Papers | Participants

Japanese studies:

David Averbach (University of California, Berkeley)
Jaqueline Berndt (Yokohama National University)
Doris Croissant (University of Heidelberg)
Hikari Hori (Gakushuin University,Tokyo)
Shinobu Ikeda (Chiba University, Japan)
Ayako Kano (University of Pennsylvania)
Hyeshin Kim (Gakushuin University, Tokyo)
Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Steffi Richter (University of Leipzig)
Haruo Shirane (Columbia University, NY)
Carol Sorgenfrei (University of California, Los Angeles)
Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University, NY)
Melanie Trede (University of Heidelberg)
Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University,NC)

Chinese Studies:

Tani Barlow (University of Washington)
Antonia Finnane (University of Melbourne)
John Fitzgerald (La Trobe University)
Joan Judge (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Ellen J. Laing (University of Michigan)
Ping Kuan Leung (Lingnan University)
Keith Mc Mahon (University of Kansas)
Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg)
Tze-lan Sang (University of Oregon)
Christine C. Y. Tan (Princeton University)
Catherine Yeh (University of Heidelberg)
Harriet Zürndorfer (Leiden University)

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Papers | Participants

David Averbach (University of California, Berkeley), Modernization, Maturation and the Mercenary Mother in works by Futabatei Shimei and Higuchi Ichiyo

Tani Barlow (University of Washington): Buying in: Advertising and the Shanghai Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s

Jaqueline Berndt (Yokohama National University); Nationally Naked? The nude in paintings and posters of modern Japan

Doris Croissant (University of Heidelberg): From Madonna to femme fatale: Queering the canon in Taishô bijinga

Antonia Finnane (University of Melbourne): The Artist’s Wife: Ways of Seeing Jiang Biwei.

John Fitzgerald (La Trobe University): Gendering the Social Imaginary: Modernity, Nationalism, and Representations of Egalitarian Sentiment in 19th and 20th Century China

Hikari Hori (Gakushuin University): Gender and Colonialism: Early Women’s Filmmaking in Japan

Kim Hyeshin (Gakushuin University, Tokyo): ): „A flower who understands the language of men“: the Male Gaze and the Represantation of Kisaeng (Courtesan) in Colonial Korea

Ellen Johnston Laing (University of Michigan): Feminine Images in Shanghai Manhua, (Shanghai Sketch), 1928 - 1930

Joan Judge (University of California, Santa Barbara): The culturally contested student body: Nü xuesheng at the Turn-Of-The-Twentieth Century

Ayako Kano (University of Pennsylvania): Theater, Gender, and Nationalism in Modern Japan

Keith McMahon (Univ. of Kansas) Love Martyrs and Love Cheaters at the End of the Chinese Empire

Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg): The New Woman: Dreams, Nightmares (and Realities) in Women's Magazines from the Republican Period

Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia, Vancouver): Kuki Shûzô (1888-1941) and National Erotics

Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Coulumbia): Female Suicide and the Gender Roles of Japanese Modernity

Steffi Richter (University of Leipzig): Contesting good taste, shaping Japanese bodies. The Department store Mitsukoshi and the “departmentalisation” of modern identities

Tze-lan Sang (University of Oregon): From Flower Vendor to Modern Girl: Tales of the Lower-Class Girl's Upward Mobility in Republican Beijing

Ikeda Shinobu (Chiba University): The Allure of Women in a Chinese Dress

Haruo Shirane (Columbia University, NY): Gendering Nature in Japanese Poetry

Carol Sorgenfrei (University of California, Los Angeles): Ajase and Amae: "The Mother Complex" and National Identity in Postwar Japanese Performance

Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University, NY): Gender and Competing Notions of Literature and Literary Language in Modern Japan

Christine C.Y. Tan (Princeton University): Prints, Seriality, and Baimeitu ("Picture of One Hundred Beauties") in Nineteenth-century China

Melanie Trede ( Institute of Fine Arts, NY)): Creating National Symbols in Meiji Japan: The Changing Gender of the Mythical Empress Jingû kôgô

Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University): „To Mothers!“: Women and Kaô Soap Advertising Design in Prewar Japan

Catherine Yeh (Heidelberg University):The Female Impersonator as the National Cultural Symbol of Republican China

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