Devleena Ghosh University of Technology Sydney Biography Devleena Ghosh is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. She has published widely on colonial and environmental studies in the Indian Ocean. Her current projects include 1. Comparative studies on the transition to renewable energy in India, Australia and Germany; 2. Coal mining and climate change in India, Australia and Germany; and another on the status and dissemination of renewable energy in Australia, India and Germany; 3. Women and progressive education in India and Australia. She is the author of Teaching Change: Lucy Woodcock’s International Life (with Heather Goodall and Helen Randerson, Australian National University Press, 2019) and of Colonialism and Modernity (with Paul Gillen, 2007, UNSW Press). She is also editor of The Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges (with Stephen Muecke, 2007, Cambridge Scholars Press), of Water, Borders and Sovereignty in Asia and Oceania (with Heather Goodall and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 2008, Routledge) and Women in Asia: Shadowlines (2012, Cambridge Scholars Press). Devleena Ghosh won the Wang Gung-Wu prize for 2016 awarded by the Asian Studies Review for an article entitled “Burma-Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Interconnections in Pre-Independence India” (40, no. 2, 2016). 「 Unofficial Travel: Connections and Circulations in the Indian Ocean in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century 」 This presentation explores the unofficial circulation of people from in the Indian Ocean and argues that these movements constitute both an integral and a destabilizing element in the conceptualization of the nation state and diasporic movements in the 19th and 20th century. Differential mobility for populations, depending on race, class and gender, meant that attempts by imperial and colonial governments to control the movements of their subjects met with indifferent success. Such unregulated journeys were hard to monitor, difficult to police and ultimately,

Duane Corpis NYU Shanghai Biography Duane Corpis is Associate Professor of History, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Associate Professor, NYU. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was Assistant Professor at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from New York University. Professor Corpis is recipient of the 2013-2014 Smith Book Award from the Southern Historical Association and the 2013 Hans Rosenberg Article Prize from the Central European History Society. He has been an NEH Humanities Summer Scholar, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, and a Herzog Ernst Fellow at the Gotha Research Center and Library. He also serves on the Editorial Collective of the journal Radical History Review. #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube CONTACT US Email: cga@nyu.edu Phone Number: +86 (21) 20595032 WeChat: NYUShanghaiCGA Address: 1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China. © 2019 All Rights Reserved © 2019 All Rights Reserved ON THE SITE About Us People Events News Publications Research Projects Database #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube MAIN LINKS New York Shanghai Abu Dhabi             CONTACT US       Email: cga@nyu.edu       Phone Number: +86 (21) 20595032       WeChat: NYUShanghaiCGA       Address: 1555 Century Avenue,       Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China.

Shirin Esther Edwin NYU Shanghai Biography Shirin Edwin is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, NYU Shanghai, and Global Network Associate Professor, NYU. She is the author of L’islam mis en relation: Le roman francophone de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Kimé, 2009) and Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2016). She has published on Islam, gender and African literatures in Journal of African Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, Gender and Education and Teaching the African Novel (MLA, Options for Teaching). #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube CONTACT US Email: cga@nyu.edu Phone Number: +86 (21) 20595032 WeChat: NYUShanghaiCGA Address: 1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China. © 2019 All Rights Reserved © 2019 All Rights Reserved ON THE SITE About Us People Events News Publications Research Projects Database #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube MAIN LINKS New York Shanghai Abu Dhabi   &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspCONTACT US       Email: cga@nyu.edu       Phone Number: +86 (21) 20595032       WeChat: NYUShanghaiCGA       Address: 1555 Century Avenue,       Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China.

