Unruly Minds
An International Workshop at NTU, Singapore
PROGRAMME
MORNING
09:30-09:40
Welcoming address
Harry Yi-Jui Wu (NTU)
09:40-10:0
Introduction to 'China and the Human Sciences: 1600 to the Present'
Howard Chiang (Warwick) & Hsiu-Fen Chen (NCCU)
10:00-10:10
Coffee Break
10:10-12:00
China Then and Now
Moderator: Hsiu-Fen Chen
Demonic Afflictions in Late Imperial China.
Hsiu-Fen Chen (NCCU)
Mental Health in Republican China
Wen-Ji Wang (NYMU)
Title to be confirmed
Hsuan-Ying, Huang (ANU)
AFTERNOON
13:20-15:10
Centre and Periphery
Moderator: Harry Wu
‘The Chinese are the most persistently suicidal’: Mental Illness in Colonial Singapore
Loh Kah Seng (Sogang)
Entering the Green Mountain:The Cultural History of “Madness”in Hong Kong
Li Yungeng, Lam Yanyan Cherry (CUHK)
15:10-15:30
Tea Break
15:30-16:50
National and Transnational
Moderator: Loh Kah Seng
The Globalization of Koro: Chineseness Deterritorialized and Reterritorialized
Howard Chiang (Warwick)
Madness Made in China: 'Manufactured' Mental Disorders and the Incomplete Medical Modernity
Harry Yi-Jui Wu (NTU)
16:50-17:40
Rountable Discussion
All participants
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