International Conference of Everyday Life

International Conference of The History of Everyday Life in Late Imperial and Modern China:

Conference Schedule

May23-27 2012

Wednesday 23 May 2012

208, General Purpose North 3 (39A)

12:15-1pm:

Chair: Dr. Chi Kong Lai (UQ)

Everyday Politics in Hong Kong

Professor Yiu-chung Wong (Head, Political Science Dept, Lingnan University)

Discussant : Professor Gray Hamilton.

208, General Purpose North 3 (39A)

PUBLIC LECTURE: 1-2pm:

Chair: Professor Carl Trocki (QUT)

Professor Anthony Reid (Asian Studies, Australian National University)

"Towards Human History – let’s not ‘over-state’ "

Prof. Reid will also discuss transnational perspective on everyday life.

E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Everyday Life History Reading Group Meeting: 2-3:50pm

(Reports on Age of Commerce [Ms. Onanong Thippimol]; Things Modern [Wu Xiaolu]; Ordinary Lives [Lachlan Tait]; The Man Awakened from Dreams [Chris Yuan]; Gender and Everyday Life [Chris Zhou]; The History of Everyday Life [Jen Kwok]; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory [ Jennifer Yu].

Chair: Professor Tze-ki Hon

Response: Professors Anthony Reid, David Faure and Chiang Chu-shan

Dinner in Chi Kong’s house.

Thursday 24 May:

10-11:50 am: Room 208, MichieBldg

Sources and Methodology of Everyday Life Studies:

Chair: Associate Professor Helen Creese

Prof. Graeme Turner from the University of Queensland will discuss media and everyday life.
Ms. Di Pin Quyand and Ms. Amella Mckenzie from National Library of Australia will discuss sources of everyday life in Chinese studies.
Prof. Gay Hawkins from the University of Queensland will discuss theories of everyday life.
Associate Prof. D. Brown from the University of Queensland will discuss philosophizing the everyday life?

1-2pm: near Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg

Registration

2-3pm: Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Welcome and Opening: Professor Nancy Wright (UQ)?; Professor Clive Moore (UQ) Professor Geremie Barme (ANU); Chi Kong Lai (UQ)

3-4pm:

Photo

3:30-4:00: Visit UQ Art Museum: Beijing Hao

4-5:30pm: Room 234, Parnell Bldg (07-234).

Chuan Han-sheng Lecture Series: Cosponsored by New Asia Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Chinese University of Hong Kong and The National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Chair: Professor Wellington Chan

Introduction of the Chuan Han-sheng Lecture Series and the Lecturer: Dr. Chi Kong Lai

Professor David Faure (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

“China’s common people and their daily life: how appearance became reality in the twentieth century.”

Response and Remarks: Prof. Helen Dunstan (History, Sydney University)

PUBLIC LECTURE:

5: 35-7:00: Room 234, Parnell Bldg (07-234) or UQ ART MUSEUM.

Chair:

Prof. Susan Naquin (Director, East Asian Studies, Princeton University)

“Using Material Culture to Study Daily Life: The Bed, the Vat, and the God.”

Prof. Susan Naquin will explore material culture methodology and daily life history in Chinese studies.

Welcoming Dinner

Friday 25 May, 10am-11:20am:

Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Session 1: Religion, Revolution and Everyday Life

Chair: Professor John Morehead (UQ)

Dr. Denise Austin (Academic Director, Queensland, Alphacrucis College)

“Mary Yeung (c1889-1971): The Ordinary Life of an Extraordinary Australian Chinese Pentecostal.”

Dr Benjamin Penny (Australian National University)

"The history of Chinese religions and the history of everyday life"

Discussant : Dr. Adam Bowles

Room 213, Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32-213)

Session 2: Textile, Fashion and Everyday Life

Chair: Dr. Prudence Ahrens

Dr. Amelia Brown (Classics, University of Queensland)

“The Role of Silk in Everyday Life in China and Greece.”

Prof. Bonnie English (Griffith)

“Contemporary Chinese fashion and the Everyday”

Discussant : Professor Antonia Finnane (History, University of Melbourne)

Friday 25 May, 11:20am-12:40pm:

Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Chair: Dr. PatrickJory.

Session 3: Revolution, State-building and Everyday Life

Dr. HE Xi贺喜(History, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

“How revolution became a way of life”

Professor David Schak (Griffith)

“Changes in Moral Education Textbooks in the PRC and Taiwan.”

