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 Vancouver, Canada.
Our meeting will be held in the West Meeting Room 219, Vancouver Convention Center, from 7:15 PM – 9:15 PM on Friday, March 13. 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 Vancouver local time.
Friday, MARCH 13, 9:00AM – 10:30AM
- Panel 243: “Digital Humanities for Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Mongolian Studies Today” (VCC, Room 219)
- Sainjargal Tumendemberel (National Archives of Mongolia), “The Manchu Archives Under the Digital Management at the National Archives of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar”
- Richard Ciolek-Torello (University of Arizona), “The Uyghur Cultural Heritage Project: Developing Urbanism in an Ancient Nomadic Landscape in Mongolia”
- Dotno Dashdorj Pount (Harvard Divinity School), “Digital Humanities and Mongolian Textual Traditions: The Critical Edition of the Altan Bichig and the Qing Archives of the Chinggis Khan Cult”
- Naran-Oyun Ganbaatar (Mongolian University of Science and Technology), “The Mongolian Documentary Archives for Modern and Contemporary Historians”
- Poster session 1 (VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1)
- Junghyun Lee (Korea University), “‘Sound of Gun Did Not Cease All Day’—Utilization of Artillery in the Siege of Namhansanseong”
Friday, MARCH 13, 11:00AM – 12:30PM
- Panel 302: “Things, Creatures, and the Cosmos in Late Imperial China” (Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2)
- Ziyu Qiu (Harvard University), “Silverstealers: Knowledge, Technology, and the State in the Making of Fake Silver in Qing China”
- Panel 343: “Living Gods, Moving Worlds: Ritual Agents and Vernacular Religion in Transregional Asia” (VCC, Room 220)
- Aidi Cui (University of Heidelberg), “Codified and Sung: Buddhist-Shamanic Deity Worship in Qing Court Rituals and Folk Oral Songs”
Friday, MARCH 13, 3:30PM – 5:00PM
- Panel 529: “Recasting the Qing-Russian Frontier: Economic Policy, Commercial Migration, and Settler Communities in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, 1850s-1900s” (VCC, Room 205)
- Hekang Yang (Columbia University), “Commerce and Consuls: Qing Statecraft and Chinese Merchant Networks in Vladivostok, 1880s to 1900s”
- Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University), “The ‘Kiakhta System’ Debates: Supporters and Critics of Continental Chinese-Russian Trade in the 1850s-1860s”
- Loretta Kim (University of Hong Kong), “Familiar Foreigners: Russian Villages in the Eastern Chinese-Russian Borderlands”
Saturday, MARCH 14, 8:30AM – 10:00AM
- Panel 629: “Slavery, Law, and Society: Intra-Asian Perspectives” (VCC, Room 205)
- Sam Bass (University of Toronto), “The End of Slavery? Emancipation and Dependency in Mongolia”
- Panel 632: “The Spatial Dynamics of Military Power: Military Mobility and Imperial Control in Early Modern China, 13-18th Centuries” (VCC, Room 208)
- Yiming Ha (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Crossing the Frontiers and Working for the Mongols: Migration and Militarization Along the Northern Frontiers in 16th-Century Ming China”
- Lei Lin (Duke Kunshan University), “Moving Across Frontiers: Manchu Elite Mobility and the Spatial Politics of Qing Rule Under Qianlong”
- Panel 640: “Knowledge Production in the Making and Unmaking of Empire and Nation: Languages, Ethnicities, and Cultural Authority” (VCC, Room 216)
- Sarah Bramao-Ramos (Bates College), “Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future: Manchu-Language Publishing and the Making of Qing Legitimacy”
- Rhonda Ran Huo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “Imperial Projects and Individual Research: Studies of Mongolia and Xinjiang by Han Chinese from 1700 to 1850”
- Kin Ian Monica Chang (Lingnan University), “‘Expel the Barbarians’: Impacts of the Late Qing Anti-Manchu Propaganda on China’s Frontiers and Peoples”
- Panel 643: “Making “Textbooks” for Cultural Expertise in Premodern China” (VCC, Room 220)
- Zijing Fan (University of California, Berkeley), “A Chinese Novel as Manchu Generals’ ‘Ancient Military Manual’: The Readership of Sanguo Zhi Yanyi from Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century”
