Titles of Papers given at the Annual BACS Conference 1999
SOAS, 6 September 1999

KEYNOTE 
'Death and Life in Peking'
Géremie Barme

PANEL ON SOCIAL MARGINALISATION
Chair: Dr Frank Pieke, University of Oxford

Biao Xiang, University of Oxford
Paradox of Social Marginalisation and Migrant Leadership: The
Organizational Process of a Migrant Community in Beijing, China

Louise Beynon, SOAS
Struggles over Representation and Social Marginalisation in Contemporary
Urban China: Laid-off Workers, Rural Migrants and the State

Harriet Evans, University of Westminster
Sex, Gender and the Politics of Modernity in the PRC

PANEL ON SEX AND SEXUALITY
Chair: Dr Michel Hockx, SOAS

Nick Tapp
Engendering the 'Miao': Be/longing and the Marginal

Frances Weightman, University of Edinburgh
The early-Qing Context surrounding Gender Constructs in Pu Songling's Works

Lan Yang, University of Cambridge
Love and Sexuality in the Literature of the Cultural Revolution

Anna Bormel, University of Oxford
Offial and Academic Discourses about Male Homosexuality in Mainland China,
1985-1998

Song Hwee Lim, University of Cambridge
Representing the Homosexual in Films from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Carol Rennie, University of Edinburgh
Budding Sexualities, Taiwan: Sexual Awakening in 'Xiandai Wenxue'

Joanna McMillan, University of Leeds
Problems for Adam and Eve: Chinese Sex Shops and the Biomedical Construction
of Sexuality

Please refer directly to the authors for any further information or full papers.