Qian Zhu Duke Kunshan University Biography Qian Zhu is a historian of modern China and a theorist of everyday life. She obtained PhD in History from New York University. Her research is on the intellectual history of China since the late 19th century onwards. Her book investigates the conceptualization of everyday life and the China’s leftist movement in the first half of the 20th century, which concludes with the Chinese anti-fascist global alliance in Southeast Asia during the Pacific War. Beyond her specific field of modern China, she is working through feminism and gender, cultural politics, the theory of everyday life, urban studies and labor history. Her second book project in particular looks into the question of the urban and the rural and the residential housing for workers in the first half of the 20th century. 「 Exile to the Equator: Chinese Anti-Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the WWII 」 Historical research of Chinese anti-colonialism have focused upon nationalism, state-party anti-colonial militarism, and, less often, local military resistances in China against Euro-Americans, Russians, and Japanese since the Opium War in the mid-19th century. As a part of the WWII global history, Chinese anti-colonial history has been studied around the themes of national and local military campaigns against Japanese with the British and American support, and the anti-colonial social movements and cultural activisms in the Chinese territory. This paper investigates two journalistic writings of the Chinese prominent intellectuals, Hu Yuzhi and Shen Zijiu, first published in 1946 in Singapore and then in 1985 in Shanghai in a collection of essays, Exile to the Equator (liuwang zai chidaoxianshang). In their writings, Hu and Shen detailed their experiences of exile and anti-colonial collectivism and activisms with the local Chinese communities in Singapore, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Indonesia from 1941–1945. While documenting the indigenous people’s

Hendri Yulius Independent Writer and Researcher Biography Hendri Yulius (He, him, his) is an independent writer and researcher based in Indonesia. He completed an MA by Research in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and Master’s in Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His articles on gender, sexuality, and cultural politics have been published in The Jakarta Post, New Mandala, Asian Correspondent, and Indonesia at Melbourne, among others. He is currently completing a monograph on Indonesia’s queer activisms. 「 Aspirational Migration, National Attachment: Trans Mobility and National Belonging in Indonesia 」 Popular trans narratives and representations have been deployed within the frame of “transition”, “migration”, and “movement.” Such frames largely indicate prevailing cultural understandings of trans subjectivity, which are built upon the assumption that there is always a concrete destination, in the form of embodiment and identity, that serves as the ultimate goal for trans subjects. Stories about trans travelling abroad to obtain gender affirmation surgery is not difficult to find in popular discourses. Nevertheless, critics have shown that, as access to hormone and other medical procedures for gender affirmation is unevenly distributed among trans subjects, the overemphasis on this identity-reification attainable only for middle-class (and often, white and able-bodied) trans individuals thus reflects the entanglement between trans politics, conspicuous consumption, and class-based position. Complicating the above accounts, in this paper I attempt to factor in the narrative of “national belonging and identity” into the current debates on trans mobility. Drawing on an archive of celebrity transgender stories, popular trans discourses, and multiple publications from queer activist organizations in Indonesia, I situate Indonesian transgender mobility as a form of aspirational citizenship, in which trans subjects not only seek for the improvement of their life but also reify their national value and identity, which positions “individual

In-Jin Yoon Korea University Biography In-Jin Yoon is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Asiatic Research Institute at Korea University. He served as president of the Association for North Korean Migrants Studies and the Association for the Studies of Koreans Abroad. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at the Asian American Studies Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His major publications include On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America, Korean Diaspora: Migration, Adaptation, and Identity of Overseas Koreans, North Korean Migrants: Lives, Consciousness, Support Policy for Resettlement, South Koreans’ Perceptions of Migrant Workers and Multicultural Society, Migration and Transnational Space in Northeast Asia, Mutual Perceptions of North Korean Migrants and South Koreans, Trends and Tasks of Studies of Koreans Abroad, and The History of Korea’s Abroad. His research interests include social psychology, minorities, international migration, and multiculturalism. 「 International Migration and Migrant Integration in Korea: Their Relevance to Japan and Chinese Taipei 」 Korea has been experiencing a rapid growth of international migration since the early 1990s and Korean society has become a racially, ethnically, and culturally pluralistic society. The transformation of Korean society has caused tremendous debates and tensions between natives and migrants and among native Koreans themselves about what kind of society Korea should be. I propose that the three concepts, such as multicultural lag, a change from multicultural fever to multicultural fatigue, and immigration dilemma, are useful to explain the current situation and issues of immigration, migrant integration, and multiculturalism in Korea. I also discuss the implications and relevance of the Korean experience to Japan and Chinese Taipei, and predict the future of immigration, migrant integration, and multiculturalism in the three Northeast Asian countries. #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube CONTACT

