Miraculous Objects: Relics and Buddha Images in Xuanzang’s Datang Xiyu ji
Max Deeg, Cardiff University
Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan
Dan Smith, University of Pennsylvania
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
Lin Zhang, University of New Hampshire
NEXTGEN: The Past, Present and Future of K-pop
Crystal S. Anderson, George Mason University
"Cotton, Capital, and Colonialism in Southern Korea, 1910-1945"
Holly Stephens, University of Edinburgh
"Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War"
Aaron Skabelund, Brigham Young University
"COVID-19, Text, Power: Fang Fang and the Birth of the ‘Wuhan Diary’ Genre"
Michael Berry, The University of California, Los Angeles
"The Wuhan Lockdown and the Limits of Critique"
Guobin Yang, The University of Pennsylvania
"China's Hong Kong and Taiwan Problems: A Semi-Leninist Policy Meets Popular Response"
Richard C. Bush, Brookings Institution
"Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections"
Hsiao-Wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania
"Investing in Asia: The Overlook Model"
Richard H. Lawrence, Jr, Overlook Investments Group
"Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: The Case of Taiwan"
David S. Law, University of Virginia
"Elite Graffiti, Kinship, and Social Capital: Cultural Pilgrimages to Kŭmgangsan in Pre-1900 Korea"
Maya Stiller, University of Kansas
"Eison’s 叡尊 (1201-1290) Reformation of the Japanese Buddhist Ordinations"
Paul Groner, University of Virginia
"Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation"
Silvia Lindtner, University of Michigan
"Beyond the Green Archipelago: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Korea and Beyond"
David Fedman, University of California-Irvine
"Of Gods & Whales: Popular Rituals, Environmental Change, and the Necessity of Intra-Asian Comparison"
Aike Peter Rots, University of Oslo, Norway
"Inequality of Equalities: The Taiwanese Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Taiwan’s Indigenous People"
Jeffrey Nicolaisen, Visiting Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University
The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics -- Part Two
Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
"The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History"
Xin Conan-Wu, The College of William and Mary
"The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics"
Daniel Kritenbrink, US Ambassador to Vietnam
"Uyghurs are Uyghurs. They Aren’t Muslim:" Forging "Modern" Chinese Citizens in Xinjiang
Timothy Grose, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
"Taking China out of Premodern Global History: Bodies, Threads and Fabrics"
Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham
"Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification"
Eddy U, University of California-Davis
"Island Illusion: Recreating Avalokiteshvara at Mt. Putuo in Sichuan during Song-dynasty China"
Sonya Lee, University of Southern California
"State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa"
Graham F. Odell, California State University, Long Beach
"China, Asia, and the US: Foreground and Lost Ground"
Evan A. Feigenbaum, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"Three Turning Points in Chinese Popular Political Thought since 1949"
Perry Link, University of California, Riverside
"Anti-Heroic Agents: The Gendered Dynamics of Religious Change in Urbanizing China"
Robert Weller, Boston University
"The Rise of Alibaba and Prospects for Technological Innovation in China"
Duncan Clark, BDA China, & Syaru Shirley Lin, UVA Visiting Professor
"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 1)
Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame
"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 2)
Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame
"Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics"
Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School
"Taiwan's New Southbound Policy and Asian Economic Integration"
To-Hai Liou, National Chengchi University
"How to Treat Spirit Possessions in the Heian Japan: Eiga monogatari and the Potential of Historical Writing for Healing"
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Takeshi Watanabe, Wesleyan University
"Self Interest in Early Chinese Texts"
Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
"Slavery of the Silk Road of the Tang Empire"
Johnathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
"'Civilizing' China: Cultural Beliefs about the Urban & Modern in the People's Republic of China"
Martin Schoenhals, UNC Chapel Hill
"Chinese Astronomical Systems in the South Pacific? Conforming Earth to Heaven Through the Reaches of the Austronesian World"
Fred Damon, University of Virginia
"There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity, but We Shall Defend a Culture’s Resources"
François Jullien, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
"Empress Jingu's Magical Conquest of Korea: A Legend of Multiple Uses"
Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University
"A Strange Gift and Stranger Beneficiaries: 1,650 Sutras Copied for the Tibetan Emperor"
Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University
"Lineages of the Literacy: Religious Repertoires and the Cultural Revolution"
Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University
"China's Religious Revival"
Ian Johnson, Journalist
"Epistolary Intimacy in the Love Letters of a Buddhist Tantric Couple"
Holly Gayley, The University of Colorado, Boulder
"Autopsy of a Failed Policy: Why China's One Party Political Regime Made America's Engagement Unsuccessful"
Minxin Pei, Claremond McKenna College
"China and the Denuclearization of North Korea: History in the Making?"
Xiao Ren, Fudan University