New European Research on Contemporary China Conference Third Edition Beijing, 5-6 July 2016 IMPORTANT NOTICE Please pay attention to security measures at the EU Delegation. Please bring your ID/passport. No electronic devices are allowed to be brought in. Outside attendees must register – send email to [email protected] NEW EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON CONTEMPORARY CHINA CONFERENCE 3rd edition 5th – 6th July 2016 Venue: Delegation of the European Union to China and Mongolia Address: 15 Dongzhimenwai Dajie (South Wing) Qiankun Mansion D, Sanlitun Xi Liu Jie (North Wing), Chaoyang District, Beijing 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 Supported by French Center for Research on Contemporary China Centrum Tübingen China (CEFC) and Sino-French Academic Delegation of the European Union to China Center (CFC, Tsinghua University) Gis Asie – CNRS Heinrich-Böll Foundation Institut français EURAXESS China ThinkIN China Scientific Committee Séverine Arsène (CEFC Hong Kong) Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Government and International Studies) Sébastien Colin (CEFC Hong Kong) Sabine Dabringhaus (University of Freiburg, Southeast Asian Studies at Freiburg) Nicolas Douay (CEFC Hong Kong) Eric Florence (CEFC Hong Kong) Chloé Froissart (CFC Beijing) Hu Yong (Peking University of Hong Kong, School of Journalism and Communication) Jack Qiu (The chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Journalism and Communication) Bu Maoliang (Nanjing University, School of Business) Carine Milcent (CEFC Hong Kong) David O‘Brien (University of Nottingham-Ningbo, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies) Pun Ngai (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Applied Social Sciences) Christoph Steinhardt (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Centre For China Studies) Xie Tao (Beijing Foreign Studies University, American Studies Center, School of English and International Studies) Xiong Yihan (Fudan University, School of International Relations and Public Affairs) Yu Xiaomin (Beijing Normal University, Department of Sociology) Zhao Kejin (Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy) 5th July (Day 1) 8.30 – 9.00 Registration of participants Venue: South Wing 09.00-09.30 Welcome address His Excellency Hans-Dietmar Schweisgut, Ambassador of the European Union to China Eric Florence, Director of the French Center for Research on Contemporary China Venue: Galileo Room (South Wing) 09.30-10.45 Keynote speech “Ethnographic intervention: Global production and workers‟ power” Pun Ngai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Venue: Galileo Room (South Wing) 11:15 - 13:00 (North Wing) (South Wing, Galileo Room) PANEL 1: CHINA AS A REGIONAL AND PANEL 2: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS GLOBAL ACTOR Chair: Xie Tao (Beijing Foreign Studies Chair: Chloé Froissart (The Sino-French University) Research Centre, CFC Beijing) and Christoph Steinhardt (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) So far, so close?: EU-China relations and The pitfall of social mobilisation in the digital network diplomacy - Lucie Qian Xia (University age: Assessing the digital footprints of the of Oxford) „Umbrella Movement‟ in order to understand and learn from their implications – Dominic Lehmann (Institute of Sinology, Munich) Evolution of China's international human Careers of women in prostitution in rights diplomacy: A view through CEDAW contemporary China: Discriminations, and the issue of gender-based violence - mobility and resistance - Marie-Astrid Gillier Bonny Ling (University of Zurich) (ENS, Lyon) A struggle for recognition – the US pivot, Media advocacy through the Chinese assertiveness, and regional order - court.Reflections on the rise of John Åberg (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) homosexuality-related lawsuits in China - Tao Hong (Université Paris 8) 14.00-16.00 (North Wing) (South Wing, Galileo Room) PANEL 3: CHINA AS A REGIONAL AND PANEL 4: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS GLOBAL ACTOR Chair: Zhao Kejin (Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Chairs: Séverine Arsène (CEFC Hong Kong) and Global Policy) Jack Qiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) A critical theory analytical framework to Integration or separation: On the double- understand China's rise - Alejandra Peña mimicry of Chinese internet discourse - Yanning (University of the Andes) Huang (London School of Economics) China and the changing Arctic: interests and Online mass incidents and the individualisation actors - Martin Kossa (City University of Hong of Chinese society - Li Mengying (King‘s College, Kong) London) Chinese development assistance in Timor-Leste Jump scale