and exact schedule TBA)
 
8:00-10:00pm   CHUS Business Meeting
(New York Hilton, East Room)
    

Friday Jan. 3, 2025

AHA #22 (CHUS Cosponsored) After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia

Friday, January 3, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
New York Hilton, Nassau West

Session Organizer: Qiong Liu, Virginia Military Institute

Chair(s):
Qiong Liu, Virginia Military Institute

Papers:
Sexual Violence and Unworthy Victims in Postsocialist China
Tiantian Zheng, State University of New York at Cortland

Becoming Vocal: Politicizing the Voices of “Comfort Women”
Lin Li, Kenyon College

Rashomon, Rape, or Rethinking Cinema as Women’s Hearings?
Belinda He, University of Maryland, College Park

Reconceptualize Rape in Revolution: Narratives about Sexual Crimes in the Land Reform in China
Qiong Liu, Virginia Military Institute

CHUS #1  Book Reviews in the Age of the Internet (Roundtable)

Friday, January 3, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Qin Shao, College of New Jersey

Chair(s):
Qin Shao, College of New Jersey

Panel:
Nicholas Popper, College of William & Mary and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware

Gina Anne Tam, Trinity University

Gillian Frank, Trinity College Dublin
Qin Shao, College of New Jersey

Saturday Jan. 4, 2025

CHUS #2. The Transformation of Information in Modern China: Technologies, Ideas, and Mediums

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Yingchuan Yang, Columbia University

Chair(s):
Ori Sela, Tel Aviv University

Papers:
Manuscript Modernity: Animating Pens and Brushes
Chloe Estep, University of Pennsylvania

What’s in a Column? Unofficial Histories and News
Nataly Shahaf, Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Studies

The Evolution of the Concept of “Xuanchuan” in Global Information Exchange
Yi Ren, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Please Tune In: Broadcast Rally and the Dilemma of Socialist Sonic Governance
Yingchuan Yang, Columbia University

AHA #65 (CHUS Cosponsored) Corporations in US–China Trading Relations, 1870s–1980s: A Century of Interaction and Interdependence

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New York Hilton, Nassau East

Session Organizer: Dan Du, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Chair(s):
Yi Sun, University of San Diego

Papers:
Arms across Borders: The Social Spread of American Firearms in China during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Lei Duan, Sam Houston State University

Incorporate for the Public: Transforming Joint-Stock Corporations to Reform China’s Tea Economy, 1870s–1911
Dan Du, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Having a Cup of American Ice Cream: Henningsen Produce Company and Its Hazelwood Ice Cream in Republican Shanghai
Haoran Ni, University of Kansas

Comment: Yi Sun, University of San Diego

CHUS #3. Human Trade and Slavery in and beyond China, 1600–1900

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Chenxi Luo, Reed College

Chair(s):
Qin Fang, McDaniel College

Papers:
“Barbarian Women” on the Riverbank: Ethnicity, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking in Qing Southwest China
Chaoran Ma, University of Toronto

Across the Boundaries: Human Trade and the State in Qing Southwest Sichuan
Hong Song, Stanford University

Disputes over Distance: Absentee Banner Masters, Far-Off Slaves, and Ownership Conflicts in 17th-Century Manchuria
Chenxi Luo, Reed College

Kitad: The Dual Meaning of “Chinese” and “Slave” in Qing Mongolia
Sam Bass, University of Toronto

Comment: Qin Fang, McDaniel College

AHA #94 (CHUS Cosponsored) Cultures of Information in 20th-Century China

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, Clinton Room

Session Organizer: Zhongtian Han, Trinity University

Chair(s):
Janet Y. Chen, Princeton University

Papers:
From City to the Countryside: Kexue Xiaopinwen and Mass Science Education in Wartime China
Miao Feng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Guerrilla Bureaucrats: Archives and Political Communication in the Early Chinese Communist Party, 1921–45
Yi Lu, Dartmouth College

Survival, Loss, and Love in Wartime China: Letters to Family and Friends, 1937–45
Di Luo, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa

Confronting the State: Radio and the Chinese Communist Party’s Information Operations, 1930–36
Zhongtian Han, Trinity University

CHUS #4. The Many Lives of Confucianism: Political, Ideological, and Cultural Appropriations of Confucianism in Contemporary China

