Hideki Tarumoto Waseda University Biography Hideki Tarumoto is Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. He obtained his Doctor of Sociology from the University of Tokyo, Japan (1999). He was a Research Associate (1995–1997), Associate Professor (1998–2015), Professor (2016–2017) at Hokkaido University, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK (2001), Invited Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France (2013). His research interest goes to citizenship and migration, and ethnic stratification, in European and Asian countries. His major publications include Kokusai imin to shiminken gabanansu (International Migration and Citizenship Governance, Mineruva Shobo 2012); Yokuwakaru kokusai shakaigaku (Understandable Transnational Sociology, Mineruva Shobo, 2nd edition, 2016); “The Limits of Local Citizenship in Japan” (in Thomas Lacroix and Amandine Desille (eds) International Migrations and Local Governance: A Global Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); “Why Restrictive Refugee Policy Can Be Retained? A Japanese Case” (Migration and Development, 8(1): 7-24, 2019) 「 How to Become an Immigration Country: A Japanese Case 」 The dichotomy of ethnic country and immigration country has been well known and applied to explain differences of policy, institutions and public opinions and so on among countries. However, accelerated globalisation more and more pushes so-called ethnic countries towards shifting to immigration countries. An Asian industrialised country, Japan is not an exception. The revision of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act was passed in the diet in December 2018, which triggered debates as to whether Japan has already been an immigration country or not, and whether Japan should be one or not. But an elaborated consideration is needed to end the debates. An immigration country has two dimensions—practice of immigrants and recognition of immigrants, which leads to categorise four types of countries concerning immigration country. Japan could be referred to as one type of immigration country but not

Fang He NYU Shanghai Biography Fang He recently received her PhD in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Fang specializes in transnational histories of gender, Chinese America, and U.S. immigration. Her research centers on the roles of visuality and the racialized body to understand American inclusion, exclusion, and empire-building. She published a book chapter “‘Golden Lilies’ Across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws” in Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (Brill, 2017). Fang is working on a book manuscript titled “Golden Lilies” Across the Pacific: Bodies, Empire and Paradoxes of Inclusion in U.S. Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws. She will be joining in NYU Shanghai’s “Global Perspectives on Society” Program as a postdoctoral fellow in Fall 2019. 「 Admissibility Inside Out: Contested Bodies and U.S. Administration of Chinese Exclusion Laws 」 Utilizing Chinese-and-English-language sources, this essay addresses the “official and bureaucratic gaze” of U.S. immigration administration posed upon the racialized Chinese bodies especially female foot and Chinese responses during the Chinese exclusion era from a trans-Pacific perspective. It foregrounds the body as an important analytic tool to examine how the U.S. enforcement of Chinese exclusion laws complicated the social significance of Chinese foot binding, and how the construction of U.S. national identity and boundaries was articulated through Chinese bodies. It explains how and why bound foot acquired a remarkable role for both the immigrants and the immigration officials to establish Chinese admissibility in comparison with other “physical peculiarities.” It demonstrates that the immigrant body was a contested terrain in which both countries’ race, gender, class, and body ideologies collided, overlapped and renegotiated. Accordingly, the lines between inclusion and exclusion, modernity and tradition, and globalization and nationalism were rearticulated, redrawn and obscured. #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube CONTACT US Email: cga@nyu.edu Phone Number: +86 (21)

Deirdre Harkins New York University Biography Deirdre Harkins is a second year Master’s student in the World History Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at NYU. She received a BA in Anthropology and Linguistics this past fall in the College of Arts and Sciences also at NYU. Her research focuses on that of race and migration. As a student, Deirdre interests revolve around exploring different cultural histories and has taken courses concerning Asia, Ireland, and Latin America. Specifically, Deirdre researches the concept and creation of an Argentine identity. 「 Keeping an Invisible Race, Invisible: Asians in a White Argentina 」 Since the writing of Argentina’s constitution in 1853, it has been clear that the Argentine government has had the agenda of promoting “whiteness” and making those of African, indigenous, and Asian descent, less visible in society. However, how successful has that really been? This paper is called “Keeping an Invisible Race, Invisible: Asians in a White Argentina,” because just as with that of the Afro- Argentine and indigenous populations, the Asian–Argentines were (and still are) seen as non-existent. Not many historians have focused on the idea of Asian immigration to Argentina. The paper focuses on how despite recent attempts to include the formerly excluded members of Argentine society, this did not pertain to the Asian population as they were deemed too foreign to ever truly be considered Argentine. #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

Xiaorong Han The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Biography Xiaorong Han earned his PhD in History from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and is currently Professor at and Head of the Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has conducted research on the interactions between intellectuals and peasants and between state and ethnic minorities in China, as well as China’s relations with Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam. His publications include Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900–1949 (SUNY, 2005), Red God: Wei Baqun and His Peasant Revolution in Southern China, 1894–1932 (SUNY, 2014), Zhongguo Minzu Guanxi Sanlun [Essays on China’s Ethnic Relations] (Singapore, World Scientific, 2015), and numerous articles. He is also the editor-in-chief of China & Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. #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.

