If you plan to attend any session as part of the public, kindly let us know as the seats are limited. Please contact Ms. Wen-hao Tien, BU Center for the Study of Asia, whtien@bu.edu
DAY 1 – FRIDAY MAY 29, 2015
9:00 am – 6:00 pm
9:00 am: Arrivals, Registration and Coffee
Panel 1: “Binding Maritime China: Historiography Past and Present”
9:15 – 10:45 am
Chair: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University
Discussant: Kären Wigen, Stanford University
Presenters:
Zhao Gang, University of Akron
“Bringing Them to Spatial Revolution: A Preliminary Study of How the Private Charts Reshaped the Chinese Understanding of the Global Integration from 1400 to 1840”
Matthew Mosca, William and Mary University & University of Washington, Seattle
“The Qing Maritime Information Order to 1840: Turning Points in Historiographical Perspective”
10:45 – 11:00 am Break
Discussant: Caroline Frank, Brown University
Presenter:
Matthew Linton, Brandeis University
“Approaching China from the Sea: Situating China in American Area Studies”
11:45 – 12:30 pm – Lunch
Panel 2 “Binding Maritime China: Control”
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Chair: Xing Hang, Brandeis University
Discussant: Lincoln Paine, Portland (Maine)
Presenter:
Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
“Soldiers, Smugglers and Pirates on China’s Southeast Coast: Military Households (Junhu) and the Maritime Asia Trade in the Ming”
Discussant: Caroline Frank, Brown University
Presenter:
Frederic D. Grant Jr., Boston
“Regulating Prosperity: The Management of China’s Maritime Foreign Trade, 1500-1843”
2:00- 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:45 pm
Discussant: Heather Streets-Salter, Northeastern University
Presenters:
Andrew Liu, Villanova University
“Comprador under Control: The Chinese Export Tea Trade during the Second World War”
Philip Thai, Northeastern University
“’A Still Serious Matter’: Coastal Smuggling, Illicit Markets, and Survival Strategies in the Early People’s Republic”
3:45 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – Keynote Address
Leonard Blussé, Leiden University
“Oceanus Resartus or Is Chinese Maritime History Coming of Age? “
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Reception for All Attendees
DAY 2 – SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2015
9:00 am-5:30 pm
9:00 am: Arrivals, Registration and Coffee
Panel 3: “Binding Maritime China: Evasion”
9:15 – 10:45 am
Chair: Caroline Frank, Brown University
Discussant: Melissa Macauley, Northwestern University
Presenters:
Xing Hang, Brandeis University
“The Kongsi: A Transnational Story”
Hui Kian Kwee, University of Toronto-Mississauga
“Rise and Fall of Chinese Para-States in West Borneo (Indonesia), c. 1740-1850”
10:45 – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Discussant: Lincoln Paine, Portland, Maine
Steven Pieragastini, Brandeis University
“State and Smuggling in Guangzhouwan/Zhanjiang (1898-1998)”
Peter Thilly, Northwestern University & Colby College
“The Fujitsuru Mystery: The Pan-Asian Cocaine Trade of the 1920s-30s”
12:30 – 1:15 pm: Lunch
Panel 4: “Binding Maritime China: Interloping”
1:15 – 2:45 pm
Chair: Philip Thai, Northeastern University
Discussant: John Wills, University of Southern California
Presenters:
Jonathan Gebhardt, Yale University
“Ambidextrous Interlopers in Peril: Landino Sangleys and Sino-Spanish Conflict in Manila, 1570-1700”
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University
“Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire: The East Asia Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao, and their Maritime Network (1700-1823)”
2:45 – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Discussant: Melissa Macauley, Northwestern University
Presenter
Shirley Ye, University of Birmingham
“On the Margins of Empires: German Capital Circulations and Asian Commodity Frontiers in the Construction of the China Coast (1820s-1910s)”
Discussant: John Wills, University of Southern California
Presenter:
“Parasites or Cosmopolitans? Transnational Figures of the China Coast in the Modern Era”
4:30-4:45 pm Break
4:45 – 5:30 pm: Final Roundtable