“Building a Socialist Society”
Conference Program:
Zoom link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/97661730739
Password: HSTCC
(all times are EST)
mini-conference2021abstracts
9:00 am- 9:15 am
Opening comments, HSTCC President, Xiaoping Cong
9:15-11:05
Panel 1: Constructing Socialist Institutions
Chair: Xiaoping Cong
The Making of Evil Landlords: A Microhistory of Class Division in Suburban Beijing’s Land Reform
Shaofan An, Minzu University of China
Constructing a Socialist Society in a Disaster Zone: The 1954 Yangzi River Flood and the Creation of New Relief Mechanism in Communist China
Yu Liang, Binghamton University
Gun Control in Socialist China: Disarming the Masses and “Enemies of the New State” in the 1950s
Lei Duan, Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
The Interior Revolution: The Making of Socialist Home and Mind in Mao’s China
Zixian Liu, University of Toronto
11:15 am -1:05 pm
Panel 2: Socialist Cultural Production- Propaganda in the 1950s
(note: first three papers were submitted together in a panel)
Chair: Shellen Wu
Staging Afro-Asianism in Maoist China
Yucong Hao, University of Michigan (yucongh@umich.edu
Documenting Legitimacy: Contesting Narratives of the 1949 Divide in an Anti-Rightist Film, 1957
Yidi Wu, Elon University (ywu3@elon.edu)
The Machine of Enchantment: Various Narratives of the Labor-and-Technology Spectacles of the Great Leap Forward
Yujie Li, University of Chicago (yjl15@uchicago.edu)
“Give them Instructions and Give them Money”: Guangdong and the trans-border making of Communist propaganda institutions in Hong Kong (1949-1965)
Mian Chen, mianchen2023@u.northwestern.edu
Department of History, Northwestern University
2 pm – 3:50 pm
Panel 3: Constructing the Socialist Identity
Chair: David Luesink
History Education in Shanghai’s Secondary Schools in the 1950s
Guanhua Tan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mobilizing Youth in Mao Era China: Self-Making and Socialist Construction
Robert Culp, Bard College
China, 1925: Work Comrades and Labor Martyrs
Linh D. Vu, Arizona State University
From Food Substitutes to Women’s Illnesses: Icons of Starvation for a Socialist Society “Without Famine”
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, San Diego State University
4 pm -5:50 pm
Panel 4: Multiple facets of socialist expression
Chair: Tim Weston
From Tashkent to Beijing: Qemberxanim and the Making of Uyghur Dance in Socialist China
Emily Wilcox, William and Mary
Ballet Is Adopted by Socialist China
Eva Shan Chou, City University of New York, Baruch College.
Racial Capitalism and Socialist Ethnicity in the People’s Republic of China
Jeremy Tai, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University
The Making of the Fuwuyuan in Socialist Films
Gavin Healy, Columbia University