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Xiaoqing Diana Lin, Indiana University Northwest

Chair(s):
Rebecca Karl, New York University

Papers:
Nationalism as Constituted from the Outside In: China and the Revival of Confucian Culture, 1990s–2000s
Xiaoqing Diana Lin, Indiana University Northwest

A Socialist National Myth: Rewriting Chinese History through Confucian–Legalist Conflicts in Mao’s China, 1973–76
Yaowen Dong, University of Memphis

Intricate Connections: The Reactivated Confucianism and Dilution of Maoist Feminism
Yi Sun, University of San Diego

Comment: Rebecca Karl, New York University

AHA #118 (CHUS Cosponsored) Cross-Border Trade, Silver, and Capitalism in Early Modern East Asia, 1600–1900

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Sheraton New York, Chelsea

Session Organizer:  Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware

Chair(s):
He Bian, Princeton University

Papers:
Sino-Korean Trade, Manchu Contractors, and Northeast Asian Capital Circulation, 1680–1780
Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware

Undermining Silver: The Political Economy of Silver Production and Circulation in Chosŏn Korea
Jaewoong Jeon, New York University

Peripheral Transformation: Financial Innovations in 18th-Century Inner Mongolia
George Zhijian Qiao, Amherst College

Global Flows of Silver and Copper: Revising Qing China’s Monetary Tale in the 19th Century
Xiaoyu Gao, University of Chicago

Comment: He Bian, Princeton University

CHUS #5. Multiple Shifts of 20th-Century China 

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Patrick Fuliang Shan, Grand Valley State University

Chair(s):
Aihua Zhang, Gardner–Webb University

Papers:
Admiral Liu Huaqing: China’s Mahan and the New Cold War
Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma

Navigating Controversy: Changing Perceptions of the Sanmenxia Dam in China
Xiaojia Hou, San José State University

Mao and Law in China: The Shaping of Mao’s Early Legal Consciousness
Qiang Fang, University of Minnesota Duluth

The Chinese Pursuit of Republicanism: State-Building, Postimperial Election, and the Creation of Congress, 1911–13
Patrick Fuliang Shan, Grand Valley State University

Comment: Danke Li, Fairfield University

AHA #152 (CHUS Cosponsored) Gender, Care, and Labor Dynamics in the Early People’s Republic of China

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
New York Hilton, Bryant Room

Session Organizer:  Yiming Ma, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair(s):
Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

Papers:
Politicizing Aunties: The Gendered Origin of the Residents’ Committee and Urban State Building in China, 1949–57
Zhaorui Lu, University of California, Irvine

Producing Childhood Creativity: The Toy-Making Movement and Professional Care Labor during China’s Great Leap Forward, 1958–62
Yiming Ma, University of California, Santa Barbara

Harvesting Mulberry in Ice, Rearing Silkworms in Fire: An Environmental History of Sericultural Failure in China, 1949–66
Yixue Yang, University of California, San Diego

Comment: Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz

CHUS Book Launch

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 7:00 PM-8:00 PM
New York Hilton, New York Room

CHUS Business Meeting

Saturday, January 4, 2025: 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Sunday January 5, 2025 

CHUS #6. Bridging Global Medieval/Modern Studies: Rethinking Medieval Transitions, the Great Divergence, and the Making of Modern China in Global History

Sunday, January 5, 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer:  Dandan Chen, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York

Chair(s):
Dandan Chen, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York

Papers:
Local Elites in Transition: Epitaphs Excavated in Luzhou from the 7th to 12th Centuries
Man Xu, Tufts University

Militarization, Bureaucracy, and Formation of the Local Elite in Zhejiang during the Song–Yuan–Ming Transition, 1000–1450
William Guanglin Liu, Lingnan University

The Reinvention of the Song–Ming Neo-Confucianism in 20th-Century China: Reflections on the Tang–Song Transition and the Birth of Modern Chinese Philosophy
Dandan Chen, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York

Comment: Lu Kou, Columbia University

AHA #188 (CHUS Cosponsored) Slavery in Chinese History: Facts, Debates, Research Frontiers, and Sources

Sunday, January 5, 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
New York Hilton, Nassau West

