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.
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Minutes from the Society for Ming Studies Annual Meeting 2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies was held on Friday, March 14, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio, from 7 to 9 pm.
7:00-7:10 Welcoming remarks from Tom Kelly (outgoing president)
- Welcome to Wang Guojun, incoming president
7:10–7:20 Reports and updates
- Update on Ming Studies on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, from the editor Ihor Pidhainy
- Downloads have continued to rise
- Reflections on the past five decades in the field: submissions and ideas are welcome, including items showcasing key pieces of scholarship from the journal
- Treasurer’s report by Martin Heijdra
- The Princeton library ran a successful Rare Books School, supported by the Geiss Hsu Foundation
- The Princeton library also has a fund earmarked for visitors to use its collections in Ming-related research
- Reminder of the availability of support from the Geiss Hsu Foundation, by Bruce Rusk
- Researchers may apply for projects (conferences, developing resources, etc.)
- Publishers can apply for publication subventions
7:20–7:30 elections to the board of the Society
- Three new board members were elected unanimously:
- Leigh Jenco (LSE)
- Paola Zamperini (Northwestern)
- Li Xiaorong (UCSB)
7:30–8:30 Roundtable on Global Voices in Ming Studies (funded by the Geiss-Hsu Foundation)
- Leigh Jenco (LSE) 7:30–7:45
- Sean Xiangjun Feng (University of Toronto) 7:45–8:00
- Cheng Sijia (University of Nuremberg) 8:00–8:15
- Audience Q&A and open discussion 8:15–8:30
8:30 Presentation of the Ming Studies book prize for 2025, supported by the Geiss Hsu Foundation
- Sarah Schneewind, Anne Gerritsen; Li Yuhang, and David Robinson formed the award committee, and made the award to one book this year: Keith McMahon, Saying All That Can Be Said: Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2023). The author received the award in person; he thanked the Foundation, noted that his first publication was in Ming Studies, and recalled his friendship with James Geiss.
- The award ceremony was followed by a reception.
Ming and Ming-Adjacent Panels at the 2025 AAS Annual Meeting
Ihor Pidhainy has generously compiled a list of papers on and related to the Ming at the 2025 AAS Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio (March 13-17).
Thursday, March 13
7:00-8:30 PM
1-007 – Between Materiality, Genre, and Media: Rethinking Li Yu’s (1611-1680) Corpus as a
Transmedial Project (Clark, 2nd Floor Hyatt)
- Kangni Huang, University of Southern California, “Toward a Theory of the Theater: Li Yu’s Drama Criticism and Self-Conscious Playwriting”
- Yi Zhang, Harvard University, “Words for Display: Li Yu’s Multimedia Placard Design in Xianqing ouji”
- Tina Lu, Yale University, “Genre, Media, and Repetitions in Li Yu’s Writing”
- Maria Franca Sibau, Emory University, “Rescrambled Families: Material, Medium, and Message in Li Yu’s Qiao tuanyuan”
1-009 – The Arts of Detection: Emerging Visions of Techniques in Early Modern Chinese Culture
(Knox – 2nd Floor, Hyatt)
- Guojun Wang, McGill University, “From “Five Observations” to Forensic Examinations: Modalities of Truth Discovery in the Court-case Drama of Imperial China”
- Wenfei Wang, Harvard University, “The Grotesque Body in Surgical Imaginations: An Alternative Epistemology of Anatomy in Early Modern Chinese Narrative”
- Joo-hyeon Oh, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “Investigating Illusion: Clam Towers and the Nature of Natural Knowledge in Late Imperial China”
1-018 – The Blurring of Social and Familial Relationships in Late Imperial East Asia (Rm A213)
- Mark McNally, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, “Foreign Expectations and Native Realities: Parent-Child Relationships in the Ryukyuan Royal Histories”
- Jing Shen, Eckerd College, “Friendships and Conflict during the Lantern Festival”
- Kuan Liu, University of Minnesota, “Friendship in Print: Du Jun’s Commentaries in Li Yu’s Chuanqi Drama and Short Story Collections”
- Sungoh Yoon, Korean Science Academy of Kaist, “Negotiating Subjecthood and Sovereignty in a Ming Loyalist Discourse: Hwangjo Yuminrok 皇朝遺民錄 (Records of the Loyalist Subjects of the August Dynasty) By Wang Tŏkku 王德九 (1788–1863)
1-024 – Anxiety, Communication, and Cartography in the Making of Modern East Asia (Room B244/245)
- Daniel Said Monteiro, Trinity College “Civilizational Anxiety: Positioning Tokugawa Japan on the Early Modern Globe”
Friday, March 14
