Programme

Practicing Religion in Asia: Diversity and Comparison (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Joseph BOSCO

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. LIU Hwuy-Min

(Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Culture in Display (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Sharon WONG

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. ZHENG Jie

(Program of Cultural Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

HU Mengyin

(East China Normal University)

Religion As Social Classification System: A Study of Catholicism in A Tibetan Village in Yunnan

LAM Ka Ki

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Empowerment and Politics in University Museums: Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

CHEN Lu

(Fudan University)

The Lords of Our Village - A Competitive Dialogue between Three Village in Wangjiangjing (王江泾)

AN Jianghong

(Stanford University)

Making Jokes With(out) Bodies: "Truthiness" and "Authenticity" of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China

ZHU Xiaoxiao

(Qingdao University)

Meeting Soldiers in Sea Temple - The Current Status of Chinese Villages in Miniature

Larry ROBINSON

(University of California, Los Angeles)

Popular Culture as Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: Village Bar Culture in a Socialist State

JI Yiwen

(Fudan University)

Locality and Ethnicity: Territorial Dimensions in Chinese Religion, A Study of Local Gods and its Processions (迎神赛会) in Hainan

SHIH Yi-tzu

(National Tsing Hua University)

Entertainment, Consumption, and Feminine Figure: Imagination Engineering of 'Heavenly Kingdom on Earth' in Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center

CHANG Nai-Wen

(National Taiwan University)

The Birth Ritual and Material Exchanges Among the Bunun in Nantou, Taiwan

Producing Space, Consuming Culture (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Mick ATHA

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Mr. TWU Chih-Yu

(Department of Anthropology, Columbia University)

En/gendering New Subjectivities (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Franco LAI

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. TSENG Hsunhui

(Gender Studies Program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

LIU Shuman

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Self-making in the Mountains: An Ethnographic Study of Sichuan-Tibet Long Distance Cycling

WO Lai Yuen

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Politics of Vulnerability: Troubling Empire, Whiteness, and Masculinity in Postcolonial Hong Kong

CHEN Yun Ching

(National Tsing Hua University)

Urban Citizens' Feeling on Parks: Taking Various Types of Parks in Linkou City, Taiwan For Example

Mohammad Tareq HASAN

(University of Bergen and University of Dhaka)

Labor in the Garment Industry of Bangladesh: Rhetoric of Emancipation Versus Reality of Subjugation

FANG Hui

(Renmin University of China)

Dual Production of Locality: Identity Study on Wu Duo Jin Hua

LIN Zhenru

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

The Living Guan Gong: Gender and Nationalism in Post-Socialist China

PARK Yeori

(Seoul National University)

Cultural Descriptions of Collective Physical Training among Chinese Elderly in Zizhuyuan Park, Beijing

Managing Health and Bodies Beyond Self (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Sealing CHENG

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. HUANG Hsuan-Ying

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Gordon MATHEWS

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. TANG Wai Man

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CHANG Su

(University of Macau)

From "Care of the Self" to "Enterprise of the Self": Yansheng Practices of Chinese New Workers

CHEN Shiwei

(Nanyang Technological University)

Patterns of Identity Negotiation of Ethnic Minorities in a Multi-ethnic Country: A Case Study of the Ethnic Minority Koreans in Yanbian Autonomous Region in China

Karolina SZMIGIELSKA-PIOTRKOWSKA

(University of Warsaw)

Tibetan Medicine - Humans, Non-humans and the Case of 'Identity'

JIN Yi

(East China Normal University)

Boundary and Fusion: Ethnic Identity in Practice - Jin Jiang Town in Shangri-La County as an Example

TONG Dik Wai David

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Rhythm Therapy: Sleep Hygiene and the Temporal Management of Sleeplessness in Hong Kong

TIAN Mengxue

(Peking University)

Historical Memory and Identity of Margins: A Survey of Mangdan Village

ZHANG Chaoxiong

(Washington University in St. Louis)

"We are Peers First! ": Peer Educators’ Double Marginalization in Drug Use Intervention in Yunnan, China

KOBAYASHI Hiroshi

(Tohoku University)

Rethinking Zongzu Segmentation Through Architecture of Kejia Tulou

Alternative Future and Popular Protest (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Isaac GAGNE

(Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. WU Kaming

(Department of Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Remaking Lives in a Multifaceted Market (Abstract)

Chair: Dr. Matthew WEST

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. HO Cheuk Yuet

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

BU Fan

(Peking University)

Sustainability and Community Participation: The Dilemma of Eco-friendly Development Pattern of Palawan, Philippines

HUNG Yeh-Liu

(National Chi Nan University)

Trust Reconfigured: An Ethnographic Study of Financial Market in Taiwan

LAI Yi-Yu

(National Taiwan University)

Making a Dream Capture: The Indigenous Movement and Their Local Network in Highland Philippines

Concetta SCARFIELLO

(The University of Adelaide)

The Rational Economic Woman

FENGJIANG Jiazhi

(London School of Economics and Political Science)

"More Good Hearted People than Worthy Beneficiaries?" - Emerging Ethics of 'Doing Good' Among China’s Grassroots Philanthropists

LI Xiaoyue

(Oregon State University)

Resisting or Embracing? A Case Study on Yi Farmers' Agricultural Livelihoods and Uncertainties in Northeast Yunnan, China

Asian Migrations: Trajectories, Meanings, Embodiments (Abstract)

Chair: Mr. Philipp DEMGENSKI

(Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Dr. Murat ES

(Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Sajida Zareen ALLY

(University of Sussex)

"Coming out" of Employers' Homes to Preserve Wellness (Suham): Sri Lankan Migrants' Moral and Biological Claim Making Amid Health
Inequalities in Kuwait

Rudolf YUNIARTO

(Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Migration Industry, Social Entrepreneurship, and Solidarity Formation: The Indonesian of Taiwan

LI Jiangnan

(University of Durham)

How Chinese Students Think: About British Education for Example

Keynote Speech by Dr. Nicole Constable

Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption