News Notes

- 1 1 0 NEWS NOTES The following panels or individual papers on Ch'ing history were presented at meetings during the academic year 1978-1979* This information is derived from meetings attended by the editors or otherwise called to their attention, and is inevitably not a full listing. We need the help of our readers to cover this kind of the news of the field as fully as we wish. We would like to receive news of conferences, panels, or individual papers about the Ch'ing period on more general panels. We also need information about relevant exhibitions, new specialized journals, directories, bibliographies, or similar publications, and of dissertations. Abstracts of completed dissertations are welcome. NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, ANNUAL MEETING, NEW HAVEN, October 7-8, 1978 Panel on Researching East Asian Legal History "Everything You Wanted to Know about the Ch'ing Code" Mary Moss Buck and Paul Thiel, Harvard East Asian Legal Studies Panel on Social Dissidence and Government Suppression on the SinoVietnam Frontier. Chair: David Wyatt, Cornell "The Eighteenth Century Frontier: Rebels, Bandits, and Tribal Chiefs" Michael Ipson, Harvard "Black Flag Activities" Ella Laffey, McGill "Rebels, Pirates, and Tribute: Discord in the Late Eighteenth Century" Dian Murray, Cornell 'Phan Ba Vanh's Rebellion in North Vietnam in the l820's" Masaya Shiraishi, Cornell - 1 1 1 MID -ATLANTIC REGION OF THE ASSOCIATION FOB ASIAN STUDIES, ANNUAL MEETING, WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28-29, 1978 Panel on Popular Ideology, Political Allegiance, and Social Trends in Seventeenth Century China "Fathers and Sons: Problems in Political Allegiance in the Early Ch 'ing" Lyman Miller, Central Intelligence Agency Panel on Classics, History, and Politics: Ch'ing New Text Scholarship Chair: Dorothy Borei "Kung Tzu-chen's Use of the 'Three Ages' Concept” Dorothy Borei, Western Kentucky University "The Hsueh-hai t'ang and the Emergence of New Text Confucianism in Canton" Benjamin Elman, University of Pennsylvania "New Text Theories in the Thought of K'ang Yu-wei" Richard C. Howard, The Library of Congress SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION, ANNUAL MEETING, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, November 3-5, 1978 Panel on Economic Change and the Role of the State in Late Imperial China Part I: Chair, Albert Feuerwerker "The Role of the State in Late Ming Fiscal Reforms" Thomas A. Ketzger, University of California, San Diego "Secular Trends in Tax Rates and Expenditure Patterns of the Local Government, 1160-1910" Chi-xing Hou, Colgate "The Role of Government in Inter-Regional Migration and Agricultural Development: A Case Study of Manchuria, 1R90-1930" Chung-fu Chao, Acadeaica Sinica Comment: Albert Feuerwerker, Michigan Frank Lojewski, Indiana University, Kokomo Philip Kuhn, Harvard Part II: Chair, Chi-ming Hou "The Role of the Government in the Emergence of Heavy Industry in China, 1862-1911, A Comparative Study of Hupeh and Chiangsu Provinces" Yun-feng Su, Academics Sinica "Government and Commercial Development in the Late Ch'ing Period" John C.H. Fei, Yale; Ts'ui-jung Liu, Academica Sinica - 1 1 2 - "Social Welfare and Stabilization Policy in the Late Ch'ing Period" John C.H. Pei and Ts'ui-jung Liu Comment: E-tu Sun, Pennsylvania State University Ramon Myers, The Hoover institution AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, ANNUAL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, December 28-30, 1978 Panel on Quantitative Analysis of County-Level Data in Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century China "County-Level Population Data in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century China" Gil Rozman, Princeton Panel on The Formation of an American Image of China Chair: Hilary Conroy, University of Pennsylvania "The Mercantile Origins of .American China policy, 178^-18^" Jacques M. Downs, St. Francis College "The Northeastern Connection: American Board Missions and the Formation of American Opinion towards China, 1830-1860" Murray Rubinstein, Baruch College, City University of New York "The Decorative Arts of the Old China Trade: Their Influence in America to l8< +6" Jonathan Goldstein, Cherry Hill High School East, New Jersey Comment: Yen-ping Hao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Panel on Studies of the Ming-Ch'ing Polity Chair: Hok-lam Chan, University of Washington "Examination: The Social and Political Dynamics" Jerry Dennerline, Pomona College 'The Abortiveness of Plural Politics in Seventeenth Century China" John E. .'