British Association for Chinese Studies
Annual Conference
8-9 September 2010
University of Bristol
The conference venue is the University of Bristol Arts Complex, 11 Woodland Road. Access is via the main entrance way at 3-5 Woodland Road.
Panels will be divided into 5 strands: Chinese Culture, Society and Culture, Educational and Urban Issues, Social and Environmental Issues, Politics and IR. Panels for each strand will remain in the same room.
Wednesday 8th September
10-10.30 Registration (tea and coffee)
10.30 – 12.30 Panel Session
Chinese Art & Culture (Room G37)
Contemporary Culture
Daria Berg, The quest for a new urban identity in postsocialist Chinese culture
Christos Lynteris, "In memory of Norman Bethune": political uses of medical heroics in 1960s medicine and public health
Minna Valjakka, Visual dialogue with the Maoist past
Wang Ruobing, Xu Bing's cross-cultural fertilisation: from art to ecology, from Ziran to environmentalism
History & Society (Room LR2)
Late Imperial Chinese Culture
Joan Yin Cheung, The Record of the Marvellous in the Song Dynasty and Lay Religion
Shubing Jia, The dissemination of western music in high Qing China: discovering history in the cultural and diplomatic relations between China & the West 1662-1795
David Pattinson, Social networks as symbolic capital
Hsiao-Wen Wang, History in the writing of historical Ci in the late Qing dynasty
Educational & Urban Issues (Room LT2)
Contemporary Education
Jackie Sheehan & Darryn Mitussis, Learning about China: study tours, Sinology and the mainstreaming of Chinese Studies
S Thomas, Educational quality in China: concepts & evidence
Li Wang, Capabilities, exclusion and education: inequality in higher education enrolment policy in China
Wang Gang, A content analysis of school mottoes of universities in China: a case study of 23 universities in Liaoning province northeast China
Politics and IR (Room LR1)
China's soft power
The Future of China's "Soft Power"
Anna Gordievska, Economic potential as main source of China's soft power
Sojin Lim, Chinese aid policy and policy in Africa: issues to address in Tanzania
Tom Rafferty, China in Africa: a challenge to the international development regime?
Vicky Tuke,
12.30-1.45 Lunch – buffet
1.45-3.00 Plenary session: Professor Niu Dayong, “A Reassessment of the PRC's Foreign Policy from 1949 to 1989” (Room LT2)
3.00-3.30 Tea and coffee
3.30-5.00- Panel Session
Chinese Art & Culture (Room G37)
Personal Ornaments, Daily Use Sets and Ritual Meanings in the Han and pre-Han Dynasty
Elizabeth Beesley, Han and Pre-Han Lacquer Objects
Chan Lai-pik, The development of pendants
Sherri Lullo, The cultural biography of toilet sets
History & Society (Room LR2)
Tianjin and the foreign presence
Songchuan Chen, Society-Generated Nationalism: The Laoxikai Incident and the Anti-French Campaign in Tianjin, 1916-1917
Cord Eberspaecher, Decolonising Germany in China: the return of German concession in Tianjin 1917-1921
Aglaia Di Angeli,, Tianjin Sales of Land by Auction: Italian Colonialism in early twentieth century China
Society and Culture (Room LT2)
Xinjiang and the Uyghurs
Ablimit Baki, Language contact between Uyghur & Putonghua in Xinjiang, PRC
David Tobin, Competing nationalisms along the silk road: ethnic unity and ethnic violence in China's North-West frontier
Mamtimyn Sunuodula, Foreign Language Education for the Uyghurs: Opportunity or Challenge?
