10th World Conference of Chinese Studies (WACS 10)

Conference Programme · The University of Hong Kong · 12–14 August 2026

This programme is provisional; panel assignments, times and room allocations may change. Grey entries: full paper submitted, participation still to be confirmed.
Room-by-room assignment (Rooms 1–9): download the grid (PDF) — session-times were revised; the times above apply.

Programme at a Glance

Day 0 — Tuesday, 11 August 2026

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Conference Foyer

Arrival and Registration

Day 1 — Wednesday, 12 August 2026

08:30–10:00	Main Auditorium	Opening: Greetings · Group Photo · Keynote — Colin P. Mackerras (“Chinese Studies in Australia in the 21st Century”)
10:00–10:30	—	Tea Break
10:30–12:30	Rooms 1–9	Slot 1 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
12:30–14:00	—	Lunch (boxes)
14:00–16:00	Rooms 1–9	Slot 2 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
16:00–16:30	—	Tea Break
16:30–18:30	Rooms 1–9	Slot 3 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
18:30–19:30	Main Auditorium	WACS General Assembly + Board Election
19:30–	Reception Venue	President’s Dinner
TBC	Room TBC	Meeting-in-junction: Founding of the “Chinese Culture Alliance”
all day	Foyer	Book Exhibition / Publisher Booths

Day 2 — Thursday, 13 August 2026

08:30–10:00	Main Auditorium	Keynote — Lin Shaoyang (Univ. of Macau) (“The Fragility of Difference”)
10:00–10:30	—	Tea Break
10:30–12:30	Rooms 1–9	Slot 4 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
12:30–14:00	—	Lunch (boxes)
14:00–16:00	Rooms 1–9	Slot 5 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
16:00–16:30	—	Tea Break
16:30–18:30	Rooms 1–9	Slot 6 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
18:30–	Room TBC	WACS & Arts — Contemporary Literature: Xue Mo (Novelist) & Ben Kamili (Oil Painter)
all day	Exhibition area	Exhibition of Paintings (Ben Kamili)
all day	Foyer	Book Exhibition / Publisher Booths

Day 3 — Friday, 14 August 2026

08:30–10:00	Main Auditorium	Keynote — Gladys Nieto (Autonomous Univ. of Madrid) (“Chinese Spring Festival Celebration in Usera (Madrid)”)
10:00–10:30	—	Tea Break
10:30–12:30	Rooms 1–9	Slot 7 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h)
12:30–14:00	—	Lunch (boxes)
14:00–16:00	Rooms 1–9	Slot 8 — Parallel Panel Sessions (2 h; incl. Roundtables: AI in University Education; Jointly Writing a History of Sinology)
16:00–16:30	—	Tea Break
16:30–17:30	Main Auditorium	Closing Keynote — Zhang Longxi + Closing Ceremony + WACS 11 Announcement

Keynote Speakers

Colin Patrick Mackerras 马克林 — Griffith University · Wed 12 Aug · 08:30 (Opening) “Chinese Studies in Australia in the Twenty-first Century”
Lin Shaoyang — University of Macau · Thu 13 Aug · 08:30 “The Fragility of Difference”
Gladys Nieto 孙歌迪 — Autonomous University of Madrid · Fri 14 Aug · 08:30 “Chinese Spring Festival Celebration in Usera (Madrid)”
Zhang Longxi 張隆溪 — Hunan Normal University · Fri 14 Aug · 16:30 (Closing) “Closing Keynote”

Academic Panels

Panel 1: China in International Discourse: Geopolitics, Historical Propaganda, and Foreign Media

国际话语中的中国：地缘政治、历史宣传与外国媒体

Speaker: Clara Galzerano 高明亮 (Indipendent) — “Competing for China’s Voice: Xinhua, Central News Agency, and the Bandung Conference as a Propaganda Battleground (1955)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Maria Grajcar Istvanova 瑪莉亞 (Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences) — “Between Opportunity and Caution: Slovak Media Narratives on the Belt and Road Initiative”
Speaker: AJINAS AM (UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT) — “China's Strategic Engagement in ASEAN: From Economic Integration to Structural Power in Regional Development” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 12: Ethnography and Indigenous Knowledge among Altaic Peoples: Sibe, Salyr, and Mongol Epic Traditions

阿尔泰民族的民族志与本土知识：锡伯、撒拉尔与蒙古史诗传统

Organizer: Ildikó Gyöngyvér Sárközi

Discussant: Dávid Somfai Kara (Department of Non-European Studies, Institute of Ethnology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities) — “Ethnic language and culture among the Salyr of Qinghai”
Speaker: Ildikó Gyöngyvér Sárközi (Department of Non-European Studies, Institute of Ethnology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities) — “Indigenous Knowledge beyond Academia: A Sibe Genealogist’s Perspective”
Speaker: Michael Knüppel Michael Knüppel (Liaocheng University / China; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / Germany) — “The image of China in Hungarian Turanism”

Panel 14: The Fragility of Difference: Empire, Ideology and Unipolarity in East Asia

差异的脆弱性：东亚的帝国、意识形态与单极秩序

Organizer: Ye Lin

Organizer: Ye Lin 藺野 (University of Wisconsin Madison) — “A Broken Third Path: Right-Wing Socialism and the Cold War Order in East Asia”
Discussant: Lin Shaoyang 林少陽 (University of Macau)
Speaker: Yixuan Cai (Randolph Macon College) — “Placing the Anecdotal Sage in the Hierarchy: Zichan of Zheng”

Panel 23: Epistemological Convergence in Religions: Christian Encounters with East Asian Religions across Texts, Technologies, and Images, 1600-1950

基督教與東亞宗教的知識匯流：十七至二十世紀的文本、技術與視覺圖像

Organizer: Hu Hsu

Organizer: Hu Hsu 許滸 (Department of History, University of California, Berkeley) — “Modernizing Buddhism and Christianity through Neo-Confucianism: A Comparative Study of Taixu’s and Uchimura Kanzō’s Religious Perceptions of Wang Yangming”
Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia WEI 魏伶珈 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Speaker: Qiaoyu HAN 韓乔宇 (The University of Tokyo) — “Hirata Atsutane in the Sinographic Sphere: Chinese Christian Texts and the Reconfiguration of the Shinto Afterlife”
Speaker: Zhemeng XU 许哲萌 (KU Leuven) — “Intersection of Two Knowledge Systems in Text and Image: A Case Study of Yuanxi qiqi tushuo luzui (Diagrams and Explanations of Ingenious Machines from the Far West: A Selection of the Very Best)”
Speaker: LYU YAQIONG 呂雅瓊 (The University of Tokyo) — “Recasting Pangu: The Transcultural Reshaping of a Chinese Creation Myth in a Seventeenth-Century European Book on Japan”

Panel 25: Themes, Perspectives, and Methods: Research on the Compilation of Overseas Chinese Literary History

主题、视角与方法：海外中国文学史编纂研究

Organizer: Xing Gao

Organizer: JiaLu Tian 田佳璐 (Wuhan University) — “The Selection of Classics and Religious Interpretation in Richard Wilhelm’s Die chinesische Literatur”
Speaker: Xing Gao 高幸 (Wuhan University) — “The Editorial Conception and Practice of Reinhard Emmerich's History of Chinese Literature”
Speaker: Song Li 李松 (Wuhan University)

