Global China: The China Postgraduate Network Annual Conference
2nd – 3rd July 2015, University of Bristol
Keynote Speakers: Professor Ishikawa Yoshihiro and Xue Xinran
China has never existed in isolation. Its politics, economy, culture and society have
always been influenced by external forces. Similarly China itself has had, and continues
to have a political, economic and cultural impact on the world beyond its borders. The
China Postgraduate Network’s annual conference seeks to explore the global
engagements of China and the Chinese from a multi-disciplinary perspective covering
all disciplines in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. To register for the conference
please complete the registration form attached to this programme and return it to
Chinapostgraduatenetwork@gmail.com. Please note there is no registration fee for the
conference but there is a £30 charge for any delegate wishing to attend the conference
dinner. The deadline for registration to attend is Friday 19th June 2015.
Conference Programme
Thursday 2nd July
10AM:
Registration
10.30AM
Introduction from the CPN
10.40AM: Professor Ishikawa Yoshihiro: The Early Global Reception of Images of Mao
11.50AM: Coffee Break
12.10PM:
Panel 1: Media and New Culture
Panel 2: Gendered Experiences
1) The Internet and Popular
Literature in China – Serafina
Aquilino, School of Oriental and
African Studies
1) Our Country’s Future Leaders:
Yongjiang, the YWCA and Female
Missionary Education in Zhejiang,
1923-1949 - Jenny Bond, SOAS
2) Investigating BBC and FT’s
Online News Portals’ Operations
in China Through Comparison
2) Left Over Women - Chang Liu,
Kings College London
between their Chinese and
English Online News Portals –
Shuman Wang, University of
Edinburgh
1.10PM:
Lunch
2PM:
Panel 3: Chinese Educated Abroad
1) The Scottish Enlightenment: A
Re-examination of Yuen
Chang-ying’s Experiences at
Edinburgh, 1918-1921 – Hiu
man Keung, University of
Edinburgh
2) Post-nationalisation of the
Chinese Education for Ethnic
Chinese in the Philippines: A
Realistic Cosmopolitanism and
its Paradoxes – Ker-wei Chien,
University of Essex
3.30PM:
Coffee Break
3.40PM:
Panel 5: The Body and Sexuality
Panel 4: International Cooperation/Conflict
1) The Rise of China in International
Relations – Daniel Rocha E Silva,
University of Warwick
2) The Application of China’s Cultural
Diplomacy at the Beijing APEC CEO
Summit – Can Chinese Culture be
Used to Promote Economic
Cooperation? – Liang Xu, Lancaster
University
3) China and Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SCO) – Changing
Interests – Merim Baitimbetova,
University of Birmingham
Panel 6: Contemporary Politics
1) The Body in a Bowl: Blood
Selling in Modern Chinese
Literature – Annabella Massey,
Wadham College Oxford
1) Bureaucrats, Local Leaders and
Social Policy Innovation in China: a
Policy Process Perspective – Diwen
Xiao, University of Glasgow
2) A Visual Grammar of the Ethnic
Body: The Case of the Yunnan
Albums – Jing Zhu, University of
Edinburgh
2) Political Correctness in ChinaJapan Relations – Chen Shi,
University of Durham
3) Sex in the Cloister: CrossCultural Perspectives on Late
Imperial Chinese Anti-Clerical
Literature – Junqing Wu,
University of Exeter
4) Fashioning the Curvaceous
Beauty: Breast as a Symbol of
3) The Economic Rise of China as
Rule-Taker, Rule-Maker or RuleBreaker? – Wang Zhaohui,
University of Warwick
4) New Minds, New Actions: The
Pragmatic Approaches in Sino-EU
Relations – Jing Jing, University of
Edinburgh
Class and Space in Republican
Pictorals – Lin Jiao, SOAS
5.40pm:
Wine Reception
7.30PM:
Conference Dinner
Friday 3rd July
9AM:
Arrival
9.15AM:
Panel 7: Education and Nationalism
1) What Should We Call It, Chinese Dream or China Dream? – Jing Cheng,
University of Nottingham
2) Missionary Unions and the YMCA: Rethinking Empire and Transnationalism Sabrina Fairchild, University of Bristol
3) Modern Chinese Education and the Formation of Chinese Characteristics –
Yiyun Ding, University of York
10.45AM: Coffee Break
11AM:
Xue Xinran: One Drop of Water in the Ocean of China
12.20PM:
Lunch Break
1PM:
Panel 9: Dissidents
1) The Politics of Naming Dissident
Violence in China: From
‘Counter-Revolution’ to
Terrorism – Pablo A. RodriguezMerino, University of Warwick
2) The International Connections of
China’s Urban Protestants – Phil
Entwistle, University of Oxford
3) Xinjiang’s Anti-Extremist
Policies: Ramifications for
Uyghur Cultural Identity and its
Compatibility with International
Human Rights Law – Ross
Holder, Trinity College Dublin
Panel 10: Migration and Mobility
1) Internal Migration in China –
Asura Yang, University of
Birmingham
2) ‘Various Adventurers of All
Nations’: Foreign Mercenaries in
the Taiping Civil War – Jon
Chappell, University of Bristol
3) Hyphenated-Chinese in China’s
Western-born Second Generation
Overseas Chinese’s Ethnic Return
Migration to China – Nathalie
Mingboupha, University of
Sheffield
2.30PM:
Coffee Break
2.40PM:
Panel 11: Media Management
1) Crisis Management Through Social Media by Firms in China – Gabriella
Kereszturi, Regents University, London
2) Chinese Soft Power in Different Localities: Television and Governmentality –
Arjen Nauta, University of Amsterdam
3.40PM:
Closing remarks
4PM:
Close
Global China: The China Postgraduate Network Annual Conference
2nd – 3rd July 2015, University of Bristol
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