UChicago Participates at the 2024 Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle

*JOIN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES RECEPTION ON FRIDAY, MARCH 15TH AT 7:30 PM IN THE WILLOW A ROOM AT THE SHERATON GRAND SEATTLE.

The below listing reflects presentations of those that relate to the study of China, Japan, and Korea.

VIRTUAL, CHRONOLOGICAL 

Friday, March 1, 2024

Xiaogao Zhou
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 1, 2024, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST (Seattle)
Care in Transition: Transnational Adaptation and Family-Centered Approach to Gender-Affirming Care in China 

Carol Ng-He
Digital Collections Curator at the Center for the Art of East Asia
Roundtable Discussant
Friday, March 1, 2024, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PST (Seattle)
Innovations in Digital Archives: An Asian Studies Perspective 

Nick Ogonek 
Presenter - Abstract
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Friday, March 1, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Loving Literature: Creative Labor and Platform Economics in Machiya Ryōhei’s Sakashita Ataru to, Shijō No Uchū

Jiarui Sun 
Presenter - Abstract
Organized Panel Session Organizer and Chair
Friday, March 1, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Sleeping Together, on a Platform: Embodied Resistance in Chinese Voice-Chat Rooms 

IN-PERSON, CHRONOLOGICAL

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Jacob Eyferth
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
Organized Panel Session Chair
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 613 (Level 6, Convention Center)
A004 - Crafting Raw Modernity: Timber, Paper, Seed, and Lace in China’s Long Twentieth Century 

Lilian Kong
Presenter - Abstract
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 213 (Level 2, SCC)
“I Lied to You”: Fabrications of “Folk” in Chinese Found Footage Horror 

Lilian Kong
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Room 213 (Level 2, Convention Center)
A021 - Reconceptualizing Asian Social Trajectories through Transmedial Genres

Yuanxie Shi
Presenter - Abstract
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 613 (Level 6, SCC)
Between Scarcity and Abundance: The Export Lacemaking Industry Under Chinese Socialism 

Ruiling Xue
Presenter - Abstract
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 603 (Level 6, SCC)
The Efficacious Life of Medical Plants: Religious Efficacy, Productive Knowledge, and Liturgical Formalization at Nineteenth Century Qizhou
Friday, March 15, 2024

Ariel Fox
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Organized Panel Session Organizer and Discussant
Friday, March 15, 2024,  9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST (Seattle)
Aspen (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
B011 - New Directions in Late Imperial Chinese Literature: Markets, Media, and Mayhem

Wei-Cheng Lin
Associate Professor of Art History and the College
Organized Panel Session Discussant
Friday, March 15, 2024, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST (Seattle)
Issaquah B (3rd Floor, Sheraton)
B003 - A Matter of Time: Ceremony and Temporality in Chinese Art

Hoyt Long
Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Interim Director of the Japanese Language Program, Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Organized Panel Session Chair and Discussant
Friday, March 15, 2024, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST (Seattle)
Room 211 (Level 2, Convention Center)
B037 - Forerunning the Border: Alternative Topographies of Twentieth-Century Japanese Cultural Production

Susan L. Burns
Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Organized Panel Session Chair and Discussant
Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 611 (Level 6, Convention Center)
C006 - Embodying (Un)Certain Femininity: Medicine, Illness, and Healthcare in Early Modern East Asia

Yuting Dong
Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 307 (Level 3, SCC)
Infrastructure Imperialism: Revisiting Railway Imperialism in Japan 

Paola Iovene
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Organized Panel Session Discussant
Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Ballard (3rd Floor, Sheraton)
C012 - Reimagining Transition: Narrative Visions of China’s Seventeen-Year Period

Yasser A. Nasser
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Juniper (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
Mutual Benefits: Friendship with the People’s Republic of China in India, Japan, and the United Kingdom, 1949-1962 

Yasser A. Nasser
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Juniper (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
C007 - Finding Friends of the Revolution: The People’s Republic of China’s Global Stature in the Cold War

Niu Teo
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 305 (Level 3, SCC)
There Will be Pork: Promising Pigs in 20th Century US and China 

Jacob Eyferth
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 306 (Level 3, SCC)
Work Methods (gongzuofa): Standardizing the Labor Process in the Early People’s Republic 

