1. Managing Land and Producing Citizens: State Building and Identity Formation in Manchuria, 1900-1920 • Shuang Chen, University of Iowa.

2. Max Weber’s Religion of China: A Re-Assessment • Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia.

3. Synchronizing Everyday Life in the Chinese Empire: The Circulation, Ritual, and Illegal Printing of Calendar during the Qing Dynasty • Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware.

4. Problematizing the “Confucian State”: the Religious Dimension of the Ming Bureaucratic Culture • Ying Zhang, The Ohio State University.

5. The 1911 Revolution and the Qing Empire • Xiaowei Zheng, University of California, Santa Barbara.