Panel 26: Women, Power, and Female Voice in Dream of the Red Chamber

《红楼梦》中的女性、权力与女性声音

Organizer: Haihong

Moderator: Haihong Li (Universiti Malaya) — “A Comparative Collation of the Zhiyanzhai and Cheng–Gao Texts: Reconstructing the Characterization of Qin Keqing”
Speaker: Linsen ZANG 臧林森 (Université PSL, École Pratique des Hautes Études) — “A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Dream of the Red Chamber and Scholar-Beauty Novels—Also Discussing the Historical Significance of Scholar-Beauty Novels”
Speaker: LIU Yongqi 劉泳岐 (香港城市大學) — “權力悖論：賈奶奶的《治理》和王希峰的《消費野心》——《紅樓之夢》中女性權力的授予和紀律”
Speaker: Patricia Amate Nuñez 江爱莲 (Almería University) — “Insights from the Speech of Gr anny Liu: A Sociolinguistic Analysis”
Speaker: Guo JIngxuan (Waseda University)

Panel 27: “To Hear with Eyes”: Contemporary Chinese Literature and Sound Studies

“用眼倾听”：当代华语文学与声音研究

Organizer: zhijing wang

Organizer: zhijing wang 王芷菁 (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) — “In the “Middle Ground” of Poetry: Vocal Performance in Contemporary Chinese Poetry”
Organizer: GAO, XIANG 高祥 (Nanyang Technological University) — “The Literature of "Sound" and the "Sound" of Literature—Taking Dung Kai-cheung's “Congming Shijie” as an Example”
Moderator: LI Yuetong 李玥潼 (Hong Kong Baptist University) — “Natural Soundscapes and Audionarratives in Ng Kim Chew’s Rain”

Panel 30: Marginal Voices in Pre-Modern Chinese Fiction: Folk Song, Dream, and Hermeneutic Strategy

前现代中国小说中的边缘声音：民歌、梦境与诠释策略

Organizer: ZHENG Zengle

Organizer: ZHANG BISHUN 张必舜 (Jiangsu University,School of Humanities) — “The Fictionalization of Dreams in Pre-modern Chinese Narrative:Case Studies Centered on Tang Chuanqi”
Organizer: ZHENG Zengle 郑增乐 (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL) — “Reality and the Sense of Reality in Ming–Qing Vernacular Fiction”
Speaker: Liu Rong 刘蓉 (Hunan Normal University) — “The image of "good official" in traditional Chinese novels and dramas”

Panel 32: Sensing China: Body, Medium, and the Generation of Historical Experience

感官中国：身体、媒介与历史经验的生成

Organizer: Chengle Qian

Organizer: Chengle Qian 钱成乐 (Peking University) — “The Revolutionary Palate: Gustatory Politics and Historical Writing in Chinese Literature (1950s–1970s)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Discussant: Yiting Zhang 张宜婷 (Xi'an Peihua University) — “Producing and Enacting National Salvation Propaganda Knowledge: The Lived Experience of Overseas Chinese Youth, 1936-1945”
Speaker: Yehan Chen 陈晔晗 (Peking University) — “How "China" Becomes "Cyber": Sensory Logic and Cultural Imagination in Chinese Single-Player AAA Games (2024-2025)”

Panel 33: 25th Intl. Conference on Chinese Classical Fiction, Drama Literature & Digitization — Sub-Forum of WACS 10 (Part A): Manuscripts, Editions, and Textual Transmission

第25屆中國古代小說戲曲文獻暨數字化國際研討會（上）：版本、文獻與文本傳播

Organizer: NAKAGAWA Satoshi 中川諭

Moderator: NAKAGAWA SATOSHI 中川　諭 (Rissho University（立正大学）) — “The 16‑line, 41‑character edition of "Sanguo Yingxiong Zhizhuan"”
Speaker: Luo Zipeng 罗紫鹏 (宁波大学) — “A Textual Comparison of the Huawentang Edition and the Xiaohuaxuan Edition of QingMengTuo——Also on the Printing Time of the Huawentang Edition”
Speaker: CHIA KANG LE 謝康樂 (National Central University) — “A Study of the Qing Dynasty Chuanqi Drama Siyou ji (四友記) Based on the Edition Housed in the Harvard-Yenching Library”
Speaker: FanJin 樊锦 (个人研究者) — “A Study of the Fragments of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" collected in Shanghai Library and the "Collected Works of Tao Yuanming" Published by Zhou Xianzong”
Speaker: YANG JINHUI 杨锦辉 (洛阳师范学院) — “Issues, Versions, and Methods: A Review & Reflection and Prospect of Digital Humanities Research on A Dream of Red Mansions”
Speaker: GUO MENGQI 郭梦琦 (马来亚大学) — “Spatial Semantics of the Grand View Garden: Knowledge Graph-based Visualization and Reconstruction of Literary Space in Dream of the Red Chamber”
Speaker: Yiran Niu 牛懿冉 (18835039980) — “A Comparative Study of Illustration Styles in Wenlin Ge Drama Editions Held at Kyoto University: The Cases of Yulan ji, Yixia ji, and Zhenzhu ji” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: zhangtao 张涛 (北京外国语大学) — “The Establishment of the "Party-Society" New Paradigm and the Expansion of Research on Ming and Qing Legendary Literature”

Panel 43: Chinese and Sinophone Cinema: Platform, Ecology, and Memory

中国与华语电影：平台、生态与记忆

Speaker: Lei Hao 郝雷 (University of Nottingham Ningbo) — “Negotiated Visibility under Platform Capitalism: Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard on iQIYI”
Speaker: Liu Ruoqi 刘若琪 (Yenching Academy, Peking University) — “The Evolution of Urban Space in Northeast Chinese Films: Spatial Representation and Regional Imagination”
Speaker: Guanyu Liu 刘观玉 (The University of Hong Kong) — “De-identified Dwelling in the Urban Remainder: Sinophone Dark Ecology in Twilight of the Warriors and Limbo”

Panel 44: Digital Feminism in Contemporary China: Podcasts, Short-Form Drama, Douyin

当代中国的数字女性主义：播客、短剧与抖音

Speaker: Haixin Gao 高海欣 (The University of Iowa) — “Template-Based Empowerment: Platform Production and Subject Regulation in Chinese Female-Oriented Short-Form Drama”

Panel 45: Xiqu in Translation and Digital Mediation

戏曲的翻译与数字传播

Moderator: Du Lei 杜磊 (Zhejiang University) — “From Julien to Lanselle——the Translation of Xixiangji in the French World and French Sinology of Chinese xiqu”
Speaker: Duan Yuanyuan 段园园 (Shanghai Institute of Commerce and Foreign Languages (上海工商外国语职业学院)) — “A Study of the English Translation and Dissemination of Hongzong Liema”

Panel 46: 25th Intl. Conference on Chinese Classical Fiction, Drama Literature & Digitization — Sub-Forum of WACS 10 (Part B): Performance, Storytelling, and Operatic Repertory

第25屆中國古代小說戲曲文獻暨數字化國際研討會（下）：表演、說唱與戲曲傳統

Organizer: NAKAGAWA Satoshi 中川諭

Speaker: zhouqian 周倩 (Aba Teachers University) — “The medical narrative and diverse interpretation of Ming Dynasty legend: taking Du Liniang's lovesickness in “The Peony Pavilion” as an example”
Speaker: Fang Yiran 方一然 (The University of Hong Kong) — “All the World’s a Dream: the Judgments on the Structure and Theme of Xixiang Ji from the Buddhist Perspective in the Late Ming”
Speaker: zhouyuyan 周语嫣 (陕西师范大学/浙江大学) — “Seeing the meaning by name: a study on naming in the catalog of ancient Chinese opera”
Speaker: Wen Jingran 温静然 (Sichuan University) — “Performance Forms and Textual Features of Storytelling and Singing in Tang Dynasty Shu Region: A Study Centered on the Dunhuang Manuscript Bianwen of Wang Zhaojun and Related Tang Poems”
Speaker: LIU XUAN 刘轩 (浙江传媒学院) — “Title: Explore a Systematic Research Framework for The Kun Opera Performance Notation of Qing Dynasty”
Speaker: CHU,CHIA-WEN 朱嘉雯 (臺灣國立東華大學) — “Mirroring, Desire Generation, and Virtual Immersion: Re-examining the Duality of "The Mirror of Love and Lust" in *Dream of the Red Chamber* through Lacan's Mirror Stage Theory and Generative AI”