Siting Jiang
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 304 (Level 3, SCC)
Seeing through Sound: Radio Fiction in 1930s Shanghai 

James Kennerly
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 205 (Level 2, SCC)
Banishing the Monkey, Aping the Human in Xiyouji 

Yuan Tian
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Boren (4th Floor - Union St. Tower, Sheraton)
Fictitious Identities: How Chinese Underclass Perceived Foreign Privileges through Impersonation and Forgery in Treaty Port Chongqing 

Yuan Tian
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Friday, March 15, 2024, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Boren (4th Floor - Union St. Tower, Sheraton)
E019 - Legal Knowledge As Power across the Pacific: Translation, Transgression, and Contestation in Trans-Imperial Encounters 

You Wang
Harper-Schmidt Fellow 
Presenter - Abstract
Friday, March 15, 2024
University (4th Floor - Union St. Tower, Sheraton)
Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gender Division of Labor in Rural Jiangnan (1700-1850)
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Erin M. Newton
Roundtable Session Organizer and Discussant
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST (Seattle)
Aspen (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
F033 Immersive Japan: A Roundtable on Immersive-Learning Course Design 

Shuting Zhuang
Roundtable Session Organizer and Discussant
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST (Seattle)
Jefferson B (4th Floor - Union St., Sheraton Grand Seattle)
F026 - Transforming Fieldwork in (Post-)Pandemic Asia

Xiaoyu Gao
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 617 (Level 6, Convention Center)
Empire of Copper: British Global Trade, Chilean and Japanese Copper, and the Monetary Revolution in Qing China (1800-1862)

Xiaoyu Gao
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 617 (Level 6, SCC)
G006 Ideas, Economies, and Materials: Chinese States Navigating Transnational Exchange from Late Imperial Times to the Cold War 

Paola Iovene
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Roundtable Session Organizer and Chair
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 204 (Level 2, SCC)
G002 Amateur Creativity in Socialist China and on Digital Platforms 

Jiarui Sun
Roundtable Session Discussant
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 204 (Level 2, SCC)
G002 Amateur Creativity in Socialist China and on Digital Platforms 

Kenneth Pomeranz
University Professor of Modern Chinese History
Organized Panel Session Chair and Discussant
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 617 (Level 6, SCC)
G006 Ideas, Economies, and Materials: Chinese States Navigating Transnational Exchange from Late Imperial Times to the Cold War 

Graeme R. Reynolds
Instructor in History 
Presenter - Abstract
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Ballard (3rd Floor, Sheraton)
Marginal Utility: Annotation and Marginalia As Signs of Use 

Graeme R. Reynolds
Instructor in History 
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Ballard (3rd Floor, Sheraton)
G029 - Dressing, Using, Gazing, Listing: Reimagining the Boundaries of Reading in Late Chosŏn Korea

Mark P. Bradley
Roundtable Session Discussant
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 609 (Level 6, SCC)
H021 - Scholarly Publishing in Asian Studies
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Melissa Van Wyk
Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature
Presenter - Abstract
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST (Seattle)
Redwood A (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
Reasonable Doubt: Evidence and Detection in Nineteenth-Century Kabuki Plays 

Xavier Ante
Presenter - Abstract
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 205 (Level 2, SCC)
Rewarding the Industrious: Return on Investment in Southeastern Guizhou’s Forest Enterprises

Michael Bourdaghs
Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Organized Panel Session Discussant
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST (Seattle)
Cedar B (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
L023 The Poetics and Politics of Infrastructure in Modern Japanese Literature 

Hannah Y. Park
Presenter - Abstract
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST (Seattle)
Redwood B (2nd Floor, Sheraton)
From Collective Homes to Privatized Hopes: Kinship-Making and State-Building in the Letters of North Korean War Orphans Sent to the Eastern Bloc (1951-1962) 

Yiyun Peng
D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Postdoctoral Fellow
Organized Panel Session Organizer
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST (Seattle)
Room 203 (Level 2, SCC)
L007 Situated Technologies: Agrarian, Chemical, Legal, and Geological Modes of Storytelling about Vernacular Knowledge in China (1600-1945) 

Judith Zeitlin
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Organized Panel Session Chair
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PST (Seattle)
Kirkland (3rd Floor, SGS)
L011 Evidence on Air: Unraveling Modern East Asia in Media Sources