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“The Question of Deaf Women: Interpreting Modern Chinese Deaf History from the Gender Perspective”
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, PhD Student

“Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women’s Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era”
Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, MA Student

“The Virtuous (and Un-Virtuous) Womb”
Janice Kam, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer

“Female Hysteria in Modern China: Wandering Womb or Rampaging Piglet”
Shu Yang, Western Michigan University, Associate Professor

“Curing the Subaltern Female: Translingual Practice of Medicine in Mary H. Fulton’s Inasmuch: Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc.”
Yun Zhu, Temple University (Philadelphia), Associate Professor

“Can Xue on the Couch: Psychiatric Criticism and the Medical Gaze”
Shannon Gilbert, University of Cambridge, PhD Student

“Interrogating Disease, Technology, and Gender in Chinese Science Fiction: Feminist Biopolitics in Tang Fei’s ‘Addiction’ and ‘Waste Material’”
Xi Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Associate Professor

“Queering the Posthuman: Disease, Identity, and Love in Chi Ta-Wei’s The Membranes”
Xuying Yu, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Associate Professor

“Pathologies of Exit: Madness, Illness, and the Gendered Politics of Withdrawal in Wartime Shanghai”
Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PhD Student

“Desire, Dis-ease, and Disordered Gazes during the COVID Lockdown: Female Spectatorship of Farewell My Concubine”
Wei Guo, University of Göttingen, MA Student

“Gender and Artistic Practices in Post-Mao China”
Jia Li, University of Tokyo, PhD Student