A SYNTHESIS BEFORE THE FACT: Geometries, Ecologies and Histories Across the Indo-Pacific Frederick Damon, University of Virginia
Insular Conception of the Chinese Imperial Realm: Late Modern Cosmographical Maps and their Origins in the Early Textual tradition Vera Dorofeeva-LichtmannCNRS, Paris – MPIWG, Berlin
Heaven, Spirits, and Political and Social Order: Rain-Prayingin Eleventh-Century China Cong Ellen Zhang University of Virginia
FROM THE MOUNTAIN TO THE SEA: The Temple Organization of Regional Relations out of Southeastern China Michael Rowlands, UCL
Quanzhou: territorial cults, officialdom, jianghu (rivers-lakes), and shanlin (mountains-forests) Wang Mingming Peking University
The Road Getting in All under Heaven Cosmology: The Zhaozhou Bazi society in West Yunnan Jianxiong Ma The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chinese civilizational techniques and their hybridization in Southeast Asia Kenneth Dean Chinese Studies and ARI, NUS