Tentative Schedule
Friday, May 22, 2009
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2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks 2:15 – 5:00 Transnational Reflections Keke Zhao (Oxford University) – Title TBA Ye Liu (University of London) – “A Planned Meritocracy: the Expansion of Higher Education and Social Mobility in Post-Communist China” Nicole Barnes (UC Irvine) – “WWII public health crisis” (title?) Tom Narins (UCLA)– “What’s going on? - China-Latin American Connections 2009” 4:30-5:30 Discussion
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 |
9:30-9:50 Continental Breakfast 10:00-11:00 Media and Authority Patricia Nash (Washington University) – “Whether against Feudalism, Reactionaries, or Imperialism: Chinese Communist Portrayal of Hui Participation in the Founding of New China and the Creation of a Narrative of Inclusion” Yan Geng (University of Heidelberg) – “Faces of Authority: A Comparative Study of Portraits of Sung Tai Tsu and Mao Tse-tung” Matthew Cochran (UCLA) – “The Imitable Voice of Confucius” Hanmo Chang (UCLA) - “How much freedom the “goulan” theater performers could enjoy —A survey on early Chinese “zaju” drama performers in their relationship with the Court Entertainment Bureau” Discussant: Jack Chen 11:15 – 12:45 Contemporary Chinese Identity Calvin Hui (Duke University) – Bourgeois Bohemians in China: The Rise of Xiaozi (“Petit Bourgeoisie”) in Post-Socialist China Zhang Hui (UCLA) – Traditional Festival Revival and the Rise of the Discourse of the “Folk” (minjian) – A Critical Cultural Policy Analysis Discussant: Jennifer Johnson 12:45 – 1:45 Lunch 2:00 – 3:30 Judgment and Representation Joshua C. Herr (UCLA) - The World of Qu Dajun: Bandits, Material Culture, and Society in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Guangdong Meghan Cai (Arizona State University) - Reproducing Artifact for Art: Ren Yu’s Narcissus and Teapot Irena Cronin (UCLA) - The Concept of Worthiness: How Men were Deemed Worthy of Taking Leadership and Official Roles as Depicted in the Zuozhuan David Hull (UCLA) – Wavering: Representation in Mao Dun’s Dong Yao Discussant: Andrea Goldman 3:30 – 5:00 Transnational Projections Matthew Mewhinney (UC Davis) - Displacement and Refraction: Modernity in Taiwanese Colonial Fiction Chris Tong (UC Davis) –Macau from Below: Dislocating the City through Film, Architecture, and the Ethnographic Drift Lily Wong (UCSB) - History as Soft Core: The Shaw Brothers’ Yanqing Imaginations of a Transforming “Chinese Dream” Discussant: Robert Chi 5:00 – 6:00 Discussion 6:30 pm: Dinner for presenters and invited guests. |