Institute of Chinese Studies Delhi Annual Report 2012-13

INSTITUTE OF CHINESE STUDIES DELHI

ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13

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INTRODUCTION

ver the last three decades, the ICS has carved out a very significant niche in the institutional landscape of the country. It is exceptional in the sense that there is no other O research institute in India that is solely devoted to the study of China and East Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective. Its distinctiveness also arises from the academics, practitioners and scholars from all parts of the country who are associated with it - and the range of its output and activities over the years. It has now, both at the national and international level, a wide network (of scholars and researchers) and it is now emerging, through its annual All-India Conference of China Studies and its recently set up All-India China Scholars‟ Association, as the nodal institution for promoting Chinese Studies in the nation.

2012-13 has been an extremely momentous and notable year, packed with activities and new developments for the ICS. This period witnessed the long-awaited expansion of the research faculty. In April 2012, the ICS got its first full-time Director, Alka Acharya, as well as an Assistant Director, Jabin Jacob, three Associate Fellows, Debasish Chaudhuri, Panu Pazo and Madhurima

Nundy, two Research Associates, Peter Joy Hudson and Nirmola Sharma and one Research Assistant, PK Anand. Several Visiting Fellows working on various projects, were also associated with the ICS during the course of the year – YJ Sithara Fernando (November 2011-November 2012) Ninad Sheth (June 2012-December 2012) Joe Thomas K (December 2012-March 2013) and Raviprasad Narayanan (since February 2013); two Visiting Research Associates, Kalyan Kemburi (Singapore) and Madelina Daenhardt(Cambridge) and several interns were also located in the ICS during the year. A full time accountant and Programme Officer were also taken on board.

In August 2012, the ICS also shifted out of its location in the CSDS and moved to an independent rented accommodation at 8/17 Sri Ram Road, Delhi. The inauguration of the new premises was marked by a „Conversation‟ on the theme of „Multidisciplinarity and Area Studies‟ between eminent scholars such as Profs.Ashis Nandy, Rajeev Bhargava and Madhavan Palat and was moderated by Prof. SK Sopory, Vice Chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. This occasion also saw the felicitation of the Senior Fellows of the ICS – Tan Chung, GP Deshpande, Huang I-Shu, Manoranjan Mohanty, Patricia Uberoi, CV Ranganathan, Vinod Khanna and Kishan Rana. In addition to its regular activities, 2012-13 also saw two major international conferences – the Twelfth Russia-India- China Trilateral Academic Conference and a conference on the Legacy of Lu Xun, as also the ICS‟ flagship event – the Fifth All India Conference of China Studies, which was held in Vishwa Bharati University, Santiniketan.

A. EVENTS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/ SEMINARS

1. 14-20 November 2012: A Lu Xun Culture Week to celebrate the 130th Birth Anniversary of Lu Xun, comprising an international conference titled China‘s Ongoing Quest for Cultural Modernity into the 21st Century: Lu Xun and his Legacy and a photo/poster exhibition (in partnership with the Lu Xun Museum, Beijing) held at, and in collaboration with the IIC and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

2. 20-21 November 2012: The 12th Russia-India-China Academic Trilateral Conference, held at the IIC, New Delhi. This is a major ICS Track II initiative in partnership with the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), Beijing and the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Moscow.

3. 4-5 January 2013: A collaborative international seminar on „India-ROC Relations in the First Half of the 20th Century‟, between the ICS and the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

4. 23-24 February 2013: The 11th BCIM Forum was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 23rd-24th February 2013. The ICS is a founder member of the BCIM Forum.

NATIONAL CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA/ROUND TABLES

1. 9 April 2012: A Symposium titled ‗From Kunming to Kolkata Along the Southern Silk Route: Will it open up New Avenues for Regional Cooperation?‟, in collaboration with the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, at the IIC, Annexe, Delhi.

2. 9 May 2012: A Roundtable on the Brookings Report, ‗Addressing US-China Strategic Distrust‘, in collaboration with the IIC, Delhi.

3. 11 August 2012: An All India China Scholars Colloquium, in collaboration with the IIC. Ambassador Kishan S. Rana and Srikanth Kondapalli, Honorary Fellows at ICS, were the convenors of the programme.

4. 20 August 2012: A special event to felicitate senior ICS Honorary Fellows and to inaugurate the ICS‟ new premises at 8/17 Sri Ram Road, Civil Lines, featured a conversation on „Multidisciplinarity and Area Studies‟ between Profs. Ashis Nandy, Madhavan Palat and Rajeev Bhargava and moderated by Prof. SK Sopory, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

5. 4 December 2012: „CPC‘s Eighteenth Party Congress: A Symposium‟, in collaboration with the India International Centre, Delhi, chaired by Prof. Ramesh Dadhich, Member Secretary, Indian Council Social Science Research ICSSR), New Delhi.

6. 7 December 2012: A Round Table titled „Reflections on 1962 India-China Conflict‟ at and in collaboration with the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)

7. 15-16 December 2012: The flagship conference of the ICS, the „Fifth All India Conference of China Studies‟ in collaboration with Cheena Bhavana, Viswabharati University, at Santiniketan (West Bengal)

8. 8 February 2013: Workshop on “Materials related to China in Indian Archives”, held at CSDS Seminar hall.

ICS PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. 21 April 2012: Several ICS faculty were panelists and discussants at the conference, India in China‘s Foreign Policy Calculus: Moving on from Reluctant Acknowledgment, China‟s 21st Century International Relations: Stability or Turbulence? Organized by the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi.

2. 18 May 2012: Dr. Jabin T. Jacob, ICS Assistant Director & Fellow, was a panelist on a session titled Burma and International Stakeholders: The Case of China, at a conference on Democratization in Burma: Challenges and Prospects, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.

3. 17-18 August 2012: Sithara Fernando, Visiting Associate Fellow at ICS presented a paper titled “South Asian Maritime Cooperation: Building on India's Bilateral Maritime Cooperation with Pakistan and Sri Lanka”, at a conference organized by Manipur University, Imphal, on India and Her Neighbours: Revisiting Relations with Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Maldives.

4. 30 August 2012: ICS Honorary Fellow Prof. Srikant Kondapalli and ICS Assistant Director & Fellow, Dr. Jabin T. Jacob made presentations at a conference on Determinants of China‘s National Security and Foreign Policies,organized by the 23 Infantry Division, 1 Corps, Indian Army, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

5. 17-19 September 2012: An ICS delegation, led by the Chairperson Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty participated in the 5th International Conference on Asian Diplomacy, organized by the Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

6. 8-9 October 2012: ICS scholars participated in a conference organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs, on CCP and Internal Dynamics of China, at Sapru House, New Delhi.

7. 14-17 November 2012: Amb. Khanna, Member Governing Council ICS, represented the ICS at the 4th International Conference of China-South Asia Cultural Forum (CSACF) held at Shenzhen, China.

8. 1-3 November 2012:ICS faculty and scholars - Prof. Alka Acharya, Mr. M.V. Rappai and Mr. P.K. Anand, presented papers at an International Conference on The Rise of China: Problems, Prospects and Policies, organized by the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.

9. 26-27 March, 2013:Prof. ManoranjanMohanty, Chairperson, ICS and Prof. Alka Acharya, Director, ICS, participated in the International Conference titled India and China in the 20th and 21st centuries: Where do History and International Relations Meet?, at Oxford University, Oxford, UK. ICS WEDNESDAY SEMINARS

1. 4 April 2012 „Leadership Transition in China‘, Speakers: Prof. ManoranjanMohanty, Chairperson, ICS, „The Wen Jiabao Legacy‟and Prof.Sreemat iChakrabarti, Honorary Fellow ICS, „Leaders – Reformists Vs Maoists‟.