Discussant : Professor Tze-ki Hon (SUNY-Geneseo)

Room 213, Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32-213)

Session 4: Food Culture and Everyday Life

Chair: Professor Zhu Yin (Director, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Huazhong Normal University)

Prof. Sui Wai Cheung张瑞威(History, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

“Choice of Staple food: Food Consumption Pattern in Central and Southern China during the Eighteenth Century.”

Prof. Cheng Meipo 程美宝 (History Department, National Zhongshan University)

“Canton or Hong Kong? Where to eat and play in the 1920s, and why?”

Discussant : Prof. Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Lunch: 12:40pm-2:00 pm

Friday 25 May, 2pm-6pm:

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

2pm-3:30pm Public Lecture:

Chair:
Prof. Gary Hamilton from Washington University will discuss consumption of everyday life.

3:30-4:00pm Tea Break

Session 5: Food Culture and Everyday Life 2

4: 00-5:30pm

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair: Professor Cheng Meipo 程美宝 (History Department, National Zhongshan University)
Prof. Liu Tik Sang (Director, Centre for South China Studies, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

“Eating Habit and Social Status: The Live Seafood Consumption in Hong Kong.”

Prof. Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
“Everyday Maoism: Eating as Statecraft in Communist Politics.”
Discussant : Prof. Sui Wai Cheung张瑞威(History, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Session 6: Everyday Life in Contemporary China
4:00-5:30pm

Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Chair: Professor Leong Liew (Head, International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith)

Mr. Jen Kwok (HPRC, University of Queensland)
“Party Loyalty and Community Representation in the Everyday Lives of Australian Chinese Politicians and Political Candidates”
Dr. Guy Ramsay (School of LCCS, UQ)
“Chinese Life Stories of Family Caregiving in Alzheimer’s Disease”

Discussant : Professor Yiu-chung Wong (Head, Political Science Dept, Lingnan University)

Friday 25 May, 5:30pm-7pm: Room:TBA

UQ Public Lecture on Chinese Culture:

Chair: Professor Ping Chan (Director, UQ Confucius Institute)

Professor Geremie Barme (ANU)

“Telling Chinese Stories”

Saturday 26 May,

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302). 8:30-10:00

Public Lectures:

Chair: Professor Chang Jianhua

Prof. Xiong Yuezhi will briefly introduce the themes of the 20 volume project on Shanghai Daily Life History, highlighting where possible future directions in the field of Chinese Daily Life History.
Prof. Hanchao Lu will also introduce the themes of his Culture and Customs of Asia series.

10:00-10:30 Morning Tea

Session 7: Everyday Life and Consumption 1

10:30-12:00pm

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair: Li Changli李长莉 (Director, Centre of Social History, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Prof. Wellington Chan (Chair, History, Occidental College)
“Conspicuous Consumption in China Past and Present”
Assoc. Prof. Assoc. Prof. Wu Jen-shu 巫仁恕 (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
“Shopping, Space and Women”

Prof Zuanyou Song(History Institute, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai)

“Aesthetic economy: Construction of modern women’s public image and the cosmetics market in Shanghai.”

Discussant : Professor David Faure

Session 8: Everyday Life and Music

10:30-12:00pm

Saturday 26 May, Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Chair: Professor Cheng Meipo 程美宝 (History Department, National Zhongshan University)

Ms. Dong Hong (History, Nankai University, Tianjin, China)
“Everyday Life of Chinese traditional opera actress of Beiping-Tianjin region in Modern China.”
Prof. Yung Sai-Shing (Head, Chinese Studies, NUS, Singapore)
“Sonic Experience in Everyday Life: Mapping Cantonese Music on the Hong Kong Island (1920-1940).”
Discussant : Dr. Dolly MacKinnon (HPRC, UQ)

12:00-1:00pm Lunch

Session 9: Everyday Life in business

1: 00-2:30pm

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair: Associate Professor Morris Low

Prof. Antonia Finnane (History, University of Melbourne)
“Shops and chops in revolutionary Beijing.”
Prof. Zhu Yin 朱英(Director, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Huazhong Normal University)
“Everyday Life of Shop-worker.”
Dr. Hsien-chun Wang王憲群(Institute of History, National TsingHua University, Taiwan)
“Electricity and the change of understanding of nature in early Republican China”
Discussant : Professor Wellington Chen

