Description

9:00 – 9:30 registration and breakfast
Purple Lounge (Rm 14-087)
9:30 – 10:00 introduction and acknowledgements from conference
coordinators
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welcome address from Prof. Vincent Shen
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keynote speaker introduction by Prof. Meng Yue
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10:00 – 11:00 keynote address by Prof. Dorothy Ko
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11:00 – 11:10 break
11:10 – 12:40 Panel 1: Nationalist Constructions
(Rm 14-081)
Discussant: Prof. Janet Poole
Moderator: Pauline Fu
Employing the Native in Constructing Nationalism
Darryl Sterk, University of Toronto
Life, Literature and Nation under the Meiji
Sean Callaghan, University of Toronto
Interpreting Pre-Modern Korea from a Resident Alien
Perspective
Yonsue Kim, University of Toronto

Panel 2: Chinese Mainland Economics
(Rm 14-353)
Discussant: Prof. Victor Falkenheim
Moderator: Lin Ling
Path Dependence and the Concentration of Ownership
and Control of Companies

Path Dependence and the Concentration of Ownership
and Control of Companies Listed in China
Cai Wei, University of Hong Kong
Reinventing the Danwei: a Journey to the Post-reform
Shougang
Li Yanfei, University of Toronto
To Get Rich is Glorious: On the Politics of Restitution in
Post-Socialist China
Mark McConaghy, University of Toronto
12:40 – 13:40 lunch
Purple Lounge (Rm 14-087)
Film showing: Mosuo Song Journey (Rm 14-081)
Directed by Diedie Wang
13:50 – 15:20 Panel 3: Representations of Social Space
(Rm 14-081)
Discussant: Prof. Graham Sanders
Moderator: Zhang Yue
Inspecting the City
Evan Johnson, University of Southern California
Representations of Animals in Lao She’s Texts
Todd Foley, New York University
Travel Writings of Japanese Artists in Colonial Taiwan,
1895-1945
Tseng Linyi, City University of New York

Panel 4: Formations of Identity
(Rm 14-353)
Discussant: Prof. Thomas Keirstead
Moderator: Wang Jing
Shanghai at the Margins of Modernity – Towards an
Hermeneutics of Intellectual Space
James Poborsa, University of Toronto
Hongkonger in Shenzhen: presentations and
performances of Hong Kong identity in Shenzhen
Christine Ling, Chinese University of Hong Kong

History and Politics in Chinese Historiography of the
Cultural Revolution in Xinjiang
Michael Evans, Indiana University
15:20 – 15:30 break
15:30 – 17:00 Panel 5: Pre-Modern Intellectual Space
(Rm 14-081)
Discussant: Professor Vincent Shen
Moderator: Catherine Xiaowen Xu
Writing History for Xue: An Analysis of Dynastic History
Textbooks in Twelfth to Early Fourteenth Century
China
Luo Yinan, Harvard University
Elevating the “Yue Yu xia” 越語下or Promoting Fan Li
范蠡?
Zhang Yue, University of Toronto
Zhuangyuan’s (状元) Status in Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-
907) and the Transition Characteristic of New Social
Class Formation
Benny Leung, University of Hong Kong

Panel 6: The Nation-State and Formations of Difference:
Theoretical Sequences in Japan
(Rm 14-353)
Discussant: Prof. Kawashima
Moderator: Jon Roberts
The Zone of Excess: Labor Power and the Regime of
Translation
Gavin Walker, Cornell University
Tradition, Constitution, and the Colony
Jeffrey Dubois, Cornell University
Nostalgic and Utopian Erasures of the Colony
Christopher Ahn, Cornell University
17:00 – 17:10 concluding remarks from conference coordinators
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