22 August, 2016
Panel I: Unexplored Sources on China-India Connections
Chair: Anne Cheng (Collège de France)
9:00-9:20 Anand Yang (University of Washington),
China in the Popular Imagination: Images of Chin in Hindi School Primers in Nineteenth Century North India
9:20-9:40 Kamal Sheel (Benares Hindu University),
A Survey of Hindi/ Urdu Materials on Modern India-China Connections at Local Libraries
9:40-10:00 Madhavi Thampi (Institute of Chinese Studies),
Materials on Republican-Era China in the National Archives of India
10:00-10:20 Wenshuo Liao (Academia Historica),
Recently Opened Archival Sources in Taiwan on China-India Relations, 1939-1949.
10:20-11:00 DISCUSSION
Panel II: China-India Connections in Literature
Chair: Li Tiangang (Fudan University)
11:15-11:35 Adhira Mangalagiri (University of Chicago),
China-India Colonial Configurations and the Aesthetics of Imprisonment
11:35-11:55 Gal Gvili (Columbia University),
Return of the Barbarian: Female Storytellers and Tansregional Folklore in the Works of Xu Dishan
11:55-12:15 Tansen Sen (NYU Shanghai),
The “Hindu-Yangtze-Saikai”: Stories of an Indian Globetrotter in the 1930s China
12:15-12:45 DISCUSSION
Panel III: India, China, and the Colonial Connections
Chair: Sugata Bose (Harvard University)
2:30-2:50 Robert Bickers (University of Bristol),
Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1947
2:50-3:10 Zhang Ke (Fudan University),
Progress or Perish :Two images of India in Late Qing China
3:10-3:30 Cao Yin (NYU Shanghai),
Kill Buddha Singh: The Ghadar Party and Its Enemies in Shanghai, 1914-1927
3:30-3:50 Brian Tsui (HK Polytechnic University),
The Politics of Culture: Cheena Bhavana, Converging Nationalisms and Wartime Diplomacy
3:50-4:30 DISCUSSION
23 August, 2016
Panel IV: China-India Contemporary Comparisons and Connections
Chair: David Ludden (New York University)
9:00-9:20 Vamsi Valkulabharanam (University of Massachusetts),
A Spatial Fix for the Economic Slowdown? New Urbanization Initiatives in China and India
9:20-9:40 Ping Lei (The New School),
9:40-10:00 Ka-Kin Cheuk (Leiden University),
Global Fabric Bazaar: An Ethnographic Study of Indian Traders in a Chinese Fabric Market
10:00-10:20 Solomon Benjamin (IIT Chennai),
Co-Producing China in India: The “China Bazaars” in Indian Cities
10:20-11:00 DISCUSSION
Panel V: China and India: Mutual Perceptions and Understandings
Chair: Ashok Gurung (The New School)
11:15-11:35 Chen Jian (NYU Shanghai),
An Unnecessary War: Misperceptions and the Origins of the Chinese-Indian Border Clash of 1962
11:35-11:55 Effie Hu and Li Min (Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences),
India in Chinese Media: 2012-2014
11:55-12:15 Swagata Saha and Anusua Basu Ray Chaudhury (Observer Research Foundation),
Understanding Media Perceptions: Selected Indian National Dailies on China, 2012-2014
12:15-12:35 Mao Siwei (Former Chinese Consulate General in Kolkata)
Current India-China Relations
12:35-1:15 DISCUSSION
Panel VI: China and Southeast Asia
Chair: Barbara Watson Andaya (University of Hawaii)
2:30-2:50 Celina Hung (NYU Shanghai),
Creolizing the Sinophone Pacific
2:50-3:10 Mark Swislocki (NYU Abu Dhabi),
Borderland Environments of Yunnan and Burma ca. 1917
3:10-3:30 Janice Hyeju Jeong (Duke University),
3:30-4:00 DISCUSSION
24 August, 2016
Panel VII: China and the Islamic World
Chair: Engseng Ho (Duke University)
9:00-9:20 Wang Jianping (Shanghai Normal University),
The Entry of Central Asian Muslims into Yunnan during the Mongol Period
9:20-9:40 Shuang Wen (NYU Shanghai),
Soybean’s Journey from Manchuria to Egypt at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
9:40-10:00 Liu Yi (Shanghai University),
Muslim, Chinese and Scholar-Official: Celaleddin Wang Zin Shan (1903-1961) in Istanbul
10:00-10:30 DISCUSSION