Xi Gao Fudan University Biography Xi Gao is professor of history at Fudan University. Xi Gao has contributed widely to the history of science, medicine, and global history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Her research interests include the medical missionary and the Chinese medical modernity, the history of medical cultural exchange between West and East from the global perspective. Recently she has worked on the history of material culture in the global trade. She has published a monograph entitled A Biography of John Dudgeon A British Missionary and Chinese Medical Modernization in the Late Qing and several research articles in English volumes and international journals on the history of culture.  「 Western Study of the History of Chinese Medicine in the Nineteenth Century 」 The process in which Occidental doctors propagated modern European medical knowledge in China impacted the understanding and perception of Chinese medicine. This presentation focuses on Western doctors’ concise account of Chinese medicine and relevant history, aiming to probe into how these aspects influenced Chinese historians and Chinese doctor’s view points with regard to traditional Chinese medicine, along with the mode of writing of history of Chinese medicine, under the context of “otherness” and scientific narrative. #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. © 2018 All Rights Reserved © 2018 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.

Alan Crawford Shanghai Jiaotong University Biography Alan Crawford is a postdoctoral researcher at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Prior to arriving at STJU he taught at Bristol University in the UK, where he completed a PhD in history, and at NYU Shanghai as a Global Perspectives on Society teaching fellow. He is currently working on a book manuscript on Russian concessions in Hankou and Tianjin before 1917, and beginning a new project on Russian commerce and shipping in East Asia in the 19th century. 「 The Tea Trade with China in Russian Imperial Imaginaries (19th/early 20th centuries) 」 This paper will examine aspects of the organisation and representation of the Russian Empire’s trade in tea in the second half of the nineteenth century. Access to the treaty ports of China from 1860 allowed Russian tea traders to begin transporting their goods by sea, through the Indian Ocean and, after it opened, the Suez Canal. However, the older cross-border trade was maintained, largely for geopolitical reasons. I suggest that the ways in which these two routes were represented interacted with processes of identity formation and the production of space, primarily through comparison with other empires. The tea trade through these two different environments was thus a mechanism by which transnational circulations of both ideas and commodities contributed to the imagined geography of Russian imperialism. #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. © 2018 All Rights Reserved © 2018 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

Ka-Kin Cheuk NYU Shanghai Biography Ka-Kin Cheuk is Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Global Asia, New York University, Shanghai. Trained as a social and cultural anthropologist, Ka-Kin has conducted long-term ethnographic research on the Sikh migrants in Hong Kong and the Indian textile traders in southeast China. His most recent research is a multi-sited ethnographic study of China-Europe flower trade connections and its everyday implications for environmental ethics. He has published articles in journals such as The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and is currently co-editing a journal special issue for Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Ltd). He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and his first post-doctoral fellowship from the Leiden University. 「 The Emerging China-Netherlands Flower Trade and Its Eurasian Mobility Nexus 」 Accounting for over 50% of the world floricultural trade, the Netherlands still dominates the flower supply chain. However, this dominance continues to be weakened by economic recessions looming in Europe. By stark contrast, China’s flower industries is on a spectacular rise, with its production sector growing at least 20% per year and the flower consumption reaching US$22 billion by 2020 – both of which are the fastest growths in today’s flower economy. While rising as a competitive flower exporter, China has also become the most lucrative destination for tulips, daffodils, and other high-value bulb flowers imported from the Netherlands. Given a mix of new challenges and opportunities, it is evermore inevitable for Dutch and Chinese florists to engage with each other. Without doubt, the current global flower economy is being re-configured by the ever-growing China-Netherlands connections. When a new China-Netherlands flower nexus begins to take shape, this global development is entangled in an ethical debate on environment and sustainability. The debate is mainly about how a sustainable human-environment relation should be maintained

Alex Boodrookas New York University Biography Alex Boodrookas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. His  dissertation research addresses the intersection between citizenship, migration, state formation, and labor protest in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf from 1900 to 1975. 「 The Making of a Citizen-Merchant Class: The Reorientation of Credit Networks in the Persian Gulf, 1940-1965 」 My presentation traces how new geographies of credit in the Persian Gulf shaped – and were shaped by – new banking infrastructures, reconfigured political networks, and shifting conceptions of indigeneity. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, merchants with links to the Indian subcontinent – particularly Bombay – created a sprawling network of trade and credit within the British imperial system. But starting in the 1940s, as national differences sharpened and British banks aggressively fought to profit from an expected oil boom, the web of trust and credit that had once provided a financial scaffold for imperial rule across the Indian Ocean world was destroyed by emerging financial institutions. #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. © 2018 All Rights Reserved © 2018 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.