Hongyan Gu Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Biography Dr. Gu Hongyan is Assistant Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Institute of China Studies. She received her PhD in Government and International Relations from the University of Sydney, Australia, and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. Dr. Gu’s research interests lie in environmental policy and governance, public participation and sustainable rural development. She has published in both English and Chinese journals such as Forest Policy and Economics, Ecology and Society, and Land Use Policy. Her current research project examines the development of rural landscape conservation policy in Japan and its implications for China. #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.

Elvan Cobb Rice University Biography Elvan is a historian of the built environment and currently serves as a Spatial Humanities Fellow in Levantine Studies at the Humanities Research Center, Rice University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong. In her work, Elvan explores how space is produced, transformed, and practiced through the implementation of large-scale infrastructural projects, especially in the Ottoman Empire. In addition, Elvan engages in multiple archaeological field projects in Armenia, Laos, and Turkey. 「 Steaming Through Ancient Lands: Comparative Tourist Mobilities in Western Anatolia and Southern Mesopotamia 」 The Persian Royal Road, one of the major infrastructural productions of the ancient world, connected the city of Susa with Sardis in the mid-first millennium BCE, effectively linking the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean to the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean. This route proved significant intermittently throughout history, notably when both ends of the route, in western Anatolia and southern Mesopotamia, received infrastructural investments during the second half of the 19th century CE, in the context of European colonial ambitions. Produced under concessions given to British companies, these infrastructural projects, railways in Anatolia and steamboats in Mesopotamia, generated accelerated mobilities through Ottoman lands. While the political and economic motivations of Ottoman and British bureaucrats and entrepreneurs in promoting and enabling such mobilities coalesced and diverged situationally, such infrastructural interventions had spatial consequences, affecting the modes of interaction with these landscapes. Juxtaposing steamboat navigation through southern Mesopotamia and railway travel in western Anatolia with the emergent practices of tourism and archaeology that revolved around ancient sites in these two regions, this presentation explores shifting mobilities through these landscapes within a comparative framework. #NYUShanghai Facebook Twitter Instagram Weibo Youtube CONTACT US Email: cga@nyu.edu Phone Number:

Piya Chakraborty Shiv Nadar University Biography Piya Chakraborty is a PhD research scholar currently pursuing her doctoral research in the Department of Sociology in Shiv Nadar University, India. Having completed both her Bachelor’s (Presidency College Kolkata) and Master’s degrees in Sociology (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), she went on to complete her M.Phil. degree in the field of Social Sciences (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta). Thereafter, she was employed as a researcher in an international sociological research project conducted by Umeå University, Sweden in collaboration with Global Change Research Kolkata. She was also employed as guest faculty in the Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University for a brief period. She is currently conducting her doctoral research on the Indian Chinese community in India, specifically focussing on food, memory of war and their relationship with the construction of Indian Chinese subjectivity. 「 Food and Diaspora: An Ethnographic study of Chinese Restaurants in Kolkata 」 This paper focuses on the Chinese cuisine industry in Kolkata with respect to Indian Chinese diasporic identity. In looking at food as being a culturally defined object playing a role in the construction and maintenance of group identities, it enquires into the ways in which Chinese restaurants have given meaning to “Indian Chineseness” as a diasporic phenomenon. It examines the restaurant spaces, restaurant food and the décor of the restaurants through which the material and the non-material, the physical as well as the virtual come together and provide insights into diasporic subjectivities. The spread of Chinese cuisine across the world happened during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It started with Chinese migration to the West and the subsequent establishment of Chinese settlements in Canada, United States and Australia. In India, the culinary industry flourished only after the 1950s and 1960s, when the last wave

Yin Cao Tsinghua University Biography Cao Yin is Associate Professor and Cyrus Tang Scholar in the Department of History, Tsinghua University. His research interest covers modern Indian history, global history and India-China connections in the twentieth century. He is the author of From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 (Leiden: Brill, 2017). He is now working on a book manuscript of how India was turned into the home front of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. 「 The Last Hump: The Lahore Elementary Flying Training School, the Chinese Civil War, and the Final Days of the British Raj 」 This article centers on the evacuation of the Lahore Elementary Flying Training School, which was built in 1943 for training Chinese pilots and mechanics, from August 1945 to June 1946. It details the British and Chinese authorities’ concerns over the school and how the chaotic situation in India during the final days of the British Raj influenced its evacuation back to China. This article tends to put the story in the broad context of the British withdrawal from India and the Chinese Civil War and to use this case to uncover the links between the two most significant events in the history of modern India and China. In so doing, it puts forward an integrated framework for studying modern Indian and Chinese history. #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