9:00-10:30 AM
2-001 – The Politics and Aesthetics of Transnational Art (Room A221)
- Diana X Yang, University of Texas, Dallas, “Seaborne Splendor: Translatability and Vitality of Zhangzhou-Style Designs on Japanese Ceramics Created by Okuda Eisen and Inuyama Workshops”
2-010 – Formulaic Texts and the Technics of Living in Late Imperial China (Hyatt, 2nd Floor)
- Fei-Hsien Wang, University of Indiana, Bloomington, “Let’s Eat More Sweet Potatoes: Recipes, Statecraft, and Food Management”
- Xiaoqian Ji, Duke University, Kunshan, “Beard Blackening Medicine: Recipes, Artifice, and Virile Power in Late Imperial China”
- Ying Zhang, Independent Scholar, “Meanings of “Proven” (yan) in Medical Recipes in Late Imperial China”
- He Bian, Princeton University, “From Accumulation to Historicization: How Ming Physicians Investigated Past Medical Formulas”
2-013 – Living at the Fringes of the Empire: State Policies, Commercial Ventures, and Urban Life
in the Frontiers of Early Modern China (Knox- 2nd Floor, Hyatt)
- Sunkyu Lee, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, “Walls, Warfare, and Welfare: The Social and Political Dynamics of City Wall Reconstruction Along the Northern Frontier
2-032 – Transregional Colonial and Commercial Interactions of Northeast Asia in Manchuria:
From the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century (Room A123)
- Rui Ding, University of British Columbia, “Ploughing the Ming’s Land with Korean Oxen: Draught Cattle Trade and 14th-15th Century China-Korean Borderland Agriculture”
- Yirui Ma, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Raiders or Traders?: Liaodong Military Officers and Jurchen Merchants in Northeast Asian Cross-border Trade from the Mid-15th to Mid-16th Centuries”
Friday March 14
11:00-12:30
3-003 – Building and Transforming the State in Imperial China (Morrow, 2nd Floor Hyatt)
- Hao Peng, Kyoto University, “Fiscal Reforms, Partisan Politics, and Statecraft Thought during the Late Ming Period: On the Minister of Revenue, Ni Yuanlu (1593–1644)”
- Zhaoshen Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Unfading Memory of a Fallen Dynasty: Emperor Chongzhen in the Discourse of the Chinese Communist Party”
3-009 – Time Passing By: Gender, Temporality, and Writing of Age in Middle and Late Imperial
China (Fairfield, Hyatt 2nd floor)
- Jingya Guo, Cornell University, “The Politics of Age and Medicalization of In-Chamber Girls’ Bodies in Late Imperial China”
- Tianyu Shi, University of Hamburg, “Vanishing Fragrance, Shattered Jade: Defining Social Identity through the Death Rituals of Young Women”
3-013 – Constructing the Sacred in Daoist Visual Art (Union E, 2nd Floor, Hyatt)
- Mengyuan Chai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Picturing the Atemporality: Illustrations in Mount Luofu Gazetteers in the Late Ming Dynasty”
Friday March 14
1:30 – 3:00 PM
4-006 – The Authority of Lowly Intermediaries in Late Imperial China (Rm A-125)
- Tristan Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Between God’s Messenger and Heaven’s Emperor: Muslim Eunuchs in Ming China”
- Ying Zhang, Leiden University, “Jailers as Officials’ Intermediaries in the Ming”
4-010 – How to Do Wonders with Places: Rethinking Literary Geography through Late Imperial
Chinese Literature (Rm A-122)
- Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Dark Paths and Sinister Courts: Space and Place in the Netherworld”
- Yinghui Wu, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Poetics of Placemaking in the Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Performance”
- Roland Altenburger, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, “Altered Literary Geographies: Place and Space in 16th- and 17th-Century Novels with a Shandong Setting”
4-011 – Bones, Books, Stalks, and Sky: Magic and Divination through Ancient Chinese Texts
(Rm A 115)
- Jingyi Chen, University of Hong Kong, “From Opposition to Advocacy: The Attitude of Johann Adam Schall von Bell Toward European Judicial Astrology During the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties”
Friday, March 14
4:00-5:30 PM
5-054E Poster Session (Exhibition Hall Foyer)
- Yajo (Ya-Chiao) Joyce Li, University of Oregon, “Monetary Value, Political
Implications, and Shifting Perceptions: The Duality of Colored-Pupils in The Eunuch
Sanbao’s Journeys in the Western Seas”
5-007 – Migration and Empire Building: New Insights into Movement Dynamics in Qing
Dynasty Manchuria (Rm A-125)
- Xiao Chen, University of California, Riverside, “Frontier, Convicts, and Slavery in the Early Qing Empire”
