Conference Program
Thursday, 15th June 2023
9:30–10:00
Welcome and opening statements
10:00–11:15
Opening Lecture
DAVID PORTER (University of Michigan): Metaphor as Method
11:45–13:00
Panel 1: Chinese-Iberian Contacts and Manila (Chair: Achim Mittag)
RACHEL ZHANG (University of Tübingen): The First Sangley Poetry: Diego de Rueda y Mendoza in Manila, 1622
JUAN GIL-OSLE (Arizona State University): Luzon at the Center of Global Schemes: The Quest for the Strait of Anian from Both Sides of the Pacific Ocean
14:15–15:30
Panel 2: Chinese-Iberian Commercial Transformations (Chair: Laura Dierksmeier)
ADRIAN MASTERS (Trier University): On Non-Liberal Genealogies of Toleration, or How Chinese Merchants Made Catholic Manila Tolerant, 1593–1662
GUILLERMO RUIZ-STOVEL (KU Leuven): Catholic Exclusion and the Rise and Fall of Chinese Manila’s Cross-Cultural Brokers, 1684–1783
16:00–17:15
Panel 3: Novel Encounters in the East China Sea (Chair: Anno Dederichs)
TIM BROOK (University of British Columbia): Learning to Trade: The Initiation of English Merchants into East Asian Business Practices
RAYMOND DAYI HSU (University of Michigan): Reimagining Early Modern Sinicization through Indigenous Activism: Cultural Revival and Political Struggle of the Makatao People in Taiwan
17:15–17:45
Concluding Remarks
Friday, 16th June 2023
9:00–10:15
Panel 4: Sinicization and China’s Northern Neighbors (Chair: Simon Siemianowski)
YOUNGMIN KIM (Seoul National University): Sinicization and Its Critics: Moving beyond the Impasse
ELVIN MENG (University of Chicago): Form & Content in Manchu Print/Manuscript Culture; or, If Not Sinicization, What for Were Translations?
10:45–12:00
Panel 5: Sinicizing the Manchu (Chair: Christina Brauner)
HANG LIN (Hangzhou Normal University): Sinicizing the Borderland and Forming the Frontier: The Incorporation Strategies & Ethnic Contestation of the Orochen in the Qing (1644–1911)
SIXIANG WANG (University of California-Los Angeles): Why Chosŏn Korea Breaks the Sinicization Paradigm
13:00–14:15
Panel 6: China, Chinese, and the Dutch (Chair: Philip Hahn)
DYLAN TZU-YI HSU (Leiden University): Widow's Pleas: Chinese Business in Dutch Taiwan
LEONARD BLUSSÉ (Leiden University): Java, 1740–1742: Where Formal and Informal Empires Clashed
14:45–16:00
Panel 7: Sinicizing the European Enlightenment (Chair: Adrian Masters)
BENOÎT MALBRANQUE (Institut Coppet): A New Appreciation of Chinese Influence on Early French Classical Liberalism
YETI KANG (University of Chicago): Clavis Sinica: Leibniz’s Exploration of Universal Characteristics and Chinese Writing, 1679–1707
16:30–17:00
Panel 8: Sinicizing European Body and Mind (Chair: Renate Dürr)
FEI HUANG (University of Tübingen): Knowledge-Building on Nature & Body: Hot Springs in Early Modern Sino-Western Exchange
ELIZABETH HARPER (University of Hong Kong): The Dandy and the Sage: Aesthetics, Morality and the ‘Perfected Man’ in Zhuangzi 莊子 and Oscar Wilde
17:30–18:00
Concluding Remarks