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Leiden, 16-19 July 2019Finding one’s way around a conference as large as ICAS 11 can feel daunting — especially with so many parallel sessions relevant to your research interests going on at the same time. To simplify ICAS for you, the China Academic Network on Gender has compiled a short conference guide including individual presentations, panels, and your personalised gender &#38; China itinerary. Follow one of our three handpicked streams, or make your own from our full list below. Happy conference!You can also download the conference guide as PDF here.You’re presenting on a China/gender-related topic and can’t find your name on the list? Send us an email at change@ulb.ac.beThe China Academic Network on Gender will be organising a get-together event for members during the conference. Don’t hesitate to contact us!Your personalised gender &#38; China itineraryStream 1: Gender Representations and FeminismsTuesday, July 1610:00 - 11:45 Religion, Politics, and the Representation of Chinese Women: Transdisciplinary PerspectivesLocation: Huizinga 0.26 Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China:Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zetian (624-705)Timothy Barrett – University of LondonFrom Mother Love to Spiritual Communities: The Political Vision in Su Xuelin’s JixinMaram Epstein – University of OregonMary C.K. Chang, Another Face of Zhang Zhujun?Ellen Widmer – Wellesley CollegePeace activism in the Women’s Movement in Republican ChinaLouise Edwards – University of New South WalesWednesday, July 1714:45 - 16:30Session Title: Liberating Oppressed voicesNew Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella — University of St.Gallen, Switzerland17:00 - 18:45Session Title: Enterprising-self in China's New Economy: The State, Technology and IndividualWandering Internet Celebrities: Beauty Bloggers and Cross-platform ProductionLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28 Zexu Guan, Leiden University, NetherlandsThursday, July 1809:00 - 10:45Gender and Social Policy in ChinaLocation: Lipsius 2.27“Han Teacher in the Uyghur School”: Nation, Muslim, and Military Wives in Chinese State PropagandaZheng Ying – NetherlandsFeminism or Marketability: The “Beauty Writer” and “Body Writing” Phenomenon in China and the WorldJolin Tian – University of WollongongInside Work: Transformations in the Exploitation of Rural Women in Modern ChinaTamara Jacka – Australian National UniversityMainland Chinese New Age Milieu and the Post-Maoist Balancing of Yin and YangAnna Iskra – University of Hong Kong11:15 - 13:00The Transnational Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism: Chinese and German PerspectivesLocation: Huizinga 0.04 Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in Shanghai and Berlin in the 1930sAnup Grewal – University of Toronto“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929Catherine Smale – King's College LondonFemale Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding LingYejun Zou – King's College London14:45 - 16:30The Threat of the Beautiful Woman: The Influence - or Lack of - European Feminism in Chinese Representations of the Feminine / FeminismLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.13 Yang Fudong and the ambiguities of female power in contemporary Chinese art, Christine Vial Kayser – Creops, Paris IV-Sorbonne‘My Body Says’: Performing Vagina Monologues and Enacting Transnational Feminism in Contemporary ChinaHongwei Bao – University of NottinghamGirls who drink human blood: Lipstick, feminism, and the male gaze in Xiao Hong’s fiction Coraline Jortay – Université libre de BruxellesThe image of the "modern girl" in the Republican Shanghai in the writings and images of Ye LingfengMarie Laureillard – Lumière-Lyon 2 University17:00 - 18:45Women Empowerment and Female Images in AsiaLocation: Lipsius 2.27 Feminine Visibility, The Self and Design in Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture in ChinaSandy Ng – Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityRevising women’s work: Representing the production of cotton in 18th-century ChinaRoslyn Lee Hammers – University of Hong KongGender and Identity in Hong Kong ArtSilvia Fok – Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityFriday, July 1909:00 - 10:45Writing Women's Roles in 5th-13th Century ChinaLocation: Lipsius 0.05 Representing Palace Women in Medieval Chinese Literature: The "Zhao Feiyan waizhuan" in Images of the Imperial HaremOlivia Milburn – Seoul National UniversityPossession, Revelation, and Identities: Healers, Transcendents, and “Enchanted” Women in Song ChinaHsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania11:15 - 13:00Session Title: Governance, Religion and Ethnic Others: A View from Southwest ChinaReligion and Gender: Yao Female Singers and Their Relation with PanhuLocation: Lipsius 0.05 Meiwen Chen, Independent Scholar, Netherlands14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Fictional RealitiesTragicomedy: Modern Love and New Women in Yang Jiang’s Translated “Comedy of Manners”Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.02 Xi Tian, Bucknell University, United States17:00 - 18:45Session Title: War and Conflict IIIImagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Woman Fighter in Republican ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.16 Iris Ma, University of Notre Dame, United StatesStream 2: Beyond Women: Masculinities and Queer Approaches to GenderTuesday, July 1610:00 - 11:45 Session Title: ICAS Book Prize ‘Humanities’ – Shortlisted AuthorsAfter Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.17 Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis, United States Wednesday, July 1709:00 - 10:45Session Title: Emotion and Transnational Migration in Asia and Europe IThe Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.30 Kumiko Kawashima, Macquarie University, Australia17:00 - 18:45Session Title: East and Southeast Asian Queer Cultures in Transnational FramesLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20Queer Chinese Malaysians’ Educational Migration to TaiwanTing-Fai Yu, Monash University Malaysia, MalaysiaWalking Up to the Front: Assembling Gay Live Streamers, Reconfiguring Chinese Gay Male Subjectivities on Gay Dating AppsShuaishuai Wang, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsThursday, July 1809:00 - 10:45Session Title: B&#38;D Carousel: Art, Museums and a Personal Reflection#notesofapatriot : On Ghana, Asia, China, Fela, Women, Zidane and MoreLocation: Huizinga 0.04  Lloyd Amoah, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana11:15 - 13:00Session Title: Sexuality and Discontent IIFire in My Heart: Smoldering Pornographies on the Chinese InternetLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04Katrien Jacobs, Chinese University of Hong Kong, BelgiumFriday, July 1911:15 - 13:00Session Title: Social Engagement and Activism IIA Traitor or Patriot: Yang Yinyu and Her Struggling in Masculine Society and Nationalism in ChinaLocation: Lipsius 2.27 Xuening Kong, University at Buffalo (SUNY), United States14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Lifestyle, Identities and Social Capital in China, Japan and KoreaModern Chinese Parenthood: Cultural Identities in FluxLocation: Lipsius 0.28 Marleen Spijkman, University of Twente, Netherlands - Co-Author(s): Menno de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands ; Ke Xue, Shanghai Jiaotong University, ChinaStream 3: Marriage, Migration and Comparative PerspectivesTuesday, July 1610:00 - 11:45Session Title: Marriage Migration: Emotions, Socio-Economic Decisions and State PoliciesWife or Maid? Chinese Marriage Migrants’ Lives in Taiwanese HouseholdsLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.14 Paoyi Huang, City University of New York, United States13:30 - 15:15 Session Title: B&#38;D Carousel: Migration for a Multitude of ReasonsIllusions and Suffering: Chinese Migrants in ParisLocation: Huizinga 0.23cSimeng Wang, The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), FranceWednesday, July 1709:00 - 10:45Session Title: Emotion and Transnational Migration in Asia and Europe IThe Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.30 Kumiko Kawashima, Macquarie University, Australia11:15 - 13:00Session Title: Parenting Practices in Public Policy and Media in Contemporary ChinaMarrying the Perfect Child — Middle Class Norms and Intergenerational Arrangements in the Marriage Corners of Urban ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20  Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Affective Societies Collaborative Research Center, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Temporalities and Social Activities in Changing Asian Rural Societies ITemporalities of Marriage in Contemporary Rural China: Harmonization Between Ritual Practices and Life RhythmsLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04 Renyou Hou, Institut Nationales des Langues et Civilisation Orientales, France17:00 - 18:45Roundtable: New Approaches to "Race" in AsiaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14Elizabeth LaCoutureUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong KongJason PetrulisUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong KongSonja ThomasColby College, United StatesLawrence ChuaSyracuse University, United