Politics and IR (Room LR1)
Business and politics
Nerisa Chan, The role of business associations in the transformation of China
Charles Chen, Market-Driven Privatisation in the Chinese State Sector after the mid 1990s
Keming Yang, From Wealth to Power? The implication of the growth of private entrepreneurs for China's political development
5.00 – 6.00 BACS Annual General Meeting (LT2)
6.30-7.00 Book Launch: Professor Frank Dikotter, Mao’s Great Famine: A History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe (Bloomsbury, 2010)
7.00-7.45 Drinks reception (sponsored by the University of Bristol)
8.00 Conference Meal – Zen
Thursday 9th September
9-11.00 – Panel Session
Chinese Art & Culture (G37)
Chinese Art
Anne Gerritsen, Porcelain in European accounts of Qing China, 1650-1800
Sarah Ng, Rethinking the canon: reproduction of calligraphic rubbings in Ming China
Minna Torma, Garden as a Refuge: Osvald Sirén’s reminiscences and appropriations of Chinese garden art
Marianne Wong, Han tomb memorials in an archaeological perspective
Society and Culture (LR2)
Ethnic identities
Jane Caple, Beyond the state: Tibetan Buddhist monastic development in contemporary Qinghai
Marie Laureillard, The reflection of the history of Taiwan in the local fine arts
Ping Lin, Being strangers at home: mainlander Taiwanese in China
Deborah Soothill, Chi ku as migrant strategy: ethnographic reflections of the Chinese in Madrid
Educational and Urban Issues (LT2)
Shanghai and the Foreign Presence
Duncan Harte, cine-mapping the city: a journey around the Shanghai urban planning exhibition hall
Chihyun Chang, Rounded education, specialist training or cadre cultivation? The customs college of the Chinese maritime customs 1908-1949
Jon Howlett, Creating a New Shanghai: the end of the British Presence (1949-1954)
Social and Environmental Issues (G50)
Health issues
Fang Su, How health status reflects regional inequality in China 1990-2005: a human capital view
Sabrina Luk, Healthcare insurance reform in Shanghai: using the lens of historical institutionalism
Stephen Morgan, Growing fat on reform: China's emerging obesity epidemic
Kristina Tiedtke, Crazy about study: a pilot investigation of the perception of mental health among Chinese university students
Politics and IR (LR1)
Political Philosophy, 1
Wang Peng, The Poverty of Tianxia-ism
Xuan Jin, Chinese political reform in the game of politics: from the 3rd Plenum of the 11th Central Committee to the spring1989
Jian Zhang, From Rule of Man to Rule of Law: Searching the Middle Way
Mimi Zou, Rethinking human rights in China: towards a receptor approach
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45 Plenary session: Professor Jonathan Spence, “Hunting the Narrative: China's history from the late Ming to the Present” (LT2)
12.45-1.45 Lunch – buffet
1.45-3.45 – Panel Session
Chinese Art & Culture (G37)
Contemporary Literature
Mary Mazzilli, The transnational spirit of Gao Xingjian's cold theatre: a philosophical approach to some of Gao Xingjian's plays
Ralph Parfect, Identity, violence & freedom: Guo Xiaolu's fiction & the transcultural
Yaoyao Zhu, Poverty narration in Chinese New Realism fiction
Haili Heaton, Urban Opera and Market Reform
Society and Culture (LR2)
Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Network (WAGnet) Panel: Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Studies
Alessandra Aresu and Marianne Hester, Gender, violence and young women in China - experiences, perceptions and prevention
Roberta Zavoretti, The most romantic of love stories: Negotiating the meaning of ‘success’ through arranged marriage in post-Mao China
Zhang Nana, Negotiating identities: women in rural-urban migration in contemporary China
Jian Zhu, The Gender Gap of Final Year Undergraduates’ Salary Expectations: A Perspective of Gender Role Socialization
Social and Environmental Issues (G50)
The Environment
Reut Barak, Transboundary River Basin pollution in China: Can it be controlled?
Andrea Janku, On the historical significance of the Guangxu Famine (1877-8): a view from Shaanxi
Janet Liao, Rights vs responsibilities: China's dealing with climate change
Bao-shan Zhang, Pollutant emissions, energy consumption & economic development in China: evidence from dynamic panel data
Politics and IR (LR1)
Sino-foreign Relations
Daniel Hammond, Looking for Linkages: tying domestic policy outcomes in the PRC to external events
Elzbieta Pron, The role of the PRC in the global "war on terror" and its implications for the image of China at the international forum
Qianlan Wu, Stepping into the legal world: China's bilateral free trade agreements & its tackling of globalisation
3.45 – 4.00 Tea and Coffee
4.00-5.30 Panel Session
Chinese Art & Culture (G37)
Methodologies in the Historiography of Chinese Theatre
Alison Hardie, Political Interpretations of Ruan Dacheng’s Dramas
Regina Llamas, On Ritual Theater: a Reassessment of Sources
Tian Yuan Tan, Reconsidering the Boundaries of “Elite Theatre” and “Court Theatre” in the Historiography of Chinese Drama
History & Society (LR2)
Urban Modernities
Peter Carroll, The Place of Prostitution in Early Twentieth-century Suzhou
Christian Hess, Gateway to Manchuria: The Port City of Dalian under Japanese, Russian and Chinese Control, 1898-1950
Toby Lincoln, Fleeing from Firestorms: Cities, Native Place Associations and Refugees in the Second Sino-Japanese War
Social and Environmental Issues (G50)
The Labour Market
Huifen Cai, Nonlinear characteristics of Philips Curve: the international evidence from panel data
Antony Fielding, Migration, work & culture: the links between the labour market characteristics of the 81 cities/counties in Heilongjiang Province & the origin-specific patterns of their in-migration flows
Huang He, China's Hukou System: a new perspective
Politics and IR (LR1)
Political Philosopy, 2
Georg Ebertshaeuser, Deception in Chinese Warfare - some considerations about Sunzi: The Art of War
John Feng, Kang Youwei and His Riben Shumuzhi: The Intellectual Origin of Political Science in China
Justin Mok, Rethinking the political culture & idea of democracy in China