2. 11 April 2012. Round Table Discussion on ‗Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region‘. Speakers: Col. (retd.) Virendra S.Verma, Honorary Fellow ICS, „Recent developments in Sino-Indian Maritime Cooperation in the IOR‟, Dr. Sithara Fernando, Visiting Research Fellow, ICS,„China‘s Relations with the IOR: Implications for India‟,and Vice Adm. (retd.)Pradeep Kaushiva, Director, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, Comments & Summing Up.

3. 18 April 2012, „Politics, Ideology and Culture in 21st Century China: Silencing Lu Xun‟, Dr. Hemant Adlakha, Associate Professor, CSEAS, SLL&CS, JNU.

4. 25 April 2012,„Internet Revolution in China: Implications for State and Society‟, Ms. Alpana Verma, Research Scholar, University of Delhi.

5. 2 May 2012,‗Rural Governance and Poverty Alleviation in the ‗Post- Agricultural Tax Era‟,Mr. Yang Shuai, doctoral candidate, Renmin University, Beijing, China.

6. 25 July 2012,„Political Dissent in China since the Publication of Charter ‘08‟,Debasish Chaudhuri, Associate Fellow, ICS.

7. 1 August 2012, „South China Sea: The Gathering Storm‟, Ninad D. Sheth, Visiting Associate Fellow, ICS.

8. 8 August 2012,„China‘s Economic Statecraft: Can it be a Strategy for a Globalized World?‟,Mr. Kalyan M. Kemburi, Associate Research Fellow (China Program) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS, Singapore) & a Visiting Researcher at ICS.

9. 22 August 2012,„A Comparative History of Progressive Stage Systems in Prisons in the Straits Settlements and the North Western Provinces, India‟, Mr. Takashi Miyamoto, doctoral candidate at the University of Tokyo.

10. 29 August 2012,„18th Party Congress: What to expect from Xi Jinping‟, Mr. M.V. Rappai, Adjunct Fellow, ICS.

11. 5 September 2012,„Some Thoughts on ‗Give and Take‘ Within the Disputed Regions of Aksai China and the Tawang Tract‟, Col. (retd.)Virendra S. Verma, Honorary Fellow ICS.

12. 12 September 2012,„Prelude to the 18th Party Congress: Assessing the Hu-Wen Decade‘- „Functioning of Political Institutions‟, Mr. Bhim B. Subba, PhD candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi University, „CPC‘s Social Management‟, Prof. SreematiChakrabarti, Honorary Fellow, ICS and Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi University, and‗Economic Performance‘, Dr. Jabin T. Jacob, PhD, Assistant Director and Fellow, ICS.

13. 19 September 2012, „The U.S. ‗Pivot‘ to Asia and Implications for China and India‟, Dr. Amit Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of International Security at the U.S. Air Force Air War College, Alabama, US.

14. 26 September 2012, „Internationalization of R&D: A Study of Foreign ICT and Biotechnology Firms in India and China‟, Mr. Swapan Kumar Patra, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

15. 3 October 2012,„Sino-US Relations during the Obama Presidency‟, Prof. Qi Zhou,Senior Fellow and Director, Department of American Politics, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciencesand Mr. Qi Hao, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

16. 10 October 2012,„China‘s Afghanistan Policy post-2014‘, Dr. Ambrish Dhaka, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Mr. AlokRanjan(Discussant), Research Assistant, Institute of Chinese Studies.

17. 17 October2012,„A Report on the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) XIX Biennial Conference, Paris, France‟, Dr. HemantAdlakha, Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese & South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Honorary Fellow, ICS.

18. 31 October 2012,„Fifty Years of the Little Red Book: Its Significance in the Early Maoist Movement in India‟, Professor Sreemati Chakrabarti, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies.

19. 7 November 2012,„China‘s Sudan Engagement and the Darfur Crisis‟, Mr. Panu Pazo, Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies and a doctoral candidate at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

20. 14 November 2012,„Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute: About Facts and Fault-lines‟, Mr. Peter Joy Hudson, Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies, M.Phil. (Japanese Studies), Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi.

21. 5 December 2012,„NGOs in China in the backdrop of globalization‟, Discussion with Chinese Delegation led by Tian Erlong, Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PRC.

22. 12 December 2012,„Why was Krishna Menon the fall guy of the 1962 War‟? Cdr. (retd.) Atul Bhardwaj, Editor, Purple Beret.

23. 16 January, 2013, ‗South Korea‘s Presidential Elections 2012 and Implications for the Region‘, Dr. Sandip Kumar Mishra, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi.

24. 23 January, 2013, ‗Recent Trends in China-Taiwan Relations‘, Dr. Mumin Chen, Associate Professor, the Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.

25. 30 January, 2013, ‗The social impact on left-behind children in rural China due to labour out- migration‘, Ms. Madleina Daehnhardt, M.Phil in Social Anthropology (2007).

26. 6 February, 2013, ‗The China Dream and Chinese Exceptionalism‘, Prof. William A. Callahan, Chair, International Politics and China Studies at the University of Manchester.

27. 13 February, 2013, ‗The Biography of RinchenZangpo (958-1055) and Revaluation of Contemporary Historical Events‘, Dr. Hira Paul Gangnegi, Associate Professor, Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi.

28. 20 February, 2013, ‗The Economic Legacy of the Hu-Wen Era‘, Dr. BiswajitDhar, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS).

29. 27 February, 2013, ‗Chinese Leadership in East Asian Regional Structure: an exploration in the contestations‘, Ms. Rityusha Mani Tiwary, senior doctoral candidate at the Chinese Studies Division, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

30. 6 March, 2013, ‗Evolution of Social Welfare in Urban China‘, Mr. P.K. Anand, doctoral scholar, Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

31. 13 March, 2013, ‗Philosophy and the Invention of Sinology‘, Prof. Anne Cheng, Chair of Chinese intellectual history at the College de France, Paris.

20 March, 2013,„Inaugural Meeting of the China-India-Nepal Trilateral: A Report‘, Mr. Ravi Bhoothalingam, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi.

ICS EVENTS/ SPECIAL LECTURES

1. 22 June 2012: „Agni 5: Response of China‘ by Dr. Lora Salmaan, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, chaired by Col. Virendra Sahai Verma.

2. 23 July 2012: ICS-ICWA Talk by Martin Jacques, author of, When China Rules the World, followed by an interactive session at and in collaboration with the India International Centre, New Delhi.

3. 20 September 2012: Lecture on „The Current state of Mainland-Taiwan Relations: A DPP Perspective‟ at the India International Centre, Delhi, by Dr. Tsai-Ing-Wen, in collaboration with ICWA and chaired by Amb. Ranjit Gupta, Indian Foreign Service (retd.) and Adjunct Fellow, ICS

4. 10 December 2012: A lecture titled „Political Changes and Challenges in China: The End of Class Struggle?‟, by Prof. Shen Mingming, Director, Research Centre for Contemporary China, Peking University, China, at and in collaboration with the IIC, Delhi, at the IIC Annexe.

5. 1 February 2013: Panel discussion & Release of ICS monograph ―India‘s North East States, the BCIM Forum and Regional integration‖ authored by Kishan S. Rana and Patricia Uberoi at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

6. 23-24 February 2013: ICS team participated in the BCIM Regional Cooperation Forum, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

7. 8 March 2013: ICS Workshop on Source Materials on Modern China in Indian Archives, Delhi, at the CSDS Seminar Room, Delhi

8. 18 March 2013: Special Lecture by Prof. Anne Cheng (Chair of Chinese Intellectual History at the College de France), “Visions of Democracy in Modern China” in collaboration with the India International Centre, at the IIC Annexe, New Delhi.

9. 19 March 2013: Lecture by Prof. Anne Cheng (Chair of Chinese Intellectual History at the College de France), ―Does China think?‖ by Prof. Anne Cheng, in collaboration with the India International Centre, at Seminar Room III, IIC, New Delhi.

THE 7TH GIRI DESHINGKAR MEMORIAL LECTURE

This event is co-hosted by the ICS and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi).