- Chenxi Luo, Reed College, “Leaving Manchuria: Imperial Artisans and Post-Conquest Migration in the Early Qing Dynasty”
5-011 – Bureaucracies of Shit: Excremental Technologies in Chinese History from the Tenth to
the Twenty Century (Rm B233)
- Sijia Cheng, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, “The Profits of Manure: Excremental Economy and Agronomic Ethics in Ming-Qing China”
Friday, March 14
7:30-9:30 PM
Society of Ming Studies – Annual Meeting: Morrow, 2nd Floor (Hyatt)
Presentations:
- Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics): Ming Intellectual History
- Sean Feng (University of Toronto): Ming literature
- Chen Sijia (Nuremberg): Ming agricultural history
Ming Book Prize Award
SATURDAY, MARCH 15
8:30-10:00
6-002 – AI, LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Sinology and Beyond (Rm
A211)
- Hongsu Wang, Peking University, “Discovering Social Networks in Chinese History”
6-003 – Reflections: The Adaptation of Image, Artifact, and Practice in Forging Identity (Rm
B233)
- Sherry Pan, University of Michigan, “Pilgrimage and Power: Ming Eunuchs and the Goddess of Mount Tai”
6-010 – Literature Beyond Literature (Rm A112)
- Paul A. Vierthaler, Princeton University, “The Cross-Pollination of Literary and Historical Information in Late Imperial China”
- Thomas Kelly, Harvard University, “A Poetics of Book Burning, circa 1645”
6-014 – Rethinking Gender and the Uncanny in Early Modern Chinese Cultures (Rm A224)
- Chengjuan Sun, Kenyon College, “Uncanny Coexistence of Passion and Duty: Grafting the Late Ming Literati-Courtesan Romance onto the Qing Companionate Marriage”
- Dan Luo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, “Ghostly Talents: Transmitting Ideal Femininity in Late Imperial and Cross-Cultural Contexts”
- Li Guo, Utah State University, “Women Warriors as Uncanny Exterritorial Heroines in the Late Ming Tanci Jade Bracelets”
6-026 – China in the Eurasian World: Military, Diplomacy, and Rulership in Comparative
Perspectives, circa 1200-1400 (Rm A212)
- Yiming Ha, Pomona College, “The Great Military Transition: The Mongol-Yuan and Ilkhanate Army in Comparative Perspective”
- Yiwen Li, City University of Hong Kong, “Constructing the Heavenly Realm: A Nanjing Monastery in the Yuan-Ming Transition”
- Haiwen Liu, Shanghai Tech, “Follow Their Own Customs: Mongol Rulership in Chinese and Persian Sources”
- Sharon Z Zang, University of Pittsburgh, “Celestial Horses and Gift Diplomacy: Mongol Yuan China and the Making of Global Eurasia”
Saturday March 16
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
7-050C Poster Session (Exhibition Hall Foyer)
- Mengzhen Xue, Shanghai Theatre Academy, “Recalling the Stage: The Reading and Readership of Drama Anthologies in the Late Ming Dynasty”
7-013 – Re-Examining Woodblock Printing in Premodern East Asia: Plurality, Flexibility, and
Creativity (Rm A2223)
- Scott Gregory, University of Arizona, “Carving the Western Seas”
- Huan Jin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “Modularized Interpersonal Letters: A Study of The Brocade Sack of Letters”
- Xin Yu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Uniformity with Differences: The Cultural Meanings of Woodblock Printing in the Production of Family Genealogies in Late Imperial China”
Saturday, March 16
2:00-3:30 PM
8-010 – Mappings of Authority and Identity—The Interplay between Geography and Culture in
Texts on Urban Space from Early to Late Imperial China (Rm A223)
- Jeffrey Liu, University of South Dakota, “Praying Under Emperor and Elites: Measuring Commoners’ Involvement in Buddhism in Ming-Dynasty Hangzhou with Proxy Indicators”
8-012 – Resource Management in Qing China (1644-1912) (Rm B140-141)
- Yijun Wang, New York University, “The Power of Sweetness: The Tribute of Orange in Late Imperial China”
8-015 – Cultural Dynamics and Textual Fluidity in Late Imperial Chinese Narratives (Knox)
- Amy Zhang, Harvard University, “Anthologizing Romance: Three Editions of a Mid-Ming Classical Tale”
- Chuyan Ye, Minzu University of China, “Evolving Episodicity: Narrative Subdivision and Structural Verse in the Chantefable Tale of Yunmen”
- Canaan Morse, University of Virginia, “A Transmedial Idyll: Mapping Traditional Space Across Media in the Dream at Qiantang”
- Xiaoqiao Ling, Arizona State University, “Praying to the Moon: A Spatial Understanding of Reading for Leisure”
Saturday, March 16
4:00-5:30 PM
9-004 – Seeking New Legitimacy: Producing Confucianisms in Early Modern and Contemporary
China (Rm 214)
- Huiqiao Yao, Trinity University, “Assembling Wang Yangming the Sage: The Intertextuality of the Confucian Genealogy in Late Ming China”
