1. Taming the Wild as Family Enterprise: Mobility, Lineage, and Property of the Hanjun Bannermen in Liaodong • Shuang Chen, University of Iowa.

2. Smoldering Shrines: The Religion-Making of the Early Manchu State and the Shamanic Purges of Northeast Asia • Stephen Garrett, University of Pennsylvania.

3. Kokandi Traders, Kirghiz Robbers, and Qing Law in the Qianlong Period (1736-95) • Jaymin Kim, Rice University.

4. The Forgotten Green Great Wall: The Willow Palisade in Manchuria during the Qing Period • Yuanchong Wang, University of Delaware.