2025 Program Information
DAY 1, April 12th 2025
Location: 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge – Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
All time is in US Central Time
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Breakfast
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM: Welcome Remarks
Remarks by Luming Xu & Rhonda Ran Huo, heads of the symposium
10:10 AM-11:10 AM: Roundtable Discussion “Imperial Knowledge Production in Borderlands.”
Jinju Wu, “Between Words and Worlds: Translation, Manipulation, and Intermediaries in Qing Legal Cases Involving the Miao.”
Rhonda Ran Huo, “Imperial Projects and Individual Research: Studies of Mongolia and Xinjiang by Han Chinese from 1700 to 1850”
Luming Xu. “Surveying the Land for Our Nation: Land Ownership, Agricultural Migration, and Nationality Policy in Manchurian Borderland, 1912-1944”
11:20 AM-12:20 PM: Roundtable Discussion “Regulating Bodies and Identities in Modern China, 1911-1949”
Xiaoyan Ren, “‘Each Person Has One Name Only’: Regulation of Personal Naming in Republican China.”
Haiyi Li, “The shape of sex: hermaphroditism and medical invention of genders in the 1930s China.”
Yating Li, “Ubiquitous Womb Maladies: Medical Knowledge, Women’s Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1902-1949)”
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Coffee Hour
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Keynote Speech “Rethinking the Confucian-Legalist Ideology of Late Imperial Chinese Law and Society” by Doctor Li Chen