Brenda S.A. Yeoh National University of Singapore Biography Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and a wide range of migration research in Asia, including key themes such as cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, social reproduction and care migration; migration, national identity and citizenship issues; globalising universities and international student mobilities; and cultural politics, family dynamics and international marriage migrants. She has published widely on these topics and her recent books include Contested Memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (Routledge, 2016, with Hamzah Muzaini), Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility (Amsterdam University Press, 2018 with Bernardo Brown) and Handbook of Asian Migrations (Routledge, 2018 with Gracia Liu-Farrer). 「 Transnational Migrations, Plural Diversities and the Spaces of Encounter in Singapore 」 Contemporary postcolonial migration is a compelling force increasing diversity in globalising cities such as Singapore. Amidst multiplicative diversities, processes of enclavement and encounter along a spectrum of self/other divides, occur alongside those of selective acculturation and negotiated co-existence as people with different histories and geographies meet and take stock of one another in the constant (re)making of divercities. While civility in public spaces (“ritualised codes of etiquette”) is often taken to be the key litmus test for private prejudices/moralities, it is equally important to rethink the politics of diversity and migrant encounter in private spaces, where “the other” may be strange and unfamiliar, but may well be intimate and even familial. For global cities such as Singapore to develop a truly cosmopolitan urban ethic, not just the conviviality of its streets but the

Chunji Xuan Jilin University Biography Chunji Xuan is Assistant Professor at Northeast Asian Studies College, Jilin University. She served as Humanities Korea (HK) Research Professor at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University. She obtained her BA in Management from Jilin University in 2007, and received her MA in Economics at Jilin University in 2009. She received her PhD in Economics at Korea University in 2015. Her areas of research include econometrics, macroeconomics and Northeast Asia regional analysis. Her recent publications include “New dynamics of consumption and output” (Journal of Macroeconomics, forthcoming), “An Analysis on Causes of Synchronous Phenomena of China’s Regional Economies” (Korean-Chinese Social Science Studies, Vol. 12, 2014), “An analysis on effects of real estate policies by Chinese government—Centering on ‘Xian’gouling’” (Chinese Studies, Vol. 61, 2014). 「 The Effect of Korean-Chinese Immigrants to the Trade and FDI Between China and South Korea 」 Hundreds of thousands of Korean population came to South Korea after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea. These people who are familiar with the language and culture of both China and South Korea have made important contributions to the economic and cultural exchanges between China and South Korea. This paper estimates the effect of Korean-Chinese residences to trade and FDI of South Korea. I found the total number of Korean-Chinese living in South Korea is closely related to the trade between China and South Korea, while the number of Chinese other than Korean-Chinese living in South Korea is not significantly related to it. #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube CONTACT US Email: cga@nyu.edu Phone Number: +86 (21) 20595032 WeChat: NYUShanghaiCGA Address: 1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China. © 2019 All Rights Reserved © 2019 All Rights Reserved ON THE SITE About Us People Events News Publications Research Projects Database #NYUShanghai

Liang Xu Peking University Biography Liang Xu is Assistant Professor at the Peking University School of International Studies and Secretary-General of the Peking University Center for African Studies. Liang’s research interests include Chinese diaspora in Africa, social and gender history of Africa, the political economy of African development, and international relations. Liang has a PhD in African History from Harvard University (2010–2017). Liang received his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations in 2005 from Peking University, where he also completed his first doctorate in International Relations in 2010. Liang’s dissertation project at Harvard examined the history of labor-intensive industrialization in South Africa’s former border areas with a particular focus on ethnic Chinese garment factories and Zulu women workers. It is titled “On the Edge of Capitalism: African Local States, Chinese Family Firms, and the Transformation of Industrial Labor.” Over the years, Liang’s research has been funded by various Harvard University grants, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Government of Ghana, the Japan Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and the South African Millennium Trust. 「 Factory, Family, and Industrial Frontier: A Socioeconomic Study of Chinese Clothing Firms in Newcastle, South Africa 」 This paper examines ethnic Chinese garment production and Zulu women workers in Newcastle, South Africa – a former border town between white South Africa and the black KwaZulu homeland that had been economically important for its coal and steel production since the 1960s. The “Asian Strategy” adopted by the Newcastle Town Council in the early 1980s transformed the town into a prominent site of low-wage, labor-intensive, and female-oriented light manufacturing. The established scholarship, while providing useful explanations for the arrival of ethnic Chinese clothing factories and offering valid critiques of South Africa’s industrial policies, pays little attention either to Chinese business practices or their

