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China and the World

Conference Schedule

Saturday, 2/12/22
Panels held in Buttrick Hall 206

8:30 am
Welcome

8:45 am – 10:15 am
PANEL 1 Goods and Circulations

  1. Yiyun (Malcolm) Huang (Ph.D. candidate, UTK): Tea and the Construction of
    Early Modern Sino-European Cultural Bridges
  2. Peter Thilly (Ole Miss): The Origins of Flexible Citizenship in Treaty Port China
  3.  William Ma (LSU): Ornamental Barbarians: European Figures as Decorative
    Motifs in Guangdong
  4.  Dan Du (UNC Charlotte): Green Gold and Paper Gold: Financing the Chinese-
    American Tea Trade Before the Opium War

Chair and Discussant: Shellen Wu

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
PANEL 2 The Colonial and Semi-Colonial

  1. Nicole Richardson (UNC Upstate): Sick Woman of Asia: New Culture Attacks on
    Traditional Chinese Pregnancy
  2. James Hudson (UNC Pembroke): Isolated Colonialism: Foreign Firms in 1920s
    Changsha
  3.  Liang Luo (UKY): Some Investigations into a January 1937 Letter from Yuan
    Muzhi to Helen van Dongen

Chair and Discussant: Margherita Zanasi

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Keynote and lunch 
Alumni Hall 201
(limited lunch boxes available)

Speaker: Dr. Carla Nappi, University of Pittsburgh
“Illegible Cities: Translating Early Modern China”

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
PANEL 3 Imperial Dramas

  1. Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt): Female Suicide in Late Imperial Chinese Drama
  2.  Richard Wang (UF): Daoist Investiture and the Structure of The Journey to the
    West."
  3.  Qiancheng Li (LSU): The Dramatic and Theatrical in the Novel Xiyou bu (Further
    Adventures on the Journey to the West)
  4.  Karin Myhre (UGA): The multiple body problem in Zheng Guangzu’s Qiannü’s
    Departing Soul

Chair and Discussant: Maria Sibao

3:30 pm-3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
PANEL 4 Knowledge Creation

  1. Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt): Knowing Exotica: Edible Birds’ Nests and the Cultures
    of Knowledge in Early Modern China
  2.  Jianjun He (UKY): A Girl’s Passion for Cats: Sun Sunyi and Three Qing
    Encyclopedias on Cats
  3.  Robert Batchelor (Georgia Southern): “Seeing Before the State: Taiwan’s Pre-
    colonial Status in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Cartography.”
  4.  Kevin Kind (Ph.D. Candidate Johns Hopkins): The Xiang Army, Smallpox Vaccination, and the Origins of Public Health in Late Qing Turpan, 1881-1911Chair and Discussant: Guojun Wang

5:20 pm – 6:00 pm
Discussion about future conferences

Sunday, 2/13
panels held in Buttrick Hall 306

9:00 am – 10:00 am
PANEL 5 Lineages and Relations

  1.  Masha Kobzeva (UTK): Mokkan 木簡 Wooden Documents: Transfer, Adaptation, and Transformation of Sinographic Text in Korean Peninsula.
  2. Ihor Pidhainy (Kennesaw State): A Case Study of Women and the Five Cardinal Relationships

Chair and Discussant: Guojun Wang

10:15 am – 11:45 pm
PANEL 6 Mao and Beyond

  1. Juanjuan Peng (Georgia Southern): Techno Mobile in Uganda: The Historical
    and social implications of Chinese private investments in Africa
  2. Pengfei Zhao (UF): Changing Fate: The Cultural Revolution’s Rural Youth in
    Transition to Post-Mao China
  3. Yaowen Dong (Ph.D. at UW Madison, based in Memphis): “An Excellent
    Example of Failure”: The Tale of Water Margin and the Final Struggles of the
    Chinese Cultural Revolution
  4.  Shellen Wu (UTK): Cold War New Empire – the Global Origins of Belt and Road

Chair and Discussant: Ruth Rogaski
12:00-lunch and parting thoughts

Sponsors:
James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation
Vanderbilt University Office of the Provost
Vanderbilt University Department of History
Vanderbilt University Department of Asian Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of History
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Asian Studies Program