Welcome to the home page of the Society for Ming Studies. The Society is a scholarly organization that promotes the study of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It publishes a journal and a book series, as well as sponsoring panels on Ming topics at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. This site includes both information about the Society and its activities and material of wider interest to scholars of the Ming.
This page is hosted by the Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia, with support from the Department of Asian Studies. The Society is an independent organization not affiliated with or sponsored by UBC.
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Ming-related panels at AAS Boston 2023
Ihor Pidhainy has kindly compiled a list of panels with Ming content at the 2023 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting.
AAS Ming and Ming-Related Papers at 2023 Annual Meeting (Boston)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
7:00-8:30
Panel: Unexpected Voices Against Military Excess: Mitigating State Violence in China, Korea, and, Japan, 1592-2015. (Hynes Convention, Room 204)
- Barend Noordam, Autonomous University of Barcelona
War and the Non-Combatant in the Late Ming: The Case of the Imjin War (1592-1598)
Friday, March 17
9:00-10:30 AM
Panel: Revisiting the Jin from Digital, Political, Geocultural, and Long-Term Perspectives (Hynes Convention Center, Room 111, Plaza Level)
- Julia Schneider, University College Cork
Telling Jurchen Jin History: The Qianlong Emperor’s Censorship of Ming Books
Panel: Vernacular Healing: Practical Knowledge and Chinese Medicine, Ca.1500-1950: A Panel in Honor of the Memory of Nathan Sivin (1931-2022). (HCC, 203, 2nd level)
- Andrew Schonebaum, University of Maryland, College Park
The Stuff of Life: Animating Forces in Early Modern China
- Ying Zhang, Hunan University
Healing with Recipes in the Home: Experience, Skills, and Virtue in Late Imperial China
Panel: Worldmaking, Worlds’ Edges, and Constructions of Zheng He (HCC, Room 209, 2nd level)
- Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Edges of the World in Late Ming Tales of the Strange
- E. Kile, University of Michigan
The Ends of the Early Modern World: Worldmaking in China (1592-1842)
- Tom Hoogervorst, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Remembering, Representing, and Reinventing Zheng He in Late-Colonial Java
- Pashmina Murthy, Kenyon College
Zheng He’s Postcolonial Geography
Panel: Empty Intestines: Hunger and Metaphor in Middle Period Chinese Poetry (HCC, 205)
- Wandi Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00-12:30
Panel: New Ways to Exploit the Works of Nature: Popularizing Elite Material Culture (HCC, Room 107, Plaza level)
- Quincy Ngan, Yale University
- Lucille Chia, University of California, Riverside
Ceramics for Everybody: Folk Kilns in Fujian
Panel: Colonial Encounters between Taiwan and the World (HCC, 201, 2nd Level)
- Yaru Yang, National Taiwan University
Panel: Book and Belief: Textual Culture and Religious Landscape in Early Modern East Asia (HCC, 110, Plaza Level)
- Xu Ma, Lafayette College
Printing for Power: The Textualization of Popular Religions in the Ming Leishu
- Noga Ganany, University of Cambridge
Geography and Hagiography in Late-Ming Commercial Publishing
- Mengxiao Wang, University of Southern California
Practicing Buddhism in Dramatic Paratexts: An Early Qing Edition of the Play Xixiangji
2:00-3:30
Panel: New Spaces for the Dead: Rethinking Developments in Later Chinese Funerary Art (Sheraton, Constitution B, 2nd Floor)
- Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
Architectural Mingqi: Yuan to Ming
- Aurelia Campbell, Boston College
Inscribing Immortality: The Use of Buddhist Writing in Ming Tombs
- Zhuolun Xie, Princeton University
Was Hell so Bad? Perspectives from a Rare Yuan-Ming Album
Panel: Crafting Memories: The Social and Political Meaning of Personal Histories in Pre-Modern East Asia (Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 210)
- Shiau-Yun Chen, Ball State University
Narrating Violence: Gendered Remembrances in Ming China (1368-1644)