Kellynn Wee National University of Singapore Biography Kellynn Wee is Research Associate at the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore). Her research interests are focused on low-waged labour migration in Asia; migrant advocacy and civil society; credit, debt, and risk; and gender, intimacy, emotions, and the body. She has published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Globalizations, City, International Migration, and Global Social Policy. 「 Maid Agents and the Puzzle of Moral Credibility: Brokering Migrant Domestic Work in Singapore 」 In Asia, migrant labourers on short-term contracts in low-waged jobs often have their mobilities mediated by the migration industry. Based on 29 months of fieldwork, this paper examines the practices of the employment agents who recruit migrant domestic workers from countries such as Indonesia to work in Singapore. It draws together anthropological theorising on brokerage and scholarship on the migration industry to ask why migration brokers carry out their practices in ways that often heighten the surveillance of migrant women. We argue that brokers’ uncertainty about a migrant domestic worker’s moral credibility—which stems from the ways in which domestic workers are imagined in indelibly racialised and gendered ways—is fundamental to the organisation of their practices. Migration brokers attempt to draw an equivalence between domestic workers’ living labour and replicable units of commodity so that they can sell migrant labour to employers. However, they are also cognisant that this moral interiority is ontologically impossible to evaluate, and that domestic workers possess the fundamental capacity to perform, subvert, and act. We argue that in order to resolve this, brokers map out a moral career for domestic workers as a blueprint for their idealised universe of order, in which domestic workers transform from naïve villager to triumphant returnee. Ultimately, we show that brokers act not because they set out explicitly to

Tsung-Lung Tsai National Chung Cheng University Biography Tsung-Lung Tsai is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) and an independent documentary director. Tsai’s works are known for combining humanitarian sensitivity and a rational analytical approach in dealing with issues such as human rights, environmental disasters, and cultural diversity. His film Killing in Formosa won the Best Documentary for the 2001 Golden Harvest Awards. Behind the Miracle won the Best Documentary on Current Affairs of the 2002 Excellent Journalism Awards. My Imported Wife was invited to screen in the Best of INPUT category at the 2004 International Public Television Screening Conference and was archived in the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. Oil Disease: Surviving Evil reveals the struggles of surviving victims of the 1979 PCBs Poisoning Incident and has won the first prize of the 2008 South Taiwan Film Festival. Tsai was the chief editor of the book The Love and Hatred of Documentaries (2009), featuring interviews with 12 mid-generation documentary directors in Taiwan. More recently, Tsai has collaborated with his Vietnamese immigrant spouse and fellow filmmaker, Kim-Hong Nguyen, in making documentaries about Taiwan’s Southeast Asian new immigrants and migrant workers, such as Out/Marriage, Lovely Strangers and its sequel See You, Lovable Strangers. In 2017, Tsai and Nguyen founded Khuôn viên văn hoá Việt Nam, a cultural center in Chiayi County where they have been holding cultural festivals and community-based programs to promote mutual understanding between Taiwan’s immigrant and non-immigrant locals. 「 Documenting Taiwan’s New Immigrants and Migrant Workers: Production Process and Post-Production Challenges 」 Taiwan is a society where diverse Austronesian peoples and a host of immigrant communities come into contact and live together in pursuit of a better life. While it is fair to say that all Taiwanese are descendants