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
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
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
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
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
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
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