Panel: Intersectionality and Plurality: Otherness in Chinese Visual and Material Culture (Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 209)
- Yutong Li, Princeton University
The Gendered Frontier: (Re)Presenting Border-Crossing Women in Seventeenth-Century China
Panel: Engaging with the Other: Catholic Missions and Epistemic Encounters in Early Modern Asian Cities (Boston Sheraton Hotel, Arnold Arboretum -5th floor)
- Wenlu Wang, University of Tokyo
4:00-5:30
Panel: Framing the Change of an Era: Eurasian Perspectives on the Rise and Fall of the Chinggisids (13th-14th Centuries) (Sheraton Hotel, Back Bay A, 2nd Floor)
- Lex Jing Lu, Clark University
Panel: Environmental History (Boston Sheraton Hotel. Berkeley – 3rd floor)
- Ting-chih Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Panel: Changing Visual and Material Cultures of Early Modern-Modern China and India (Sheraton, Dalton, 3rd Floor)
- Xiaolin Duan, North Carolina State University
Visualizing Famous Places: A Tourist Book in Seventeenth-Century China
Friday, March 17, 7:30-9:30
Society for Ming Studies (Boston Sheraton Hotel, Back Bay A, 2nd Floor)
Presentations
- Wandi Wang, UC Santa Barbara
Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China (11th–17th Century)
- Joey Low, Brandeis
State and Society in Early Modern China-Vietnam Borderland
- Joo-hyeon Oh, Harvard,
Seeing the World Through Things: Explaining the Natural World in 16-18th Century China
- Sean Cronan, UC Berkeley,
Diplomacy and Political Thought in the Making of an Eastern Eurasian Interstate Order, 1200–1500
- Yifan Zhang, Columbia,
Embodying the ‘Airs’ of Suzhou: Local Knowledge, Hybrid Soundscape, and Feng Menglong (1574-1646)’s Popular Song Collection
- Jiajun Zou, Emory,
Sino-Foreign Difference and Ming Examination System
- Yuan Ye, Columbia,
Vernacular Chinese Fiction and Ming-Qing Transition in East Asia
- Jasmin Wai Tan Law, KU Leuven
Writing Ming-Qing Transition from a Local-Global Perspective
- Kangni Huang, Harvard,
Toward a Poetics of Writing: Representing Literary Creation in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
SATURDAY, MARCH 18
8:30-10:00
Panel: Technologies of Locating, Part I: Mediating the Self in Fictional Cartography from China and Japan (Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 201)
- Paize Keulemans, Princeton University
- William C. Hedberg, Arizona State University
Panel: Sensing the Body: On Touch from Late Imperial to Contemporary China (Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 202)
- Peng Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Invisible Touch and Family Politics in Jin Ping Mei
2:00-3:30
Panel: Chang’an in the Longue Durée (Sheraton, Constitution A, 2nd Floor)
- Fei Huang, University of Tubingen
Transformations within Continuity: The Post-Tang Life of the Huaqing Hot Springs (1000-1900)
Panel: Aging and the Care of the Elderly from Song to Qing: Perceptions, Experiences, and Self-Representations (Boston Sheraton Hotel, Fairfax A, 3rd Floor)
- Lu Weijing, University of California San Diego
Aging, Memory, and Self-Representation: The Case of You Tong (1618-1704)
Panel: Elephants and Ginseng: Environments, Commodities, and Power in Early Modern East and Southeast Asia (Sheraton Hotel, Berkeley, 3rd Floor)
- Chushan Chiang, Taiwan National Central University
4:00-5:30
Panel: New Perspectives on Urban Identities in Late Imperial and Republican China (Boston Sheraton Hotel, Back Bay A, 2nd Floor)
- Minoru Takano, University of British Columbia
Panel: Multivalence of the Body in Premodern Asian Societies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Boston Sheraton Hotel, Gardner B, 3rd floor)
- Sophia Ying Wang, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
The Mute Body: Sickness and Family Crisis in Late Imperial Chinese Fictional Medical Narratives
Panel: Craft and Innovation in the Chinese Material and Dramatic Arts (Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 200)
- Regina Llamas, IE University
To Kill a Dog and the Craft of Comedy
5:45-7:15
Panel: Local Daoism and Local Cults, from Tang to Qing (Sheraton Hotel, Republic B, 2nd Floor)
- Jingyu Liu, Wheaton College
- Norifumi Sakai, Keio University
How Did Daoist Priests Provide Ritual Services to the Local Community?