in China‟s feminist activism: A - Cristian Talesco (Hong Kong Polytechnic study based on accounts of feminists in Sina University) Weibo -Yewei Hu (Sciences Po, Paris) Chair: Matthias Niedenführ (Universität Tübingen, Asien-Orient-Institut, Abteilung für The role of the media in increasing Sinologie und Koreanistik) accountability in China – a case study in the health sector - Yi Zhang (University of Groningen) 16:30-18:30 (North Wing) (South Wing, Galileo Room) PANEL 6: URBANIZATION AND URBAN PANEL 5: COMMUNITIES, INSTITUTIONS AND PLANNING THE SELF IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA Chair: Judith Audin (EHESS, Paris) Chair: Yu Xiaomin (Beijing Normal University) Debatable „Chineseness‟ in reconstructing A multiplicity of logics: Spatial planning of the Dao of Confucian classical education in towns in rural Sichuan - Lisa Melcher (Free contemporary China - Canglong Wang University of Berlin) (University of Edinburgh) Koranic women's schools in China‟s little A comparative study of the impact of two Mecca: Women, sharia and the state in state-led urbanisation strategies on the China's Northwest - Francesca Rosati (Leiden livelihoods of surplus rural labourers: Case University / EHESS) studies from Tianjin and Zhejiang - Sun Jiabao (King‘s College, London) “Floating identity”? Feelings of belonging in The Master Plan: a planning tool to design contemporary Sinophone literature in environmental cities in China. Case study in Thailand - Rebecca Ehrenwirth (Ludwig- Xiamen, Fujian Province - Lucie Morand Maximilians Universität, Munich) (Université Paris-Est) Urbanization strategies in Chongqing: A view from below on new style urbanization - Florian Thünken (University of Wuerzburg) th 6 July (Day 2) 09.00-11.00 (South Wing, Galileo Room) (South Wing, Prodi Room) PANEL 7: THE CHINESE ECONOMY PANEL 8: TERRITORIAL AND SOCIAL RECONFIGURATIONS Chair: Bu Maoliang (Nanjing University School Chair: Guo Weihe (School of Sociology, China of Business) University of Political Science and Law) Corporate tax aggressiveness, corporate Metropolitan agriculture as a model of governance and firm value: Evidences from development in Shanghai countryside: What China - Tingting Ying (Ningbo University of does it reveal of contemporary agricultural Technology) dynamics in China? - Etienne Monin (Université Paris 8) Economic complexity and location of foreign firm in Urban development, ethnicity, and daily life: China - Thomas Pernet (Fudan University) Making sense of Wangjing and Korean community - Xiao Ma (Leiden University) Comparing outward direct investment The transformations of social and residential destinations of Chinese SOEs and POEs: A habits of Chinese families in Thames Town firm-level analysis - Matthew Stephenson Shanghai - Martin Minost (EHESS, Paris) (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) 11:30-13:00 (South Wing, Galileo Room) (South Wing, Prodi Room) PANEL 9: THE CHINESE ECONOMY PANEL 10: INTELLECTUAL DEBATES AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION Chair: Bu Maoliang (Nanjing University Chair: Jeroen Groenewegen (China Policy, School of Business) Beijing) Voluntary labour turnover of blue collar The relationship between art and power in workers in China - Marina Schmitz (University People‟s Republic of China (1976 – 1989): Study of Goettingen, Germany) of the journal Fine Arts - Armelle Chandelier (INALCO, Paris) Effect of minimum wage regulation on The technical production of the unofficial income distribution in China: An institutional publication in Beijing (1978-1981) - Linxi Li perspective - Ran Cheng (Freie Universität (King‘s College, London) Berlin, Germany) Chinese agrarian capitalism in the Russian Pirate music, transnational waste and far East - Zhou Jiayi (Stockholm International environmental justice: Retelling the story of Peace Research Institute) China's Dakou Generation - Liu Chang (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Acting out the sensible – socially engaged art questioning urbanisation - Deng Liwen (University of Amsterdam) 14.00-16.00 (South Wing, Galileo Room) (South Wing, Prodi Room) (South Wing, Prodi Room) PANEL 11: POLITICO-LEGAL INSTITUTIONAL PANEL 12: INTELLECTUAL DEBATES AND PANEL 12: COMMUNITIES, INSTITUTIONS AND BUILDING CULTURAL PRODUCTION THE SELF IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA Chair: David Kelly (Research director at China Chair: Matthias Niedenführ (Universität Chair: Matthias Niedenführ (Universität Policy, Beijing) Tübingen, Asien-Orient-Institut, Abteilung für Tübingen, Asien-Orient-Institut, Abteilung für Sinologie und Koreanistik) Sinologie und Koreanistik) A study in manufactured reconciliation: The Globalizing contemporary Chinese theoretical Debatable „Chineseness‟ in reconstructing the