Conference Program
| December 19, 2016 | |
| 18:00 | Welcoming dinner* |
| December 20, 2016 | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Registration and tea reception |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Welcoming speech by Professor Chu Hung-lam, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Group photo |
| 10:30-12:30 |
Session 1: Subaltern encounters Anand YANG (University of Washington) China in Popular Imagination: Images of China in Hindi School Primers in Nineteenth Century North India Kamal SHEEL (Banaras Hindu University) India-China “Connectedness”:Explorations in India Writings on China CAO Yin (Sun Yat-sen University) Erecting a Gurdwara on Queen’s Road East:The Singh Sabha Movement, the Boxer Uprising, and the Sikh Community in Hong Kong |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-16:30 |
Session 2: Literary and philosophical reflections Adhira MANGALAGIRI(The University of Chicago) Slave of the Colonizer: The Indian Policeman in Chinese Literature Gal GVILI (Columbia University) Return of the Savage: Female Storytellers and Tansregional Folklore in the Works of Xu Dishan LEE Yu-Ting (National University of Taiwan) “Tagore and China” Reconsidered: Starting from a Conversation with Feng Youlan |
| 16:30-17:00 | Tea break |
| 17:00-18:30 | Meeting of “Beyond Pan-Asianism” collaborators (closed to the public) |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| December 21, 2016 | |
| 10:00 | Registration and tea reception |
| 10:30-12:30 |
Session 3: Nation-building and anti-colonial visions Anne REINHARDT (Williams College) Imagining Decolonization: National Capitalism and Enterprise Communities in China and India, 1926-1945 Madhavi THAMPI (Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi) Indian Political Activism in Republican China(in absentia) ZHANG Ke (Fudan University) Between the Aspectant Mirrors: Reflection and Self-reflection in the Late Qing Chinese Indian Travel Writings Tansen SEN(Baruch College) The Maha Bodhi Society, Calcutta: A New Site for India-China Interactions |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-16:30 |
Session 4: Wartime connections LIAO Wen-shuo (Academia Historica) Shifting Images through War: Nationalist Chinese Perception of India during World War II Brian TSUI (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) When Culture Meets State Diplomacy: The Case of Cheena Bhavana Hyeju Janice JEONG (Duke University) Islamic Diplomacy and Unexpected Diasporic Encounters: Chinese Islamic Missions to the Near East during the World War II |
| 16:30-17:00 | Tea break |
| 17:00-18:30 | Concluding session |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
* Lunches and dinners are arranged for speakers and invited guests. Other participants are welcome to patronize on-campus dining facilities which serve PolyU visitors.