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Program

This conference aims to bring together doctoral candidates, post-doctoral researchers and recent PhDs based in China, either European nationals or affiliated with European research institutions, in order to produce an overview of the emerging problematics in Chinese studies. The focus of the conference is on contemporary China, in a multi-disciplinary social science perspective.

Organizers French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and Sino-French Academic Center (CFC, ) EURAXESS Links China

Supported by Delegation of the European Union to China European Center for China Studies (ECCS), Heinrich-Böll Foundation Max Weber Foundation Think in China

Scientific Committee Séverine Arsène (CEFC Hong Kong) Hubert Bazin (DS Avocats) Maoliang Bu (Hopkins-Nanjing Center) Jean-Philippe Béja (CEFC Beijing/Hong Kong) Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Baptist University, Hong Kong) Sabine Dabringhaus (University of Freiburg) Sylvie Démurger (CNRS-GATE, Lyon) Mathieu Duchâtel (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Beijing) Chloé Froissart (CEFC Hong Kong) Bettina Gransow (Freie Universität Berlin) Aurore Merle (CEFC, Hong Kong; Tsinghua University, Beijing) Matthias Niedenführ (Tübingen University, Germany) David O’Brien (University of Nottingham-Ningbo) David Palmer (The University of Hong Kong) Monika Prusinowska (China-EU School of Law, Beijing) Eva Pils (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Christoph Steinhardt (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Sebastian Veg (CEFC, Hong Kong) Hui Xu (Beijing Normal University) Benoît Vermander (Fudan University, Shanghai) Argument The reforms launched in the late 1970s have deeply transformed Chinese society, but also research on China: the theoretical and methodological challenges raised by reform-era China have opened up a vast laboratory for researchers in humanities and social sciences. Along with the growing exchanges between China and Europe, the number of European doctoral candidates and recent PhDs in humanities and social sciences doing research in and studying China has increased; many young Chinese scholars also choose to bring their expertise on contemporary China to European academic institutions. They all represent the future of European research on contemporary China. The main purpose of this Conference held for the second time in Beijing is to provide a forum for these young researchers at the European level and in China. The success of the first edition held in 2012 which gathered 50 young researchers from 15 countries (selected among 130 applicants) confirmed the necessity to provide such a forum for reflection and discussion. The Conference will be an occasion to facilitate exchanges on common research subjects, compare perspectives and methodologies, and promote interdisciplinary dialogue. By providing a space for debate and reflection, the Conference intends to contribute to the emergence of more diverse theoretical approaches on the subject. It will enable the participants not only to expand their network and broaden their horizon, but also to take part in the construction of European research networks and promote China-Europe dialogue. The participants will present their research during thematic panels. Each speaker will deliver a paper in English (15 minutes), followed by a discussion with invited scholars and specialists.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

ALL AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE. PLEASE CONTACT Nathanel Amar AT [email protected] PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE SECURITY RULES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION INDICATED AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM.

2 July 2014

Venue: The Bridge Cafe No 8, Building 12, Huaqing Jiayuan, Wudaokou, Chengfu lu, 海淀区成府路五道口华清嘉园 12 号楼 8 号桥咖啡

OPENING 19:00-22:00 “The Chinese Characteristics of the World Factory” by Pr. GUO Yuhua (Tsinghua University) 郭于华教授（清华大学）：《世界工厂的中国特色》 The Keynote Speech will be followed by a buffet (only for the Conference participants)

3 July 2014

Venue: European Delegation in Beijing 15, Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District, Beijing. 北京朝阳区东直门外大街 15 号欧洲联盟驻华代表团

8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION 9:00- Galileo Room Prodi Room 11:00 ALTERNATIVE SPACES IN URBAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CHINA