Panel 48: Language, Writing Systems, and Knowledge Transmission in Chinese Studies

中国研究中的语言、文字系统与知识传承

Moderator: Jianing Chen 陈家宁 (Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University) — “The Dynamic Ontology of the Chinese Writing System: A Process-Philosophical Interpretation” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Li-fu Chang 張立甫 (State University of New York at Albany) — “Making Ethnicity Visible: State Recognition, Hakka Language Policy, and Cohort Change in Taiwan” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: XU Ziyu 徐子余 (Saint Francis University) — “Ideographic Characters and Semantic Evolution—A Case Study of Fanxun（反訓） Words in Classical Chinese”

Panel 49: Gendered Political Practices in Modern China: Making Knowledge, Institutions, and Everyday Life

现代中国的性别政治实践：知识、制度与日常生活的建构

Organizer: CAI YOUJIA

Organizer: CAI YOUJIA 蔡佑佳 (KYOTO UNIVERSITY) — “Emotion, Representation, and Moral Critique in the Political Lives of Modern Chinese Intellectuals: Feng Ziyou(馮自由) and the Discourse of “Gongfu-Gongqi(公夫公妻)””
Discussant: YUN ZHANG 張贇 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Speaker: JIN Dou 金豆 (Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University) — “Challenging the Limits of Gender Knowledge Transmission in the Late Qing Dynasty: A Study of Sun Qingru (孫清如) ’s Female Teacher Training Lectures (『女子師範講義』)”
Speaker: Zhelun Zhou 周哲伦 (History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill) — “FAQ in Medical Terms – A Study of the PRC Birth Control Handbooks in the 1970s”
Speaker: Yifei Xu 许逸菲 (Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University) — “Where Were Women in the Early PRC Literacy Campaign? Gendered Practices and the ACDWF’s Mediation”
Speaker: Yuzhe Li 李煜哲 (Tsinghua University) — “In the Name of Qiao: Qiao Girl Narratives and the Gender Politics of Skill during the Great Leap Forward”

Panel 101: Neo-Confucianism: Song-Ming Thought

宋明理学

Speaker: Shao Fanli 邵凡利 (陕西师范大学哲学学院) — “Qi Theory Analysis of Zhu Xi's Relationship Construction of The Four Virtues of Heaven and Man”

Panel 102: Transnational Buddhism and the Decolonization of Buddhist Studies

跨国佛教与佛学研究的去殖民化

Organizer: SAIYINBILIGE

Speaker: Dai Can；Wang Jian 戴灿；王建 (湖南信息学院；湖南师范大学) — “Between Introjection and Orthopraxy: Chinese Couplets as Sites of Cultural Adaptation in Japanese Overseas Chinese and Buddhist Temples” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 104: Translation & Cross-Cultural Communication

翻译与跨文化交际

Organizer: Jiang Xiangyan

Moderator: Jiang Xiangyan 蒋向艳 (East China Normal University) — “Oral Literature Or Written Manuscript? The Reception of The Book of Poetry in Contemporary American Sinology”
Speaker: XiaYuqing 夏钰清 (南京大学) — “Peter Button's Cross-Cultural Interpretation of Cai Yi's Thought on "Typicality"”
Speaker: Pu Shuting 蒲舒婷 (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) — “The Hidden Politics: Conceptual Deformation and Discursive Shift of Derogatory Terms in the English Translation of A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luo-yang”

Panel 105: AI & Digital Technology in Chinese Studies

人工智能与数字汉学

Moderator: Martin Warnke (Leuphana Universität Lüneburgurg, ICAM) — “A Linguistic Approach to Generative AI”
Speaker: Liu Shang 刘上 (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) — “AI Literacy in Language Education A 2020-2025 Evidence Synthesis (A scope overview)”
Speaker: Lu LI (The University of Hong Kong) — “Transmedia Fantasy: Database and Gamified Narrative in Chinese Generation Z Fiction”
Speaker: Yu Jinyue 于津悦 (南京大学哲学学院) — “Research on Privacy Issues in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Examination Based on the Relationship Between Privacy Rights and Public Interest” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Liwen Ran 冉力文 (Zhejiang University) — “Is it possible for AI to develop self-awareness？”

Panel 108: History & Future of Sinology

汉学的历史与未来

Moderator: Vamos, Peter 王俊逸 (ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Budapest, Hungary) — “The Two Traditions of China Studies in Hungary”
Discussant: Jiang Xiangyan 蒋向艳 (East China Normal University) — “Oral Literature Or Written Manuscript? The Reception of The Book of Poetry in Contemporary American Sinology”
Speaker: Chenyu Xue 薛宸宇 (Hangzhou Academy of Social Sciences & Zhejiang University) — “Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Founding of the Institute for Chinese Cultural Studies at West China Union University”
Speaker: MA Heng 馬恆 (Shandong University & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) — “The Journey of Ideas: Intellectuals in American Chinese Studies”
Speaker: Pavlova Alena 万山翠 (俄罗斯推广汉学协会) — “Historical Research on China in Russian Sinology (1906–2024): An Analysis Based on a Large-Scale Sinological Bibliographic Database”
Speaker: Ran Li 李冉 (北京外国语大学) — “What is China? The Transformation of China's Image in Western Sinological Studies”
Speaker: Leon Yue 余家铭 (南京師範大學文學院) — “The Making of the “Romantic Legend”: Samuel Beal’s English Translation of the Fobenxing ji jing and the Romanticization of Buddha Narratives”

Panel 109: Modern & Contemporary Chinese Literature

现当代中国文学

Discussant: Li Xiaohang 李晓航 (北京师范大学) — “After the Publication of Private Letters: A Study on the Contemporary Reception of Letters Between Two”
Discussant: Xingtong Ren 任星潼 (东莞城市学院) — “Research on "New Southern Writing" from the Perspective of Mobility”
Speaker: YANG Cheng 杨程 (河北省社会科学院) — “Writing the Modern Urban Life Experience with "New Sensations" ——The Modernist Stylistic Practice of the New Sensation School”

Panel 110: Reading Classical Chinese Poetry: Genre, Myth, Translation, and Biography

中国古典诗词阅读：体裁、神话、翻译与传记

Organizer: Yang kemin

Organizer: Yang kemin (北方民族大学) — “On the Translation Practice and Cross-Cultural Significance of Tang Poetry in T'ien Hsia Monthly(1935-1941)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: PU GE 蒲歌 (新加坡国立大学) — “Sparse Colouring and Recurrent Ni: A Study of Colour Words in Liu Yong’s Yuezhang ji”
Speaker: Yiyi Liu 柳依依 (The Australian National University) — “Whose “New Residence”: From Poetic Ambiguity to Biographical Fact in the Wang Wei Tradition”
Speaker: lilinglong 李玲珑 (高校教师) — “Ancient Literature and Kunlun Culture ---On the Image of the Queen Mother of the West in Tang and Song Poetry” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Li Chenxinyue 李陈馨悦 (University of Hong Kong) — “Compassion for Things and Self: The Dual Reflexive Metaphors in Shuangqing’s Object-Chanting Ci-Poetry in Random Notes of the West Green (Xiqing Sanji)”