Session Organizer: Qiong Zhang, Wake Forest University

Chair(s):
Qiong Zhang, Wake Forest University

Panel:
Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College
Qin Fang, McDaniel College
Yunxin Li, Simmons University
Aihua Zhang, Gardner–Webb University
Zekun Zhang, Harvard University

CHUS #7. Beyond the Body–Mind Dichotomy: Labor and Intellect in 20th-Century China

Sunday, January 5, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Miao Feng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Chair(s):
Xueping Zhong, Tufts University

Papers:
Xuexi: Education among Workers and Students in Wartime France and China
Miao Feng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Broken Bodies of the War Machine: The Biopolitics of Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans in World War II China
Chao (Alec) Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Emotion and Action, Intellect and Labor: Ding Ling’s 1930s Literary Transformation
Jixian He, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Labor on Screen: Narrating Chinese Workers from the Cultural Revolution Era to the Economic Reforms
Ling Zhang, Purchase College, State University of New York

Comment: Xueping Zhong, Tufts University

AHA #208 (CHUS Cosponsored)  The Power of Education and Cinema: The Transpacific Making of Modern Chinese Womanhood

Sunday, January 5, 2025: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
New York Hilton, Nassau East

Session Organizer: Yunxiang Gao, Toronto Metropolitan University

Chair(s):
Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College, City University of New York

Papers:
Jin Yunmei: A Transpacific Trailblazer in Health and Medical Education
Yi Sun, University of San Diego

Soo Yong: Hollywood Actress and Asian Diaspora Cosmopolitan
Yunxiang Gao, Toronto Metropolitan University

Not Your Conventional Chinese Woman: Li Lingai and Cultural Activism in the Transpacific Making of Modern Chinese American Womanhood
Danke Li, Fairfield University

Comment: Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College, City University of New York

CHUS #8. Transcultural China: Women and Christianity, 1899–1945

Sunday, January 5, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Guolin Yi, Providence College

Chair(s):
Laura R. Prieto, Suffolk University

Papers:
Catholic Discourses on Women in Late Qing China
Guolin Yi, Providence College

Socialization to Become Citizens: Female Students’ School Life in Republican China
Haoran Ni, University of Kansas

Supportive Women: Chinese Women’s Roles in Borderlanders’ Transnational Lives
Xuening Kong, Purdue University

Nursing, Authority, and Power: Women, Medicine, and State Building in World War II China
Dewen Zhang, Randolph-Macon College

Comment: Connie A. Shemo, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

CHUS #9. Zhou Enlai: His Life, Thought, and Legacies

Sunday, January 5, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Patrick Fuliang Shan, Grand Valley State University

Chair(s):
Patrick Fuliang Shan, Grand Valley State University

Panel:
Mark Selden, Cornell University
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma
Dan Du, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Patrick Fuliang Shan, Grand Valley State University

CHUS and Friends Self-Funded Group Dinner

Sunday Jan. 5, 2024, roughly 5:45-7:45pm?  (venue and exact schedule TBA)

Monday January 6, 2025

CHUS #10. US–China Engagement: A Historical Assessment

Monday, January 6, 2025: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Mao Lin, Georgia Southern University

Chair(s):
Dan Du, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:
Chinese Propaganda through American Eyes, 1949 to the Present
Yi Ren, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Language and Empire: Chinese Language Programs in the US from the Late 19th Century to the Present
Shuhua Fan, University of Scranton

US–China Engagement in the Long 1970s
Mao Lin, Georgia Southern University

From Engagement to Decoupling: US–China Relations since the End of the Cold War
Tao Wang, Iowa State University

Comment: Dan Du, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

CHUS #11. Surveying the Nation: Rediscovering the “People” in China’s Republican Era, 1912–49

Monday, January 6, 2025: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
New York Hilton, East Room

Session Organizer: Xiaoyan Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Chair(s):
Yue Du, Cornell University

Papers:
“Obstructed Embrace”: The ID Card Institution in Shanghai, 1945–49
Xiaoyan Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Competing Colonialities: Nation-State Building and Nation-Empire Construction of Chinese and Japanese Migration Projects in Manchuria, 1914–45
Luming Xu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Problem of Chinese Population: Discourses of Chinese Population and Population Science, 1918–39
Zhelun Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comment: Yue Du, Cornell University