Friday, May 18

• Desmond Cheung (Portland State U.) Scaling Locusts: Environmental Statecraft in Ming China
• Kathlene Baldanza (Penn. State U.) Miasmic Mists of the Mountains: Medicine and Environment in the Sino-Viet Borderlands
• Timothy Brook (UBC) Environmental Drivers of Ming Epidemics
• Wu Ting-chih (U. of Pennsylvania) Natural Disasters, Irrigation Canals, and the Production of Grain: The Case of Ningxia in the Ming Period

• Chelsea Zi Wang (Claremont McKenna Coll.) Transcending Bureaucratic Scale: The Immediacy of Remoteness in Ming Triennial Audiences
• Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) The Working Hand: Scaling Bodies of Expertise in Ming Local Gazetteers
• Volker Scheid (U. of Westminster) From Acupuncture Channels to Topographic Regions: Herbalising the Acupuncture Body in Late Ming China
• Wu Yinghui (UCLA) Scaling and Pictorial Imagination in the Late Ming

• Aurelia Campbell (Boston Coll.) Issues of Scale and Memory in Emperor Yongle’s Mount Wudang
• Pang Huiping (Art Institute of Chicago) “Planting Fungus at the Tiaosou-an Cottage”: The Rise and Fall of the Garden Builder Chen Jiru (1558–1639)
• Richard John Lynn (U. of Toronto) A Study of Wu Bin’s Paintings Scroll “Ten Views of a Lingbi Rock” (Shimian lingbi tu)
• Kathleen Ryor (Carleton Coll.) The Hundred Flowers and Myriad Things: Flower Cultivation as Cosmos in the Mid-Late Ming

Saturday May 19

• Christopher Eirkson (U. of Pittsburgh) Demonolithizing the Ming Great Wall: Steppe Frontier Wall-Building as a Eurasian Phenomenon
• Ilsoo Cho (Harvard U.) Realism over Loyalism: Korea in the Ming War Against the Manchus
• Liu Jing (Syracuse U.) Commerce, Pirates, and Military Men: Chinese-Korean Maritime Borders in the Early Seventeenth Century
• Lee Sunkyu (UCLA) Changes of Scales in Maps of Northern Border Territories between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century China

• Sarah Basham (UBC) The Individual Title as Microscope and Microcosm: Wu bei zhi and the Social Production of Statecraft Knowledge
• Scarlett Jang (Williams Coll.) Emperors, Palace Eunuchs, and the Ming’s Imperial Art Collection
• Monica Klasing Chen (Leiden U.) For the People, from the People: The “Painting Section” (huapu men) of Ming Daily-Use Encyclopedias
• Nathan Vedal (Pennsylvania State U.) Scaling the Infinite: Diagrams and Information Compression in Ming China

• Eloise Wright (UC Berkeley) Re-Defining Dali: The Production of a Locality in Ming Yunnan
• Hu Xiaobai (U. of Pennsylvania) Transformative “Qiang”: Ethnic Discourse, Frontier Crossing and Imperial Categorization on the Ming-Tibetan Borderland
• Du Yongtao (Oklahoma State U.) A Local Identity Breakdown: Locality and the State in Huizhou’s Tax Controversy of 1577
• Wang Yuanfei (U. of Georgia) Turning Pirates: Vernacularity, Trade, and Race in Late Ming Narratives of Japanese

• Wu Ying (Peking U.) The Exquisite Pavilions and the Landscapes Beyond in Tang Xianzu’s Fu Poetry
• Lynn Struve (Indiana U.) How Sizable is the Unreal? Scaling Ming Dreams
• Wei Yinzong (UBC) Literary Commentary and the Layout of Late-Ming Books

• Liu Haiwei (U. of Southern California) Mandate and Manipulate: Prophecies as a Way of Constructing Political Legitimacy during the Yuan-Ming Transition
• Chen Shiau-Yun (Cornell U.) What Constituted “Loving Mothers”? Authorizing and Controlling Mothers’ Violence in the Disciplining of Children in Ming Families
• Sarah Schneewind (UCSD) Scaling Parenthood
• Ha Yiming (Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology) Resurrecting the Weisuo: Ming Military Policy during the Jingtai to Chenghua Reigns