Session 10: Urban and Everyday Life
1:00-2:30pm

Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Chair:Prof. Sui Wai Cheung张瑞威(History, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Kai Wing Chow (History, University of Iillinois, Champaign-Urbana)
“Religion, Power, and Publics: City God Temple and Public Culture in Qing China (1644-1911)”
Ms. Xiaolin Duan, (History , University of Washington, USA)
“Appreciation and Enjoyment: Zhang Dai’s Tao’an mengyi and the Late Ming Urban Life”
Prof. Helen Dunstan (History, Sydney University)

"Everyday Life in the Prisons and Welfare Institutions of Late Imperial and Modern China."

Discussant : Dr. He Xi (History, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Session 11: Social Change and Everyday Life

2:30:4:40pm

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair: Prof. Liu Tik Sang (Director, Centre for South China Studies, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

Prof. Chang Jianhua常建华 (Director, Centre of Daily Life History, Nankai University)

“Daily Life during the Late MingPeriod: A Case Study of Hongtong, Shanxi”

Prof. Li Changli李长莉 (Director, Centre of Social History, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

“Changes in Public Life in the Late Qing Dynasty”

Prof. Fan Jinmin 范金民 (Associate Chair, History Department, Nanjing University)
“Analysis of Suzhou’s Role as the Fashion Leader during the Ming-Qing Period.”
Dr. Chi Kong Lai 黎志刚 (History, University of Queensland)

Session 12: Everyday Life in Cores and Peripheries

2:30:4:40pm

Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Chair: Professor Kai-Wing Chow

Dr. Justin Richard G. Tighe (History, University of Melbourne)

“ Travel in a time of national crisis in 1930s China: the Northwest journey of Lin Pengxia”

Prof. Tze-ki Hon (Head, History, SUNY-Geneseo)

“From Literati to Intellectuals: The Daily Life of Publishers and Writers in Shanghai, 1900-1911”

Prof. Chiang Chu-shan (History, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)

“The Pleasure from the Roof of the World: The Daily Life of a Late Qing Bureaucrat in Lhasa as Seen from the " Youtai's Tibetan Diary"

Discussant : Professor Colin Mackerras AO

Dinner in Chi Kong’s House

Sunday 27 May

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Session 13: Leisure and Everyday Life

8:30-9:50am

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair: Professor Fan Jinmin (History, Nanjing University)

Prof. Wang Zhenzhong王振忠 (Fudan University )
“Popular Religion and Everyday Life in Huizhou.”
Prof. Xiong Yue zhi 熊月之, (Vice President, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
“Garden Life in Modern Shanghai.”
Discussant : Professor Wu Jen-shu (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

Session 14: Prostitutions and Dancing Girls in Shanghai

8:30-9:50am

Room E105, Forgan Smith Bldg

Chair: Professor Mao Huijian (Dean, Faculty of Arts, East China Normal University)

Prof. Shao Yong (Shanghai Normal University)
“City Prostitutes in Shanghai Pictorial of the Late Qing Dynasty.”
Prof. Ma Jun马军 (Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)

“The Formation of Dancing Girls in Shanghai During the 1920s.”

Discussant : Prof. Yung Sai-Shing (Head, Chinese Studies, NUS, Singapore)

Morning Tea: 9:50-10:10am

Public Lecture on Everyday Life of Elite in Late Qing China: 10:10-11:10am

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair: Prof. Shao Yong (Shanghai Normal University)
Prof. Mao Huijian茅海建 (Dean, Faculty of Arts, East China Normal University)

《张之洞的礼单与贡品——晚清上层社会生活的一个剖面》，

Roundtable Discussion: 11:10-12:30pm

Room E302, Forgan Smith Bldg (01-E302).

Chair:

Chair: Chi Kong Lai

Susan Naquin, David Faure, Gary Hamilton, Chang Jianhua, Zhu Yin and ……….

Concluding remarks: David Faure and Xiong Xuezhi

Lunch

1:50-6:00 Tour (Gold Coast)

7:00-8:30pm Dinner

This International Conference is co-convened by Chi Kong Lai, David Faure, Xiong Yuezhi and Tze-ki Hon.
The conference is supported by The Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland, ANU’s Australian Centre on China in the World, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, New Asia Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Historical Anthropology and School of HPRC, The University of Queensland.