StatesThursday, July 1809:00 - 10:45Session Title: Transnational Foodways: Farming, Food Entrepreneurship, and Identity Politics in Asia and EuropeA Comparative Discourse Analysis of Farming Women in China and SwedenLocation: Lipsius 0.05 Annika Pissin, Lund University, Sweden11:15 - 13:00The Transnational Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism: Chinese and German PerspectivesLocation: Huizinga 0.04 Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in Shanghai and Berlin in the 1930sAnup Grewal – University of Toronto“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929Catherine Smale – King's College LondonFemale Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding LingYejun Zou – King's College London14:45 - 16:30Rethinking Gender Equality and Transitional Justice in Post-War TaiwanLocation: Lipsius 2.27Taiwan and Marriage EqualityJens Damm – Chang Jung University, TaiwanCEDAW in Taiwan and the localization of Women's Human RightsAstrid Lipinsky – University ViennaThe Implementation of Taiwan’s Gender Equity Education Act – Current and Future ChallengesFanni Maráczi – Pallas Athene Geopolitical InstituteFriday, July 1909:00 - 10:45Session Title: A Century of May Fourths: Legacies, Questions and Reinterpretations“Our Responsibility”: Missionary school girls and the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai, 1917-1929Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14Jennifer Bond, Durham University, United Kingdom11:15 - 13:00 Session Title: Student and Skilled Mobilities Across Asia and Beyond IIAsian Women Scientists on the Move: Privilege, Prejudice and PressureLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C1.31 Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College, Singapore14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Migrant Workers: Rights, Policy and Practice IIGendered Migration in Asia: A Study of Low-Wage Female Migrant Workers from China to SingaporeLocation: Lipsius 0.02 Wei Yang, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeIndividual PresentationsTuesday, July 1610:00 - 11:45 Session Title: ICAS Book Prize ‘Humanities’ – Shortlisted AuthorsAfter Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.17 Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis, United States Session Title: Marriage Migration: Emotions, Socio-Economic Decisions and State PoliciesWife or Maid? Chinese Marriage Migrants’ Lives in Taiwanese HouseholdsLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.14 Paoyi Huang, City University of New York, United States13:30 - 15:15 Session Title: B&#38;D Carousel: Migration for a Multitude of ReasonsIllusions and Suffering: Chinese Migrants in ParisLocation: Huizinga 0.23cSimeng Wang, The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), FranceWednesday, July 1709:00 - 10:45Session Title: Emotion and Transnational Migration in Asia and Europe IThe Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.30 Kumiko Kawashima, Macquarie University, Australia11:15 - 13:00Session Title: Parenting Practices in Public Policy and Media in Contemporary ChinaMarrying the Perfect Child — Middle Class Norms and Intergenerational Arrangements in the Marriage Corners of Urban ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20  Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Affective Societies Collaborative Research Center, Freie, Universität Berlin, Germany14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Temporalities and Social Activities in Changing Asian Rural Societies ITemporalities of Marriage in Contemporary Rural China: Harmonization Between Ritual Practices and Life RhythmsLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04 Renyou Hou, Institut Nationales des Langues et Civilisation Orientales, FranceSession Title: Temporalities and Social Activities in Changing Asian Rural Societies IThe Time Challenges of Beauty Pageant for Gyarong (China)Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04 Jingming Fan, Université Paris Nanterre, FranceSession Title: Liberating Oppressed voicesNew Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella — University of St.Gallen, Switzerland17:00 - 18:45Session Title: East and Southeast Asian Queer Cultures in Transnational FramesLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20Queer Chinese Malaysians’ Educational Migration to TaiwanTing-Fai Yu, Monash University Malaysia, MalaysiaWalking Up to the Front: Assembling Gay Live Streamers, Reconfiguring Chinese Gay Male Subjectivities on Gay Dating AppsShuaishuai Wang, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsSession Title: Enterprising-self in China's New Economy: The State, Technology and IndividualWandering