An International Conference on
“History of Non-book Publishing in China,
Tang (618-907) through Qing (1644-1911)”
Jointly Hosted by
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Institute of Palace Studies, Beijing, China
First Meeting: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (September 26-27, 2014)
Second Meeting: Institute of Palace Studies, Beijing, China (Summer of 2015)
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First Meeting of the Conference
“Reading without Books:
Experiences of Print in Everyday Life in Imperial China,
Tang (618-907) through Qing (1644-1911)”
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Organizers: Professor Kai-wing Chow, EALC and History
and Charles D. Wright, English and Medieval Studies
Ellis Lounge, Foreign Language Building, September 26-27, 2014
Conference Schedule
September 26, Friday
9:00-9:15 Welcoming Remarks: Dean Barbara Wilson, Jean-Phillipe Mathy, Gary Xu, and Charles Wright
9:15-12:30 Morning Session
Chair, Charles Wright, Department of English and Medieval Studies, UIUC
Kai-wing Chow, Department of EALC and History, UIUC, “Printing from Stone: Steles, Law, and Local Order in Qing China”
Steven Miles, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis, “Powerful Displays: Cantonese Merchants, State Agents, and Public Inscriptions in the West River Basin, 1720-1901”
Discussant: Tim Liao, Department of Sociology, UIUC
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
Chair, Brian Ruppert, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
Yongtao Du, Department of History, Oklahoma State University, “The Little Men’s World of Small Places: Printing and Locality in North China Nianhua”
Michaela Bussotti, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, France, “The Baogong tu, between popular prints and genealogies”
Discussant: Emily Knox, Graduate School of Information and Library Science
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-5:15 Afternoon Session
Chair, Rod Wilson, Department of History, UIUC
Zhao-hui He, Advanced Institute of Confucian Studies, Shandong University, China, "To Improve Efficiency: Printed Matters in Administrative Affairs in the Ming Dynasty"
Hongwei Zhang, Institute of Palace Studies, Beijing, “Printed Official Documents in Qing Palace”
Discussant, Chung-Hao Kuo, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and IPRH, UIUC
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
Chair, Jeffrey Martin, Department of Anthropology and EALC, UIUC
Joseph Dennis, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Publication and Dissemination of Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation (xisongge) in Late Imperial and Republican China”
Ting Zhang, Department of History, University of Maryland, “Magistrates’ Proclamations (Gaoshi): Printing, Law, and the Circulation of Government Information in Qing Society”
Discussant, Dan Shao, EALC and Gender and Women Studies, UIUC
September 27, Saturday
9:00-12:15 Morning Sessions
Chair, Lin-yi Tseng, Department of History, UIUC
Jen-shu Wu, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, "Gentry's Attitude toward Text and Image in Commercial Advertisement in Qing China
Zhongmin Zhang, Department of History, Fudan University, China, “Commercial Advertisements of Chinese Medicine in Late Qing Shanghai”
Discussant: Dana Rabin, Department of History, UIUC
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
Chair, Joseph Dennis, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tze-ki Hon, Department of History, State University of New York, Genesco, “Capitalizing on Crisis: The Expansion of the Late Qing Newspaper Market.”
Liangyu Fu, Center for Chinese Studies and Asia Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Viewing outside the Personal Study: The Production and Use of Educational Wall Charts, c. 1860-1910”
Discussant: Elizabeth Oyler, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UIUC
12:15-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-5:30 Afternoon Sessions
Chair, Michaela Bussotti, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, France
Suzanne Wright, School of Art, University of Tennessee, “Print and Play: Drinking and other Games in China”
Discussant: Anne Burkus-Chasson, School of Art and Design, UIUC
En Li, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis, “Printed Hope: Lottery Gambling and Everyday Life in Late-Qing China”
Discussant: Alex Kais, Department of History, UIUC
3:30-4:30 p.m. Roundtable Discussion of Plan for Publication