HYI Working Paper Series

The Harvard-Yenching Institute is pleased to make available working papers by HYI affiliated scholars on topics in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.

The HYI Working Paper Series welcomes submissions from all HYI-affiliated faculty and fellowship grantees (including graduate students). Scholars are invited to post papers either in English or in an Asian language. To submit a paper, please email strogatz@fas.harvard.edu.

The views expressed in the HYI Working Paper Series are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. HYI Working Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage discussion. Copyright belongs to the author(s). Papers may be downloaded for personal use only, and may not be cited without the author's permission.

2012

劳动热情与弄虚作假——计划经济时期生产过程中生产者与国家权力的一致、分歧与互动 (Labor Enthusiasm and Deception) (Jia Wenjuan, Ph.D. candidate, Zhongshan University; HYI Grassroots Training Program Visiting Fellow 2011-12)

2011

Whose Xinjiang? The Transition in Chinese Intellectuals' Imagination of the "New Dominion" during the Qing Dynasty (JIA Jianfei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)

Politics of Life and Science: The Introduction of Hans Driesch's Vitalism to Post-WWI China (Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)

Women Playing Men: Same-Sex Relations in Republican Shanghai (JIANG Jin, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow in Residence, 2011-2012)

An Entrepreneurial Party-state and Its “City Manager”: The Ningbo Urban Construction Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (NBUCI) and Ningbo’s Tianyi Square Project (ZHANG Han, The University of Hong Kong; HYI Grassroots Training Program Visiting Fellow 2010-2011)

Jawaharlal Nehru and China: a Study in Failure? (Ramachandra GUHA, 2011 Harvard-Yenching Institute Ingalls Fellow)

2010

Franco-Vietnamese Schools for Girls in Tonkin at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (TRAN Thi Phuong Hoa, Vietnam Institute for European Studies; HYI Visiting Fellow 2008-2009)

Development of Property Law in Cambodia, Vietnam and China: What is behind the legal reforms in transition to a market economy? (KUONG Teilee, Nagoya University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)

Recent Quest for Religious Roots: The Cult of Guangze Zunwang, Temple Networks, and Inter-Temple Rivalries in Southeast China, 1978-2009 (Jack Meng-Tat CHIA, Harvard University; HYI-RSEA Scholar, 2009-2013)

Cambodian Constitutional Provisions on Treaties: A Story of Constitutional Evolution Beyond Rhetoric (KUONG Teilee, Nagoya University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)

Displaying Chinese Folklore to the World: the 2008 Olympic Games and International Folkloric Tourism in Gaobeidian Village, Beijing (YANG Lihui, Professor, Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Associate, 2006-07)

Assessment of the Social Functions and Vitality of the Yi Language from the Perspective of its Domains of Use (HU Suhua, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)

2009

Maitreya Images in Asian Buddhist Fine Arts (DINH Hong Hai, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Fellow 2008-2009)

The Production of Alternative Media in Mainland China: a Case Study of the Journal Friend Exchange (CAO Jin, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010)

Goddess Beliefs in the Chinese Lingnan Area (NGUYEN Ngoc Tho, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Fellow, 2007-2009)

Franco-Vietnamese Schools and the Transition from Confucian to a New Kind of Intellectual in the Colonial Context of Tonkin (TRAN Thi Phuong Hoa, Vietnam Institute of History; HYI Visiting Fellow 2008-2009)

Resilient Lilong: an Ethnography of Shanghai's Urban Housing (NON Arkaraprasertkul, Oxford University; HYI Doctoral Scholar, 2008-2012)

Negotiating for a Green Home: Justifications and Forms of Associations in a Public Controversy in Shenzhen (Brenda Chun LIU, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Fellow, 2008-2009)

Environmental Activism in China: 15 Years in Review, 1994-2008 (WU Fengshi, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar 2008-2009)

Friendship and Equality in Tan Sitong's Concept of Pingdeng (CHEN Jeng-Guo, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar 2008-2009)