Here are the Manchu-related papers and panels at this year’s Association for Asian Studies meeting – we encourage you to check them out! (All times given in local Hawaii time)
Friday, March 25
11:30 AM-1:00 PM (Virtual)
Paper: “On the Establishment of the Chinese Terminology for Plants and Animals as a Byproduct of the Qianlong Emperor’s Manchu Language Reform” by Mårten Söderblom Saarela (Academia Sinica).
Part of the panel “An Early Modern Epistemological Turn? Natural Knowledge Production in the East Asian Cultural Sphere” (C-V58)
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (Virtual)
Panel: E-V34: Becoming and Unbecoming Manchu: Revisiting the Role of the State in Manchu Identity Formation During and After the Qing, chaired by Yuanyuan Qiu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Includes the papers:
- “Only A Temporary Home: Runaway Manchu Bondservants in the Early Qing Period” by Chenxi Luo (Washington University St Louis)
- “Onomastics and Gender: The Making of Manchu Women through Chinese Language in Official and Private Texts” by Chengyi Zhou (University of Hong Kong)
- “Manchu Identity and Realigning Manchu Legal Privileges in the 18th-Century Qing Empire” by Xiao Chen (UIUC)
- “Massacres of the Manchus in 1911: Ethno-racialization of Manchu Identity by Late Qing Revolutionaries” by Kin-ian (Monica) Chang (University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Lars Laamann (SOAS)
Saturday, March 26
10:30 AM-12:00 PM (Virtual)
Paper: “The Making of the Manchu Maritime World: Beiyang Hai’an Tu and the Qing’s Knowledge about Maritime Borderlands” by Cheng-heng Lu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University).
Part of the panel: “The Stakes of Engagement: Borders and Exchanges in Late Imperial and Modern China” (F-V48)
6:00 PM-7:30 PM (Virtual)
Panel J-V36: “Manchu Pedagogy and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the 21st Century: A Roundtable to Honor Dr. Gertraude Roth-Li,” chaired by He Bian (Princeton)
Discussants:
- Mark Elliott (Harvard)
- Loretta Kim (University of Hong Kong)
- Ning Chia (Central College)
- Kicengge (Otemon Gakuin)
- Shih-hsuan Lin (National Taipei University)
- David Porter (McGill)
Sunday, March 27
9:00 AM-10:30 AM (Virtual)
Panel K-V35: “A Quantitative Economic and Social History of Ming-Qing China: Manchus, Mongols, and the Han Chinese,” chaired by Yitong Qiu (LSE)
Papers:
- “Power and Identity of Manchu and Mongol Bannermen in the Qing Era: A Study of Household Economies by Means of Confiscation Inventory Lists,” by Yitong Qiu (LSE)
- “Of Dutch traders, Russian Informants and the Manchu Emperor’s Jesuit Servants: The Birth of Europe’s First Map of Manchuria,” by Jianyuan Sun (Washington)
- “Numbers, Fiscal Capacity, and Capacity-Building in Ming Qing China, 1500-1800” by Ziang Liu (LSE)
- “The Missing Daughters in Imperial China: Re-estimating the Survival of Daughters, 1350-1900,” by Sijie Hu (Renmin University)
Discussant: Stephen Platt (UMass Amherst)
10:45 AM-12:15 PM (Convention Center, Room 322B)
Paper: “Curating the Manchu Ideal: Masculinity, Power, and Personnel at the Yongzheng Court,” by Lex Jing Lu (Clark University).
Paper: “‘Not Dreaming of Saddle and Horses, But Yearning for Beautiful Essays’: The Writing and Identity of Manchu-Mongol Female Poet Naxun Lanbao” by Ding Yizhuang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and Yulian Wu (Michigan State).
Part of the panel “Gender, Ethnicity, and Empire in Late Imperial and Republican China” (L08)