- James Robson, Harvard University
Gilded Gods: Images and Manuscripts Associated with Guild Cults in the Hunan Region
SUNDAY, MARCH 19
9:00-10:30
Panel: Ritual Sincerities in Chinese Literature: From Early China to the Twentieth Century (Boston Sheraton, Boston Common, 5th Floor)
- Elizabeth Smithrosser, Leiden Institute of Area Studies
Going Deaf in the Ming: Sincerity Meets Humor in a Retiree’s Account of Hearing Loss
Panel: Understanding Horses in Early Modern China and Inner Asia (Sheraton, Hampton, 3rd Floor)
- Gyatso Marnyi, Yale University
- Lan Wu, Mount Holyoke College
The Dilemma of Raising Strong Horses in the Ming
Panel: Who Shaped China’s Technoscapes? A Longue Durée Perspective (1600-1980) (Sheraton, Gardner A, 3rd Floor)
- You Wang, University of Chicago
- Yiyun Peng, Cornell University
10:45-12:15
Panel: Towards an Intersectional Discourse: Vernacular Theatricality in Ming Qing Fiction and Drama (Sheraton, Gardner A, 3rd floor)
- Jing Zhang, New College of Florida
- Maria Franca Sibau, Emory University
AAS Panels on Ming Topics
Ihor Pidhainy, editor of Ming Studies, has created a helpful list of Ming-related panels and papers at the 2019 AAS annual meeting in Denver.
AAS 2019 Annual Meeting – Ming Papers
Thursday March 21, 2019
7:30PM-9:15PM
Panel 23
Book Matters: The Circulation of Literature and Organization of Knowledge in Pre-Modern China
Terrace, Tower Building
- Yunshuang Zhang, Wayne State University, “A Diversity of Voices: The Collected Commentaries on Su Shi’s Poetry”
- Naixi Feng, University of Chicago, “Inhabiting the Northern Landscape: Beijing and the Collected Travelogues in the Late Ming”
- Yanmei Cai, University of Tokyo, “‘Mountain Men’ and Epistolary Collections in the Late Ming: A Case Study on Wang Zhideng’s Collected Letters”
- Joseph Dennis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Donating Books to School Libraries in Ming and Qing China”
Panel 30
In Search of Artisans in China: Reading Words and Objects
Beverly, Tower Building
- Susan Naquin, Princeton University, “Names on Things: Working-Class Artisans in Late Imperial North China”
Panel 34
Tear and Repair: How Rebellions Strengthened the Ming-Qing State
Columbine, Tower Building, Terrace Level
- Haiwei Liu, University of Southern California, “Heterodoxy or Orthodoxy: Confucian Elements in a Messianic Rebellion”
- George Israel, Middle Georgia State University, “How and Why Wang Yangming Strengthened the State”
- Yiming Ha, University of California, Los Angeles, “Trade, War, and the Court: The Hidden Significance of the 1521 Gansu Mutiny”
Discussant: Sarah Schneewind, University of California, San Diego
FRIDAY MARCH 22, 2019
9:00 AM – 10:45
Panel 42
The Swirling Winds: Cultural Exchange in East Asia, 8th-16th Centuries
Grand Ballroom 1, Tower Building
- Huiping Pang, Art Institute of Chicago, “The Voyaging Dragon: How Ming-Era Diplomacy Inspired the Painting Style of Muromachi Japan (14th-16th c.)”