Internet Celebrities: Beauty Bloggers and Cross-platform ProductionLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28 Zexu Guan, Leiden University, NetherlandsSession Title: Enterprising-self in China's New Economy: The State, Technology and IndividualFrom Apprentice to Entrepreneur: Rural Migrant Women and Affective Labour in the Shanghai Beauty Parlour IndustryLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28Penn Tsz Ting Ip, University of York, CanadaThursday, July 1809:00 - 10:45Session Title: B&#38;D Carousel: Art, Museums and a Personal Reflection#notesofapatriot : On Ghana, Asia, China, Fela, Women, Zidane and MoreLocation: Huizinga 0.04  Lloyd Amoah, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, GhanaSession Title: Transnational Foodways: Farming, Food Entrepreneurship, and Identity Politics in Asia and EuropeA Comparative Discourse Analysis of Farming Women in China and SwedenLocation: Lipsius 0.05 Annika Pissin, Lund University, SwedenSession Title: B&#38;D Carousel: Economic DevelopmentsTowards Gender Diversity on the Boards of Listed Firms in China and India?Location: Huizinga 0.23c Alice de Jonge, Monash University, Australia11:15 - 13:00Session Title: Writing and Gender ITrouble Women，Trouble Comedy：Li Jianwu’s Adaption of Lysistrata in Shanghai (1946)Location: Lipsius 0.02 Jian Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongSession Title: Sexuality and Discontent IILocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04Counter Discourses to Sex Binarism in May Fourth Literary FeminismXi Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, ChinaFire in My Heart: Smoldering Pornographies on the Chinese InternetKatrien Jacobs, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Belgium14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Revisiting Urban Spaces in Late Imperial China Through Visuality and MaterialityPicturing Urban Pleasures of Nanjing: Courtesans, Gender, and Representations in Ming DynastyLocation: Lipsius 3.08Yizhou Wang, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, GermanySession Title: Chinese Diaspora: Historical Trajectories and current Socio-Economic Influence in the Global World IEmotional Geographies, Hyper-mobility and Transnationalism: Migrant Women's Circulations Between China and TaiwanLocation: Huizinga 0.06Beatrice Zani, Lyon 2 University, FranceWriting and Gender IILocation: Lipsius 0.02Feminist Approaches to Reflecting on the Cultural Revolution – Contextual and Textual Study on Literary Works by Chinese Female Writers in 1990sLuming Zhang, Duke University, United StatesThe Weakening of "Yin": The Suicide and the Unpunished Endings of Wanton Women in Ming-Qing FictionZiyi Hu, University of Hong Kong, Hong KongFriday, July 1909:00 - 10:45Session Title: A Century of May Fourths: Legacies, Questions and Reinterpretations“Our Responsibility”: Missionary school girls and the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai, 1917-1929Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14Jennifer Bond, Durham University, United Kingdom11:15 - 13:00Session Title: Social Engagement and Activism IIA Traitor or Patriot: Yang Yinyu and Her Struggling in Masculine Society and Nationalism in ChinaLocation: Lipsius 2.27 Xuening Kong, University at Buffalo (SUNY), United StatesSession Title: Student and Skilled Mobilities Across Asia and Beyond IIAsian Women Scientists on the Move: Privilege, Prejudice and PressureLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C1.31 Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College, SingaporeSession Title: Language and Literature of ChinaThe Functions of the Wu Dialect in the Sing-Song Girls of ShanghaiLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.14 Wen He, IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University, FranceSession Title: Governance, Religion and Ethnic Others: A View from Southwest ChinaReligion and Gender: Yao Female Singers and Their Relation with PanhuLocation: Lipsius 0.05 Meiwen Chen, Independent Scholar, Netherlands14:45 - 16:30Session Title: Migrant Workers: Rights, Policy and Practice IIGendered Migration in Asia: A Study of Low-Wage Female Migrant Workers from China to SingaporeLocation: Lipsius 0.02 Wei Yang, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSession Title: Lifestyle, Identities and Social Capital in China, Japan and KoreaModern Chinese Parenthood: Cultural Identities in FluxLocation: Lipsius 0.28 Marleen Spijkman, University of Twente, Netherlands; Co-Author(s) Menno de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands, Ke Xue, Shanghai Jiaotong University, ChinaSession Title: Fictional RealitiesTragicomedy: Modern Love and New