Panel 115: Chinese History

中国历史

Organizer: Colin Patrick Mackerras

Moderator: Colin Patrick Mackerras 马克林 (Griffith University) — “Chinese Studies in Australia in the Twenty-first Century”
Speaker: Katerina Stelianova Bozhilova 丽娜 (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) — “Guns, Boats, and Stereotypes: A Case Study of the First Opium War”

Panel 1001: Confucian Ethics in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspective

比较与跨文化视野下的儒家伦理

Speaker: Wang Caiwen 王才文 (四川大学哲学系) — “The Generation of the Confucian Moral Subject: "Sheji Congren" in the Mencius as the Key Mechanism”
Speaker: ZHANG,RUOSI 张若思 (河北省社会科学院哲学研究所) — “A Cross- Cultural Dialogue on Knowing and Acting: A Comparative Study of Wang Yangming and Williamson”
Speaker: Xudan Cui 崔续丹 (北京大学燕京学堂) — “From Affective Resonance to Moral Reason (Qing–Li): Ethical Predicaments and Regulatory Pathways of Affective Computing in Confucian Ethics” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Qiao Tingting 乔婷婷 (Sun Yat-sen University) — “Defining Confucian Virtue Ethics: The Case for the Development Model of Human Nature”

Panel 1002: Reading Mencius and the Confucian–Mohist Dialogue: Hermeneutics and Translation

解读孟子与儒墨对话：诠释与翻译

Organizer: WENBO YU

Moderator: WENBO YU 于文博 (北京化工大学（BEIJING UNIVERSIYT OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, BEIJING, CHINA）) — “How Can Confucian Classics Engage with the Modern World? ——A Discussion Centered on “Theory of the Six Arts” from Ma Yifu”
Speaker: Pengfei Xie 谢鹏飞 (Sichuan University) — “Elucidating the Nuance of Qie (窃): Confucius’s “Venturing to Compare with Old Peng” and “Appropriating the Meaning””
Speaker: LIU HUAQING 刘华庆 (Renmin University of China) — “An Analysis of the Doctrine of "Heaven's Intention" in the Mohist Canons: A Focus on "Righteousness", "Standard" and "Weighing"”
Speaker: Fan Kaige 范恺歌 (四川大学) — “Establishing Love from One's Parents: On One-Root Love Centering on the Chapter of "The Mohist Yizhi" in the Mencius”

Panel 1003: Neo-Confucianism: Wang Yangming, Zhu Xi, and Song-Ming Thought

宋明理学：王阳明、朱熹与理学思想

Speaker: YAN MUYUAN 严木远 (Yuelu Academy，Hunan University；Seoul National University) — “From Conceptual Labels to Problem-Structures: Rethinking China–West Metaphysical Contrasts Through Hegel’s Faith and Knowledge”
Speaker: Wu Jingyi 吴婧伊 (China University of Political Science and Law) — “From Han and Song Dynastic Commentaries to Wang Yangming’s Mind-Theory: A Study on the Transformation and Synthesis of "Ming Bu Cheng"”

Panel 1004: Confucianism in Cross-Cultural and Modern Contexts

跨文化与现代语境中的儒学

Organizer: Qiu Xiaodan 邱晓丹 (Sun Yat-sen University) — “Literature revolutionizing Confucianism : The Birth of Modern Chinese Literature”
Discussant: Nan Yang 杨南 (四川大学哲学系) — “On the Distinction and Unity of Anger and Morality”
Discussant: WENBO YU 于文博 (北京化工大学（BEIJING UNIVERSIYT OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, BEIJING, CHINA）)

Panel 1041: Translation as Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics: Politics, Religion, and the Modern Chinese Self

翻译作为跨文化诠释：政治、宗教与现代中国自我

Speaker: Jin Peichen 金沛晨 (深圳大学美学与文艺批评研究院) — “From Literary Criticism History to Literary Knowledge History: The Theoretical Logic and Disciplinary Construction of the Paradigm Shift in Chinese Literary Criticism”
Speaker: Wang Yuhan 王羽涵 (浙江越秀外国语学院) — “Classical Translation and Knowledge Production: Epistemic Mechanisms in French Sinology”
Speaker: Zhang Yingyang 張穎陽 (College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University) — “Chen Duxiu's Interpretation of the French Revolution and Its Role in the Genesis of the New Culture Movement”
Speaker: Caiqiong Han 韩彩琼 (中国浙江大学&德国明斯特大学) — “From Chinese Classical Exegetics to Cross-Textual Reading: Methods and Practices in Ernst Faber’s Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation”

Panel 1042: Cross-Cultural Communication: Media, Education, and Digital Spaces

跨文化交际：媒体、教育与数字空间

Moderator: HUNG Yee Tung 洪綺彤 (School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong) — “The Teaching of Cantonese Vocabulary in Robert Morrison’s A Grammar of the Chinese Language: A Morpheme-Based Approach”
Discussant: Francesco Michael Scaringella 胡晓蓝 (University of Milan) — “Contemporary English Textbooks in Chinese General Senior High Schools: Negotiating Tradition and Innovation”
Speaker: Nazarova Sayera 萨优拉 (Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies) — “The Current Situation of Chinese Language Teaching in Uzbekistan: An Intercultural Perspective”
Speaker: Shane Teruo Nishimura (University of Hawaii - West Oahu) — “TikTok Refugees in RedNote: The West Meets China on a Chinese Digital Platform”
Speaker: Jacob Algrim 欧阳乐士 (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) — “Japan in the Chinese City: Language, Space, and Historical Memory”

Panel 1061: Visual Representations of Modern China by Foreign Observers (19th–20th Century)

19-20世纪外国观察者对现代中国的视觉再现

Discussant: Xiaosu Sun (Nanjing Normal University) — “Staging Death As Spectacle: Visual Taboos and Representations in the Travelogues by Dutch Sinologist Henri Borel (1869-1933)”
Speaker: Lu Zhang 張露 (independent researcher) — “Tropical Whites and Chinese Dress: Cultural Cross-Dressing and the Performance of Belonging among Finnish Missionaries in Southern Inland China, c. 1900–1950”
Speaker: Zhiyuan Liu 刘之源 (University College London) — “The Chinese Village as a Contact Zone: the Politics of Representation at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair”
Speaker: Fu Zichun 付子纯 (Northwest University) — “A Study on "Actuality" of Chinese Themes Produced by Overseas Photographers during the Late Qing Dynasty (1896–1911)”

Panel 1101: Traditional Xiqu: Performance, Adaptation, and Pedagogy

传统戏曲：表演、改编与教学

Organizer: PARK EUNHYE

Speaker: He Zhao 赵鹤 (Minzu University of China) — “The Turmoil of “Artistic Persona” and the Reconstruction of Historical Imagination: The Adaptation of the Peking Opera The Lucky Purse During the “Xiqu Reform” in the 1950s” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: LEI YUMENG 雷雨濛 (广东外语外贸大学高级翻译学院) — “The Impact of Karl Gutzlaff’s Voyages along the China Coast on the Qing Dynasty’s Maritime Prohibition Policy”
Speaker: XieLu 解璐 (四川大学) — “From the desk to the field : ' Zhuibaiqiu ' version of the ' Emerald Garden ' Zhezixi adaptation research”

Panel 1103: Chinese Studies: Comparative, Global, and Interdisciplinary Approaches

汉学研究：比较、全球与跨学科视角

Keynote: Gladys Nieto 孙歌迪 (Center for East Asian Studies. Madrid Autonomous University) — “Chinese Spring Festival celebration in Usera (Madrid): processes of extraction and touristification in urban space”
Speaker: Alessia Orazzo (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University) — “Between State and Society: Structuration and the Remaking of Urban Neighbourhood Governance in Post-Pandemic China”

