The International Conference on “Seeing and Touching Gender from Late Imperial to Modern China” (Dec. 17–18, 2014), sponsored by Academia Sinica’s Institute of Modern History and Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, brought together fourteen papers by scholars from Taiwan, the U.S., and China. The conference marked an important shift in gender history by engaging visual and material culture alongside textual sources, highlighting how objects and images shaped and reflected gender in Chinese history. By fostering dialogue across history, art history, and gender studies, the event broadened methodological approaches and opened new research horizons. Its impact was consolidated in the volume Seeing and Touching Gender: New Perspectives in Modern Chinese Art (Taipei: Rock Publishing, 2020), which I co-edited with Dorothy Ko (Columbia University) and Aida Yuen Wong (Brandeis University).