9:00-9:15 A.M.      Opening Session

• Representative from Tufts University
• Representative from Gender Studies Group, Fairbank Center, Harvard University
• Representative from CSWS

9:15-10:45 A.M.      Women Studies in China

Chair: Wang Zheng, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University

Participants:

• Li Huiying, Professor, Central Party School in Beijing
  Spreading and Research of Gender Consciousness in China
• Yang Siqin, University of Northern Iowa
  Reflections on the Construction of Women's Studies Program with Chinese Characteristics
• Ching Kwan Lee, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  At the Crossroads of Colonialism and Socialism: A Decade Review of Hong Kong Women's Studies

Discussant: Wang Zheng

11:00-12:30 P.M.      Keynote Panel: Women and Development in China

Participants:

• Gao Xiaoxian, Director of Women's Research Center, Shaanxi Women's Federation
  Chinese Women's Movement and Development Since 1950's
• Joan Kaufman, Program Officer, Reproductive Health, Ford Foundation in Beijing
  The Ford Foundation's Support for Gender and Development in China
• Esther Chow, Professor of Sociology, the American University
  Globalization and Feminism

12:30-1:30 P.M.       Lunch

1:30-3:15 P.M.       Gender and Women's Agency

Chair: Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, University of Toronto

• Du Fangqin, Professor, Director of Women's Studies Center, Tianjin Normal University
  Historical Discourse in Women's Studies: Relationship between Patriarchy and Sex from a Gender Perspective
• Zhang Xiao, Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences
  Individual--Community--Society
• Erika E.S. Evasdottir, Harvard University
  Why Women Can't Be Archaeologists: Gender, Work, and Intellectuals in China
• Zhang Muzhen, Editor, Jiangsu People's Publishing House
  Review of Post-Modern Feminism: Several Issues in Current Research on Women
• Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
  "We Are Almost the Same, but Not Quite": The Imaged Sisterhood of Hong Kong Women with Mainland Women in China-Development

3:30-5:00 P.M.      Women's Images and Representation

Chair: Wei Yanmei, SUNY at Stony Brook

Participants:

• Hillary Crane, Brown University
  The Hindrance of the Flesh: Buddhist Nuns' Obsession with Weight Loss
• Wei Yanmei
  Representation of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" and Gish Jen's "Mona in the Promised Land"
• Ruei-Suei Sun, University of California at Los Angeles
  Struggling for "Home": "Single Women" and Their Places in Taipei City

Discussant: Zhu Hong, Visiting Professor, Boston University

5:15-6:45 P.M.       Women's Studies in the United States

Chair: Sonia Hofkosh, Director of Women's Studies Program, Tufts University

• Laura Roskos, Coordinator of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe, Harvard University
  The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
• Sucheta Mazumdar, Professor of History, Duke University
  American Women's Studies and China
• Parissara Liewkeat, Clark University
  Graduate Work in Women's Studies

7:00 P.M.      Dinner

9:00-9:15 A.M.      Opening Session

• Representative from Fairbank Center, Harvard University

9:15-10:45 A.M.      The Contestation between Feminism and Nationalism

Chair: Su Hongjun, University of Iowa; Hsiung Ping-Chun, Professor, University of Toronto

Participants:

• Zhang Naihua, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
  When Socialism and Feminism Are in Conflict: Remapping the Contemporary Women's Movement--1957 as the Watershed
• Hsiung Ping-Chun
  Chinese Women's Engendered Subjectivities: A Case Study of Their Political Participation
• Su Hongjun
  Rewriting the Writings of Contemporary Chinese National/Transnational Identities on Their Back: Women and the Staging of Three Immigrant Plays in the 1990's
• Wu Ga, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Nominee of William F. Quilin JR Visiting International Professor of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia
  Cross Nationality, Cross-cultural Research in 21st Century China: Shared Responsibilities between Han and National Minority Women Scholars

Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, University of California at Santa Cruz

11:00-12:30 P.M.      Women's Identification and Position in a Transitional Economy

Chair: Zhou Xiao, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii

Participants:

• Zhou Xiao
  State, Women and Generation in China's Transitional Economy
• Delia Davin, Professor of History, Chair of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds
  Some Thoughts on Marriage Migration and Gender Relations in Contemporary China
• Tan Lin, Professor, Director of Population and Development, Research Institute, Nankai University, and Chris Gilmartin, Professor of History, Northeastern University
  Where Have All the Women Gone? -- Women, Marriage Migration, and Social Mobility in China
• Xu Ping, Sichuan Women's Federation
  Gender Issues in Unemployment

Discussant: Ye Weili, University of Massachusetts at Boston

1:45-3:15 P.M.      Negotiating the Personal and the Public: Women, Morality and Modernity in Reform-Era China

Chair: Beth Notar, Mount Holyoke College

Participants:

• Lingzhen Wang, Brown University
  (En)gendering Public Space: Chinese Women's Autobiographical Acts in the Early Post-Mao Era
• Virginia Cornue, Rutgers University
  Morals and the Market: Factoring in Gender
• Beth Notar
  Blood Money: Women's Desire and National Modernity in the Film "Ermo"

Discussant: Joan Boyle, Dowling College

3:30-5:00 P.M.      Gender Roles and Women's Literary Writing

Chair: Lin Hsiu-Ling, Associate Professor of Literature, Tunghai University, Taichung

Participants:

• Fang-chih Irene Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Love and Sickness
• Li Quei-Yun, Taiwan Normal University
  Landscape Behind History: Writing Perspective of Taiwan Women Poets in the 1980's and 1990's
• Dong Shu-ming, Tunghai University, Taichung
  Marginal Voices: Research on Yuan Zhu-min (Taiwan Woman Author) in the 1990's
• Lin Hsiu-Ling
  Signs of Narrative Voids: A Study of Fan Liqing's Autobiography
• Chou Fen-tzu, Chair of Women Awakening Foundation in Kaohsung
  Inheritance System and the Formation of Gender Roles: Marriage and Jobs of Paiwan Women in Taiwan

5:15-7:00 P.M.       Reevaluation and Repositioning: A Decade of CSWS

Chair: Bao Xiaolan, Associate Professor of History, California State University at Long Beach, and Xu Wu, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Participants:

• Xu Wu
  From Introductory Training to Participatory Empowerment: Repositioning CSWS's Role in the Chengdu Workshop
• Wang Lihua, Northeastern University
  Tradition and Modernity under Globalization: Development Issues in China
• Li Zongmin, University of Wisconsin
  Uniqueness of CSWS
• MA Yuanxi, Associate Professor, Baker & McKenzie
  Feminist Organizing: Diversity and/vs. Unity; Discord and/vs. Harmony
• Bao Xiaolan
  From L.A. to Boston, from Tianjin to Chengdu: Ten Years in Retrospect
• Kang Hongjin, Dickinson College
  Towards the 21st Century

Open Discussion

7:00 P.M.: Dinner

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