Co-organized by Timothy B. Weston and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow with support from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation

To be held at the Fairbank Center (625 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139), Harvard University, May 28-29, 2005

Saturday, May 28, 2005

9:30 am    Morning session:   Newspapers and tensions over urban modernity

Eugenia Lean: "Read All About Her! Passionate Women and Social Ambivalence in Republican-Era Newspapers"

Peter Carroll: "Dying in the Public Eye"

Barbara Mittler: "New Women and Money: Dreams, Nightmares (and Realities) in China's Republican (and Contemporary) News-Media"

Discussants: Yeh Wen-hsin and Lucie Cheng

1:30 pm    Afternoon session: The Overlap between Commerce, Culture, and Politics

Stephen MacKinnon: "Cheng Shewo and the Building of a Newspaper Empire in Republican Era China"

Karl Gerth: "The Allure of 'the West': Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Republican Era Advertising"

Sei Jeong Chin: " Negotiating Public Opinion: Law, Politics, and the News Media, 1931-1937"

Discussants: James Huffman and Christopher Reed

Sunday, May 29, 2005

9:30 am    Morning session: The Role and Function of Journalism and Journalists

Bryna Goodman: "The Story in the News: Narrative Aesthetics and Morality in Media Dissemination of Popular Scandals"

Timothy Weston:  "The Theory and Practice of Newspaper Journalism in 1920s China"

Eileen Chow: "Serial Sightings: News, Novelties, and an Unofficial History of the Old Capital"

Discussants: Timothy Cheek and Yeh Wen-hsin