Presentations

1: Deconstructing Liezi’s Robot: Transhumanism, Daoism, and Early Chinese Medical Discourse

Daniel Fried, U of Alberta

2: The Corporeal Transhuman: Revisiting the Cognitive Shift in Mid-Ming Landscape Poetry and Art

Xinmin Liu, Washington State U, Pullman

3: Eloquent Flesh: Female Ugliness as a Technology of Transcendence

Lucia Tang, U of California, Berkeley

Presider

Xiaowen Xu, U of British Columbia, Vancouver