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