Prof. Elizabeth Perry, Cultural Foundations of Chinese Communism: The Anyuan Revolutionary Tradition, at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

DELEGATIONS TO ICS

ICS received a number of visiting delegations particularly from China.

These include:

1. 7 September 2012: China Foundation for International Studies (CFIS), Beijing

The delegation members included:

Mr. Zhang Deguang President, China Foundation for International Studies, First Secretary- General of the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Ms. Zheng Shulan Researcher, China Foundation for International Studies

Mr. Zhou Gang Researcher, China Foundation for International Studies and former Ambassador of the People‟s Republic of China to India and Pakistan

Ms. Chen Ying Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

Mr. Li Sen Third Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

Mr. Hu Hailiang Third Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

Ms. Gao Jie Attache, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

Mr. Li Yongquan Researcher， Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ms. Li Jianmin Researcher， Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Mr. Zheng Yu Researcher， Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

2. 10 October 2012: Delegation from the Department of Political Science, Chittagong University, Bangladesh

The delegation comprised:

Prof. (Ms) Anwara Begum

Mr. Md. Safiqul Islam (Associate Professor)

Mr. Akkas Ahamed (Assistant Professor)

Mr. A.G.M. Niaz Uddin (Assistant Professor)

Mr. Mustafizur Rahman Sidddiqui

Mr. Bhuian Md. Manzar Kalair

3. 23 November 2012: A six-member delegation from China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), Beijing, led by Prof. Qin Yaqing. The agenda of the meeting included regional cooperation (the development of SAARC, India‟s East Asian Policy), economic cooperation (how to improve the bilateral economic cooperation and strengthen the coordination in multilateral economic institutions, such as G20 and BRICS) and the India-Japan-US trilateral relationship.

4. 29 November 2012: A five-member delegation from the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) Beijing, headed by Mr. Feng Zhongping visited ICS as part of the MoU between the two sides. The themes of the meeting included the new Chinese leadership and its neighbourhood foreign policy priorities.

5. 13 December 2012: A four-member delegation from the Chinese People‘s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA), China headed by H.E. Mr. Lu Shumin,.

6. 11 January 2013: A six-member delegation from the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC), headed by Prof. Dramdul, Vice Director-General. B. RESEARCH PROJECTS - ONGOING

RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Materials Related to Modern China in the National Archives of India

Project Director: Dr. MadhaviThampi, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi and Honorary Fellow, ICS &Nirmola Sharma, Research Associate, ICS

This project seeks to catalogue the substantial - but unmined - late-nineteenth and early twentieth century interactions and exchanges between India and China, as also various aspects of modern Chinese history in Indian archives. Most accounts largely gloss over this period in a synoptic manner or resort to broad generalisations – very little academic research has gone into this significant phase. Knowledge and analysis of these resources would add greater insights and depth to our understanding of the India-China relationship during a highly turbulent and revolutionary period in Asia. The first phase of this project has been produced as ICS Occasional Paper # 3, which lists some of these materials deposited in India‟s premier archives, the National Archives of India. The objective is to bring these materials to the notice of researchers in India and around the world, in the hope that this may contribute in its own way to the further development of research on China.

2. India-China Comparative Health Resource Centre

Project Directors: Prof. Rama Baru (JNU), Adjunct Fellow, ICS and Dr. MadhurimaNundy, Associate Fellow (November 2012-November 2014)

Comparative studies of health systems are essential to the body of work on health and health care systems across the world. India and China have had very different political, economic and social histories that led to the emergence of divergent health systems and yet, in the present times the health sector reforms undertaken by both countries have been similar in nature. The Chinese health system has seen dramatic transformations due to the changing political and economic context. On the other hand transformations in Indian health system have been more gradual, though post-liberalisation there have been some major transitions. Commercialisation and privatisation, introduction of different financing mechanisms, issues related to access, equity and quality of services are some key domains to be studied. The health resource centre will build a repository on relevant issues on health systems in China; will build networks and collaborations with scholars, institutes and centres conducting research on health system in China; will conduct research on some selected domains from a comparative perspective with India.

3. Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute Documentation Project

Project Director: M V Rappai, Adjunct Fellow, ICS & P.K. Anand, Research Assistant(October 2012-November 2013)

This project is intended to make an extensive database of all issues involving the India – China boundary dispute and eventually make the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) a key repository of data on all aspects of India-China relations in the long term. The first phase would be from 1914 to 1916 (the period with the most direct relevance to the current project; the second phase would look at the historical evolution of this issue from 1945 to 1954, coinciding with the period when the two nations evolved as modern independent states and the third phase would cover the period 1955 to 1964, encompassing the decline in the relationship from the bonhomie of 1954-55 up to the outbreak of the border conflict in 1962 and the end of the Nehruvian period.

Proposed Database: The attempt would be to compile a bibliography (as also copies) of all relevant materials, including books, articles, archival material available; all relevant doctoral theses produced/published in major Indian universities; material/copies from relevant state/district archives; and possible tie-ups with the archives of some leading newspapers of India. The plan also includes – over the longer period - collecting all relevant material available in Chinese language, including in the archives of P R China, Taiwan and the UK.

4. Encyclopedia of India-China Cultural Contacts

The Indian Expert Group working on this project: Prof. Sabaree Mitra, Dr. 16

MadhaviThampi, Prof. Kamal Sheel and Prof. ArtatranaNayak.

IN August 2012, an MOU was signed between the ICS and the People’s Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, whereby the ICS was chosen as the host agency for this prestigious project. In the Joint Communique signed between the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Chinese Premier Mr. Wen Jiabao during the latter's visit to India in December 2010, both sides had agreed to collaborate and jointly compile an Encyclopedia of India-China Cultural Contacts. An Expert Group was constituted by the Ministry of External Affairs comprising Prof. Sabaree Mitra, Dr. Madhavi Thampi, Prof. Kamal Sheel and Prof. Artatrana Nayak. After several rounds of meetings, a Concept Note, which was initially drafted in April 2011, was discussed and finalized in September and was forwarded to the Chinese side. In early November, 2011 it was agreed that this joint effort, comprising one (or at best two) volume(s) of about six hundred entries, would cover the period from the ancient through to the contemporary. The compilation and publication is expected be completed in two and a half to three years.

BOOK PROJECTS

1. Journey to the East: Defining India‘s China Challenge Dr. Jabin T. Jacob, Assistant Director and Fellow, ICS

This book takes a comprehensive look at the nature of current political, economic and people-to-people linkages between India and China. In the process, the book also seeks to outline some fundamental characteristics of India‟s foreign policy including current trends. While the work will focus on India‟s approaches to its relations with China, it will also be simultaneously informed by Chinese perspectives and reactions to India‟s rise, with a special focus on hitherto under-explored aspects such as the role of India‟s internal security considerations in its northeast or the role of sub-regionalism as a leg of the Sino-Indian diplomatic engagement. It will be the purpose of this work to examine both sets of themes in order to put forward a more holistic understanding of the workings of the Sino-Indian bilateral relationship.

2. Uyghur Autonomy Movement – State-Society Dynamics during the Reform Period Debasish Chaudhuri (PhD), Associate Fellow, ICS

The proposed book explores conflicts between the Chinese state and the Uyghur minority community in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The book begins by looking into the origins of the conflict and the source of Uyghur resentments, instances and intensity of the conflict and state‟s response to the conflicts in the region. The trend of the ethnic conflict in the region suggests that the internal dimensions are more obvious contributing factors in the Xinjiang problem. The contemporary manifestation of the Uyghur resurgence, also known as the Eastern Turkestan movement, coincides with the period of economic modernization which is characterized by high growth oriented development, causing socio-economic inequalities between regions, rural and urban population as also along ethnic lines. Despite huge success in

economic matters, the central authority has been confronting tremendous resistance from various social groups across China because of growing socio-economic disparity. Rampant use of coercive means in maintaining political and social stability has become a normal practice in today‟s China. The book examines ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang in the light of on-going societal conflicts and unrest in other parts of China.