Panel 1112: China in Global Perspective: Soft Power, Technology, and Development

全球视野中的中国：软实力、科技与发展

Keynote: Colin Patrick Mackerras 马克林 (Griffith University) — “Chinese Studies in Australia in the Twenty-first Century”
Discussant: ng sau wah 吳秀華 (University of Macau) — “Calligraphy at the Crossroads: Embodiment, Mediation, and the Transformation of Chinese Script in Contemporary Hong Kong”
Speaker: Kelber Salvador Bermudez Barahona 凯尔伯·萨尔瓦多·贝尔穆德斯·巴拉奥纳 (FLACSO-Ecuador) — “China-South American economic relation from a Tianxia perspective (2001-2025)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Kim, Sung-min 金聖民 (Institute for Global China Studies, Pukyong National University,) — “Youth and Urban Social Innovation in Taiwan: Toward a Comparative Study of Taipei, Tainan, and Kaohsiung”
Speaker: Santiago Ismael Pazmiño Palacios 聖地牙哥·伊斯梅爾·帕斯米尼奧·帕拉西奧斯 (FLACSO-Ecuador) — “THE SPACE SILK ROAD IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: TECHNOLOGICAL AUTONOMY STRATEGIES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH (2015-2025)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 1113: Sinology, Diaspora, and Foreign Gaze: Constructing Chinese Identity from Outside

汉学、海外华人与外来凝视：从外部建构中华身份

Speaker: Leonard Pohling TAN 陈宝龙 (Communication University of China) — “From "Cina" to "Kita": Memory Curation and the Mediation of Chineseness in a Post-Suharto Hometown Association” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Jakub Otcenasek 欧雅古 (Prague University of Economics and Business) — “Ghosts of Guoxue, Demons of Sinology”

Panel 1121: Migration and Identity Construction: Hong Kong, Diaspora, and Transnational Mobilities

移民与身份建构：香港、海外华人与跨国流动

Organizer: Richard Trappl

Moderator: Richard Trappl 特拉普尔 (University of Vienna, Department of East Asian Studies (Sinology))
Speaker: Shirui 張詩睿 (University of Edinburgh) — “Chinese Identity: The Tang Lineage of the New Territories under British Colonial Rule, 1898–1946”
Speaker: Kenneth Kai-chung Yung 容啟聰 (University of Sydney) — “Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and the Hong Kong-North American Migration Corridor in the Early Cold War Years: A Case Study of Professor Yu Ying-shih”
Speaker: Sunday Israel Oyebamiji (University Institute of Lisbon) — “African Youths and Irregular Immigration: Changing the Negative Narratives Through the Lens of the Rabat Process” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Yingxin Zhang 张迎新 (University College London) — “Returning Home: Negotiating Time, Space, and Belonging Among Transnational Chinese Queers” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 1131: Classical Chinese Painting: Aesthetics, Buddhist Iconography, and Cosmological Thought

中国传统绘画：美学、佛教图像与宇宙论思想

Discussant: Lee,Mei-Yen 李美燕 (National Pingtung University) — “Re-examining Yan Cheng's Aesthetic Views on Qin Music in the Yushan School of Qin Music in the Late Ming Dynasty”
Speaker: Xiaoyu Niu 牛晓语 (四川大学) — “Reinterpreting Changshen in Zong Bing’s Landscape Aesthetics: A Gongfu-Theoretical Path of “Refining the Spirit” through Landscape”
Speaker: Zi Quan 全子 (Lancaster University) — “From Cognition to Visual Practice: Correlative Thinking as a Cognitive Technology for Understanding the Cosmic Metaphor in Traditional Chinese Ink Painting Skills”
Speaker: Luo Ying 罗莹 (武汉理工大学艺术与设计学院) — “220. The Origin of the Line Image in the Chinese Painting”
Speaker: YanChi Luo 罗砚池 (武汉理工大学艺术与设计学院) — “206. The Interactive Relationship between Chen Hongshou's Illustrations and the Urbanization of the Ming Dynasty”

Panel 1132: Visual Culture, Art Pedagogy, and Cross-Cultural Interpretation

艺术、教育与跨文化阐释

Discussant: Xing Zhao 赵幸 (Nanjing University) — “Asynchronous Visions: Comparative Historiographies of Modern Chinese Art Across China and the West”
Speaker: Martina Renata Prosperi 彭思沛 (University of Wroclaw) — “The Mothers’ Mothers: Resemantizing Motherhood Across Sinophone Cinemas”
Speaker: Kaihui Bi (University of Canterbury) — “The Shapeshifting Ghosts: Censorship and Compromise in Post-socialist China” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: XU YIFEI 许益菲 (河北省社会科学院) — “Painting Confucians as Portraits and Integrating Confucianism into Painting: The Visual Dissemination of Confucianism in Early Modern Japanese Daily Life”
Speaker: xujingmin 徐静敏 (郑州大学) — “An Analysis of Chinese Iconic Elements in the Shift of Anglo-American Formalist Criticism”
Speaker: Ben Kamili 本·凯密力 (Art) — “Art Interpretation and Cross-Cultural Understanding”

Panel 1151: Objects in Motion: Pre-Modern Chinese Material Culture and Trans-Regional Exchange

流动的物：前现代中国物质文化与跨地区交流

Speaker: JOU JIAN BANG 周建邦 (黃岡師範學院文學院) — “Research on the Distribution, Communication, and Social Functions of Pre Qin Tubular Musical Instruments” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 1152: Intellectual and Religious History: Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism across Dynasties

思想与宗教史：跨朝代的佛教、道教与儒学

Organizer: Mou Xiaoli

Speaker: Yu Liu 刘瑜 (Hangzhou City University) — “Things Do Not Move, Mind Does Not Abide: Seng Zhao, Huineng, and Two Responses to Attachment in Chinese Buddhist Thought”
Speaker: Dhruv Kandhari (University of St Andrews) — “The Daoist Vision of Buddhist Fa Shen (法身)”
Speaker: Junzhe Chen 陳俊哲 (The University of Sydney) — “The Tangible and the Intangible: The Misunderstood Concept of "Wu 無" in Indigenous Chinese Philosophy”

Panel 1153: Literary and Cultural History: Poetry, Drama, and Narrative

文学与文化史：诗歌、戏剧与叙事

Moderator: Lee,Mei-Yen 李美燕 (National Pingtung University) — “Re-examining Yan Cheng's Aesthetic Views on Qin Music in the Yushan School of Qin Music in the Late Ming Dynasty”
Discussant: Jie Liu 劉傑 (University of Minho) — “The Zhiyin Motif in Transit: Genre, Ethics, and Affect in the Cross-Cultural Afterlife of the Bo Ya – Ziqi Story”
Speaker: Li Jingfan 李婧帆 (School of Chinese,The University of Hong Kong(Host Institution, invited participant)) — “Writing Guanyin: Desire, Identity and the Landscape of Life among Ming and Qing Literati”
Speaker: Ma Yixiao 马宜筱 (华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院) — “The Textual Duality and Developmental Potential of "Lushan Yuan Gong Hua": A New Approach to Cross-Form Studies”
Speaker: Qian Hao 钱昊 (Jiangsu University) — “Compiler as well as a Poetry History Writer and Teacher: Discussion on Zhu Ziqing’s Compiling of Shisi Jia Shichao”
Speaker: WU Tsz Wing Giovanna 胡梓穎 (The Education University of Hong Kong) — “Subversion and Containment: The Rewriting of Song Dynasty History in Court Drama of the Ming and Qing Dynasties”

