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, 2^nd 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 – 2^nd 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, 2^nd 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- 2^nd 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, 2^nd 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 2^nd 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, 2^nd 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, 2^nd 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, 2^nd 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, 2^nd 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 14^th 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”