MONOGRAPHS

1. Political Reform, the Dissent Movement and Democracy since the Publication of Charter ’08.

Debasish Chaudhuri (PhD), Associate Fellow, ICS

The publication of Charter „08 is the most earnest effort by Chinese pro-democratic forces and human rights activists since the Tiananmen incident in 1989. It appears to be a sincere but weak attempt to promote liberal ideals as well as consolidate various dissenting voices across the country. However, numerous social conflicts and unrest in recent years across China are indicative of deep aspirations for political democratization among the various social forces. The project also focuses on the much sought after political reforms and related discourses prevalent among Chinese official and academic circles.

2. Coal, Oil and Atoms- Debates on Japan’s Energy Choices During the Period 1945-1960

Peter Joy Hudson, Research Associate, ICS.

This monograph would look at the debates prevalent within and among the occupation-period American policy makers, the Japanese bureaucracy, the political leaders and the trade unions, during the early post war period, which finally led the Japanese economy and industry to rely on oil. Although this was the larger trend world over, in the Japanese case it had to rely on imports even more. It would also look at the debates, which finally led to the beginning of a nuclear power development program in the mid1950s, when Japanese society had hardly recovered from the sufferings caused by the twin atomic bombings.

3. India-China Collaboration in Third Countries: the Feasibility of Cooperation in Hydro-Electricity Projects in Nepal.

Panu Pazo, Associate Fellow, ICS.

Since 1995, when the World Bank withdrew its US$ 1.1 billion support for the Arun III dam in Nepal due to various problems, all major foreign funding for hydro-power projects in Nepal had been stalled. A decade ago, the Chinese began to show keen interest in rejuvenating the hydro-power potential of the country. With current estimates of approximately 40,000 MW of economically feasible hydropower potentials and only 600 MW being realized so far, Chinese companies have already built inroads into Nepal‟s power sector with several agreements to build dams in Nepal‟s major rivers. The study will look into Chinese

investments in Nepal‟s hydro-power projects and will compare it with India‟s position and how it could affect overall India-Nepal relations. It will also map the contours of future implications for joint collaboration in harnessing hydro-power potentials between China and India in Nepal.

C. RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

ICS PUBLICATIONS

CHINA REPORT

A quarterly journal of East Asian Studies, which is now in its 48th year of publication, is the only journal devoted to China and East Asia in South Asia.

Volume 48 Numbers 1&2 February & May 2012

Special Issue: Studies on India–China Interactions Dedicated to Professor Ji Xianlin (1911–2009) Guest Editor: Tansen Sen

I ARTICLES

Tansen Sen Introduction: Ji Xianlin and Sino-Indology 1 Tansen Sen The Spread of Buddhism to China: A Re-examination of the Buddhist Interactions between Ancient India and China 11 Victor H. Mair What is Geyi, After All? 29 Kuwayama Sho-shin How Xuanzang Learned about Nalanda 61 Max Deeg ―Show Me the Land Where the Buddha Dwelled …‖ Xuanzang‘s玄奘 ‗Record of the Western Regions‘ (Xiyu ji 西域記): A Misunderstood Text? 89 Chen Jinhua Yixing一行 (673–727) and Jiugong 九宮 (―Nine Palaces‖): A Case of Chinese Redefinition of Indian Ideas 115 Yang Bin The Bengal Connections in Yunnan 125 B.R. Deepak The Colonial Connections: Indian and Chinese Nationalists in Japan and China 147 Liu Xi Kang Youwei‘s Journey to India: Chinese Discourse on India during the Late Qing and Republican Periods 171

In Ji Xianlin‘s Own Words

Ji Xianlin The Ramayana in China 187

Reminiscences

Tan Chung Fond Memory of Sino-Indian Camaraderie:

The Beloved and Respected Ji Xianlin I Knew 199 Narayan C. Sen Remembering My Meetings with Ji Xianlin 207

II Book Reviews

Priyanka Singh Challenging the Aid Paradigm: Western Currents and Asian Alternatives, edited by Jens Stilhoff Sörensen 213

Khush-Hal Singh Lagdhyan China and India in Central Asia: A New ―Great Game‖? edited by Marlène Laruelle, Jean-François Huchet, Sébastian Peyrose, and Bayram Balci 216 Joe Thomas Karackattu China, India and Beyond: Development Drivers and Limitations, Ed. by Natalia Dinello and Wang Shaoguang 219 Sandip Kumar Mishra The Making of Northeast Asia, by Kent Calder and Min Ye 223

Volume 48 Number 3 August 2012

Special Issue: China and Southeast Asia

I ARTICLES

Vibhanshu Shekhar Guest Editor’s Introduction: Evolving Complexities of Southeast Asia–China Relations 227

Harsh V. Pant Great Power Politics in East Asia: The US and China in Competition 237

Vibhanshu Shekhar ASEAN’s Response to the Rise of China: Deploying a Hedging

Strategy 253 20

Alistair D. B. Cook Myanmar’s China Policy: Agendas, Strategies and Challenges 269

Tridib Chakraborti China and Vietnam in the South China Sea Dispute: A Creeping

‘Conflict–Peace–Trepidation’ Syndrome 283

Christine Susanna Tjhin Indonesia’s Relations with China: Productive and Pragmatic, but not yet a Strategic Partnership 303 Jabin T. Jacob China in Southeast Asia: The Search for a Chinese Model of International Relations 317 Debashish Chakraborty and Animesh Kumar ASEAN and China: New Dimensions in Economic Engagement 327 P. A. Matthew In Search of El Dorado: Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia 351

II BOOK REVIEWS Abanti Bhattacharya Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China’s Japan Policy by James Reilly 365 Hang Lin Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China by Cong Ellen Zhang 369 Sithara Fernando Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan 371

Volume 48 Number 4 November 2012

I ARTICLES Niv Horesh Between Copper, Silver and Gold: Japanese Banks

of Issue in Taiwan, Northeast China and Korea, 1879-1937 375

Wang Chaoguang Aftermath of the Revolution: Experiments in Western-style

Democratic Politics in Early Republican China 393

Sonia Shukla Forging New Frontiers: Integrating Tawang with India, 1951 407

Liyan Zhang The Stages of Political Innovation in Rural China’s Local Dem-

-ocratization：Four Cases of Villagers’ Political Innovations 427

Nabeel A. Mancheri Chinese Monopoly in Rare Earth Elements: Supply-Demand

and Industrial Applications 449

II BOOK REVIEWS

Gunjan Singh The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor 469

K. Yhome Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U 471

ICS ANALYSIS

A periodical publication, which aims to provide informed and balanced inputs in policy formulation based on extensive interactions among a wide community of scholars, experts, diplomats and military personnel.

No.7 March 2013 Self-immolations, the Tibet Question and the Way Forward

No. 6 August 2012: China and Revival of the World Economy

No. 5 May 2012: The US- China ―Strategic Distrust‖: Perceptions from New Delhi

No. 4 May 2012: Chinese Reaction to India‘s Agni-V Test Firing

No. 3 April 2012: BoXilai‘s Exit: Some Interpretation

No. 2 April 2012: China, India and the Indian Ocean Region: Need to Move from Balance

ofPower to Cooperation

No. 1 November 2011: Postponement of the 15th Special Representatives-level Talks:

Possible Causes and Implications

ICS OCCASIONAL PAPERS

No.4 February 2013 ManmohanAgarwal,―Comparing India and China‘s Economic Performance since 1991‖

No.3 January 2013 MadhaviThampi&Nirmola Sharma, ―Catalogue of Materials Related to Modern China in the National Archives of India, Part One (Special Collection)

No.2 October 2012 Y.J Sithara Fernando, ―China‘s Relations with the Indian Ocean Region

No.1 August 2012 ICS-IIC Roundtable on the Brookings Report: Addressing The US- China ―Strategic Distrust ICS MONOGRAPHS

No.1 December 2012 Kishan S. Rana and Patricia Uberoi, India’s North East States, The BCIM Forum and Regional Integration

D. SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT ICS

1. Rani Singh, a MA student in Chinese Language from the School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University was an intern at the ICS from 1 June-31 August 2012. She provided assistance in research and carried out translation tasks at the ICS.

