China Postgraduate Network Relaunch Workshop

In association with 

British Association of Chinese Studies

supported by

British Inter-University China Centre

White Rose East Asia Centre

15 - 16 March 2008

Chinese Studies Institute, Clarendon Building, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG

Saturday 15 March   

11.00 – 12.30          

Art History   

Racheal Campbell, Exploring Political Motivations in the Creation of Yungtang Statuary

Chih-Yun Chang

Fei Deng, Communicating with Spirits: A Study of Filial Piety Scenes in the Northern Song Tombs (960-1127)

Ying-Ling (Michelle) Huang, The Reception of Chinese Painting in early 20th Century Britain with Special Reference to Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Yu-jen Liu                 

 

International Relations

Linsay Cunningham, Transnational "Chineseness" - a Threat to the Empire

Nicola Horsburgh, Chinese nuclear bargains: nuclear policy since the 1990s

Ayako Iizumi, An analysis of the role of history in China-Japan relationships in the post Cold War period

Max Lin, What is the influence of normative power in EU-China relations

Astrid Nordin

 

 

13.30 – 15.30          

Philosophy/Religion                      

Jane Caple, Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in contemporary China: opportunities and challenges facing monasteries in Qinghai and Gansu

William Giddings, The Use and Occurrence of the Term Benwu in the Daoxing Banroujing (T224)

Ivan Hon

Kam Wah George Mak, Anonymous Heroes of Chinese Protestant Bible Distribution: The Chinese Colporteurs of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the 19th Century China

Antony Ou, Modern Confucianism on Just War Theory: A Skinnerian Analysis

Tianna Wang, The links between Confucian Businessmen and Confucianism

Yiyao Wu, Collective Self-Cognition and Christianity in China: a Comparative Perspective

 

Modern History

Jocelyn Chatterton, Co-operation or Collaboration? Protestant Medical Missionaries in China During the War 1937-1945

Jon Howlett, The Chinese Maritime Customs, the late Guomindang State and the Chinese Civil War

Isabella Jackson, Chinese Representations of the Foreigners in Treaty Port Shanghai, Yesterday and Today

Li Wang, Local Initiatives or Global Influences? Historical Review of Higher Education in P.R.China

Wei Wang

 

15.45 – 17.45          

Culture

Chien Li-Kuei, From Li Qun's Woodcut to Left Wing Identity in 1930s China

Yu Ping Luk

Felicitas Von Droste Zuhuelshoff

Amanda Weiss, Shoulder-pole, girl: Migrant Workers in the Hostile City of Chinese Cinema (1997-2007)

Zhiguang Yin, "Literature is propaganda": a study of Upton Sinclair's Image in the Revolutionary literature Debate (1925-30)                              

 

Business/IPE

Jing Bian

Siquan Dai, The impact of Globalization on China

Genia Kostka

Walter Wan Fai Lee, China in Contemporary International Political Economy: Economic Liberalism and Political Marxism?

Nicholas McIlroy

Wei Shen, "Sea Turtles" and Global City Chinese Returnees in Shanghai

 

Sunday 16 March

10.30 – 12.00          

Pre-Modern History

Songchuan Chen

Mark Strange, Factionalism and the Formation of Eleventh-century Military Policy

Daniel Trambaiolo, Re-imagining Embryonic Development in Song Dynasty China                

 

Politics

Du Huizhen

Jia Huang, Conceiving the Nation: Rural Public Health Construction in Maoist China, 1950-1970

Han-Teng Liao, Chinese Wikipedia

Sow Keat Tok, Constructing Political Chinese-ness in Hong Kong

Zhaofeng Zhou, The Impact of the World Trade Organisation on the Formulation of the Antimonopoly Law 2007

 

12.15 – 13.45          

Language                             

Guozhi Cai, Developing Creative or Playful Elements in English Language Teaching in Chinese Universities

Esuna Dugarova, Binding Relationships in the English-Chinese Interlanguage

Maria Leedham, Searching corpora of Chinese and British writers for lexicalised language

Hongyan Zhang, AIDS/HIV in China: Discursive Identity Construction of The First Chinese HIV College Girl

 

Sociology

Paul Higgins, The background, objectives and experiences of overseas Chinese learners in a British higher education context

Yuqin Huang, Labour migration, family planning, gender and marriage: the case in Shayang, a mid Chinese county 

Liu Ye, An unavoidable Path: Social Equity and Access to Higher Education in an Era of Chinese Transformations

Dusica Ristivojevic, Chinese and Western Women in the Campaigns for Promoting Nuxue, Jiezu/Tianzu/Fanzu and Funu canzheng (1898-1913)

Albert Tzeng, Negotiating "Western" Sociology in Chinese Societies: Cases of Taiwan, Hong Kon, and Singapore

Yang Jing

 

14.30 – 16.00          

Anthropology

Charlotte Bruckermann

Iside Carbone, Materialising China: ‘Things Chinese’ in the Emergence of Images of China in Italy

Chris Courtney, Guanxi networks and migration

Michael Griffiths, Re-enacting the "Primitive" Rural: The "Romantic" Reappraisal of Chinese Consumer Values

Hans Steinmuller, Changing Work Ethics in Rural China

Liyun Yao, Transnational Policy Influence and the Subjectivity of Overseas Talents: A Case Study on Highly Skilled New Chinese Migrants in the UK                             

 

Economics

Charles I-Hsin Chen

Chen Nie, Dilemmas in China Labor Marlket: Graduate faces unemploynet and Shortage of Peasant Workers

Chen Yu, Exploring the reasons for labour market discrimination against migrants: A case study in Shanghai's manufacturing sector

Atsuko Hatano, SMEs Development and Their Financial Constraints in China

Hong Yu, Spatial Income Inequality within Guangdong and Its Geographical Cause