April 20 (Zhifuxuan Classroom)
8:15am-8:30am Registration, take group photo
8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome and opening remarks by Justin Lin and Yang Yao
Session I Topic: Industrial Policy
8:40 am – 9:10 am China's Transition and Modern Economics
Presenter: Justin Yifu Lin, National School of Development, Peking University
9:10am-9:40am Comparative Advantage and the Effect of Industry Policies: Evidence from Chinese Export Processing Zones
Presenter: Chen Zhao, China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University
9:40 am – 10:10 am Mass Capitalism and Grass-root Innovations in China
Presenter: Tomoo Marukawa, Institute of Social Science Contemporary China Research Base, The University of Tokyo
10:10am-10:30am Coffee/Tea Break
Session II Topic: Governance
10:30am-11:00am How to Democratize Neoliberal Globalization?-The Role of Global Civil Society -
Presenter: Hyun-Chin Lim, Asia Center at Seoul National University
11:00am-11:30am Re-negotiating Sovereignty and Rights of Governance: Comparing Taiwan's Entry into the WTO and WHA
Presenter: Sow Keat Tok, Faculty of Arts, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
11:30am-12:00am What Is New of the New Type of Great Power Relationship
Presenter: Yawei Liu, China Research Center
12:00am-2:00pm Lunch and Break
Session III Topic: Human Capital and Inequality
2:00pm-2:30pm Inequality in China: an Overview
Presenter: John Knight, The Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) at St Edmund Hall of University of Oxford
2:30pm-3:00pm Wasted Opportunities: Professional women returning to China
Presenter: Jie Hao, China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney
3:00pm-3:30pm Talent Management in China
Presenter: Tony Fang, Chinese Economist Society
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee/Tea Break
Session IV Topic: Financial Policy
4:00pm-4:30pm Central government versus local governments in China:which determinants for cyclicality of the fiscal policy
Presenter: Mary-Françoise Renard, l'IDREC (Institut de Recherche sur l'Economie de la Chine) au CERDI
4:30pm-5:00pm The challenge of containing local government debt: fiscal decentralization and public investment management in China
Presenter: Christine Wong, The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at University of Melbourne
5:00pm-5:30pm Financial Repression and Real Exchange Rate
Presenter: Xun Wang, Stockholm China Economic Research Institute
5:30pm-6:00pm Innovative Financing, Value Chain Development, and Poverty Alleviation in China: the Tale of Two Poverty Counties
Presenter: Enjiang Cheng, The Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University
6:00pm-8:00pm Reception at Quanjude
April 21 (Second floor of Wanzhong Building)
Session I Topic: Political Economy
8:30 am – 9:00 am Meritocracy and Economic Growth in China
Presenter: Yang Yao, National School of Development, Peking University
9:00am-9:30am Institutional Breakthrough? China’s New Approach to Political and Economic System Reform after the Third Plenum 2013
Presenter: Margot Schueller, The GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
9:30 am – 10:00 am China's Political Economy and Political Science
Presenter: Kellee S TSAI, The Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:00am-10:30am Coffee/Tea Break
Session II Topic: Social Changes I
10:30am-11:00am Perceptions of Democracy among Intellectuals in Contemporary China: Evidence from Study on Political Scientists in Beijing and Shanghai
Presenter: Jung-nam Lee, Center for Chinese Studies,Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University
11:00am-11:30am New Media, Public Opinion and Social Change in China: A Reflection
Presenter: CHAN Joseph Man, The Universities Service Centre for China Studies
11:30am-12:00am Generational Shift in Chinese Public’s Social and Political Values
Presenter: Zhengxu Wang, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham
12:00am-2:00pm Lunch meeting, discuss the chapter of the association
Session III Topic: Social Changes II
2:00pm-2:30pm Social Challenges of Urbanization in China 1978-2014
Presenter: Flemming Christiansen, Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of the University of Duisburg-Essen
2:30pm-3:00pm Natural Disaster Governance and China’s Changing Society – Steps Forward and Backward?
Presenter: Lauri Paltemaa, Centre for East Asian Studies at Unversity of Turku
3:00pm-3:30pm Prospering from a Purge: The Role of “Counterrevolutionary Splittists” in Mao’s Power Strategy
Presenter: Victor Shih, 21st Century China Program, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at University of California at San Diego
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee/Tea Break
Session IV Topic: Perspectives of China Studies
4:00pm-4:30pm Urban China and China Studies
Presenter: Carolyn Cartier, China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney
4:30pm-5:00pm China Studies in Korea: Challenges and Prospects
Presenter: Young-Rok Cheong, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National Unviersity (GSIS)
5:00pm-5:30pm Building A Spatial Research Infrastructure for China Studies
Presenter: Shuming Bao, China Data Center, University of Michigan
5:30pm-6:00pm Closing remarks by John Knight, futur activities