Leo Fernandez Almero Emerson Electric [Asia] Limited Biography Leo Rey Almero (He, him, his) is the Counsel and Data Protection Officer of the regional operating headquarters in the Philippines of Emerson Electric (Asia) Limited, a multinational engineering services company registered in Hong Kong. As a legal and human resources professional, he advocates for the rights of the LGBTQ within Emerson, advises the leadership of Emerson LGBT+StraightAllies, and represents Emerson in the Philippine Financial Industry Pride together with another human resources manager. Mr. Almero is also a published writer. 「 The Transpinays: Migrating Bodies, Identities, and Sexualizations 」 As interlocution [to Dr. Alegre’s thesis], we look at the shortcomings of the Philippine legal system in addressing the violence transpinays experience. In privileged middle class transpinays who can afford quality education in efforts to overcome the systems that continually fail them, we see academic structures restricting their gender expression through non-affirming dress restrictions. Even when transpinays have, in a sense, emancipated themselves by escaping a restrictive society through migration, when they come back, they continue to encounter the violence they had sought to escape, as when in Silverio v. Republic, the Supreme Court relied on procedural and substantive law to deny Silverio’s gender identity. When transpinays who enjoy positions of privilege experience violence, much more is experienced by those in the margins of society. While trans panic has not been considered as a valid argument for self-defense, it is nonetheless recognized as a mitigating circumstance that lowers penalties against trans aggressors. Such recognition of trans panic necessarily reflects a culture that normalizes and rationalizes violence against transpinays. #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

Brenda Rodriguez Alegre University of Hong Kong Biography Brenda Rodriguez Alegre (She, her, hers) completed her PhD in Psychology from the University of Santo Tomas, in Manila. Her MA thesis and PhD dissertation were about transgender women in the Philippines. She is currently among the Board of Directors of STRAP or The Society of Transsexual Women Advocates of the Philippines. A Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong where she teaches Sexuality and Gender, she has upcoming publications on transgender people’s experiences, an important aspect of her activism with LGBTQI people and women. For the said advocacies, she has been featured as an expert in programs over the radio and on television. In 2018, she was awarded the 2018 LGBT + Public in Hong Kong, and has delivered a speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Apart from her academic duties and activism in Hong Kong, Brenda sings soprano in a choir, and has also performed in “Vagina Monologues.” 「 The Transpinays: Migrating Bodies, Identities, and Sexualizations 」 Transpinays are migrants in their own right. We see transpinays integrate themselves in their native Philippines, but more recently a few of them have found new places outside of their home country where they integrate better. Hong Kong, Japan, China, Europe, Australia and the U.S. are just some of these places where transpinays have become partial or full migrants. This paper puts together narratives of transpinays who navigate this world where their identities are usually in question and their success and happiness depend on their courage, education, and resilience. We discover how in their native Philippines, their identities are mistaken and conflated as “bakla” at the same time. We discover how their gender identities, expressions, and roles as well as their sexualities evolve in a society which although is

Kristel Anne Fernandez Acedera National University of Singapore Biography Kristel Acedera is a Research Assistant at the Asia Research Institute. She holds an M. Soc Sci degree in Geography from the National University of Singapore. Her current research interests explore how intimacies of transnational familyhood unravel in and through the digital spaces and temporalities of communication technologies. She has previously published on this in peer-reviewed journals like New Media & Society and Current Sociology. 「 When Care is Near, Far, and In-between: Polymedia and the Negotiation of Transnational Parenting by Left-behind Children and their Carers 」 This paper situates itself amid the debates on the “morality of proximity” and what it means in an era where the advancements of communication technologies are purported to have enabled time-space compression. Exploring the case of Filipino transnational families, where one or both parents have migrated for work, we train our lenses on how proximate and long-distance parenting is mediated, negotiated, and contested through the affordances of polymedia. In this paper, we seek to examine how polymedia is implicated in the transformation or reification of these care relationships and uncover the normative and gendered familial values at work. Despite a growing literature on transnational relationships and communication technologies, most studies have focused mainly on communication from migrants to the homeland (and vice-versa), portraying a more bilateral direction of care and communication. Thus, the more complex and circuitous dynamics of transnational familyhood are elided. Transnational parenting also involves multilateral negotiations of competing interests, aspirations, and subjectivities of people “left-behind”. By focusing on the findings from a qualitative and longitudinal study of left behind carers (n=28) and children (n=28), we explore how the discourses and practices of transnational parenting are negotiated and contested, as “proxy” but proximate care in the homeland intersects with the long-distance care