My News
Publication
One of my papers (first author with Gary Alan Fine) comes out as a chapter in Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory, edited by Mikyoung Kim and Barry Schwartz. Palgrave-McMillan.2010.
The title is “Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement Against Japan”
Award
My first-author paper “Dynamic Statism and Memory Politics: A Case Analysis of the Chinese War Reparations Movement.” (published in The China Quarterly: March, 2010 issue) wins the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from Asia and Asian America section of American Sociological Association
Recent Presentations
July, 2010 International Sociological Association, Social Theory Research Committee, Political Performance Session, Gothenburg, Sweden. Topic: Grandpa Wen and Interaction Rituals (Tentative title)
April 8, 2010 Northwestern University Culture and Society Workshop presentation. Topic: “Rite of Reversal: Commemoration, Emotion, Politics in the National Mourning for the Sichuan Earthquake Victims”
April 1, 2010 Northeastern Illinois University 15th Annual Asian American Heritage Conference disaster panel, Chicago, IL. Topic: “Civic Participation and Disaster in the Wake of the Sichuan Earthquake”
March 31, 2010 Midwest Sociological Society social theory panel presentation, Chicago, IL. Topic: “Explaining Solidarity among Strangers: A Theoretical Framework based on Interaction Ritual and Publics”
March 13, 2010 Presentation at Michigan Social Theory conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Topic: “Rite of Reversal: Commemoration, Emotion, Politics in the National Mourning for the Sichuan Earthquake Victims”
Scheduled Presentations
(Scheduled) October 2010 Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL. Discussant, “Politics of Memory in Post Conflict Societies” panel
(Scheduled) August 2010 American Sociological Association, Social Theory Regular Session. Atlanta.