Cynthea Bogel Kyushu University Biography Cynthea J. Bogel (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995) is Professor (Japanese Art History and Buddhist Visual Cultures of Asia) in the Faculty of Humanities, Co-Chair of the International Masters and Doctorate Programs in Japanese Humanities, Kyushu University since 2012; and Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University since 2015. She was previously a professor of art history at the Universities of Oregon and Washington (Seattle) for nearly 20 years and was curator of Asian art and ethnology at the RISD Museum of Art. Bogel’s awards include grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Getty Foundation. Her book publications range from Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers (1988) to With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision (2009). Her articles focus primarily on Buddhist icons and temples in Japan, imported Chinese icons, Edo prints, art historiography, and aesthetics. 「 Cosmoscapes and Hybrid Traces on an Eighth-century Japanese Buddhist Icon 」 Yakushi-ji, a monastery dedicated to the Yakushi Buddha (Healing Buddha), houses a cast-bronze Buddha seated on a ca. 150 cm. multi-tiered pedestal. The pedestal’s curious and exceptional gathering of motifs and figures is arguably of paradigm significance to understanding the character of Buddhism and icon-making in ca. 700 Japan. Embellishing the edges and vertical surfaces of the stepped pedestal are all manner of hybrid creations. Grapevine arabesques, creatures from the Roman and Indic worlds, and geometric patterns from Europe, West Asia, and East Asia strongly convey the sense of a world beyond and seem out of place on a Buddhist icon. Twelve crouching figures within niches may be traced to Rome, India, and/or China; they occupy a liminal position between the foreign or demonic and the converted. Adding to the mix is the

Paul Anderson University of Cambridge Biography Dr Paul Anderson is the Prince Alwaleed Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Assistant Director of the University’s Prince Alwaleed Centre of Islamic Studies, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Dr Anderson is a social anthropologist interested in the articulation of economic, moral and religious life. His research has a particular focus on Islam, value, moral personhood and the sociality of trade. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Syria and China, and is currently part of an ERC-funded research project studying the global trade in low-grade Chinese commodities. He is also working on a monograph of Aleppo as a trading city before the outbreak of the current conflict in Syria. At the University of Cambridge, he teaches courses and supervises research on the anthropology of the Middle East, and the anthropology of Islam. 「 Rethinking the “war economy”: locating Syria in Eurasian trade routes 」 Many attempts to analyse the economic and social effects of the ongoing Syrian conflict have drawn on the paradigm of the “war economy”. For all its strengths, this paradigm is limited by a methodological nationalism, which obscures our understanding of the regional and transregional Eurasian circuits of exchange in which Syria is embedded, and of the way in which these have been reconfigured by the conflict. The paper describes some of these wider circuits of commerce, industry and investment which have operated since 2011, and which connect Syria both to neighbouring countries and to China, Africa, and the Gulf. First, it documents transAsian supply routes for mundane non-essential goods such as toys and cosmetics, between the city of Yiwu in southeast China, and the Syrian capital Damascus – which complicates our understanding of Syria simply as a war economy. Second,

Rochelle Almeida New York University Biography The ports of Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Cochin and Karachi saw an enormous amount of human traffic as steamer-loads of young, ambitious, optimistic and cheerful Eurasians (Anglo-Indians) left India for greener pastures soon after Indian Independence in 1947. While not much is known about their sea-faring lives as potential immigrants to Britain, I had the unique opportunity of conducting ethnographic research in the UK among elderly members of the Anglo-Indian community that had left India while still youthful and ambitious. My research has led to the discovery of little-known facts about their trajectory from exit to integration with particular emphasis on the environment prevailing at South Asian port cities in the lead-up to Independence and in its immediate aftermath. Individual interviews as well as group-surveys unearthed substantial data about financial means employed to purchase sea passages to Britain, preparation undertaken to transfer belongings overseas, and challenges faced in working with severe Indian foreign exchange control regulations.  Furthermore, my research had produced information about the development of a shipboard lifestyle and culture unique to the community—a result of their Westernized customs and traditions—as well as their forays into port cities such as Mombasa and Aden en route to the UK.  Through this presentation, I will provide data gleaned from a vast number of immigrants that throws light on the manner in which Eurasians surmounted financial and bureaucratic obstacles on their journey from Indian port cities to disembarkation at Tilbury or Southampton in the UK. I will also comment on the extraordinary bi-lateral partnerships that existed between European shipping company officials and their South Asian counterparts that facilitated mass-migration of Eurasians and the creation of a mixed-race diasporic South Asian community in Britain. Finally, in an attempt to make this paper interdisciplinary, I shall compare real-life accounts of Eurasian

Wifag Adnan New York University Abu Dhabi Biography Ph.D. Princeton University B.S. Duke University (magna cum laude with distinction) Other Affiliations: Research Affiliate at IZA, Research Associate at ERF and Visiting Scholar at INSEAD Wifag Adnan’s research focuses on how labor markets function in developing and emerging economies and the topics she has worked on span labor mobility, job search, unemployment, labor market segmentation, wage differentials, female labor force participation and education. Her recent publications quantify the labor market costs of conflict in politically volatile regions such as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Other work also includes how differences in politically ideologies, provide for using voting patterns at the municipality level, may be associated with gender disparity, measured at the individual level. Current research proposals include evaluating labor reforms in various contexts to examine subsequent mobility patterns and the potential effects on wages, employment, and well-being. Her most recent project involves how European and US labor markets integrate first and second generation immigrants, with a key focus on immigrants of Asian origin. 「 The Role of Culture and Institutions in the Social Mobility of EU Immigrants and their Descendants 」 For a long time, immigrants sought to improve their economic prospects and that of their descendants by migrating to another country. The causes of migration range from political corruption and war in the source country to the lack of economic opportunities in its formal and informal labor markets. The wide-ranging circumstances of each source country led to diverse social and cultural norms worldwide. Thus, each group of immigrants arrives to the destination country with its source country’s culture. Additionally, upon arrival, immigrants discover that the destination country utilizes a set of social, political and economic institutions that are backed by a robust legal framework to acculturate immigrants. The