Hi all,
My name is Hongqiao Li, and I am a second-year history PhD student from the University of Iowa. My research interest is the environmental history of Manchuria from late Qing to Republican China.
I am organizing an AAS panel on the production, organization, and mobilization of environmental knowledge in Manchuria from the late Qing to the Japanese empire. Bringing together studies of medicine, fisheries, and borderland governance, it asks how scientific and technical investigations transformed the ways people understood, managed, and developed the region's human and nonhuman environments. We currently have four panelists and Professor Norman Smith of the University of Guelph has agreed to be our chair.
My paper examines the Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911 and the subsequent work of the North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service (1912–1931). Haoqian Yu, a PhD student from University of Guelph, will discuss the South Manchuria Railway Company's fisheries investigations from Dalian, the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the Yellow Sea into the major rivers, lakes, and freshwater systems of the Manchurian interior from the 1920s through the early 1940s. Ke Zhao, a PhD student from UCSC, will present on the banner system and ginseng production in Qing Manchuria. Yuanfang Zhang, an assistant professor from Huron University, examines the knowledge production of Manchuria's forestry and its implications for the colonial expansion of the Japanese empire.
We are looking for a discussant for our panel. If you are interested, please email me at: hli179@uiowa.edu
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Hongqiao Li
Graduate Student
George Washington University
hongqiao.li1@gwu.edu------------------------------