Panel 1154: Sinology, Global Encounters, and Transnational History

汉学、全球相遇与跨国历史

Organizer: YILUN FAN

Speaker: Chen Yilu 陈奕潞 (The University of Hong Kong) — “River Reflections: A Preliminary Analysis of Social Mentality in Water Conservancy Projects in Jiangnan During the Ming and Qing Dynasties”

Panel 2001: Religion, Travel, and the Domestic Sphere of Pre-Modern Chinese Women

前现代中国妇女的宗教、旅行与家居生活

Organizer: Guo Haiwen

Moderator: Guo Haiwen 郭海文 (陕西师范大学) — “A Study on the Travels of Buddhist Nuns in the Tang Dynasty”
Speaker: Xiyu Mao 毛惜羽 (The University of Hong Kong) — “A “Reluctant Delight?” Knowledge-Making and Affective Taxonomy of Cats in Sun Sunyi’s Compendium Xianchan xiaolu”
Speaker: Zhang Zhengmeng 张正蒙 (Peking University) — “Between the Other Shore and the Secular World: Exploring the Religious Practices and Social Networks of Medieval Women through the Biographies of Buddhist Nuns（比丘尼傳）”

Panel 2003: Modern Chinese Women's Writing and Visual Self-Representation: Autobiography, Cartoons, and Cinema

现代中国女性写作与视觉自我呈现：自传、漫画与电影

Organizer: Qingquan Qiao

Moderator: Qingquan Qiao 乔清泉 (Hunan Normal University) — “A comparative study of British and American English translations of Hsieh Pingying’s Autobiography: Female, Nation, and War”
Speaker: Limeng Xiong 熊丽萌 (The University of Edinburgh) — “Destroyed as a Chinese Draft or Published as an English Book: A Comparative Study of Chinese Women’s Autobiography Writings in the 1920s”
Speaker: NI Yushang 倪羽裳 (School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong) — “Aging Bodies and Everyday Relations: Middle-Aged and Older Women in Millennials Body Writing”
Speaker: Di Zhang (The University of Edinburgh) — “Fumerist Laughter: Female Offence, Defence and Empowerment in Liang Baibo’s (1911–1976) Cartoons”

Panel 2201: Memory and Honor in Late Imperial China: Diaries, Toponyms, and Folk Belief

晚期帝制中国的记忆与荣誉：日记、地名与民间信仰

Speaker: Yeijin Im 任叡珍 (Yonsei University) — “From Dongjiangmi Lane (東江米巷) to Dongjiaomin Lane (東交民巷): Toponymy, Jurisdiction, and Memory through the 1901 Boxer Protocol”
Speaker: Yuming YU 喻宇明 (Sun Yat-sen Univesity) — “Folds in Time: A Study of Female Poet Zong Wan’s Dingchou Yubao Diary through the Lens of Late Qing Imperial Honors System”

Panel 3000: Confucian Religiousness, Sacrifice, and the Ethics of Care

儒家宗教性、祭祀与关怀伦理

Organizer: Li Feng 冯莉 (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University) — “Why Sacrifice?—Early Confucianism’s Reinterpretation of Sacrificial Rites and Human-Guishen (鬼神, Spirits and Deities) Relations Through Qing (情, Sentiment)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: minguanyun 闵冠云 (澳门大学) — “The Third Paradigm of Filial Piety: Five Relationships, Three Bonds, and Succession”
Speaker: WU Baolin 吳寶麟 (School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Minzu University of China) — “Reverence and Creation: Confucius’s Interactive Understanding of Care for Persons with Disabilities” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Yanchen 柳彦辰 (Harvard) — “The Limits of “Religion”: Reconsidering Confucian Religiousness and Christian Theology in Comparative Dialogue”

Panel 3001: Texts, Rituals, and the Materiality of Power in Tang–Song China

唐宋中国的文本、仪式与权力物质性

Organizer: GaoSili

Speaker: Jiuzhou/Jojo Yin (Avenues The World School) — “In between the Ancient Chinese Dream and Modern American Dream: comparative study of two meritocratic systems”
Speaker: JiangXue 姜雪 (四川大学) — “Emotion as Root and Ritual as Rule: The Fusion and Conflict in Su Shi's Thought on Emotion and Ritual”

Panel 3002: Translation as Domestication: From Jesuit Encounter to Late Qing Sciences

翻译作为归化：从耶稣会接触到晚清科学

Organizer: Richard Trappl

Moderator: Richard Trappl 特拉普尔 (University of Vienna, Department of East Asian Studies (Sinology))
Discussant: Hong Wang 王鴻 (Macao Polytechnic University)
Speaker: Shan Changcheng (南宁师范大学) — “The Chinese Translation Huidi Fayuan ( Mathematical Geography) and Its Influence in Late Qing China”
Speaker: Liu Yamei 刘亚梅 (湖南师范大学外国语学院) — “Translation, Introduction and Reception: La Dame aux Camélias in China” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 3003: Poetic Form and Affect: Tang–Song Verse, Prosody, and the Reception of Qing

诗歌形式与情感：唐宋诗词、声律与情之接受

Moderator: Wang Zhitian 王治田 (Xiamen University, Malaysia) — “Why Su Shi’s “Rain on the Cold Food Festival” ‘Resembles Li Bai’: A New Exegesis of Huang Tingjian’s Colophon to the "Cold Food Observance" Manuscript” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Yi Wu 吴怡 (Sichuan University) — “Suspension and Flow: The Syntactic Turn in Tang and Five Dynasties Ci Poetry from a Structuralist Perspective”
Speaker: Xiao Yanhe 肖妍和 (The Education University of Hong Kong) — “When spring hatred came last year: a traumatic memory study of the images of "dream", "drunk" and "lonely" in Yan Jidao's words”
Speaker: He Zhang 张贺 (Peking University) — “Reconfiguring the Boundaries of Qing (情): Investigating Amorous Poetry's Transformation in Late Imperial China through the Reception of the Xianglian Ji (香奁集)”

Panel 3004: Daoism, Zhuangzi, and Cosmotechnics: Allegory, Practice, and Material Culture

道教、庄子与宇宙技术：寓言、实践与物质文化

Organizer: Alessandra Capelletti

Speaker: Jiaobihui 焦碧辉 (Shandong University) — “Narrative, Ritual, and Religiosity: A Study of the Wong Tai Sin Oracle as a Popular Transformation of the Yijing Divination Tradition”
Speaker: Guan Yuzhuo 管玉琢 (Wu Han University) — “Pre-Qin Period Archery Metaphors: Instrumentalization, Dynamic Adjustment, and Randomness”
Speaker: Yisu Liu 刘一粟 (Sichuan University / École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)) — “The Crucible in the Mirror: Iconographic Shifts of Trigram Mirrors and Neidan Practice in Tang and Song China” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 3006: Women, the State, and Modern Chinese Education, Health, and Sexuality

妇女、国家与现代中国的教育、健康与性

Organizer: Yufeng Chen

Moderator: Yufeng Chen 陈玉凤 (Langfang Normal University) — “From the Village to the Screen: How Live-Streaming Platforms Empower Rural Women in China”
Speaker: Lu Yanhui 鲁艳辉 (湖南师范大学（Hunan Normal University)) — “Multidimensional Implications and Contemporary Value of 24 Solar Terms Culture in The Dream of the Red Chamber”

Panel 3007: Gender and Genre in Chinese Fiction: Pre-Modern, Translation, and Online Literature