2. Karuna Amy Guria, an M. Phil. student in the Japanese Division of the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was with the ICS from 1 June-31 August 2012. Her project was titled „Comparing Koodunkulam and Fukushima‟.

3. Ila Joshi, a PhD scholar in the Chinese Division of the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University was an intern from 1 June-31 August 2012. She carried out research on gender issues in China.

4. Cheng Meng, a student from the School of Foreign Language, Beijing Forestry University, China, worked as an intern from 22 August to 1 November 2012. During her tenure at the Institute, Ms. Cheng provided assistance in research and translation tasks at ICS. She made a presentation titled, „A Study on Buddhist Image in Secular World from Ming Collections of Short Stories Sanyan 三言 and Erpai 二拍‟.

5. PK Anand, a senior PhD scholar in the Chinese Division of the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University was an intern from 9 July-15 October 2012. His research project was titled, „The Chongqing Model‟. He continues to be associated on a project undertaken by ICS Adjunct Fellow Mr. MV Rappai on documentation of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute.

E. VISITING SCHOLARS AT ICS

1. Sithara Fernando, a Sri Lankan scholar and a PhD from the Chinese Division of the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University continued his term as a Visiting Associate Fellow at the ICS till 30 September 2012. During his time at the ICS, he worked on projects related to Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea disputes.

2. Ninad D Seth, a Visiting Associate Fellow at ICS, dealing with issues related to South China Sea. Mr. Sheth did his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Delhi in 1993. Later, in 1998, he did an M.A. in Security Studies from the University of Hull, where he was a Chevening Scholar. During his career as a journalist he has written widely on national security issues. Before joining ICS he was Editor-at-large for Open Magazine, a Senior Editor with Financial Express, Assistant Editor with The Times of India and DNA newspapers, and Senior Columnist, The Pioneer.

3. Kalyan M. Kemburi, Associate Research Fellow, China Program, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University was a visiting scholar at the ICS from 5 July- 17 August 2012. He undertook a comparative study of Chinese and Indian economic statecraft.

4. Pahi Saikia, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati visited the ICS from 17-22 October 2012 as part of her project comparing India and the countries of Northeast and Southeast Asia.

5. Shen Ming-Shih, Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Studies, War College, National Defense University, ROC, Taiwan, visited India from 27-31 October 2012 on an ICS invitation as part of his research on the Central Military Commission and China's civil-military relations.

6. Madleina Daehnhardt, Junior Researcher, China Executive Leadership Programme (CELP), Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, has been at the ICS since 10 November 2012 to work on a project titled, „A case study of the social dimensions of rural out-migration in India and China – social impact on left-behind young people in comparative perspective.‟ She will be associated with the ICS till 9 February 2013.

F. FIELD WORK BY ICS RESEARCH FACULTY

1. 19-23 September 2012:DebasishChaudhuri, Associate Fellow, ICS – Chengdu, Sichuan, China – On Ethnic Minority Issues in China.

2. 4-14 December 2012:Jabin T Jacob, Assistant Director and Fellow, ICS – Assam-Meghalaya-Mizoram – On Physical Infrastructure Connectivity In India‘s Border Areas with special focus on the Kaladan Multi-modal Project between India and Myanmar.

3. 6 January – 21 January2013 :Nirmola Sharma – Academia Sinica, Taipei – On Archival Materials Related To India-China-Taiwan Interaction In The Early 20th Century

G. FELLOWS ACTIVITIES

 Alka Acharya, Director, ICS

Professor of Chinese Studies, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―The Hu-Wen Era and the UPA II Regime in India: Unfolding Strategic Perspectives‖, International Conference on “India and China in the 20th and 21st centuries: Where do History and International Relations Meet?”Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford, 26-27 March 2013.

2. ―The 18th Party Congress: Implications for and Impact on China‘s External Relations‖, National Seminar on Leadership Changes in China: Domestic and External Impact, organized by the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) in collaboration with the University of Madras and Centre for Asia Studies, Chennai, 2 March 2013.

3. Keynote address, ―China‘s Engagement with South Asia: Regional and Global Implications‖, National Conference on China and South Asia, organized by the South Asia Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 4-5 February 2013.

4. ―Outcome of the 18th CPC Congress: Influence on China‘s External Policy‖, National Seminar, Coping with a Rising China: Indian Perspectives, Asia Centre, Bangalore, 22 December 2012.

5. ―China Foreign Policy after the 18th CPC Party Congress‖, at the ICS-IIC Symposium on the CPC‟s Eighteenth Party Congress, IIC, New Delhi, 4 December 2012.

6. ―Will the 21st Century Belong to China?‖, International Conference on The Rise of China: Policy, Parameters and Prospects, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerlala, 1-3 November 2012. 7. ―The Chinese Perspective‖, at the ICS-IIC Roundtable on the Brookings Report, Addressing the US-China Distrust”, IIC, New Delhi, 11 May 2012.

Publications Articles 25

“The „New Regionalism‟ and the China Factor in Rising India‟s „Look East Policy‟, in FPRC Journal-No.8, 2012, Focus: India‟s Look East Policy, Foreign Policy Research Centre New Delhi (India)www.fprc.in

Lectures

1. ―China‘s Rise, the Emerging World Order and Implications for India‖, Professional Course for Diplomats, organized by the Foreign Service Institute (Ministry of External Affairs) New Delhi, on 31 January 2013.

2. ―India-China Relations in the 21st century‖, Professional Course for Diplomats, organized by the Foreign Service Institute (Ministry of External Affairs) New Delhi, on 27February 2013.

Others

Editor, China Report

Member, National Security Advisory Board, Government of India, January 2011- January 2013

Member, Editorial Board, Diaspora Studies(New Delhi)

 Hemant Adhlakha, Honorary Fellow, ICS Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―Lu Xun and the Politics of Culture in 21st Century China‖, European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) Bi-annual Conference, University of Paris, France, 4-8 September 2012.

2. ―Lu Xun‖, International Conference on China‟s Ongoing Quest for Cultural Modernity into the 21st Century: Lu Xun and his Legacy,organised by the ICS in collaboration with the IIC, Delhi, 15-17 November 2012.

3. ―China after the 18th CPC Party Congress: From Who is Hu to Who is Xi‖, at the ICS-IIC Symposium

on the CPC‟s Eighteenth Party Congress, IIC, New Delhi, 4 December 2012.

4. ―Current Chinese thinking on 1962 Boundary War with India: A Victory without Gains‖,Round Table on Reflections on 1962 India-China Conflict, jointly organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (New Delhi) and Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi at Sapru House New Delhi, 7 December 2012.

Publications

―On Confucianism‖, manuscript accepted for publication in The World Encyclopaedia on Race and Racism, WashingtonJuly, 2012

 Ravi Bhoothlingam, Honorary Fellow, ICS

Independent Director and Corporate Consultant specializing in India-China business and cultural relations

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―Towards a more Productive Relations between the Think Tanks of India and China‖, 4th China- South Asia Cultural Forum (CSACF), jointly hosted by the Chinese People‟s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 14-17 November 2012.

2. ―Tourism Strategies for both Growth and Recession‖, ASLI-CII Seminar on ASEAN-India Connectivity, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29 November, 2012.

3. ―Moving Forward after 1962: a Business Perspective‖, ICWA-ICS Round Table Reflections on 1962 and the Way Forward, jointly organised by the Indian Council on World Affairs and the Institute of Chinese Studies, Sapru House, New Delhi, 7 December 2012.

