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)

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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