中国小说中的性别与体裁：前现代、翻译与网络文学

Speaker: McKenna Grace Norton 米凯乐 (Yenching Academy) — “The Legend of the White Snake, CCTV, and the Cult of Qing”
Speaker: LAN QIAN (Nanfang College Guangzhou) — “Memories on the Margins: Nanyang Aging Women and the Folk Perspective in Late Qing Classical Fiction”
Speaker: Giovanni Ruscica 乔影 (University of Milan) — “Translating Journey to the West in Europe: Arthur Waley’s Monkey and the Italian Scimmiotto”
Speaker: Gao Zhexin 高喆昕 (The University of Hong Kong （School of Chinese）) — “Re-examing the "evil women": stories of widows abetting illicit sexual intercourse in late Ming and early Qing vernacular fiction” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Qiu Zifan 邱子凡 (School of Chinese, The University of HongKong) — “Reconfiguring Revenge, Success, and Affect: The Evolution of “Negotiated Strong-Female Narratives” in Chinese Female-Oriented Online Literature”

Panel 3008: Domestic Narratives: Live-Streaming, Television, and the Construction of the China Image

国内叙事：直播、电视与中国形象建构

Speaker: Martin Woesler 吴漠汀 (Hunan Normal University) — “Domestic Narratives: Live-Streaming, Television, and the Construction of the China Image”
Speaker: CHEN YUFENG 陈玉凤 (Langfang Normal University) — “From the Village to the Screen: How Live-Streaming Platforms Empower Rural Women in China”

Panel 3009: Calligraphy in Transmission: Pedagogy, Cross-Cultural Reception, and Digital Media

书法的传承：教学、跨文化接受与数字媒体

Speaker: Meng Dajiang 孟大江 (四川大学) — “Viewing Calligraphy from the Periphery: Expansion and Paradigm Shift in Overseas Calligraphic Studies”
Speaker: Lishuang 李爽 (四川大学) — “The Co-evolution of Children's Textbooks and Chinese Calligraphy Education: A Discussion on Their Spread in the East Asian Sinographic Cultural Sphere”
Speaker: Verena Xiwen Zhang 張喜雯 (Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University) — “The Interwoven of Line and Color in the Relation of Chinese Art and Joan Miró’s Artworks: Seeing Form and Content from Zhuangzi’s Philosophy”

Panel 3010: Internal Migration and the Reimagining of Urban Space in Contemporary China

内部移民与当代中国城市空间的再想象

Organizer: Ostrovskii Andrei

Speaker: Collino Ambra 柯爱兰 (University of Udine) — “Migration, Work, and Well-being in Contemporary China: Insights from Life Satisfaction among Internal Migrants”
Speaker: Song Xinyue 宋昕玥 (Southeast University) — “Toward the "People's City": The Theoretical Trajectory and Practical Exploration of Contemporary Chinese Urban Philosophy”

Panel 3011: War, Empire, and Diasporic Politics: Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Borderlands

战争、帝国与离散政治：非洲、东南亚与边境地区

Organizer: Bin CHEN

Speaker: Zoudan Ma 马奏旦 (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) — “Erasing the Sea: How the Wang Lineage in Qing Fushan Rewrote Their Lineage”
Speaker: RAN MAO 冉茅 (Thailand Kasetsart University) — “The "Cosmotechnics" of Diaspora: Thai-Chinese Life Writing as a Survival Algorithm”
Speaker: Bin CHEN (The Hongkong Polytechnic University) — “Understanding Africa: The Anglo-Boer War and Modern China”
Speaker: CHEN Bin 陳斌 (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) — “306. Understanding Africa: The Anglo-Boer War and Modern China” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Yi Pei 裴奕 (the University of Osaka) — “The National Salvation Movement and Internal Conflicts within the Nanyang Chinese Community during the Sino-Japanese War : A Case Study Centered on Tan Kah Kee and Aw Boon Haw”

Panel 3013: Chinese Outbound Investment and Labor: High-Tech Capital, Human Capital, and Regional Markets

中国对外投资与劳动力：高科技资本、人力资本与区域市场

Discussant: Tai Wu 吴泰 (University College London (UCL)) — “When Schooling Outruns Job Creation: Human-Capital Accumulation, High-Skill Capacity Formation, and Youth Unemployment Dynamics in China”
Discussant: Bakhodir Rakhmanov Zhao Xiong (FE LLC ANGLESEY FOOD) — “Investment Opportunities for Chinese Business in Uzbekistan: Grocery Retail Expansion as a Gateway to the Real Sector”
Speaker: Kim Yuen Martina Troxler 萧金源 (Monash University) — “From Green Development to Implementation: Rempang Eco-City and China-Linked Development in Indonesia”
Speaker: Afonaseva Alina 阿丽娜 (Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences) — “Mapping the Expanding Structural Role of Overseas Chinese High-Tech Enterprises in China (2000–2023)”

Panel 3014: Xiqu and Gender: Performance, Identity, and Intercultural Reflection

戏曲与性别：表演、身份与跨文化反思

Speaker: Wu Xin 吴鑫 (中国人民大学) — “Morality on Script, Sensuality on Stage: The Duality of “Saozi wo” Operas” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 3019: Dream of the Red Chamber in Translation, Adaptation, and Reception

《红楼梦》的翻译、改编与接受

Organizer: Martin Woesler

Speaker: ZHUOREN LIU 刘卓仁 (广州华立学院) — “A Reader-Oriented Study of the Adaptation of the Youth Edition of A Dream of Red Mansions in Singapore”
Speaker: Wang Wei 王伟 (Hunan Normal University) — “On Translation of Tea Culture in Hongloumeng from the Perspective of Translators’ Subjectivity: Based on the Yangs’ and Hawkes’ English Versions ”

Panel 3020: Spatial and Digital Approaches to Dream of the Red Chamber

《红楼梦》的空间与数字研究路径

Organizer: LIU WEI

Moderator: LIU WEI 刘玮 (哈爾濱工業大學) — “The Narrative Significance of Space in the Housing Complex of the Jia House in the Dream of the Red Chamber”
Speaker: Caixia HU 胡彩霞 (中山大学) — “On the Intertextuality between Xue Baochai and "The Parasitic Grass" in Dream of the Red Chamber”

Panel 3021: Political Authority and Thought Experiments in Mencian and Wei-Jin Philosophy

孟学与魏晋哲学中的政治权威与思想实验

Discussant: Wei Yong-Qiong 韦永琼 (江苏师范大学)
Speaker: Junbo Tao 陶軍博 (The University of Hong Kong) — “The Dilemma of Excellent Candidates: Did Mencius Justify the Tian Clan’s Usurpation of Jiang Qi?”
Speaker: Patrick Gale 紀柏傑 (Yenching Academy Peking University) — “Would Mencius Pull the Lever? The Role of Thought Experiments in Ancient Chinese Philosophy”

Panel 3022: Wang Yangming and Neo-Confucian Ethics: Practical Wisdom, Metaphysics, and Ecology

王阳明与新儒家伦理：实践智慧、形而上学与生态

Organizer: ZhangZheng

Moderator: ZhangZheng 张峥 (School of Humanities, Dalian University of Technology) — “Practical Wisdom and Moral Sensibility in Wang Yangming's Philosophy”
Speaker: HUZHEN 胡臻 (四川大学哲学系) — “Grass, Trees, Tiles, and Stones: A Relational Reading of Wang Yangming's "One Body of Benevolence"”
Speaker: WANG, Yam Miu (Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore) — “Revisiting Wang Yangming’s Metaphysics from the His Ethics”

Panel 3024: Modern Political Discourse and Governance in China: Revolution, AI, and Local Politics

中国当代政治话语与治理：革命、人工智能与地方政治

Organizer: Li HU

Speaker: Li HU 胡莉 (Beijing Normal University) — “‘The English Bourgeois Revolution’ as a Political Discourse in Modern China”
Speaker: KYEONGEUN LIM 林敬恩 (Yonsei University) — “Beyond Rebellion: AI, Order, and Responsibility in Chinese Technological Imaginaries”
Listener: Zhong Mengjun 钟孟君 (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Panel 4000: Wang Bi, Whitehead, and Comparative Epistemology