4. ―China-India-Nepal: Report on the First Meeting of the Trilateral‖, ICS Wednesday Seminar, Delhi, 20 March 2013.

5. ―An Assessment of the 18th CPC National Congress of October 2012‖, Meeting of the Expert Group 27

on China organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, January 2013.

6. ―China and the BCIM‖, „China‟s Outer Periphery‟organized by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8 March 2013.

Lectures

―India-China relations Today‖, Shenzhen University, 15 November 2012.

Publications

Chapter in Book

―Lateral Thinking and India‘s China Strategy‖, in Rising China: Indian Perspectives, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 2012.

Articles

1. ―China 2020: A Confucian Democracy?‖World Affairs, Vol. 16, No.2, Summer 2012. 2. ―Trade in the Ghosts of 1962‖, The Hindu, 15 November 2012. 3. ―Looking beyond 1962‖Business Standard, 28 December 2012. Visits

Official Participant in the BCIM Car Rally from Kolkata to Kunming, February-March 2013.

 Sreemati Charkrabarti, Honorary Fellow, ICS

Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―Academic Capitalism: the Higher Education Scene in China‖, theFifth All-India Conference of China Studies, organized by Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, and Cheena Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, in Santiniketan, 15-16 December 2012.

2. ―Anti-Corruption Movement in India in 1911‖, International Conference on Public Management in the 21st Century jointly organized by Sun Yat-sen University and University of Macao, 13 October 2012.

3. ―China Studies in India: A Brief Survey‖, Fifth World Forum on China Studies organized by the 28

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, 24 March 2013.

Panelist

1. ―Leadership Changes in China‖, ICS Wednesday Seminar, 4 April 2012.

2. ―Social Management in China”, ICS Wednesday Seminar, September 12, 2012.

3. ―Higher Education in China: The Impact of Globalization‖, Russia-India-China Trilateral Academic Conference, Institute of Chinese Studies, held in the India International Centre, New Delhi, 20 November 2012. Lectures

1. ―A Tale of Two Eras: Gender Issues in China‖, Maharaj Agrasen College,University of Delhi, 31 October 2012.

2. ―Analysis of the Hu Jintao Report to the 18th Party Congress‖, ICS Seminar, December 4, 2012.

3. ―Higher Education Reforms in China: Policies, Paradoxes and Challenges‖, Observer Research Foundation, 8 February 2013.

4. ―China‘s Compulsory Education Law‖, Centre for Social Development, New Delhi, 14 March 2013.

Publications

―China and South Asia‖, in M.K, Rasgotra (ed.) China in the 21st Century, New Delhi, Observer Research Foundation, 2012.

 Vinod Khanna, Emeritus Fellow, ICS

Ambassador (Retd) Indian Foreign Service

Seminars/Conferences Participation

Lectures

―India-China relations Today‖, Shenzhen University, 15November 2012. 29

 Sabaree Mitra, Honorary Fellow, ICS

Professor, Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―Contextualizing Lu Xun in the CPC Discourse on Culture: From the Left League to Yan‘an Talks to Cultural Reform‖, theFifth All India Conference of China Studies, organized by Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, and Cheena Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, in Santiniketan, 15-16 December 2012.

2. ―Culture as a Strategy of Dialogue in India-China Relations‖, International Conference on Asian Diplomacy: India‟s Foreign Policy & Relations, Institute of Asian Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 17-19 September 2012.

―Crisis in Civilization‘ and Beyond: Contemporary Relevance of Tagore‘s Discourse‖, International Seminar on Vishwakavi and Internationalism, Jadavpur Association of International Relations, Kolkata, and Ministry of Culture, GOI,inJadavpur University, Kolkata, 27-28 July 2012.

 Manoranjan Mohanty, Chairperson & Honorary Fellow, ICS

Professor of Social Development, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―India, China and the BRICS Vision of Global Future‖, International Conference on Asian Diplomacy: India's Foreign Policy and Relations, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 17-19 September 2012.

2. ―Land Rights Movements in India: The Odisha Experience‖, Sichuan University- University of Washington Joint Workshop, Chengdu, 20 September 2012.

3. ―CPC‘s 18th Congress- the ideological issues‖, ICS-IIC Symposium on the CPC‟s Eighteenth Party Congress, India International Centre, New Delhi, 4 December 2012.

4. ―India, China and the Emerging Process of Global Transformation‖, International Conference on “India and China in the 20th and 21st centuries: Where do History and International Relations Meet?”Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford, 26-27 March 2013.

Publications

Book

The Political Philosophy of Mao Zedong (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2012, first published by Macmillan in 1978, this is the second edition with a new Introduction).

Articles

1. ―China is again at a fork in the road‖, The Hindu(3 September 2012).

2. ―A Global Sarai‖, Seminar, No. 639 (Nov. 2012) Special issue on the Golden Jubilee of CSDS.

3. ―Ghinua Santhal and Structural Violence‖, Frontier Vol. 44, No. 47 (Jun 3 -9, 2012).

4. ―Harmonious Society‘: Hu Jintao‘s Vision and the Chinese Party Congress‖, Economic and Political Weekly, vol XLVII no. 50 (December 15, 2012).

5. ―Political Discourse and Public Sector Reforms in India and China‖, in Kjeld-Erik Brodsgaard ( Ed) Public Sector Reforms in China and India( forthcoming).

6. ―Maoism‖, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd edition. 4 vols.(Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of Gale / Cengage Learning. Detroit, MI,2013).

7. “New Chinese leader faces tough choices in seeking breakthrough reforms‖, Global Times(Beijing), 13 March 2013.

Lectures

1. ―Social Movements in Contemporary India‖, Institute of South Asian Studies, Peking University, 25 September 2012.

2. ―Alternative Visions of Global Future in India and China‖, School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University, Beijing, 26 September 2012.

3. ―India, China and the Emerging Process of Global Restructuring‖, Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 18 October 2012.

4. ―India, China and the Civilisational Process of Global Transformation‖, P C Bagchi Memorial Lecture, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 17 December 2012.

5. ―Social Basis of the Political Leadership in Odisha‖, Keynote Address at the 19th annual conference of Odisha Gabeshana Chakra, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, 21 January 2013.

6. ―Minority Rights in Contemporary India‖, Chair and Speaker, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi, 12 February 2013.

7. ―Look-East Policies of India and China‖, Department of Political Science, Manipur University, 26 February 2013.

8. ―Social Movements in Northeast India: The Contemporary Challenges‖, Valedictory address at a national seminar, Department of Political Science, Guwahati University, 2 March 2013.

9. ―Approaches to understanding and eradicating Poverty‖, Satyavati College, University of Delhi, 6 March 2013.

10. ―Social Movements and the State in the Post-Globalisation Age‖, Keynote Address at a national seminar, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University, 8 March 2013.

 Sushila Narasimhan, Adjunct Fellow, ICS Professor of Japanese Studies (retd) Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Seminars/Conferences Participation

 ―Plants and human Civilization: The Lure of Spices‖,International Conference on Asian Studies, Negombo, Sri Lanka, 26-27July, 2012.

 ―Integrated approach to the study of East Asia‖, Keynote address in the Workshop on Teaching Methods in the History of East Asia, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi,18 January 2013.

 Kishan Rana, Honorary Fellow, ICS

Former Ambassador, Indian Foreign Service (Retd); Professor Emeritus, DiploFoundation, Malta & Geneva

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ‗Asian Diplomacy and India‘,International conference on Asian Diplomacy: India's Foreign Policy and Relationsat Chengdu, China, 17-19 September 2012.

2. Panel presentation at a Roundtable Meeting jointly organised by ICS and ICWA on Reflections on the 1962 India-China Conflict,Sapru House, New Delhi, 7 December 2012. 32

3. ‗India-China: Challenges & Opportunities‘, at a one-day preparatory meeting for the China-South Asia Expo, scheduled in Kunming, China, in early June 2013.

