1. From Status to Contract? Reexamining the Transformation of Taiwanese Society in the Colonial Period (1895-1945) • Li-Hsuan Cheng, National Chengchi University.

2. From Political to Symbolic Power: Shifting Patterns of Royals’ Interactions with British Society, 1870-1920 • Marta Pagnini, London School of Economics and Political Science; Fabien Accominotti, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

3. The Japanese State-Nation Building from 1880s to 1920s: A Text-Mining Descripition • Teru Sako, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

4. Theorizing the Relation between State Capacity and Symbolic Power: Insights from the Case of the Family Planning Policy in India during the Emergency, 1975-77 • Sourabh Singh, Florida State University.