Four members of the Lee-Campbell group will present 4 papers in 4 sessions and chair 1 session at the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Below is a schedule based on the AAS program.
5-007. Migration and Empire Building: New Insights into Movement Dynamics in Qing Dynasty Manchuria
Conv. Center, Room A125, Level 1
Friday, March 14, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Chair: Yuanyuan Qiu, China Academy of Social Sciences
Frontier, Convicts, and Slavery in the Early Qing Empire
Xiao Chen, University of California, Riverside
Leaving Manchuria: Imperial Artisans and Post-Conquest Migration in the Early Qing Dynasty
Chenxi Luo, Reed College
The Birth of Andong: Cross-Border Commerce and Immigration to Qing Manchuria
Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware
Navigating Surveillance: Individual Lives and State Control in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria
Shuang Chen, University of Iowa
Discussant:
Seonmin Kim, Korea University
Area of Study: East and Inner Asia
7-016. New Databases for the Study of Chinese History
Conv. Center, Room B240, Level 2
Saturday, March 15, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Chair: Fangqi Wen, Ohio State University
Introduction to the Chinese Political Elite Database, Version 2.0
Junyan Jiang, Columbia University
The China Government Employee Database-Qing (CGED-Q): Current Status and Future Prospects
Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Introducing the Chinese Archaeological Database (CADB)
Zhiwu Chen, University of Hong Kong
9-006. New Perspectives on the Mao Era in China: Boundaries and Boundary Crossing
Hyatt, Marion, 2nd Floor
Saturday, March 15, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Rethinking Land Reform: Equalization and Inequalization of Lands at the Village Level
Getting Revenge on Women’s Day: Struggle in and Beyond Land Reform
Brian DeMare, Tulane University
Extended Kin Networks of Political and Social Elite in Rural China, c.1965
Matthew Noellert, Hitotsubashi University
Discussant:
Jean Oi, Stanford University
9-012. Resilient Yet Fragile: New Takes on Patriarchy and its Discontents in Qing and Modern China
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Hyatt, Fairfield, 2nd Floor
Saturday, March 15, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Chair: Janet Theiss, University of Utah
“Weak Patriarchy” and Young Women’s Pursuit of Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century China
Stephanie Painter, University of Chicago
The Patriarch in Letters: Masculinity, Family Conflict, and Mythmaking in Late-Qing China
Xueqian Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
Runaway Women, Desperate Men: Petition Letters, Fragile Masculinity, and State Paternalism in Mao’s China
Xiangning Li, University of Chicago
Discussant:
Margaret Kuo, California State University, Long Beach
11-009. From Elephants to Camels: The Role of Animals in the Qing Empire’s Governance and Social Transformation
Conv. Center, Room A124, Level 1
Sunday, March 16, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM
Chair: Shuang Chen, University of Iowa
From Hunting to Farming: The Transformation of the Duyusi Households Under the Imperial Household Department in Qing China
Yuanyuan Qiu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Qing Administration of Inner Mongolia as Seen from Animal Theft Cases
Elegy of the Elephants: A Study of The Demise of the Imperial Elephant System During the Late Qing Dynasty
Xiaoshan Pei, Chinese University of Hong Kong
From Nomadic Roots to Commercial Enterprise: The Development of Chinese Camel Caravan Trade in Qing Inner Asia
George Qiao, Amherst College
Discussant:
Jonathan Schlesinger, Indiana University-Bloomington