Biographical Traditions in Early Modern East Asia, 1500-1900

1. Ann Waltner; Introduction to Biography in East Asia in the Early Modern Period.- 2. Ihor Pidhainy; Finding Family through Chinese Biography: The Yangs of Xindu, Sichuan.- 3. Jolan Yi; Theory of Writing Biographies of Women in Eighteenth-Century China: A Case Study of Zhang Xue-cheng (1738-1801).- 4. Mark McNally; The Meiji-Qing Dispute Over Okinawa: Irredentism and the Ideological Potency of Royal Biography, 1872-1880.- 5. George Dutton; Pham Dinh Ho (1768-1839) and the Vietnamese Biographical Tradition.- 6. Sungoh Yoon; Countering Qing Intervention with the Legacy of Ming Emperor Hongwu: How Ming Loyalists Remained as Ideal Subjects in Nineteenth-Century Chos¿n Korea.