Panel 61
Confronting Displacement: Responses to War, Violence, and Trauma in Premodern China PTower Court C, Tower Building
- Najung Kim, Stanford University, “Empty Pavilions: Two Landscapes by Ni Zan (1301-1374) during China’s Yuan-Ming Dynastic Transitional Era”
- Ka-Yi Ho, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Invitation to Reclusion: Xiang Shengmo (1597-1658) and His Art beyond the Ming-Qing Transition”
Panel 67
The Impact of Visual and Material Cultural Networks in the Mongol Empire and Beyond
Tower Court B, Tower Building
- Shih-Shan Huang, Rice University, “Elite Uighurs as Cultural Middlemen of Buddhist Books and Woodcuts in the Mongol Empire”
- Yong Cho, Yale University, “Carving a Multicultural Empire on Stones: Juyongguan from a Trans-Regional Perspective”
- Yusen Yu, University of Heidelberg, “Paper on the Move in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia”
11:15 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 106
The Sixth Relationship: Representations of Mentor-Disciple Relationships in Late Imperial China PSpruce, Tower Building
- Ying Zhang, Ohio State University, “Spirituality of the Shi-Sheng Relationship in the Ming Literati World”
- Rivi Handler-Spitz, Macalester College, “Nobody’s Disciple, Nobody’s Master: Li Zhi as Student and Teacher”
- Yinghui Wu, University of California, Los Angeles, “When the Mentor’s Daughter Becomes the Protégé’s Wife: A Woman’s Voice in Master-Disciple Relationships
- Maram Epstein, University of Oregon, “The Sixth Relationship and Constructing a Matriarchal Community in Mengying yuan”
Panel 107
The Social World of Late Ming Military Knowledge
Savoy, Tower Building
- Barend Noordam, Freie Universitat Berlin, “Singleton No More? The Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Qi Jiguang’s Military Manuals”
- Sarah Basham, University of British Columbia, “Navigating Deep Waters: Military Encyclopedism and the Donglin Faction”
- Yang Xie, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, “The Gap of Knowledge: Xu Rijiu and the Formation of Military Knowledge for the State”
1:30 pm -3:15 pm
Panel 114
Smuggling, Violence, and State in East Asian Maritime World
PPlaza Court 7, Plaza Building
- Jing Liu, Syracuse University, “Evaders, Castaways, and Pirates: Chinese-Korean Maritime Security in the Sixteenth Century”
- Sunkyu Lee, University of California, Los Angeles, “Jiangnan’s View of Pirate Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century China”
Panel 134
Accounting and Governmentality in Late Imperial China
Plaza Court 2, Plaza Building
- Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute, for the History of Science, “The Value of Work: Time and Modal Choices in Ming”
- Noa Grass, Tel Aviv University, “Corvée Labour Counting Horses in Early Ming China”
- Bin Shen, Peking University, “The Heritage of the Ming Dynasty: The Formation of The Complete Book of Land Tax and Services in the Shunzhi Reign (1644-1662)”
Panel 135
Eurasia and the Mid-14th-Century Crisis: The Collapse of the Mongol Empire
Plaza Court 3, Plaza Building
- Vered Shurany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Collapse of the Yuan Dynasty: Military Commanders between the Qa’an’s Army and the Local Militias”
- Ishayahu Landa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem International, “Between Loyalty, Chinggisid Principle and Self-Aggrandisement: Regional Jochid Elites in “The Times of Troubles” (1359-1390)”
- Màrton G. Vèr, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, “Overland Communication and the Mongol Empire’s Mid-14th-Century Crisis”
Panel 136
Gender, Locality, and Cultural Politics: An Expanded “Localist Turn” from Ming to Republican China
Plaza Court 6, Plaza Building
- Yongtao Du, University of Oklahoma, “The State and the Hometown: Statesmen from Anyang in Late Imperial and Republican China”
3:45 pm -5:30 pm
Panel 156
Writing on the Margin: Women and Cultural Dynamics in Premodern East Asia
Director’s Row J, Plaza Building
- Jiani Chen, SOAS University of London, “Thrilling and Threatening: The Images of Knight-Errant Courtesans in the Ming Dynasty
Panel 172
Authors, Editors, Encyclopedists and the Reconstruction of Knowledge in Chinese and Inner Asian History (600-1600)
PPlaza Court 5, Plaza Building
- Zuoting Wen, Arizona State University, “Encountering Transoxiana: Yelü Chucai’s Poems from Thirteenth-Century Samarkand and Bukhara”
- Noga Ganany, Boston University, “Divine Landscapes: Geography, Print Culture, and Religious Practice in Two Late-Ming Encyclopedias”
Panel 179
Rock Formations: Stone as Material, Medium, and Metaphor in China
Plaza Court 3, Plaza Building
- Thomas Kelly, University of Michigan, “He Zhen’s Corpse: Inventing the “Soft Stone Seal” in Late Ming China”
- Phillip Bloom, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens,“Medium and Materiality in Wu Bin’s Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone”
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
******Society for Ming Studies Event*****
Governor’s Square 11
“Thanks to a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, in addition to our usual business, we will also hear pechakucha-style (read: six minutes per person) research presentations from nine Ming scholars. The presenters will highlight their primary argument, key sources used, and explore the ways in which their research connects to the Ming. It should be an interesting evening! Afterwards, we will adjourn for drinks and continued conversation”
Brigid Vance, President, Society for Ming Studies.
