Program

10:00-10:20	Symposium Overview Shu Yang, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
10:20 -11:50	Panel 1: Bad Body “The Question of Deaf Women: Interpreting Modern Chinese Deaf History from the Gender Perspective” Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, PhD Student   “Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women’s Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era” Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, MA Student   “The Virtuous (and Un-Virtuous) Womb” Janice Kam, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer   “Female Hysteria in Modern China: Wandering Womb or Rampaging Piglet” Shu Yang, Western Michigan University, Associate Professor
11:50 -13:20	Lunch Break
13:20 -14:50	Panel 2: Mad Medicine “Curing the Subaltern Female: Translingual Practice of Medicine in Mary H. Fulton’s Inasmuch: Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc.” Yun Zhu, Temple University (Philadelphia), Associate Professor “Can Xue on the Couch: Psychiatric Criticism and the Medical Gaze” Shannon Gilbert, University of Cambridge, PhD Student “Interrogating Disease, Technology, and Gender in Chinese Science Fiction: Feminist Biopolitics in Tang Fei’s ‘Addiction’ and ‘Waste Material’” Xi Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Associate Professor “Queering the Posthuman: Disease, Identity, and Love in Chi Ta-Wei’s The Membranes” Xuying Yu, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Associate Professor
14:50 - 15:10	Snacks
15:10 -16:40	Panel 3: Erratic Emotion “Pathologies of Exit: Madness, Illness, and the Gendered Politics of Withdrawal in Wartime Shanghai” Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PhD Student “Desire, Dis-ease, and Disordered Gazes during the COVID Lockdown: Female Spectatorship of Farewell My Concubine” Wei Guo, University of Göttingen, MA Student “Gender and Artistic Practices in Post-Mao China” Jia Li, University of Tokyo, PhD Student
16:40 - 16:50	Closing Remarks Yuki Tanaka, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo