Fluidity and Integration of Property Rights in State Building: Resource Distribution, Personal Naming, and Privilege Economy in 20th-Century China

Chinese Historians in the United States 8
Saturday, January 10, 2026: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Marshfield Room (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Brian James DeMare, Tulane University
Papers:
Measuring the Land for Our Nation: Land Ownership, Agricultural Migration, and Nationality Policy in Manchurian Borderland, 1912–44
Luming Xu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Each Person Has One Name Only”: State Regulation of Personal Names in Republican China, 1936–49
Xiaoyan Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Luxury, Privilege, and Legitimacy: Consumption of Imported Goods from the Capitalist World in Maoist China’s Friendship Stores, 1958–78
Zhen Zhang, University of Edinburgh
Animals, Products, and State Building: China’s Sheep Improvement Project and Wool Trade in the Early 20th Century
Guanran Cui, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Comment:
Brian James DeMare, Tulane University
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