- Monica Klasing Chen, Leiden University, “Profitable Memory: Publishing Memory Aids for Calligraphy and Painting during the Ming Dynasty.”
- Shiau-Yun Chen, Cornell University, “Mothers of Loving-Kindness: Authorizing and Maximizing Mothers’ Legitimate Violence in the Disciplining of Children in Ming Families.”
- Ilsoo David Cho, Harvard University’s Korea Institute, “The Ming-Choson Relations after 1592.”
- Christopher Eirkson, Franklin and Marshall College, “The Yuan, Ming, and Cross-Eurasian Connections.”
- Xiaobai Hu, University of Pennsylvania, “Unruly Mountain: Transformative Encounters in the Chinese-Tibetan Borderland, 1371-1701.”
- Sunkyu Lee, University of California, Los Angeles, “Jiangnan’s View of Pirate Traders in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China.”
- Haiwei Liu, The University of Southern California, “Confucian Elements in a Messianic Rebellion: Rethinking the Origins of the Dynastic Name ‘Ming.’”
- Jing Liu, Syracuse University, “Border Controls and Maritime Interactions between China and Korea, 1500-1637.”
- Eloise Wright, University of California, Berkeley, “Writing about the Locality in Dali, Yunnan, 1253-1675.”
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019
9:00 Am – 10:45 am
Panel 183
China beyond China: Inter-Circulation of Chinese and Southeast Asian Ceramics, 14th-18th Cs
Sponsored by Society for Ming Studies
Director’s Row I, Plaza Building
Chaired by Lucille Chia, University of California, Riverside
- Rie Ong, New York University, “When Temasek Met China: Trade and Consumer Culture in Singapore, 14th-16th Centuries”
- Pariwat Thammapreechakorn, Freer|Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, “Thai Trade Ware in the 14th-18th Centuries: Inspiration from and Competition with Chinese Ceramics”
- Xiaoyi Yang, Bard Graduate Center, ”A Color and Brush Duet: Reading Zhangzhou Polychrome Dishes with the “Split Pagoda” Motif”
- Lucille Chia, University of California, Riverside, “The Rise and Decline of Export Ceramics Production Centers in South China, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries”
Discussant: Katharine Burnett, University of California, Davis
Panel 208
Bodies in Transition: Corporeal Perspectives on Premodern and Modern China
PPlaza Court 8, Plaza Building
- Guojun Wang, Vanderbilt University, “Washing Away Wrongs: Dead Bodies in Yuan-Ming Crime Dramas”
Panel 210
Cartography and Cultural Identity in Ming-Qing China
Director’s Row E, Plaza Building
- Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College, “Mapping Zhongguo, Mapping Ming: Identity Building in Ming Cartography”
- Kenneth Hammond, New Mexico State University, “Visual Representations of Urban Space in Ming Local Gazetteers”
- Christopher Eirkson, Franklin & Marshall College, “Do Maps Make an Empire? Defining “Empire” on the Ming Frontiers”
- Discussant: Edward Farmer, University of Minnesota
Panel 212
Literature, Gender, and Politics: The Construction of Regional Culture in Late Imperial China Director’s Row H, Tower Building
- Kin-yip Hui, City University of Hong Kong, “Hu Yinglin’s (1551-1602) Construction of the Literary and Scholarly Traditions in Jinhua County during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)”
Panel 218
Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying 218 (ca. 1495-1552)
Governor’s Square 14, Plaza Building
- Einor K. Cervone, American Museum of Natural History, “The Chameleon Master Adds Snake Legs: The Art and Reception of Qiu Ying”
- Wan Kong, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “A Wu School Master Unlike Any Other: Examining Song Influences in Qiu Ying’s Paintings”
- Yeewan Koon, University of Hong Kong, “Qiu Ying, Inter-Pictoriality, and Pictorial Wit in Ming China”
- Wen-mei Hsu, National Palace Museum, Taipei, “A Study of Qiu Ying’s Spring Dawn in the Han Palace and Its Relationship to Palace Poetry”
- Discussant: Stephen Little, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
11:15 AM – 1:00 PM
Panel 228