4. ‗Sub-Regional Diplomacy: An Imperative of Our Time‘, Conference on Look East Policy and the NEat Shillong, India. 22-23 March, 2013.

Publications

Monograph India’s North East States, the BCIM Forum and Regional Integration,ICS Monograph No. 1, Delhi: Institute of Chinese Studies, 2012.(with Patricia Uberoi).

Book Chapter

―Diaspora Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy‖, in Relational, Networked, and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift, Routledge, New York, 2013.

Articles

1. ‗Battle Lines of the 1962 War‘, Business Standard, 17 September 2013.

2. ‗A message for Mr. Nehru's ears only‘, Business Standard, 20 October, 2013.

3. ‗The 1962 war - Where did India go wrong?‘,Business Standard 31 October, 2012.

4. ‗China - At the crossroads‘,Business Standard, 9 November 2012.

 C.V. Ranganathan, Emeritus Fellow, ICS  Former Ambassador to China, Indian Foreign Service (Retd)

BOOK PROJECT

 As Chairman of the eight-member Core Group on China organised, supported and sponsored by the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, coordinated the publication of a study on the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, commencing in November 2012. Wrote an Introduction, edited and prepared the draft,titled The Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China-A Major Turning Pointfor China for publication.

 M V Rappai,Adjunct Fellow, ICS

Ministry of Defence, Government of India (retd)

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―PLA and the Party Congress‖, ICS-IIC Symposium on the CPC‟s Eighteenth Party Congress, India International Centre, New Delhi, 4 December 2012. 2. "Lu Xun to Confucius: Politics and Culture in China", International Conference on „China‟s Ongoing Quest for Cultural Modernity into the 21st Century: Lu Xun and his Legacy‟,organised by the ICS in collaboration with the IIC, Delhi, 15-17 November 2012. 3. ―PLA‘s role in Chinese Decision-Making‖, International Conference on The Rise of China: Policy, Parameters and Prospects, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerlala, 1-3 November 2012.

Discussant

Session 1, “Overview of the International Scenario with Special Focus on Strategic Cooperation with regard to Libya, Syria, Egypt and Afghanistan”, the 12th Russia-India-China Trilateral Academic Conference, held at IIC, Delhi on 20-21 November 2012.

Lectures

1. ―The New Leadership in China and its Impact on India‖ MAKAIAS, Kolkata, 19 December 2012. 2. ―Security Thinking of the New Chinese Leadership‖, PUGWASH Society, IDSA, New Delhi, 27 February 2013.

Publications

Book Chapter

“Nuclear Weapons in China‟s Security Thinking” Srikanth Kondapalli (ed) Pentagon Books, New Delhi 2012.

Articles

―Ostentation Out – Austerity In‖, The Hindu, 22 March 2013.

―On China‘s Military Leadership‖, wwwC3SIndia.org, December 2012.

Seminars/Conferences Participation

4. ―PLA and the Party Congress‖, ICS-IIC Symposium on the CPC‟s Eighteenth Party Congress, India International Centre, New Delhi, 4 December 2012. 5. "Lu Xun to Confucius: Politics and Culture in China", International Conference on „China‟s Ongoing Quest for Cultural Modernity into the 21st Century: Lu Xun and his Legacy‟,organised by the ICS in collaboration with the IIC, Delhi, 15-17 November 2012. 6. ―PLA‘s role in Chinese Decision-Making‖, International Conference on The Rise of China: Policy, Parameters and Prospects, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerlala, 1-3 November 2012. 7.

Discussant

Lectures

3. ―The New Leadership in China and its Impact on India‖ MAKAIAS, Kolkata, 19 December 2012. 4. ―Security Thinking of the New Chinese Leadership‖, PUGWASH Society, IDSA, New Delhi, 27 February 2013.

Project

ICS Project: “Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute Documentation”

 Poonam Surie, Adjunct Fellow, ICS

Writer & Independent Researcher

Book Project

Confucius and Chinese Culture

 Brij Tankha, Honorary Fellow, ICS Professor of Modern Japanese History, (retd) Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―Another Modernity: Environment, Community and Plurality in Modern Japan‖,International Conference on Plural Co-existence and Asian Sustainability: Asian Experiences in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 11-12 March 2013.

2. ―Asia Then and Now: Rethinking Non-Alignment and the Bandung Spirit‖,One Asia Convention, Bandung 2013, Bandung, Indonesia, 22-23 March 2013.

3. ―India-Japan and the Non-Aligned Movement‖,International Conference on Asian Diplomacy: India's Foreign Policy and Relations", Institute of South Asian Studies, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 17-19 September 2012.

4. ―Modernity and Utopia: The Asian Experience‖, International Conference on Social Innovation and Sustainability for the Future, GCOE, Kyoto, Japan, 8-9 November 2012.

5. Discussant and Panelist, Workshop on Japan PEN Club and Indian PEN Club in the Prewar period, November 24-28, 2012, Tokyo, Japan.

6. ―The Delusion of History: Ando Shoeki and the Search for Utopia‖, International Conference on Transnational Asian Modernities, Inter-Cultural Studies Centre,Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 20-21 December 2012

Publications

Chapters in Books 1. ―Indian Conceptions of Asia‘ (アジアの概念とインド(仮)、in Umemori Naoyuki (ed.) Asian Integration in History (梅森直行編、歴史のなかのアジア地域統合), ( 2012). (In Japanese).

2. ―Religion and Modernity: Strengthening the People‖ in Rosa Caroli and Pierre-François Souyri (eds.) History at Stake in East Asia, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Italy, 2012, pp.3-20.

3. ―India‘s Nuclear Policy during the Cold War‖(冷戦下インドの核政策) in Kato Tetsuro (ed) Nuclear Power and the Cold War- The Introduction of Nuclear Power in Japan and Asia ( 原子力と冷戦日本とアジアの原発導入), Kadensha, 2013, pp.235-256. (in Japanese).

 Madhavi Thampi, Honorary Fellow, ICS

Associate Professor (Chinese History) Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. "Raja Mahendra Pratap -- An Indian Visionary in Republican China", Conference on Visions, Individuals and Networks: India-China Connections, 1900-1960”, Nalanda – Srivijaya Centre, ISEAS, Singapore, 23-24 July 2012.

2. "Window on a Changing China: Diplomatic Musings of India's envoys to Republican China, 1943-1949", International Conference on Asian Diplomacy: India's Foreign Policy and Relations, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 17-19 September 2012.

3. "Window on a Changing China: Diplomatic Musings of India's envoys to Republican China, 1943-1949", International Conference on India-ROC Relationsin the First Halfof the 20th Century, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 4-5 January 2013.

4. Discussant at the Second Interdisciplinary Emerging Scholars Symposium on China India Studies, the University of Delhi, 2-3 November 2012.

Lectures

1. ‗Reinterpreting History‘, Keynote address at the Fifth All-India Conference of China Studies, Viswa-Bharati University, Santiniketan, 15 December 2012.

2. ‗Traditional Chinese Historiography‘, at a Workshop on Historical Research Methodology organized by the ICHR North East Regional Centre, Guwahati, 30 January, 2013.

3. ‗Recent Historiography of Modern China‘, at a Workshop for college history teachers, Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi University, 18 January, 2013. 4.

Convenor

Workshop on Source materials on Modern China in Indian Archives, Institute ofChinese Studies, held at the CSDS, Delhi, 8 February 2013.

 Patricia Uberoi, Vice Chairperson & Honorary Fellow, ICS

Professor in Social Change and Development, Institute of Economic Growth (retd)

Seminars/Conferences Participation

In the Chair

1. Session of the Second Emerging Scholars Symposium on China-India Studies, organized by the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, 2-3 November 2012.