- Nathan Vedal (University of Toronto), “Translation as Literature: Manchu-Language Textbooks and Literary Aesthetics”
Saturday, MARCH 14, 10:30AM – 12:00PM
- Panel 713: “Medicine at the Margins: Rethinking the Production of Medical Knowledge in the Landscape of Resource Scarcity from Imperial to Modern China” (VCC, Room 109)
- Shumin Liu (University of Oxford), “Making ‘Authentic’ Medicine for War: ‘English Asafoetida’ as Qing Military Supplies Across the Miasma-Filled Frontier During the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sino-Burmese War”
- Panel 748: “Qing History Reimagined: Margins, Agency, and Hidden Actors” (VCC, Room 303)
- Chong Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), “Unseen Hands in the Grand Council: Information, Agency, and War in the Qianlong Era”
- Jun Chen (Renmin University), “Trends and Patterns in the Banner Affiliation and Qualifications of Low- and Mid-Level Military Officers in the Late Qing”
- Ian Huen (University of Oxford), “The Helen That Never Was: The Woman Who Shaped the Unification of the Jurchens (1593–1619)”
Saturday, MARCH 14, 2:00PM – 3:30PM
- Panel 808: “Wang Guowei and the Conundrums of Freedom in Modern China” (Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8)
- Kuan-yun Huang (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences), “Beyond Ethnicity: Wang Guowei’s Ideal of a Cultural Unity”
- Poster session 6 (VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1)
- Ke Zhao (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Rooted Secrets: Reimagining Ginseng as an Epistemic Object in Medieval to Early Modern China”
Saturday, MARCH 14, 5:45PM – 7:15PM
- Panel: Reclaiming Meaning: Anthropological Approaches to Text, Indigeneity, and Semiotic Sovereignty in Asia (VCC, Room 206)
- Elvin Meng (University of Chicago), “Empty Words of the National Language; Or, How Students of Manchu Invented Chinese Grammar”
Sunday, MARCH 15, 9:00AM – 10:30AM
- Panel 1141: “Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part I” (VCC, Room 305)
- David Bello (Washington & Lee University), “The Imperial Agro-Pastoral Consequences of Distance in Xinjiang”
- Cameron Foltz (Columbia University), “A Distant Authority: Qing Governance in Qinghai”
- David Porter (McGill University), “Creating Experts to Govern Distant Lands: Bajung and Qing Tibet”
- Lan Wu (Mount Holyoke College), “The Influence of Distance on the Development of Human and Animal Logistical Efficiency During the Yongzheng Reign”
Sunday, MARCH 15, 10:45AM – 12:15PM
- Panel 1229: “The Building of Modern Bureaucracy in East Asia” (VCC, Room 216)
- Lars P. Laamann (SOAS University of London), “Inter-Government Relations Between Russia and China from Tulišen’s Journey to the Torghut Mongols (1712–15) to the Boxer Rebellion (1900)”
- Panel 1236: “Rivers and Deserts: Space, Time, and Environmental Histories of Frontiers in North and Northwest China”
- Yuan Gao (Case Western Reserve University), “What Was Lop? The Politics of Aridity on the Qing Desert Frontier”
- Peng Hai (University of Pittsburgh), “Rafting, Timber, and Matchsticks: Economic Territorialization and Hui Identity Along the Upper Yellow River”
- Tristan Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Crossing the Frozen Frontier: Seasonal Ice, Climate, and Warfare on the Ming Northern Frontier”
- Matthew King (University of California, Riverside), “Making the Present with the More Than Human Gobi Desert”
- Panel 1239: “Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part II” (VCC, Room 305)
- Austin M. Hudgins (Princeton University), “Between When the Snow Falls and the Spring Growth Arises: The Qing-Kazakh Land Lease System, 1768-1810”
- Jin Peng (City University of Hong Kong), “Steam, State Power, and Cross-Border Merchants: Collapsing Distance in the Making of Hankow’s Sino-Russian Tea Hub, 1880-1913”
- George Remisovsky (Yale University), “Leaves Unturned: Distance, Trade, and Imperial Neglect in Taiwan’s Tea Economy, ca. 1850-1895”
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!