#  Schedule 

 



#### Friday**,** February 13

**11:30 AM**  
**Registration**

**12:30 PM**  
**Welcome and Opening Remarks (S010)**  
 Prof. Alexander Zahlten, Chair of the Committee on Regional Studies East Asia

**1:00 PM**  
**Panel A1: Earths and Wires (S050)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Jie Li, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Xiyun Wu

 Jixin Jia, PhD, University of Toronto  
 *Ghost Town and a Cinematic Afterlife of Zomia: Opacity, Immiscible Times, Spatial Doubling*

 Changran Liu, Postgraduate Fellow, Yale University  
 *Sweet Memories: Socio-cultural Legacies of the Changing Sugarcane Industry in Post-Reform Southeast China*

 Juntao Yang, MA, Columbia University  
 *Unsettled Grounds: The Deep Now, Post-Wenchuan Documentaries, and the Aftershocks of Earthquake-Media*

**Panel A2: Straits and Archipelagos (S010)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. David Wang, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Harry So

 Lanqing (Catherine) Li, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong  
 *The Islands’ Wetness: Rain, Desire, and Bodily Fluidity in Su Wei-chen’s Island of Silence — Toward an Inter-Asian Hydrological Unconscious*

 Xiangyu Li, PhD, Nanyang Technological University  
 *Suturing Ruptures: Delineating Mainland Influences in Taiwanese Modernist Poetry under Martial Law*

 Ziyu Liu, MA, University of Pennsylvania  
 *The “North” of the South: A Comparative Study of Women Migrant Workers’ Poetry across the Taiwan Strait*

 Edward Dehua Wang, MA, Duke University  
 *Nanyang as Plant: Plant-being and Vegetal Representation of Georgette Chen*

**Panel A3: Frictions of Reform in the Late Qing and Republican Era (S020)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. William Kirby, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Ruyi Liu

 Sophie Cope, MA, American University  
 *Double Indignity: The Funding and Founding of the First China Fulbright Program*

 Zhenyan Lu, PhD, King’s College London  
 *Learning from the Enemy: Organisational Competition and Mutual Borrowing between the Communist Youth League and the Young Men’s Christian Association during the 1920s Anti-Christian Movement in China*

 Xianni Zhang, PhD, University of Michigan  
 *Class Formation at the Periphery: Salt Workers, the May Thirtieth Movement, and the Making of the Working Class in Republican China*

 Xueyan Zhang, MA, Beijing Foreign Studies University  
 *Translating Prussia into Late Qing China: Military Knowledge, Institutional Friction, and the Limits of Reform*

**2:30 PM**  
**Tea Break (CGIS Concourse)**

**3:00 PM**  
**Keynote Address (S010)**  
 Prof. Yoon Sun Yang, Boston University  
 *Toward Transpacific Literary Studies: Translation, Archives, and Gender*

**4:15 PM**  
**Panel B1: Contested Narratives, Agentic Materials (S010)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Victor Seow, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Jiahe Wang

 Yiqi Lin and Sihan Lin, MA, Beijing Normal University  
 *Drawing Boundaries of Property: Forest Ownership and the Politics of Delineation in the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, Southwest China*

 Sufeng (Sophia) Xiao, PhD, Harvard University  
 *Contouring Time: Temporal Infrastructures and Curatorial Boundary Work in Platform-Mediated Rurbanity in Zhejiang, China*

 Yunjie Zhang, PhD, Harvard University  
 *Water as the United Front: Liquid Power and the Planned Remaking of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area*

 Botao Zhao, PhD, Yale University  
 *Ripples from Afar: Modernity, Global Frictions, and the Disappearance of Horse Caravans in A Sino-Tibetan Frontier Village*

**Panel B2: Economies and Imaginaries of Digital China (S050)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Moira Weigel, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Yingying Rao

 Yijian (Lexa) Lyu, PhD, University of Iowa  
 *Staging the Future of Money: Delineation and Infrastructural Governance in China’s e-CNY*

 Jamie Tang, MA, Harvard University  
 *Blurring the Line: Outsourced Algorithmic Management and Skill Exploitation in China’s Home-cleaning Platforms*

 Yixuan Wang, MA, University of Pittsburgh  
 *Who Made This? Platform Ecology, Gen-AI Content Authenticity and AI Anxiety in China*

**Panel B3: Territories and Populations of/after the Imperial (S020)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Yutao Chen

 Randy Garcia, MA, UC Berkeley  
 *Race, Empire, and Migration: Japanese Expansionism and the Making of Japanese Brazil*