The Impact of Trade on Daily Life in East Asia, 960-1600 Sponsored by The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies
Director’s Row H, Plaza Building
- Yiwen Li, City University of Hong Kong, “Wind from Foreign Lands: Japanese Folding Fans in China, 1000-1410”
- Peter D. Shapinsky, University of Illinois, Springfield, “Dressing like a Pirate: Clothing as Symbolic Marker in the East Asian Maritime World c. 1350-1600”
3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Panek 256
Blood and Being across Chinese and Indian Medicines
Plaza Court 8, Plaza Building
- Yi-Li Wu, University of Michigan, “Outside Blood, Inside Blood: Bleeding, Bloodletting, and the Body in Ming-Qing Trauma Medicine”
- Natalie Köhle, Australian National University, “On the Relationship between Blood and Phlegm in Chinese Medicine”
Panel 257
Circulating “Current Affairs” in and about 257 Seventeenth-Century China: Cross-Border Perspectives
Grand Ballroom 2, Tower Building
- Yuval Givon, Tel Aviv University, “From Hearsay to Bestsellers: The Making of Jesuit Ming-Qing Transition Reports”
- Ilsoo D. Cho, Harvard University, “Staying Out of the Ming-Qing Transition: Korean Perspectives of the Continental Conflict, 1592-1644”
- Kenneth M. Swope, University of Southern Mississippi, “Horror Stories and Exaggerated Possibilities: Magalhaens & Buglio at the Court of Zhang Xianzhong”
- Ye Yuan, Columbia University, “Recording Our Time: A Late-Ming Early-Qing Publishing House and its Historical Concern”
- Discussant: Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Panel 262
Moves On and Off the Board: (Early) Modern Cultures of Play in East Asia and Beyond PWindows, Tower Building
- Paize Keulemans, Princeton University, “The Acoustic Fog of War: Signal and Noise in “The Three Kingdoms” as Ming-Dynasty Novel, Hong Kong Film, and Contemporary Video Game”
- Tina Lu, Yale University, “Betwixt Text and Tricks: The Literary Cultures of Madiao in the Late Ming”
Panel 284
Crossing Ethnic, Religious, and Geographical Boundaries during the Mongol and Manchu Rule of China
Tower Court A, Tower Building
- Wonhee Cho, Academy of Korean Studies, “Defining Religion in Yuan China: The Case of Muslims, Jews, Confucians, and the White Cloud Sect”
- Minsu Park, Ewha Womans University, “ ‘Manchu Marches West’: The Qing Occupation of Shanhai Pass and Beijing in 1644”
4:00-5:30 PM
Database building (4:30 PM)
- Peter K. Bol, Harvard University, “China Biographical Database”
5:15 PM – 7:00 PM
Panel 299
SOCIAL SCIENCES Thriving between a Rock and a Hard Place: Identity and Agency in Liminal Spaces in Imperial China
Plaza Court 8, Plaza Building
- Xiaobai Hu, University of Pennsylvania, “The Art of Living in the Borderland: Religious Ritual, Resource War and Literati Network in 17th-Century Southwest China”
Panel 313
Conceptualizing the “Other” in Premodern China: Center-Periphery Dynamics Reconfigured
Governor’s Square 12, Plaza Building
- Xiuyuan Mi, University of Pennsylvania, “Reviving a Genre: Rhetorical Innovation and Cultural Authority in Late Yuan China”
Panel 314
Divine Communication: Revelation, Mediumism, and Spirit-Writing in Imperial China
Director’s Row J, Plaza Building
- Daniel J. Burton-Rose, Northern Arizona University, “Spirit Altar Prophecy in the Manchu-Han Reconciliation of the 1670s: Peng Dingqiu’s Circle and the Boxue hongci Special Examination”
Panel 315
Limited Engagements: Projections of Mongol Power on and beyond China’s Southern Frontier Director’s Row H, Plaza Building
- James A. Anderson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “The Outer Limits of Steppe Power: Mongol Military Excursions in Maritime Southeast Asia”
- Michael Brose, Indiana University Bloomington, “Managing Yunnan for the Mongols”
- Francesca Fiaschetti, University of Vienna, “The Troubled Frontier: Sino-Burmese Interactions in the 14th Century”
SUNDAY MARCH 24, 2019
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Panel 326
Spaces of Imagination: Place, Performance, and Production in East Asia
Director’s Row J, Plaza Building