王弼、怀特海与比较认识论

Organizer: TSAI JUNG TAO

Moderator: TSAI JUNG TAO 蔡忠道 (嘉義大學中國文學系) — “Fu De's profound questions and potential developments - Centered on "The Biography of Boyi" in Shǐjì” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]
Speaker: Fu Ruining 付芮宁 (南开大学) — “Wang Bi's "Language-Meaning Debate": A Logical Investigation and Analysis of Intentionality”
Speaker: Victor koo(SHAO XUDONG) 邵旭东（SHAO XUDONG） (NANO) — “Why the hexagram interpretations and textual meanings you have read are all incorrect—the absence of ontological understanding”

Panel 4001: Historical Foundations of Chinese Political Discourse: Filial Piety, Ritual, and Authority

中国政治话语的历史基础：孝、礼与权威

Speaker: LIU SHU KAI 劉書凱 (City University of Hong Kong) — “From Intra-lineage adoption (guoji) to Surrogacy: Lineage Continuation and Institutional Change in Chinese Legal History”
Speaker: Zheng Han 郑涵 (Soochow University) — “The Fengshan: Alienating the Nature and Challenging the Symmetry”
Speaker: Wang HONG (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) — “Exemption of Filial Maintenance Debt by Parental Fault: Transformation, Continuity and Tension in Chinese Judicial Practice”

Panel 4002: Memory Politics and Ethnic Identity in East Asia: From Media to Cultural Policy

东亚的记忆政治与族群认同：从媒体到文化政策

Moderator: Fan Ni 范妮 (湖南师范大学外国语学院) — “The Mirror of the Other: A Study of China's Border Issues in Germany's Der Spiegel Magazine (1947–1949)” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 4003: Texts, Beliefs, and Sino-Hungarian Reception: Epic Poetics, Buddhism, and the Image of China

文本、信仰与中匈互鉴：史诗诗学、佛教与中国形象

Organizer: Ildikó Gyöngyvér Sárközi

Speaker: Zsolt Szilágyi (Department of Non-European Studies, Institute of Ethnology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities) — “Some Remarks on the Buddhism of the Yellow Yugurs in Gansu Province”

Panel 4004: Drama, Theatre, and the Everyday: Genre Crossings in Late Imperial China

戏剧、剧场与日常：晚期帝制中国的体裁跨越

Speaker: Baoting Dong 董保厅 (University of Stirling) — “Beyond physical theatrical stage art: Re-theorizing XR scenography through ideorealm aesthetics”
Speaker: LI PING 李萍 (马来亚大学) — “Profundity in Drama: Fictional Dramas in Qing Dynasty Novels of Manners from an Intertextual Perspective”
Speaker: Qiaochu Du 杜翘楚 (Minzu University of China) — “Towards the Everyday: The “Xixiang” Elements in Ming Daily Use Encyclopedias and the Non‑Operatic Evolution of Romance of the Western Chamber” [full paper submitted — participation still to be confirmed]

Panel 4005: Hope at the Margins: Industry, Migration, Religion, and Alternative Kinship

边缘的希望：产业、移民、宗教与另类亲属关系

Speaker: Shoufeng Liu 刘守峰 (University of Cambridge) — “Reconstructing the Sacred at the Margins: Grassroots Agency in Religious Economy around a North China Sacred Mountain”
Speaker: Mengping LIU 刘梦萍 (Seoul National University) — “Learning for Hope: Educational Experiences of Migrant Students in Shenzhen during the Compulsory-Education Stage”

Panel 5000: Buddhism in Popular Practice: Music, Games, Apocrypha, and Contemporary Art

大众实践中的佛教：音乐、游戏、伪经与当代艺术

Moderator: Ding Lanruo 丁兰若 (National University of Singapore) — “The Interaction Between Text and Music in Song Ci: A Case Study of Hewen Zhuyin Qinpu”
Speaker: Grace Sun 孫藝軒 (Florida State University) — “Harmless Heresy? The Blood Bowl Sutra, Apocrypha, and the Making of "Popular" Buddhism in Medieval China”

Panel 5001: Art, Pedagogy, and Cross-Cultural Interpretation

艺术、教学与跨文化诠释

Organizer: Richard Trappl

Moderator: Richard Trappl 特拉普尔 (University of Vienna, Department of East Asian Studies (Sinology))
Speaker: Laura Maria Cinquini 萝拉 (University of Turin) — “Global Art History and Transcultural Art History for a Collaborative Research Project on Chinese Reverse Glass Painting”
Speaker: Jianxing Jiang 江健行 (北京大学) — “Rebuilding Poetic Sites and Producing the Remnant Voice: Yuefu Buti from the Late Song to the Early Qing”
Speaker: Elena Voytishek 叶琳娜沃伊季申科 (Department of Oriental Studies, Institute of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University, Russia) — “Art Detox: Chinese Art as a Path to Health. Presentation of the new textbook "Health Aspects of Traditional Chinese Culture", published by Novosibirsk State University”

Panel 5002: Memory, Narrative, and Cultural Identity in Modern Chinese History

现代中国历史中的记忆、叙事与文化认同

Speaker: Jiabao Tie 帖佳宝 (Henan University of Economics and Law) — “Transmedia Memory Migration of the 1942 Henan Famine”

Panel 6000: Nation, Empire, and War in Modern East Asian Education and Memorialization

现代东亚教育与纪念中的国家、帝国与战争

Organizer: WANG YONGXI

Organizer: WANG YONGXI 王永曦 (Hong Kong Chu Hai College) — “War and Horses: The Tea-Horse Trade and the Management of Warhorses in the Ming Military”
Speaker: Miao Huimin (The Hongkong Polytechnic University) — “Negotiating the Boundaries: Nation-Building and Political Contestation in National Language (Guoyu) Education among Mongols — A Study of Mongolian–Chinese Bilingual Textbooks (1927–1949)”
Speaker: Vilma Cecilia Nuorimaa 洛芳菲 (Peking University) — “"We Take Off Our Hats Too": Madame Wellington Koo and the Lived Experience of Globalisation”

Special Events, Roundtables & Meetings

Meeting-in-junction: Founding of "Chinese Culture Alliance" at WACS 10

中国文化联盟成立大会

Convened by: WACS Organizing Committee

Open to all registered participants.

WACS General Assembly with Board Election

世界汉学研究协会大会暨理事会选举

Convened by: WACS Board

Open to all registered participants.

Roundtable: AI in University Education — EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

大学教育的AI化——欧盟让·莫内卓越研究中心座谈

Convened by: Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

Open to all registered participants.

Roundtable: Jointly Writing a History of Sinology

《汉学史》合撰座谈

Convened by: WACS Organizing Committee

Moderator: Richard Trappl 特拉普尔 (University of Vienna, Department of East Asian Studies (Sinology))

Book Exhibition / Publisher Booth Registration

图书展览 / 出版社展位登记

Convened by: WACS Organizing Committee

Open to all registered participants.

WACS & Arts: Xue Mo (Novelist) and Ben Kamili (Oil Painter)

WACS & Arts: 雪漠（小说家）与 Ben Kamili（油画家）

Convened by: WACS Organizing Committee

Discussant: KAIHONG CHEN 雪漠 (the Writers' Association of Gansu Province) — “International Academic Symposium on Xuemo's Literature: Bridging Cultures Through Words”
Interpreter: Xiaoling Liu 刘晓领 (Interpreter for Xue Mo (雪漠) — the Writers Association of Gansu Province)

President's Reception Dinner

会长招待晚宴

Convened by: WACS President

Open to all registered participants.