Women in Yang Jiang’s Translated “Comedy of Manners”Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.02 Xi Tian, Bucknell University, United StatesDynastic History IParty, Ball, and Hostess: The Politics of Gender and Etiquette in Late Qing DiplomacyLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.20Xia Shi, New College of Florida, United States17:00 - 18:45Session Title: War and Conflict IIIImagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Woman Fighter in Republican ChinaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.16 Iris Ma, University of Notre Dame, United StatesFull panels and roundtablesTuesday, July 1610:00 - 11:45Religion, Politics, and the Representation of Chinese Women: Transdisciplinary PerspectivesLocation: Huizinga 0.26 Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China:Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zetian (624-705)Timothy Barrett – University of LondonFrom Mother Love to Spiritual Communities: The Political Vision in Su Xuelin’s JixinMaram Epstein – University of OregonMary C.K. Chang, Another Face of Zhang Zhujun?Ellen Widmer – Wellesley CollegePeace activism in the Women’s Movement in Republican ChinaLouise Edwards – University of New South WalesWednesday, July 1717:00 - 18:45Roundtable: New Approaches to "Race" in AsiaLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14Elizabeth LaCoutureUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong KongJason PetrulisUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong KongSonja ThomasColby College, United StatesLawrence ChuaSyracuse University, United StatesThursday, July 1809:00 - 10:45Gender and Social Policy in ChinaLocation: Lipsius 2.27“Han Teacher in the Uyghur School”: Nation, Muslim, and Military Wives in Chinese State PropagandaZheng Ying – NetherlandsFeminism or Marketability: The “Beauty Writer” and “Body Writing” Phenomenon in China and the WorldJolin Tian – University of WollongongInside Work: Transformations in the Exploitation of Rural Women in Modern ChinaTamara Jacka – Australian National UniversityMainland Chinese New Age Milieu and the Post-Maoist Balancing of Yin and YangAnna Iskra – University of Hong Kong11:15 - 13:00The Transnational Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism: Chinese and German PerspectivesLocation: Huizinga 0.04 Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in Shanghai and Berlin in the 1930sAnup Grewal – University of Toronto“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929Catherine Smale – King's College LondonFemale Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding LingYejun Zou – King's College London14:45 - 16:30The Threat of the Beautiful Woman: The Influence - or Lack of - European Feminism in Chinese Representations of the Feminine / FeminismLocation: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.13 Yang Fudong and the ambiguities of female power in contemporary Chinese art, Christine Vial Kayser – Creops, Paris IV-Sorbonne‘My Body Says’: Performing Vagina Monologues and Enacting Transnational Feminism in Contemporary ChinaHongwei Bao – University of NottinghamGirls who drink human blood: Lipstick, feminism, and the male gaze in Xiao Hong’s fiction Coraline Jortay – Université libre de BruxellesThe image of the "modern girl" in the Republican Shanghai in the writings and images of Ye LingfengMarie Laureillard – Lumière-Lyon 2 University Rethinking Gender Equality and Transitional Justice in Post-War TaiwanLocation: Lipsius 2.27Taiwan and Marriage EqualityJens Damm – Chang Jung University, TaiwanCEDAW in Taiwan and the localization of Women's Human RightsAstrid Lipinsky – University ViennaThe Implementation of Taiwan’s Gender Equity Education Act – Current and Future ChallengesFanni Maráczi – Pallas Athene Geopolitical Institute17:00 - 18:45 Women Empowerment and Female Images in AsiaLocation: Lipsius 2.27 Feminine Visibility, The Self and Design in Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture in ChinaSandy Ng – Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityRevising women’s work: Representing the production of cotton in 18th-century ChinaRoslyn Lee Hammers – University of Hong KongGender and Identity in Hong Kong ArtSilvia Fok – Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityFriday, July 1909:00 - 10:45 Writing Women's Roles in 5th-13th Century ChinaLocation: Lipsius 0.05 Representing Palace Women in Medieval Chinese Literature: The "Zhao Feiyan waizhuan" in Images of the Imperial HaremOlivia Milburn – Seoul National UniversityPossession, Revelation, and Identities: Healers, Transcendents, and “Enchanted” Women in Song ChinaHsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania