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114 NEWS NOTES Conference Papers 1981-82 CONFERENCE ON VÄLDES ÄND CDiVfWJNICATION IN MING-CH'ING POPULÄR QILTURE. EAST-WEST CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, JANUARY 2-6, 1981 "Historical Introduction: Economic and Social Foundations of MingCh 'ing Culture" Evelyn Rawski (University of Pittsburgh) "Theoretical Introduction: The Study of Chinese Popular Culture: Approaches and Prospects" David Johnson (Columbia University) "The Transmission of Wang Yang-ming Philosophy of Liang-chih: Values and Cannunication in Mid-Ming Thought" Tu Wei-ming (University of California - Berkeley) "Written Popularizations of the Ch'ing Sacred Edicts" Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) "Curing the Delusions of Sages in the Streets: The Religious and Social World View of the Three Teachings Cult in a Popular Novel" Judith Berling (Indiana University) "History and Values in Ming-Ch'ing Historical Fiction" Robert Hegel (Washington University) "Language as an Aid and Impediment to the Integration of Chinese Culture" John McCoy (Cornell University) "The Organization of Temple Cults on the South China Coast: The Case of T'ien Hou, Empress of Heaven" James Watson (SOAS, University of London) "Written Materials in the Village World: Evidence from the Hong Kong Region" James Hayes (Hong Kong) "Village Drama in the Ming-Ch'ing Period" Issei Tanaka (University of Tokyo) "Community-sponsored Drama and Its Audiences: Data from Hong Kong" Barbara Ward (Newnham College) "The Transmission of White Lotus Sectarianism" Susan Naquin (University of Pennsylvania) "Values in the Literature of Popular Religion: Mid-Ming to the Twentieth Century" Daniel Overmyer (University of British Columbia) 115 "The Emergence of Mass Culture" Andrew Nathan (Columbia University) and Leo Ou-fan Lee (Indiana University) "'Popular' and 'Mass' in 1979, with Some Reflections on Continuities" Perry Link (UCLA) ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, 33RD ANNUAL MEETING, TORONTO, CANADA, MARCH 13-15, 1981 "Classical Studies and Cosmographical Reformation" John B. Henderson (Louisiana State University) "The Unravelling of Neo-Confucianism" Benjamin Elman (Colby College) "Manchu Policies and Chinese Prerogatives: The Treatment of Gu Yanwu in the Annotated Catalogue" R. Kent Guy (University of Washington) "The Literatteurs and Society in Seventeenth Century China: Pu Songling , Kong Shangren, and Li Yu" Chun-shu Chang and Hsueh-lun Chang (University of Michigan) "Allegory and Social Satire in the Zhong Kui Novels" Frederick P. Brandauer (University of Washington) "Literary Innovation and Social Change in Eighteenth Century China: Wu Jingzi, Cao Xueqin, and Shen Fu" Paul S. Ropp (Memphis State University) "Sino-Vietnamese Piracy in the Nineteenth Century" Dian Murray (Linfield College) "Ethical Practice and Behavioral Norms for the Ordinary Man or Woman in the Three Teachings Cult of Lin Zhao-en" Judith Berling (Indiana University) "The Wen-xiang Sect of Ming and Qing: Changes in Beliefs and Structure" Asai Motoi (Tokai University) "The Ethics of Ming-Oing Folk Religious Sects: The Luo-jiao Tradition" Richard H. C. Shek (California State University - Sacramento) "Liu Zuo-chen's Sect in Mid-Qing: Leaders and Followers" Suzuki Chusei (Aichi University) "Sect and Society: The Organization and Activities of the Grand Canal Boatmen's Association in the Mid-Qing" David E. Kelley (Harvard University) "The Triads in South China and Taiwan Before 1830" Wen-hsiung Hsu (Northwestern University) 116 "Early Taipings: The Ethics and Organization of the God Worshippers Society" P. Richard Bohr (Midwest China Center) "Big Swords, Plum Flowers, and Missionaries: An Interpretation of the Boxer Movement" Irwin J. Schulman (University of Pittsburgh) "On the Social Origins of the Boxer Movement" Joseph Esherick (University of Oregon) "The State and the Village: Taxation in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century North China" Philip Huang (UCLA) "Tax Revoit in the Late Qing: The Small Swords in Shanghai and Liu Depei in Shandong" Elizabeth Perry (University of Washington) CONFERENCE ON ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINS.: CULTURAL BELIEFS AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS, MONTECITO, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 20-26, 1981 "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in China's Classical Legacy" Chi-yun Chen (University of California - Santa Barbara) "The Confucian Cosmological Myth and. the Neo-Confucian Tradition" Hao Chang (Ohio State University) "Orthodox Cosmology and Popular Moral Precepts" San-pao Li (California State University — Long Beach) "Elite Attitudes Toward Popular Shamanism" Donald S. Sutton (Carnegie-Mellon University) "The Cultural Role of Ritual in Ch'ing China" Richard J. Smith (Rice University) "Ritual and Politics in China...

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