Chairs : Bettina Gransow (Freie Chair: Mathieu Duchâtel (Stockholm Universität Berlin) International Peace Research Institute, Beijing) Aurore Merle (CEFC, Hong Kong; Matthias Niedenführ (Tübingen University, Tsinghua University, Beijing) Germany) Individuation, negotiations addressing A dispute ‘deeply rooted’ in the present: power and recognition. Careers of instrumental depictions of the status quo young Chinese in a "youth space" (青 and history in the Sino–Japanese 年空间) legitimisation battle over the Senkaku Marie BELLOT (Lyon 2 University, Islands. France) Anna COSTA (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Framing an alternative space in the PRC: The experience of Chinese punk Regional Power Configuration as the Nathanel AMAR (Sciences Po Paris, Principal Obstacle to the Sino-Russian France) Strategic Partnership in the 21st Century Konstantinas ANDRIJAUSKAS (Vilnius Chinese rock as a cultural production University, Lithuania) in China's Entertainment Culture LIU Chang (The University of Würzburg, China’s position on DPRK proliferation Germany) issue in the UN SC (2006-2013) Mher SAHAKYAN (Nanjing University, China; Armenia) Global Liminal and Meta-urban Identifying with sinicized Human Rights? Spaces in Asian Cities: ‘performative’ EU-China Human Rights Diplomacy as a experiences of urban spaces in the process of symmetrical socialization guerrilla theatre from Shenzhen Thomas STIEGLER (University of Hong Kong, Mary MAZZILLI (Nanyang Technological Hong Kong) University Singapore) The media role of China's foreign policy Bishan Commune: Unfolding Utopian think tanks Imaginaries Pascal ABB (GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Mai Corlin BAGGER-PETERSEN Germany) (Aarhus University, Denmark) Exercising soft power in the living room: television drama in CCTV’s foreign language channels Daniel MADRID MORALES (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) COFFEE BREAK 11:00 – 11:30 11:30- CHANGING NORMATIVE TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS 13:00 CONCEPTIONS IN RURAL CHINA

Chair: David O’Brien Chair : Sabine Dabringhaus (University of Nottingham-Ningbo) (University of Freiburg) ”We follow reason, not the law”: Transnational relationships: Chinese disavowing the law in rural China Students’ Social Networks while studying Andrea PIA (London School of Economics, in France UK) Julia CARNINE (University of Toulouse Mirail II, France) Stability Maintenance Tactic: The Response to Ethnic Yi Temporary Chinese Immigration to France: A Workers’ Collective Actions from Comparative Approach of Contemporary Chinese Grass-root Government Migration Routes of Migrants from MA Xinrong (Leiden University, The Zhejiang Province and Dongbei Region Netherlands) Justine ROMOLACCI VELAY (Aix-Marseille University, France) Understanding “rule of law” in contemporary Xinjiang. Land Analysis of a South-South international acquisition dynamics and legality in migration: Chinese newcomers in Han and Uyghurs' contexts Antananarivo and Dakar Alessandra CAPPELLETTI (Minzu Julien RAJAOSON (Sciences-Po Grenoble, University, China; University of Naples France) “L’Orientale”, Italy)

What (Homo)Sexuality Says about China. Elements from a Study on the Erotic Trajectories of Labor Migrants Lucas MONTEIL (Paris 8 University, France) LUNCH 13:00- 14:30

14:30- PUBLIC POLICY AND THE GRASSROOTS POLITICS 17:30 ENVIRONMENT Chairs: Jean-Philippe Béja (CEFC, Beijing) Chair : BU Maoliang Chloé Froissart (CEFC, Hong Kong) （Hopkins-Nanjing Center） The Dirty Job E-waste Management in The Robustness of Adaptive Governance: a Chinese Community Exploring Grassroots Politics in Shenzhen Carlo FERRI (University of Oxford, UK) and Shenyang and TAO Dongyan (College of Urban Edmund CHENG (London School of and Environmental Sciences, Peking Economics, UK; University of Science and University) Technology of China, China)

Pluralized Community? The Competing for high-tech trash bureaucratization of social work agencies Yvan SCHULZ (University of Neuchâtel, in China’s urban communities Switzerland; Sun Yat-sen University, Samson YUEN (Oxford University, UK) China)

Political Efficacy and Local Participation in The Marketization of Climate Policies Urban China in China: old wine in new Ceren ERGENC (Middle East Technical bottles? Lessons from the local pilot University, Turkey) emissions markets

Coraline GORON (Université libre de Authoritarian Vocation: Professionalization Bruxelles, Belgium; University of Warwick, of Student Cadres in Tsinghua and Peking UK) University

Jérôme DOYON (Sciences Po Paris, France; Public policy as driver of green Columbia University, USA) innovation – The case of electric vehicles in China Teaching History in PRC: A well Peter Thomas IN DER HEIDEN disciplined practice ‐ (University of Duisburg Essen, Yves RUSSELL (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Germany) Sciences Sociales, France)

The effect of groundwater use Bringing new perspectives on political restrictions on farmers’ crop choice: processes in China: an ethnographic Evidence from an inland river basin in approach of government in Beijing's urban North West China neighborhoods Eefje AARNOUDSE (Leibniz Institute of Judith AUDIN (Sciences Po Paris, France) in Agricultural Development in Transition absentia Economies, Germany) DINNER 19:00-21:30 Serve The People Thai Restaurant, 1 Xiwujie , Chaoyang District 为人民服务，朝阳区三里屯西五街 1 号

4 July 2014

8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION 9:00- Galileo Room Prodi Room 10:45 LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL THE CHINESE ECONOMY (1): REFORMS GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITIES

Chair : Monika Prusinowska (China-EU Chair: XU Hui School of Law, China) (Beijing Normal University, China) Hubert Bazin (DS Avocats) Implementation of International Norms Foreign direct investment, fiscal as a Learning Process – A case study of decentralization and land conflicts in Fair trade, subsidies and countervailing China duty in China WU Yan (Wageningen University, The ZHAO Yujia (University of Nottingham – Netherlands) Ningbo Campus, China) Globalisation and Inter-industry Wage Selective Transparency: (Re)defining Inequality in China the Right of Access to Information by WANG Feicheng (University of Nottingham – Chinese Courts Ningbo Campus, China) Clement Yongxi CHEN (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Microcredit and women’s empowerment in rural and suburban China: An Fighting Corruption in Chinese endogenization of a globalized discourse? Context: Criminal Procedure Gwendoline DEBETHUNE (Ecole des Hautes Guarantees and Conviction Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Institut Effectiveness National des Etudes Démographiques, France) Larisa SMIRNOVA (Xiamen University, China; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moralizing the market economy? Russia) Experiences and practices of workers in wholly foreign owned enterprises involved in social issues, Yunnan province, China Aurélia DESPLAIN (University of Bordeaux, France)

COFFEE BREAK 10:45- 11:15 11:15- 12:30 RELIGION THE CHINESE ECONOMY (2): MONETARY POLICY Chair : Benoît Vermander (Fudan University, China) Chair: XU Hui (Beijing Normal University, China) Recent evolutions of Chinese Christian Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragon: churches: The emergence of a distinct Central Bank Communication and the Chinese Protestantism Transparency of Chinese Monetary Policy Michel CHAMBON (Boston University, KE Xing (Frankfurt School of Finance and USA) Management, Germany)

Doing Protestant Christianity in China. The Political Economy of China’s Challenges to the study of lived Exchange Rate Policy Making religion from case studies of Protestant WANG Zhaohui (University of Warwick, UK) funeral services in Xiamen Bram COLIJN (Vrije University, The Netherlands) LUNCH 12:30-14:00

Galileo Room 14:00-17:00

CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISM

Chairs: Séverine Arsène (CEFC, Hong Kong) Christoph Steinhardt (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

A Chinese History of Modern Political Ideas: A study of Jin Guantao and Liu Qingfeng’s Guannianshi yanjiu. David BARTEL (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)

The Hong Kong and Mainland China News Media Nexus Lilli Hoi Ting LI (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Whose activism, what cause? Patients’ advocacy, state and global aid in the context of contemporary China Giulia ZOCCATELLI (University of London, UK)

Public Welfare Actions: Charity 2.0 in China Olivier RUELLE (Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Chinese e-participation: a real option for public participation on environmental protection? Mireia PAULO NOGUERA (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany ; Fudan University, China)

Citizen mobilization on China’s air quality issue: internet, journalists and political decision making Nolwenn SALMON (INALCO, France)

CONCLUDING REMARKS 17:00-18:00