Save the Date: Manchu Studies Group Meeting-in-Conjunction at AAS 2021!
Dear members and friends:
We are pleased to announce that the Manchu Studies Group will host a meeting-in-conjunction over ZOOM on
Wednesday March 24
8:30-10:00pm EDT
Members and friends of the Manchu Studies Group are warmly invited to attend the virtual meeting. An agenda will be distributed at manchustudiesgroup.org soon. If you would like to sign up for membership (with voting rights), please do so at https://www.manchustudiesgroup.org/membership/.
Registration link:
When: Mar 24, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdeuprDIjH9WxNtsJFaZ9yH_O2g2Ep3bD
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Below is a list of panels and papers related to Manchu studies in the upcoming virtual AAS Conference (March 22-26, 2021). The list is meant for your reference and by no means exhaustive. For the complete program and instructions of viewing, see https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/conference-program/.
Monday, March 22
10:00am-11:30am EDT
A006: Coping with Abundance: Categories of Knowledge in Early Modern East Asia
Reading the Encyclopedia: Instructions for Use in Late Imperial Chinese Compilations
– Nathan Vedal, Washington University in St. Louis
The Manchu Mirrors and the Language of Natural History in High Qing China
– He Bian, Princeton University and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Academia Sinica
Monday, March 22
10:00am-11:30am EDT (yes, same time as above)
A032: Trajectories of Multilingualism and Translation in (Early) Modern East Asia
Multilingual Empires: The Yuan-Ming-Qing Transition
– Johannes S. Lotze, Hebrew University
Monday March 22
3:00pm-4:30pm EDT
C003: China in Many Languages: Minority Literatures and the Politics of Translation
Strange Tales from Manchu Studios: Manchu Language Translations of Liaozhai Zhiyi
– Sarah Bramao-Ramos, Harvard University
Tuesday March 23
8:30-10:00am EDT
D009: Frontier Encounters and Knowledge Production in Qing Inner Asia: Competing Narratives between the Qing State and Travellers to Frontiers
Chair: Mark C. Elliott, Harvard University
What Were They Doing There: Mandarin Travel Logs on Mongolia
– Kaijun Chen, Brown University
Borderland Territorial Bureaucracy, Official Crimes, and the Qing State Capacity in Tibet in the Late 18th Century
– Lei Lin, Harvard University
Travels and Frontier in Eighteenth-Century China
– Huiying Chen, University of Illinois, Chicago
Negotiating Geography in 19th Century Qing Mongolia
– Anne-Sophie Pratte, Harvard University
Discussant: Matthew W. Mosca, University of Washington
Tuesday March 23
8:30-10:00am EDT (same time as above!)
D016: Patterns of Patronage in Qing Beijing: Decentering Chinese Art History in the Long Eighteenth Century
After the Fall: Remembering Han-martial Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century
– Nixi Cura, University of Glasgow
Tuesday March 23
3:00-4:30pm EDT
F012: Locality and Temporality between Qing China and Northeast Asia
Chair: Ling-Wei Kung, Columbia University
A Treasury of Names: Linguistic Manjurization and the Synergy of Northeast Asian Cultures
– Loretta Kim, University of Hong Kong
Those Ridiculous Monks: The Korean Encounter with Tibetan Buddhism in Qing’s Mukden
– Nianshen Song, University of Maryland
Legitimacy, Literacy, and Modernity: The Dissemination of Knowledge through Nationalist, Communist, and Manchukuo Calendars, 1912-1945
– YuanChong Wang, University of Delaware
Unpacking Qing China: Manchu Philology, Eurasian Geopolitics, and Global Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Germany
– Ling-Wei Kung, Columbia University
Discussant: Evelyn Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday March 23
3:00-4:30pm EDT (same time as above)
F015: New Qing History Meets the Sea? A Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Chris P.C. Chung, University of Toronto
Discussants:
Chris P.C. Chung, University of Toronto
Laura Hostetler, University of Illinois, Chicago
Xing Hang, Brandeis University
Robert J. Antony, Shandong University
Sunkyu Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Wednesday March 24
8:30-10:00am EDT
G009: Know Yourself and Know the Other: Information, Intelligence and Scholarship in Eurasia
Chair: by Jianyuan Sun, University of Washington
The Three Sun Tzus: A Manual on Strategy
– Scott Boorman, Yale University
Jesuit Missionaries vs. Tsar’s Diplomats: Europe’s Discovery of the Amur Region, ca. 1690-1750
– Jianyuan Sun, University of Washington
