The Manchu Studies Group will be holding a business/social meeting in conjunction with the annual Association for Asian Studies meeting. If you’re attending AAS, come the Dalton Room on the 3rd floor of the Sheraton Hotel Boston from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM on Friday, March 17, to meet fellow Manchu Studies researchers and participate in selecting a new Manchu Studies Group board.
In addition, we encourage you to attend the following Manchu-related panels/talks at AAS.
- Wen-shing Chou’s (CUNY Hunter) talk “Material Polyglossia in Qing China: Niched Shrine Panels of the Qianlong Emperor” – part of Panel B003, “Beyond Nomadism, through Buddhism: Tibeto-Mongol Visual and Material Culture in China,” Friday, March 17, 9AM-10:30AM, Hynes Convention Center Room 108 (Plaza Level)
- Julia Schneider’s (University College Cork) talk “Telling Jurchen Jin History: The Qianlong Emperor’s Censorship of Ming books” – part of Panel B008, “Revisiting the Jin from Digital, Political, Geocultural, and Long-Term Perspectives,” Friday, March 17, 9AM-10:30AM, Hynes Convention Center Room 111 (Plaza Level)
- Ilsoo Cho’s (Kyoto University) talk “From War Captive to Diplomat to Traitor: Changing Perceptions of the ‘Collaborators’ in Mid-Chosǒn Korea” – part of Panel B031, “To China and Japan and Back: Peripheral Peoples of the Korean Peninsula,” Friday, March 17, 9AM-10:30 AM, Sheraton Boston Hotel Dalton Room (3rd Floor)
- Panel C011: “Spectacle-Making Projects in Qing Imperial Birthday Celebrations, 1700-1900” – Friday, March 17, 11AM -12:30 PM, Hynes Convention Center Room 220
This panel features the following talks:
I. “A Taste of the Manchu Qing: Food as Diplomacy at Qianlong’s Imperial Banquets in Chengde” – Daniel Robinson, University of Minnesota
II. “The Route to Imperial Theatricality: Architectural Installations in Images of the Qianlong Emperor’s Eightieth Birthday Celebration” – Cheng-hua Wang, Princeton
III. “Dressing the Immortals in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Birthday Celebrations, Ca. 1700s-1750s” – Tong Su, University of Wisconsin
IV. “Animating Ten-Thousand Longevity Through Papier-Mâché, Wood, and Fabric: Materiality and Visuality of Qiemo in Late Qing China” – Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin - Yoko Nii’s (Daito Bunka University) talk “Translating the Margin: European Translations of the Last Testament of the Kangxi Emperor” – part of panel D018, “Engaging with the Other: Catholic Missions and Epistemic Encounters in Early Modern Asian Cities,” Friday, March 17, 2PM-3:30 PM, Boston Sheraton Hotel Arnold Arboretum (5th Floor)
- Julia M. Wu’s (Johns Hopkins University) talk “Hidden Daughters in the Manchu Homeland: Banner Households and the Royal House in Conflict, 1660-1720” – part of panel F015, “Women and the Family in Early Modern and Contemporary China,” Saturday, March 18, 8:30 AM-10AM, Hynes Convention Center Room 209
- Panel G015 – “Elephants and Ginseng: Environments, Commodities, and Power in Early Modern East and Southeast Asia” – Saturday, March 18, 2PM – 3:30 PM, Boston Sheraton Hotel Berkeley Room (3rd Floor)
This panel features the following talks:
I. “Ginseng Cultivation and the Natural Environment in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria” – Seonmin Kim, Korea University
II. “Medicine, Commerce, and Cultural Encounters: The Medical Exchanges between China and Korea in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with the Circulation of Ginseng” – Chushan Chiang, Taiwan National Central University
III. “Feel the Elephant, Displaying the Animal: Animals and the Imagination of the Qing Tributary System” – Zhijun Ren, University of Wisconsin
IV. “Assembling Ivory’s Archives: Qing Texts, Art Collections, Elemental and Genetic Remains” – Jonathan Schlesinger, Indiana University - Emily Mokros’s (University of Kentucky) talk “The Capital Region in the Unfinished Taiping War” – part of Panel H004, “New Perspectives on Urban Identities in Late Imperial and Republican China,” Saturday, March 18, 4PM-5:30 PM, Boston Sheraton Hotel, Room Back Bay A (2nd Floor)
- Johannes Lotze’s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) talk “Tracing a Hidden History: Nomadic Regimes and the Multilingual Imperial Tradition in China” – part of Panel H023, “Asian Mobilities: Issues and Questions,” Saturday, March 18, 4PM-5:30 PM, Boston Sheraton Hotel Commonwealth Room (3rd Floor)
- Panel K005: “Reenvisioning Qing Institutional History: Ordinary Officials and Everyday Bureaucratic Practices” – Sunday, March 19, 9AM-10:30AM, Boston Sheraton Hotel Room Back Bay B (2nd Floor)
This panel features the following talks:
I. “Invisible Players: Decision-Making and Clerkship in the Qing Central Government” – Xue Zhang, Reed College
II. “Routines of Translation: Bithesi and the Multilingual Qing State” – David Porter, McGill
III. “Bureaucracy for Commemorating Wars: Who Illustrated Military Campaigns in the Late Qing – Or Did They?” – Kaijun Chen, Brown
IV. “The Crime, the Rhyme, the Chart, and the Hand: The Knowledge Economy, Institution Building, and Guides to Jurisprudence in Early Qing China” – C.D. Alison Bailey, University of British Columbia
The discussant is Chia Ning, an important member of our Manchu Studies community. - Panel K006: “Understanding Horses in Early Modern China and Inner Asia” – Sunday, March 19, 9AM-10:30 AM, Boston Sheraton Hotel Hampton Room (3rd Floor)
This panel features the following talks:
I. “Ritual for the Horse Spirit: Practice and Participation” – Sare Aricanli, Durham University
II. “Horse Power: An Economic Explanation of the Geluk Monastic Growth on the Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, and Manchu Frontier, 1570-1770” – Gyatso Marnyi, Yale
III. “The Dilemma of Raising Strong Horses in the Ming” – Lan Wu, Mount Holyoke
The panel is chaired by Peter Perdue and the discussant is Pamela Crossley, both luminaries of Manchu Studies
We hope to see you at some of these panels/talks and around the conference – as well as at the Manchu Studies Group Meeting!