9-011 – Revisiting Rulership and Imperial Order of Ming China (1368-1644) (Madison, 2nd Fl, Hyatt)
- Sean Cronan, University of California Berkeley, “The Scholar-Envoys: Early Ming Diplomacy with Đại Việt, 1368-1404”
- Yuanyuan Duan, Cornell University, “Brokering Buddhist Statecrafts of Dali Kingdom: Esoteric Buddhist Masters from Southwest Ming China Frontier in the Ming Court, 1400-1424”
- Ting-chih Wu, Academica Sinica, “Securing Farmlands and Pasturelands: The Construction of Border Walls and Forts along the South Edge of Ordos in Northwest Ming China, 1450-1550”
- Lina Nie, Texas A&M, “Before the Tally Trade: Diplomacy Exchanges between Japan and Ming China in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”
9-014 – Poetry in the Making: Textual Variants, Fluidity, and Reception in Premodern China
(Champaign, 2nd Floor, Hyatt)
- Jing Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Tracing Textual Variants via Digital Humanities Analysis: Metadata Fluidity in Late Imperial Anthologies of Early Classical Chinese Poetry”
9-020 – Circulatory Systems: The Chinese Diaspora in the Making and Unmaking of States
(Rm A121)
- Peter Thilly, University of Mississippi, “Maritime China and the Final Battle for Ming Restoration”
Sunday, March 16
9:00-10:30 AM
11-002 – Image, Object, and Ethos in Visual Representation (Rm A114)
- Fuwei Li, University of Arkansas, “The Princess’s Elegant Gatherings: A Dialogue between the Participation of Yuan Aristocratic Women in Kuizhangge(奎章阁) and the View of Jiefu (节妇) in 14th Century Neo-Confucianism”
- Yifan Zhang, Columbia University, “Playing with Cards: Surface, Substance, and the Ludic Space of Card Playing in Early Modern China”
11-007 – The Poetics and Politics of Information in China: From the Ming Dynasty to the Present
(Rm A121)
- Xiangjun Feng, University of Toronto, “How to Transmit a Heavenly Scroll: An Informatic Reading of Quelling the Demons’ Revolt from the Fourteenth Century to Contemporary China”
- Jiaqi Wang, Columbia University, “Recounting the Recent History of Manchu Invasions: Rumor, Storytelling, and Local Community in 17th-Century Jiangnan”
11-008 – Printing and the Production of Everyday Knowledge in Late Imperial and Modern
China (Rm A125)
- Ren-yuan Li, Academia Sinica, “Creating Your Own Documents: Commercial Publishing and the Emergence of Document Manuals in the 14th Century”
- Joan Judge, York University, “New Conceptions: Modes of Knowing in Chinese Encyclopedias for Everyday Life”
- Yiran Xiao, Arizona State University, “The Evolution of Legal Knowledge in Everyday Encyclopedias in Late Imperial China”
11-015 – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Transmitting and Transforming Symbolic Animals Within and Beyond the Sinosphere (Rm B235)
- Brian Dott, Whitman College, “Bearing the Weight of the World: The Enduring Presence of Stone BixiStelae Carriers”
- Yuxi Pan, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, “Myth, Mystique, and Meaning: The Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Qilinin Fourteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Export Porcelain”
Sunday, March 16
10:45 AM -12:15 PM
12-005 – Eunuchs in Chinese History: Identities, Fantasies, and Legacies (Rm A211)
- Keith McMahon, University of Kansas, “The Powerful Eunuch”
12-006 – Push and/or Pull: Textual Forces in Literary Sinitic Cultures (Rm A124)
- Young-kwon Oh, Arizona State University, “Writing in the Moment: Politics and Textual Physicality”
- Mengling Wang, Furman University, “Textual Forces and Affective Affinities: The Paratextual Dynamics of Yutai xinyong玉台新詠 in Early Modern China”
12-007 – Jealousy, Hatred, and Resentment: The Representation and Utilization of Unsettling
Emotions in Pre-Modern East Asia (Room A210)
- Shiau-Yun Chen, Ball State University, “Celebration and Suspicion: Women’s Exemplary “Non-Jealousy” in Ming China (1368-164)”
12-009 – Bodies of Knowledge: Learning from Emotions, Play, and Desire in Late Ming China
(Rm A-123)
- Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics, “Transmitting Voices: Folksong Collecting and its Register of Non-Elite Experience”
- Pauline C. Lee, Louis University, “Play and Virtue in Late-Ming China”
- Alia Goehr, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “The Moral Mind’s Outrage in Zhang Nai’s Must-Read Classical Literature (Bidu guwen 必讀古文)”
- Cheuk Yee Wai, Warwick University, “Recreating a Discourse of Female Bodies in Fictional Narratives”
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
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