Qing China, Mughal India and the Ottoman Near East: The Canonical Heuristics of Sovereign Governance in the Seventeenth Century
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Discussant: Gregory Afinogenov, Georgetown University
Wednesday March 24
8:30-10:00am EDT (same time as above)
G012: New Views on the “Conquest Dynasties”
Chair: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
Rethinking the label “Conquest Dynasties”
-Valerie Hansen, Yale University
Beyond the “Conquerors” and “Conquered” Dichotomy: A Social Network Analysis of the Yuan Dynasty Officials
-Wonhee Cho, Academy of Korean Studies
Assimilating the Classics: The Qing Imperium’s Reworking of Cotton Textile Production
-Roslyn L. Hammers, University of Hong Kong
Tantric Means to Conquest: Tibetan Buddhism, Art, and Power
-Karl Debreczeny, Rubin Museum of Art
Discussant: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University
Wednesday March 24
8:30-10:00am (same time as above)
G022: Summoning Rain into the Human World: The Many Rainmaking Traditions Across East Asia
Rainmakers for the Cosmopolitan Empire: A Historical and Religious Study of 18th-Century Tibetan Rainmaking Rituals in the Qing Dynasty
– Hanung Kim, Southern University of Science and Technology
Wednesday March 24
3:00pm-4:30pm EDT
I010: Materials Movements and Knowledge Transmissions in Qing China
Chair: Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick
Gift of Past Lives: Tracing the Rebirth Lineage of the Qianlong Emperor
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The Blue Road in 18th Century Qing Porcelain
-Ellen Huang, ArtCenter College of Design
Centralizing Skills: Imperial Networks and Knowledge Circulation in Qing Jade Production
-Yulian Wu, Michigan State University
Discussant: Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick
Wednesday March 24
8:30-10:00pm EDT
Manchu Studies Group Meeting in conjunction
(registration link see above)
Thursday March 25
8:30-10:00am EDT
J018: Strategy and Statecraft in Imperial China
Chair: Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science
Death and the Imagination of the Qing Monarchy: The Suicides of Chinese Royalists 1870s-1920s
-Zhixin Luo, Binghamton University
Thursday March 25
12:00-1:30pm EDT
K013: New Perspectives on Economic Life and Imperial Formations in Early Modern and Modern Asia
Chair: Jessica Hanser, University of British Columbia
From Investment Risk to Imperialist Representation: Global Capital, Legal Dispute, and Late Qing Legal Reform
-Xiaowen Hao, University of California, Los Angeles
Competing Imperialism and Industrial Forestry in the Yalu River Frontier (1904-1932)
-Xiang Chi, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Friday March 26
12:00pm-1:30pm EDT
N011: Japan as a Site for Discourses on Religion and Modernity
Towards a “Modern Manchu-Mongolian Buddhism”: Religious Spatializations within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
-Daigengna Duoer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday March 26
12:00pm-1:30pm EDT
N020: Sociocultural Dimensions of Transregional Intelligence Gathering in East Asia, 1450-1850
Chair: by Kenneth Swope, University of Southern Mississippi
Sea Routes, Intelligence Gatherers, and the Regional Integration of the Northern Yellow Sea in the Seventeenth Century
-Jing Liu, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Friday March 26
3:00pm-4:30pm EDT
P011: States and Fugitives: Justice and Diplomacy Across Boundaries, 1600s-1900s
Chair: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan
Crossing the Yalu for Freedom: Jin Fugitives in Chosŏn Korea, 1619-1637
-Jaymin Kim, University of St. Thomas
From Detainees to Diplomats: Eighteenth-Century Captive Exchange between China and Burma
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Fugitive Revolutionaries, Extradition Treaties, and the End of Qing
-Jenny H. Day, Skidmore College
Discussant: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan
On-demand individual papers
W053: The Manchu Voices: A Linguistic Method on Zidishu’s Authorship Attribution
-Yuanyuan Su, University of Oxford
Panels relevant to Manchuria as a region:
Monday March 22
10:00am-11:30am
A022: New Approaches to Infrastructure in Japan’s Empire in the Twentieth Century
Red Brick Know-how: The Production of Technical Expertise in Colonial Manchuria (1905-1945)
-Yuting Dong, Harvard University
From Manchuria to Postwar Japan: Knowledge Transfer Through In-house Training at the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR)
-Sumiyo Nishizaki, Ritsumeikan University