 Aaron Hopes, PhD, Stanford University  
 *The Good Naichaa: Some Matters and Places Kept Unsettled Amidst Ongoing Japanizations of Northern Okinawa*

 Minah Kang, PhD, Johns Hopkins University  
 *Staging the Region: Geography of Empire’s Afterlives and the Institute of Pacific Relations*

 Yi (Yuuki) You, MA, Dartmouth College  
 *Along the Recursive Grain: Bureaucratic Anxiety and the “Phantom Report” on Wartime Chinese Forced Labor*

**6:00 PM**  
**Dinner (CGIS Concourse)**

#### Saturday, February 14

**8:30 AM**  
**Breakfast and Late Registration (CGIS Concourse)**

**9:00 AM**  
**Keynote Address (S010)**  
 Prof. Paul Roquet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
 *Drawing Out Computation in Japan: CGI Beyond Simulation*

**10:15 AM**  
**Panel C1: Utopic/Dystopic Media (S010)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Chan Yong Bu, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Jieyan Wang

 Seoeun Choi, MA, Columbia University  
 *Of Flesh and Steel: Female Snipers on the War-Torn Korean Cinematic Landscape*

 Wenyu Zeng, MA, Dartmouth College  
 *Rethinking Dictee: An In-Between Textual Space of Embodied Selfhood and Collective Becoming*

**Panel C2: Frontiers of the Corporeal and the Conceptual (S020)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Brian Zhang

 Yehan He, MA, University of Michigan  
 *Translating Women’s Bodies Across Borders: “Yakaepile,” “Fuke,” and the Delineation of Healing in the Lancang–Mekong World*

 Xiaoqiao Liu, PhD, Beijing Foreign Studies University  
 *Coherence, Difference, and Relation: Rethinking the Path of Sino-Western Comparative Philosophy in a Global Context*

 Hanzhi Zhang, PhD, University of Oxford  
 *Documenting Transnational Materia Medica in Ming-Qing Transition: Michał Boym’s Flora Sinensis (1648) and its Contemporary Herbals*

**11:30 AM**  
**Lunch (CGIS Concourse)**

**12:45 PM**  
**Panel D1: Bodies in Extensions, Representations, and Subjectifications (S010)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Alexander Zahlten, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Seiyoung Jang

 Ziyi Lin, PhD, University of Chicago  
 *Bodies as “Human Camera:” The Ghostly Feminine as Optical Technologies for Rethinking Media and Techno-science in Modern Japanese-Horror Genre*

 Zhixin Pan, MA, Yale University  
 *Body Across Borders: Imagining Sino-Japanese Female Solidarity in Hayashi Fumiko’s Wartime Writing*

 Natalia Wojas, PhD, Stanford University  
 *When the Ruins Look Back: Memory and Matter in Postwar Japanese Performance*

 Qianwen Xue, MA, University of Chicago  
 *Guerrilla Survival of Chinese Queers: A Whack-a-Mole Philosophy of Living in the Gaps*

**Panel E1: Earthly Things in/as Literature (S020)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Wai-yee Li, Harvard University  
 Moderator: Shuyi Ma

 Clio (Zhichen) Luo, MA, University of Chicago  
 *Balancing Heat and Clarity: Computational Analysis of Tea and Alcohol in Premodern Chinese Food Literature*

 Ranting Zhang, MA, Columbia University  
 *Writing From the Ruins: Negotiating Historical Consciousness in Late Sixth-Century Fu Practice*

 Run Zhou, MA, Yale University  
 *The Intervention of the Self: Personalization and Internal Reflection in Three Skeleton Stories*

**Panel E2: Modernities in Translation and Transculturation (S050)**  
 Faculty discussant: Prof. Mingwei Song, Wellesley College  
 Moderator: Weiting Zhao

 David Kolosov, PhD, Peking University  
 *Across Borders: Poetics and Politics of Lu Xun’s Translation (based on Lu Xun's translation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls)*

 Zhenxu Qin, PhD, Hunan University  
 *The Dissemination and Evolution of the Concept of* weiwu *in Modern China*

 Letian Xiang, MA, Nanjing University  
 *Monsoonal Modernity: Wind, Affect, and the Non-Linear Structure of East Asian Experience*

**2:30 PM**  
**Closing Remarks (S010)**  
 Prof. Victor Seow, RSEA Director of Graduate Studies

For a detailed version with the speakers' abstracts, please refer to the program below.



 

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