The Manchu Studies Group will once again be holding a social meeting in conjunction with the annual Association for Asian Studies conference, which takes place next month in Seattle.
Our meeting will be held in the MEDINA Room on the Third Floor of the Sheraton, from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM on Friday, March 15. We expect it to be an informal event, where we share news and updates with each other. We look forward to connecting with friends old and new in Manchu Studies!
In addition, we encourage you to attend the following Manchu-related panels/talks at AAS. All times given in Seattle local time.
Thursday, MARCH 14
- Tomoyasu Iiyama‘s (Waseda University) “From “Manmō” to “Eastern Eurasia”: A Genealogy of Studies of the Non-Han Chinese Regimes in Japanophone Scholarship” – part of Panel A020, “Postwar Trends in Japanese Sinology: Voices from the Frontlines of Japanese Scholarship on China,” 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. Room 305 (Level 3, Convention Center).
Friday, MARCH 15
- Sare Aricanli‘s (Durham University) “Caring for the Horses in Stables and Fields: Equine Medicine and Management of the Qing State” – part of Panel B010, “Medicine for the Military: Institutions, Ideologies, and Therapies in Imperial China,” 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. Cedar B (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Forrest C McSweeney‘s (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “Fighting Formulas: Markets, Drug Mobilization, and Military Medical Practice in 18th-Century China” – part of Panel B010, “Medicine for the Military: Institutions, Ideologies, and Therapies in Imperial China,” 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. Cedar B (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Chang Xu‘s (Washington University in St. Louis) “Yao in Context: Medicine, Poison, and Gunpowder in Qing Military Operations” – part of Panel B010, “Medicine for the Military: Institutions, Ideologies, and Therapies in Imperial China,” 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM. Cedar B (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Elena Chiu‘s (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Love (Qing) and Female Agency: Gu Taiqing’s (1799-1877) Self-Representations in Her Zaju Plays” – part of Panel C017, “Theatricalizing Questionable Identities: Early Modern China and (Self-)Representations of Female, Male, and Outlaw Valor in Performance and Oral Literature,” 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Issaquah A (3rd Floor, Sheraton).
- Shoufu Yin‘s (University of British Columbia) “Thus Spoke Wanggiyan Ulu: Jurchen Statecraft in the Mongol, Manchu, Russian, and Belgian Empires” – part of Panel C003, “China Offshore: Transnational Politics and Knowledge Production across the Pre-Modern and Modern Divide,” 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Cedar B (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Panel C011, “Qing Imperial Frontier Zones: War, Governance, and Economy, 1747–1911,” 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Redwood A (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Palden Gyal‘s (Columbia University) “The Gyelrong Wars (1747–1776): Unraveling Inter-Polity Relations and Power Dynamics in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands in the 18th Century.”
- Chao Lang‘s (Harvard University) “Military Stipend, Profitable Commodity, or Substitute to Provision: The Rigidification and Demise of the Muslim Cloth System (1790s – 1850s).”
- Hekang Yang‘s (Columbia University) “From Zhejiang to Xinjiang: Taiping Rebels and the Revolution of Commercial Taxation in Modern China, 1864-1889“
- Xue Zhang‘s (Reed College) “The Empire’s Ghost: The Afterlives of Qing Frontier Geography in the Republican Era.”
- James Bonk‘s (College of Wooster) “The Case of the Taipao in the 19th Century Qing Empire: Military Authority and Technology Transfer between the Green Standards and Eight Banners” – part of Panel E008, “Technology and Identity in Pre-Modern China,” 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Room 304 (Level 3, Convention Center).
- William C. Hedberg‘s (Arizona State University) “Manchu-Philia in Edo-Period Japan, or, Preliminary Notes Toward Understanding the Ming-Qing Transition As a Japanese Civil War” – part of Panel E032, “Cross-Cultural Engagement in Writings from Japan: Perceptions, Identities, and Interplay,” 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Cedar B (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Panel E004, “Gendered Transitions in Qing Inner Asia: Mongol and Manchu Reconceptualization of Masculinity and Femininity,” 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Room 205 (Level 2, Convention Center).
- Matthew W King‘s (University of California, Riverside) “‘Then I Came into His Presence…’: Time As Masculinist Intimacy in Géluk Histories of the Qing.”
- Uudam Baoagudamu‘s (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Constructing Masculinity: Mongolian Monasteries during the Qing.”
- Johannes S. Lotze‘s (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Translating Desire: Manchu and Chinese Sexual Regimes and Literatures.”
- Dotno D Pount‘s (University of Pennsylvania) “Gender in the Cult of Chinggis Khan: Transforming Sovereignty to Masculine Prerogatives.”
Saturday, MARCH 16
- Anne-Sophie Pratte‘s (Georgetown University) “Mapping Manchu-Mongol Political Relations in the Mid 18th Century” – part of Panel Panel F009, “Mapping Borderlands: Representing Mongolia, Manchuria, and the World in East Asia, 16th to 18th Century,” 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM. Room 612 (Level 6, Convention Center).
- Jeanhyoung Soh‘s (Seoul National University) “Unraveling Historical Intrigue: Joseon’s Military Intelligence Collection and 18th Century Borderland Mapping in Manchuria” – part of Panel F009, “Mapping Borderlands: Representing Mongolia, Manchuria, and the World in East Asia, 16th to 18th Century,” 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM. Room 612 (Level 6, Convention Center).
- Chenxi Luo‘s (Washington University in St. Louis) “Disputes over Distance: Household Separation, Faraway Slaves, and Ownership” – part of Panel H005, “Human Trade and Slavery in and Beyond China, 1600-1940,” 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Cedar A (2nd Floor, Sheraton).
- Xiao Chen‘s (Grinnell College) “Sexual Morality, Manchu Identity, and an Interventionist State in Eighteenth Century Qing China” – part of Panel J003, “Law and Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, Ableism, and Family in Modern East Asia,” 5:45 PM – 7:15 PM. Room 212 (Level 2, Convention Center).
Please let us know if we’ve missed something! We hope to see you at some of these panels/talks and around the conference – as well as at the Manchu Studies Group Meeting!