Chair: Antje Richter 8:45–10:15 (Astoria Room) Shih Hsiang-lin (Saint Olaf College) “Sartorial Enticements and the Suasion: Intersections Between Sevens and Song Verses in Jian’an Poetry” Zeb Raft (Academia Sinica) “Poetry in the Communication Model: A Study of Cao Zhi” Meow Hui Goh (Ohio State University) “The Art of Wartime Propaganda: Chen Lin’s Xi Written on behalf of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao” Session 7B Yuan Dynasty Chair: Stephen West 8:45–10:15 (Coos Bay Room) Chang Wenbo (Arizona State University) “To Be A Ghost That Will Never Die: The Construction of a Tradition in A Register of Ghosts (Lu gui bu 錄鬼簿)” Frankie Hin Ming Chik (Arizona State University) “Evil Hidden behind Great Mission: Accounts of Cui Li Memorial Episode and the Historical Writing of Jin-Yuan Interregnum” Guo Jinsong (Princeton University) “Library Stargazing: The Use of Textual Investigation in Early Yuan Astronomy” 10:15–10:30 Coffee & Tea Break Session 8A Women in Chinese Literature Chair: He Yuming 10:30-12:00 (Astoria Room) Joanne Tsao (Arizona State University) “The Creation of the Bronze Bird Terrace-scape in the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period” Hu Qiulei (Whitman College) “Singing Ghosts and Innocent Girls” Women and the Domestication of the Local in Wusheng and Xiqu Songs” Miao Xiaojing (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Shangguan Wan’er: The Lady of Bright Countenance and Beyond” Session 8B Late Imperial Popular Culture Chair: Timothy Wai Keung Chan 10:30-12:00 (Coos Bay Room) Wu Zeyuan (Ohio State University) “Remembering the Past through music: The Circulation of Chinese Qin Songs in Edo Japan” Scott Gregory (University of Arizona) ‘“The Art of Subtle Phrasing Has Been Extinguished’: The ‘Great Learning’ of the Outlaw in Jin Shengtan’s Water Margin” Isaac Yue (University of Hong Kong) "The Comprehensive Manchus-Han Banquet: A Reconsideration of its History and Development " 12:10-12:30 Business Meeting (Astoria Room) 12:30-2:00pm Lunch Break
Session 9A Six Dynasties Literature II Chair: Meow Hui Goh 2:00-3:30 (Astoria Room) Wendy Swartz (Rutgers University) “Jiang Yan’s Imitations of Lost and Nearly Lost Writers” Yang Baoli (University of California, Los Angeles) “Redeeming Affective Loss: ‘Elegant Capacity’ in the Shishuo Xinyu and its Function in Early Medieval Chinese Literature” Graham Chamness (Harvard University) “Confucius at the Rain Altar: A Momentary Group Fantasy at Lanting” Session 9B Qing Dynasty Chair: Timothy Wong 2:00-3:30 (Coos Bay Room) Lina Nie (Harvard University) “Historical Memory in Fiction and Private Record: Reconstructing and Deconstructing the Case ‘Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai (楊乃武與小白菜)’” Yang Yi (University of Hong Kong) “Voice, Silence and Self: The Absence of Females in the Writers Group of Chinese Detective Fiction: 1896-1937” Liu Xunqian (University of Hong Kong) “Themes and Context Relations in Huang Shi-zhong’s Historical Writing” 3:30-3:45 Coffee & Tea Break Session 10A Ming Dynasty Chair: Stuart Sargent 3:45-4:45 (Astoria Room) Desmond Cheung (Portland State University) “Establishing the city god cult in Ming Hangzhou” Timothy Wong (Arizona State University) “A Difference between Old xiaoshuo and the Modern Novel: Another Reading of the Sanguo yanyi” Session 10B Language in China Chair: Michael Fuller 3:45-4:45 (Coos Bay Room) Richard Simmons (Rutgers University) “A Closer Look at Lǐ Rǔzhēn’s Mixed Mandarin Phonology” Virginia Williams (University of Washington) “Envisioning Sorrow: Words Related to Gazing in the Li sao 離騷” 7:00–9:00 Banquet in the Willamette Falls Room With keynote address by Stephen Durrant (University of Oregon): “Ancient Chinese Olympians” Abstracts Daniel Hsieh (Purdue University), “Li Bai (701-762) and Confucius” The great Tang poet, Li Bai, is often associated with the Daoist side of the Chinese tradition, be it seen in his dedicated alchemical pursuits or the aspects of his character