Programme
 
March 9, 2012 (Friday)
March 10, 2012 (Saturday)
 

March 9, 2012 (Friday)
     
  09:00-09:15 Registration
 
  09:15-09:30
Introductory remarks
Angela LEUNG
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Izumi NAKAYAMA
School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong
 
 
  09:30-12:30
PANEL 1: Civilizing Asian Bodies
Chair: Charlotte FURTH, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
University of Southern California

 
  09:30-09:40
Susan BURNS, Department of History, University of Chicago
The Japanese Patent Medicine Trade in East Asia: Marketing Health,
Modernity and Asian Womanhood

  09:40-09:50
Jender LEE, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Sex and Reproduction in "Physiology and Hygiene" Textbooks: Post-War Taiwan and Beyond

  09:50-10:00
Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
The University of Hong Kong
New Bodies for a New Age: The Study of Japanese Children's Physical Development and Questions of Civilization, ca. 1905-1930

  10:00-10:10
SHAO Dan, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Five Admonitions to Physicians” Mao Zedong Thought, and Consent Form:
Doctor-Patient-State Relations in Chinese Obstetrics, 1953-2002

  10:10-10:20
Angela LEUNG, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
The University of Hong Kong
Interpreting gender and modernity in colonial Asia: the jiaoqi/kakke/beriberi traditions, ca. 1860-1930

  10:20-11:10 Discussant:
Charlotte FURTH, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
University of Southern California

  11:10-11:25 Tea Break
 
  11:25-12:30 Questions and Answers
 
  12:30-13:30 Lunch (buffet on conference site)
 
  13:30-16:30
PANEL 2: Knowing Healthcare Practice
Chair: Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
The University of Hong Kong

 
  13:30-13:40
Sonja M. KIM, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University
A ‘Heavenly’ Profession: Training Nurses in Colonial Korea

  13:40-13:50
Sean Hsiang-lin LEI, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Housewives as Kitchen Pharmacists:
Dr. Zhuang Shuqi's Regimen and Gendered Identity in Contemporary Taiwan

  13:50-14:00
Yi-Li WU, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Body, gender, and medical authority in Chinese views of Western medicine:
the case of Wang Shixiong 王士雄 (1808-68)

  14:00-14:10
Shao-hua LIU, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Gender, Class, and Sociality in China's Leprosy Control

  14:10-14:20
LIN Yi-ping, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang-Ming University
From Philco, Mitsumi to RCA: Trichloroethylene and Female Electronic Workers' Occupational Disease

  14:20-15:05 Discussant:
Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

  15:05-15:20 Tea break
 
  15:20-16:30 Questions and Answers
 
  16:30-18:30 Break
 
  18:30-20:30 Dinner (Ningbo Club)
 
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March 10, 2012 (Saturday)
 
  09:30-12:30
PANEL 3: Reproductive Technologies
Chair: Rayna RAPP, Department of Anthropology, New York University

 
  09:30-09:40

 

Marcia INHORN, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Reproductive Exile in Global Dubai: Inter-Asian Connections

  09:40-09:50
Margaret SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex
Asia as a Patform of Resistance-examples from Asian bioethics

  09:50-10:00
Wen-hua KUO, Institute of Science, History and Society, National Yang-Ming University
A Woman's Project: Shu Tze-kuan and Her Family Planning Career, 1952-1973

  10:00-10:10
Azumi TSUGE, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Meijigakuin University
Considering Our Societies through Views about Eggs and Egg Donation

  10:10-10:20
Chia-ling WU, Department & Graduate Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
Excluding Unmarried Women: Assisted Reproductive Technology Governance and Access Politics in Taiwan

  10:20-10:30
Howard Hsueh-Hao CHIANG, Program in History of Science, Princeton University
The Sinophone (Re)Production of Transsexuality

  10:30-11:15 Discussant:
Rayna RAPP
, Department of Anthropology, New York University

  11:15-11:30 Tea break
 
  11:30-12:30 Questions and Answers
 
  12:30-13:30 Lunch (buffet on conference site)
 
  13:30-15:30
Plenary Session
Chair:
Angela LEUNG
, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
The University of Hong Kong
Panelists:
Rayna RAPP, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Charlotte FURTH, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
University of Southern California
Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong
 
  15:30 End of Program
 
  15:30-18:30 Free time for conferees
     
  18:30-20:30 Dinner (Optional)
 
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