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FRIDAY, 16 MAY
8:30-9:00
Morning Coffee
9:00-9:15
Welcoming Remarks 
MATTHEW
SOMMER, SUN CHAOFEN
9:15-11:40
Terminological Dilemmas: Talking About Same-Sex
Desire in the Chinese Context
Introduction:
MARAM EPSTEIN (Chair) 
LISA ROFEL, “The Traffic in Money Boys”
JIE GUO, “Naming the Unnamable: History, Male
Same-Sex Desires, and the Problematic of
Naming” 
MATTHEW SOMMER, “How to Understand the Male Same-Sex
Relations Recorded in Qing Legal Cases”
Panel Discussion 
11:45-1:00
Lunch (for invited participants)
1:00-3:25
Same-Sex Desire in Ming-Qing Literature
Introduction:
KEITH McMAHON (Chair) 
GIOVANNI VITIELLO, "Libertine Masculinity:
Homosociality and Homosexuality in Late Imperial
Pornographic Fiction" 
CUNCUN WU, “Flower-guides, public space and writing
in nineteenth-century Beijing” 
MARAM EPSTEIN and LIU WENJIA, “Homosociality and
Homosexuality in the late-Qing tanci
Feng shuang fei”
Panel Discussion 
3:25-3:45
Coffee Break
3:45-6:10
The Novel
Precious Mirror of Boy Actresses
(品花寶鑑)
and Its Legacies
Introduction: WENQING KANG (Chair) 
KEITH McMAHON, “Same-sex desire and the ethics of
equality in
Precious Mirror of Boy
Actresses”
ANDREA S. GOLDMAN, “Boy Heroines, Manchu Villains,
and the Curious Gaze of a Frenchman in Peking in the
Twilight of the Empire” 
TZE-LAN DEBORAH SANG, “Queer Hermeneutics: Wu
Jiwen's
Fin-de-siècle Boy Love
Reader”
Panel Discussion 
7:00
Dinner (for invited participants)
SATURDAY, 17 MAY
9:15-11:40
Visions of Chinese Modernity
Introduction:
TZE-LAN DEBORAH SANG (Chair) 
WENQING KANG, “Dan (Male Actors Playing Female Roles)
and Sexuality in Chinese National Modernity”
JIANG JIN, “Women’s Opera and Same-Sex Relations in
Republican Shanghai” 
ELISABETH LUND ENGEBRETSEN, “An anthropological
account of emerging same-sex subjectivity and
sociality among women in late-socialist urban China
(Beijing)” 
Panel Discussion 
11:45-1:00
Lunch (for invited participants)
1:00-3:25
Same-Sex Desires and Identities in Transnational
Context
Introduction: LISA ROFEL (Chair) 
FRAN MARTIN, “Love and Remembrance: Women’s same-sex
desire in trans-national Chinese media and popular
cultures” 
PETRUS LIU, “Paper
Marriage
and Transnational Queer Politics” 
PIERRE MIEGE, “The constitution of social networks
among young MSM in urban China: HIV/AIDS prevention
programs and the local translation of the ‘Gay
community’” 
Panel Discussion 
3:25-3:45
Coffee Break
3:45-5:45
Round Table Discussion
TERRY CASTLE 
JAMES REICHERT 
PAUL ROBINSON 
GREGORY PFLUGFELDER
Panel Discussion 
7:00
Dinner (for invited participants)