2. Panel discussion on „Archival Research on Modern China in India‟ at the „Workshop on Materials Related to Modern China in Indian Archives.‟ Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, 8 February 2013.

Participant

1. ‗Sexual Modernity in Asia: Intimate Transformations‘, Editorial Board Meeting, Asian Families and Intimacy Project, Global Centre of Excellence, Kyoto University, 16-17 June 2012.

2. ‗Life after Death in the Chinese Revolution: The Dialogism of Ritual and Political Discourse in the May Fourth Period‘, International Conference onChina‟s Ongoing Quest for Cultural Modernity into the 21st Century: Lu Xun and his Legacy, Institute of Chinese Studies and the India International Centre, New Delhi, 15 –17 November 2012.

3. ‗A Project-based Approach to Sub-regional Cooperation in the Area of Social Science Research‘, Keynote presentation, the XIth Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation, Dhaka (Bangladesh), 23-24 February 2013.

4. ‗The BCIM Forum: Is it Sustainable?‘, International Seminar on India‟s Look East Policy and the North-Eastern Region: Strengthening the Continental Route, hosted by the ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong, 21-22 March 2013.

Publications

Article ―China Studies in India —3‖,China Report, Vol. 49, No. 2.

Monograph

India’s North East States, the BCIM Forum and Regional Integration,ICS Monograph No. 1,

Delhi: Institute of Chinese Studies, 2012.(with Kishan S. Rana).

Other

Reviving the Southern Silk Road: Overland Odyssey from Kolkata to Kunming: BCIM Car Rally 2013: A Handbook,Institute of Chinese Studies, BCIM Liaison Office and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Delhi, February 2013, pp. 84 (with Alok Ranjan, compiled)

Member, Editorial Board, China Report

Member, Editorial Board,BCIM Newsletter

 Virendra Sahai Verma, Honorary Fellow, ICS

Indian Army (retd); Co-Founder and Vice-President of India-Pakistan Soldiers‟ Initiative for Peace

Seminars/Conferences Participation

1. ―Some Thoughts on Give & Take within Disputed Regions of Aksai Chin and Tawang‖, ICS Wednesday Seminar, Delhi, 5 September 2012.

2. ―Times of Rin-Chen Zangpo and Atisha and their Role in Second Diffusion of Buddhism in Western Tibet‖, the Fifth All India Conference of China Studies at „Cheena Bhawan‟ Visva Bharti University Santiniketan West Bengal on 15-16 December 2012.

3. Delegate at the First India-Nepal-China AcademicTrilateral Meeting organized by the Nepal Institute of International and Strategic Studies (NIISS) Kathmandu Nepal, 30 January 2013.

4. ―Give and Take within Disputed Regions of Askai Chin and Tawang: A Suggested Peaceful Resolution‖, International conference on Asian Diplomacy: India‟s Foreign Policy and Relations, 17- 19 September 2012, Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

5. ―India‘s Tibet Policy‖, Center for Tibetan Studies”, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 21 September 2012

6. ―Peace Building with Neighbors for Economic Progress‖, Panelist and Chair, Model United Nations Conference, CHIREC School Hyderabad, 12-13 July 2012.

7. ―Recent Developments in Karakoram, Shaksgam Valley and Aksai-Chin Region‖, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, 29 September 2012.

Convenor

Round Table on ―Reflections on 1962 India-China Conflict‖ jointlyorganized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (New Delhi) and Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi at Sapru House New Delhi, 7 December 2012. Also presented a paper, ―A Suggested Peaceful Resolution‖.

Publications

Articles

1. ―Sino-Indian Border Problem: A Suggested Peaceful Resolution‖, AAKROSH: Asian Journal on Terrorism and Internal Conflicts (New Delhi) January 2013.

―Dances With Dragons‖, The Hindu, 21 August 2012.

2. ―Pass to Better Relations with China‖, The Hindu, 29 April 2013.

3. ―Land Sweep with China – only in Disputed Pockets‖,An interview in The Times of India (Calcutta) 23 April 2012.

4. ―Building Bridges of Friendship‖, An Interview in China Daily-Asia Weekly (Hong Kong)17-22 May 2013.

Others

―Stand off at Daulat Beg Oldi‖, a TV Discussion on Lok Sabha TV, 29 April 2013.

H. RESEARCH FACULTY ACTIVITIES

 Jabin T Jacob, Assistant Director & Fellow,

 ICS Assistant Editor, China Report

Seminars/Conferences Participation

Panelist

1. ‗India in China‘s Foreign Policy Calculus: Moving on from Reluctant Acknowledgment‘, China‟s 21st Century International Relations: Stability or Turbulence?, University of Delhi,

21 April 2012.

2. ‗Burma and International Stakeholders: The Case of China‘, Democratization in Burma: Challenges and Prospects, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi 18 May 2012.

3. ‗Determinants of China‘s National Security and Foreign Policies‘, 23 Infantry Division, 1 Corps, Indian Army, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 30 August 2012.

4. ‗China‘s Economic Performance in the Hu-Wen Decade: Social Impact and Consequences‘, ICS Wednesday Seminar, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, 12 September 2012

5. ‗Centre-Province Relations in China: Ebbs and Flows‘, CCP and Internal Dynamics of China, Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi, 8 October 2012.

6. ‗Issues and Considerations in Connectivity Projects in the BCIM Region‘, Session II: Strengthening Multi-modal Connectivity, 11th BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar) Regional Cooperation Forum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 24 February 2013.

Discussant

1. „Can China and India Rise Peacefully‟, by Sumit Ganguly, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2 August 2012

2. „China Studies in India: Of Caste, Class and Capital‟, Session 1: China Studies in India: Priorities and Challenges, All India China Scholars Colloquium, Institute of Chinese Studies, India International Centre, New Delhi, 11 August 2012.

Lectures

1. „China‘s Foreign Policy across the 1980s and 1990s‟, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 10 April 2012.

2. „China and India: Rising Powers, Struggling Nations‟, Chaire sur les pays émergents, Centre Montesquieu de recherches politiques (GRECCAP-CMRP), Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux, 17 October 2012.

3. ‗Balance of Power in East Asia‘, M. Phil. Programme, Winter Semester 2013, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 21 March 2013.

Chair

1. „Session Two: Emerging Trends in China Studies: Regional Order & Multilateral Cooperation‟, 5th All India Conference of China Studies, Santiniketan, 15 December.

Publications

Book 1. Co-editor with Maj. Gen. (retd) Dipankar Banerjee, Military Confidence-Building and India-China Relations: Fighting Distrust (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013).

Journal Articles

1. „China in Southeast Asia: The Search for a Chinese Model of International Relations‟, Special Issue: China and Southeast Asia, China Report (New Delhi, India), Vol. 48, No. 3, August 2012, pp. 317-326.

2. „美国 „转向‟ 亚洲: 对印度外交和安全政策的影响‟, (Meiguo „zhuanxiang‟ Yazhou: Dui Yindu waijiao he anquan zhengce de yingxiang, „The US „Pivot‟ to Asia: Impact on Indian Foreign and Security Policies‟), China International Strategy Review 2012, Centre for International Strategic Studies (Peking University, PRC), June 2012, pp. 62-72.

3. „China in Southeast Asia: The Search for a Chinese Model of International Relations‟, Special Issue: China and Southeast Asia, China Report, Vol. 48, No. 3, August 2012, pp. 317-326.

Chapters in Books

4. Co-author with Dipankar Banerjee, ‗Sino-Indian Military CBMs: Efficacy and Influences‘, in Dipankar Banerjee and Jabin T. Jacob, Military Confidence-Building and India-China Relations: Fighting Distrust (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013), pp. 1-11.

5. ‗Bilateral Agreements and Sino-Indian Confidence-Building Measures‘, in Dipankar Banerjee and Jabin T. Jacob, Military Confidence-Building and India-China Relations: Fighting Distrust (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2013), pp. 151-161.