- Allison Bernard, Columbia University, “From Staging the Drama to Staging the Dramatist: Tang Xianzu and the Linchuan School Legacy in and After The Peach Blossom Fan”
Panel 348
History as Narrative: Perspective to Approach Avengers, Khitans, and Pirates (400 BC-1620) PPlaza Court 7, Plaza Building
- Yuanfei Wang, University of Georgia, “Narratives of Pirates in Late Ming Unofficial Histories and Vernacular Fiction (1558-1644)”
Panel 353
Spatial Imagination in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Literary Culture
PGovernor’s Square 11, Plaza Building
- Jing Zhang, New College of Florida, “A Prop, a Dream, and a Miniature Stage: The Staged Life of a Porcelain Pillow in Tang Xianzu’s Handan Dream”
Panel 354
State Capacity and the Management of Mobility in Early Modern China
Director’s Row E, Plaza Building
- Meng Zhang, Loyola Marymount University, “Obtaining Timber for the Court: Tribute, Market, and Frontier”
- Chelsea Wang, Claremont McKenna College, “Ming vs. Qing: Which State Communicated Faster, and Why?”
11:15 AM – 1:00 PM
Panel 364
Toward a Transregional History of East Asian Literature: New Perspectives on Canon, Reception, and Authorship
Terrace, Tower Building
- Barbara Wall, University of Copenhagen, “Why Dynamic Classics Do Not Fit into the Frame of National Literatures: A Case Study on Journey to the West”
Panel 381
Bears and Wives, Monkeys and Lovers: Animal Narratives in Late Imperial Chinese Literature PGovernor’s Square 12, Plaza Building
- Hsien Wu, City College of New York, “The Taming of the Tigress: The Making of Lady White Bone”
- Yun Bai, Yale University, “Babies and Dogs: Contesting Humanity in Late Imperial Chinese Biji Stories”
- Paola Zamperini, Northwestern University, “Monkeying Around: Animals and Lovers in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction”
Society for Ming Studies Annual Meeting and panel: March 22, 2019
Friday, March 22
7:30-9:30 pm
Governor’s Square 11
Sheraton Downtown Hotel
Denver, CO
Thanks to a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, in addition to our usual business, we will also hear pechakucha-style (read: six minutes per person) research presentations from nine Ming scholars. The presenters will highlight their primary argument, key sources used, and explore the ways in which their research connects to the Ming. It should be an interesting evening! Afterwards, we will adjourn for drinks and continued conversation.
Here is a list of the nine presenters and their presentation titles:
1) Monica Klasing Chen, a PhD Candidate at Leiden University, will present “Profitable Memory: Publishing Memory Aids for Calligraphy and Painting during the Ming Dynasty.”
2) Shiau-Yun Chen, a PhD Candidate at Cornell University, will present “Mothers of Loving-Kindness: Authorizing and Maximizing Mothers’ Legitimate Violence in the Disciplining of Children in Ming Families.”
3) Ilsoo David Cho, a fellow at Harvard University’s Korea Institute, will present “The Ming-Choson Relations after 1592.”
4) Christopher Eirkson, a visiting assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College, will present “The Yuan, Ming, and Cross-Eurasian Connections.”
5) Xiaobai Hu, a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, will present “Unruly Mountain: Transformative Encounters in the Chinese-Tibetan Borderland, 1371-1701.”
6) Sunkyu Lee, a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present “Jiangnan’s View of Pirate Traders in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China.”
7) Haiwei Liu, a PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California, will present “Confucian Elements in a Messianic Rebellion: Rethinking the Origins of the Dynastic Name ‘Ming.’”
8) Jing Liu, a PhD Candidate at Syracuse University, will present “Border Controls and Maritime Interactions between China and Korea, 1500-1637.”
9) Eloise Wright, a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, will present “Writing about the Locality in Dali, Yunnan, 1253-1675.”
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