.ills, Jr., University of Southern California Comment: A. Lloyd Moote, University of Southern California Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley Panel on Comparative Experience in China Missions Chair: Suzanne 3arnett, University of Puget Sound "The Nineteenth Century China Missionary: Changes in Perspective" Barbara v'.elter, Hunter College "The Missionary Audience: Chinese Christian Converts in the Nineteenth Century" Daniel Bays, University of Kansas -113Comment : Evelyn Rawski, University of Pittsburg Robert Strayer, State University College of N.Y., Brockport Panel on The Jesuits in China and the Dutch in Japan "The Jesuit Impact on Chinese Thought Reexamined" John D. Young, University of Hong Kong Panel on A Comparative Perspective on the International Diffusion of Technology "Confucius vs. the Dynamo: The Transfer of Technology to China in the Nineteenth Century" Shannon R. Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE, ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, ANNUAL MEETING, LEXINGTON, KY., January 25-27, 1979 Panel on Modern China "Chinese Scholars during the M.anchu Period" Kai-fu Tsao, Eastern Kentucky University Panel on Chinese Views of Freedom "Chinese Views of Freedom in Late Ch'ing Times -- Centering on the Ideas of Ho Kai (1859-1919) and Hu Li-yuan (1897-1916)" Ju-fang Tsai, College of Charleston ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, ANNUAL MEETING, LOS ANGELES, March 30-April 1, 1979 Panel on The Chinese . ' .orld Order "Da -ting and Dai Viet: Confucian States in Confrontation" Michael Ipson, Harvard "Russia's Relations with China in the Eighteenth Century" Eric Widmer, Brown Panel on Regional and Local Politics and Society in Late Ch'ing and Early Republican China Part I, Chair: Robert Kapp, University of Washington 'Governor to Prefect: Hunan in the Early 1850s" Robert Aeiss, University of Washington "A Local Perspective on the Ch'ing Restoration: Evidence froa Kiangsi, 1862-1879" Alan R. Sweeten, University of California-Davis "The Shao-hsing Connection: A Vertical Clique in Late Nineteenth Century Ch'ing Government” James Cole, Yale University - m - "Prefectural and District Elite Leadership and Late Ch'ing Reforms: Chekiang, 1895-1911" Mary Rankin, Washington, D.C. Discussant: Kwang-ching Liu, University of California-Davis Part II: A Project on the Regional Modernization of China Chair: Albert Feuerwerker, University of Michigan "The Concept of Organization for the rroject: how to Study China's Modernization" P'eng-yuan Chang, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica 'Comparative Modernization in Different Regions of China" Yti-fa Chang, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica "Some Findings of the Institute of Modern History's Project on Regional Modernization" Shih-ch'iang LU, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Discussants: David 3uck, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee G. William .Skinner, Stanford University Panel on Changing perceptions of the Coastal Frontier in Late Ch'ing Times Chair: Jane Leonard, Kean College of New Jersey "Internal Security and Coastal Control: Juan Yuan and the Suppression of Piracy in Chekiang, 1799-1S09" lYei reh T'i, University of Hong hong "Cantonese Piracy and the Foreign Maritime World" Dian Murray, Cornell University "Opium War Images of Coastal Control and Relations with the Nan-yang (Maritime Asia)" Jane Leonard, Kean College Discussants: David Pong, University of Delaware Richard Smith, Rice University Panel on State Ceremonial in Late Imperial China "Imperial Audience Ceremonies in the Ch'ing Dynasty" Christian Jochim, University of Southern California Panel on Chinese at the Sinitic Frontier "A question of Defense: Social Organizations in the United States' Chinatowns, 1850-1915" L. Eve Armentrout-Ma, University of California-Davis "Chinese Colonization of Taiwan during the Ch'ing Period" Wen-hsiung Hsu, Northwestern University ...