for China Studies
Hosted by the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) and
St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
6 – 7 August, 2015
To be held in the University’s Examination Schools
(Rooms 6 & 7)
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5/8 |
Wednesday
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14:00-18:00 |
Arrive in Oxford |
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Registration and Check in at William Miller Building |
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18:30-20:00 |
Dinner in Wolfson Hall, St Edmund Hall |
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6/8
6/8
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Thursday
Thursday
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08:00-08:30 |
Continental Breakfast at William Miller Building |
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09:00-09:15 |
Opening Remarks (John Knight) |
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09:15-11:00 |
Governance (Chair: Xiaobo Zhang) |
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09:15 |
Economic Growth, Subjective Well-being, and Social Instability: China’s Flawed Governance (John Knight) |
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09:50 |
Can Xi Jinping’s reforms be implemented? Let’s look at China’s Fiscal Architecture (Christine Wong) |
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10:25 |
A Political Economy of Rank: the Territorial Administrative Hierarchy and Leadership Mobility in urban China (Carolyn Cartier) |
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11:00-11:25 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
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11:25-14:35 |
Industrial Efficiency (Flemming Christiansen) |
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11:25 |
Government Intervention in the IPO Process: Firm Employment as an IPO Selection Rule in China (Anders Johansson) |
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12:00 |
China’s R&D Subsidies – Allocation and Effectiveness (Philipp Boeing) |
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12:35-14:00 |
Lunch in Wolfson Hall, St Edmund Hall |
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14:00 |
Foreign Entry Regulations, Trade and Service Liberalisation, and Downstream Productivity in China (Sai Ding) |
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14:35-15:45 |
Technology and Innovation (Tony Fang) |
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14:35 |
China’s Rise as a new S&T Power: a Challenge for the World Technology Leaders (Margot Schueller and Yun Schueler-Zhou) |
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15:10 |
China’s Re-innovation Model of Technology Development (Tai Ming Cheung) |
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15:45-16:10 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
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16:10-17:55 |
Labour Market Issues (Lina Song) |
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16:10 |
Cosmopolitan Returnees in Beijing and Bangalore: Information Technology and Beyond (Kellee Tsai) |
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16:45 |
Chinese Unions and Multinational Corporations: Synergy or Strife? (Tony Fang) |
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17:20 |
Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in China’s Mining Cities (Tomoo Marukawa) |
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18:30-19:00 |
Drinks Reception in Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall |
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19:00-20:30 |
Welcome Dinner in Wolfson Hall |
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7/8
7/8
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Friday
Friday
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08:00-08:30 |
Continental Breakfast at William Miller Building |
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09:00-10:45 |
The Reform Process: Drivers and Brakes (Christine Wong) |
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09:00 |
Crisis-induced Innovation: Quality Upgrading in Chinese Industrial Clusters (Xiaobo Zhang) |
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09:35 |
Innovative Remaking of the China Model: A Challenge to the Global Institutional Order? (Nele Noesselt) |
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10:10 |
What Did China's Growth Policy Achieve? Zombie firms, employment and economic growth (Yiping Huang) |
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10:45-11:10 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
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11:10-12:20 |
Inequalities (Mary-Francoise Renard) |
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11:10 |
Informality in the Chinese Labour Market: Determinants of Entry and Pathways to Exit (Lina Song) |
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11:45 |
The Health Disparity of Migrants, Returned Migrants and Non-migrants: a Life Course Perspective in the case of Rural-to-urban Migrants in China (Yuying Tong) |
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12:20-14:00 |
Lunch in Wolfson Hall |
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14:00-15:45 |
Urbanisation; Environmental Policy (Kellee Tsai) |
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14:00 |
Innovation, Emergence, Implementation: Making Sense of the New-style Urbanisation Plan (Flemming Christiansen) |
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14:35 |
Do Chinese provinces successfully implement Climate Mitigation Policies? A Political Economy Approach (Mary-Francoise Renard) |
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15:10 |
Initiating Environmental Governance in Tianjin (Outi Luova) |
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15:45-16:15 |
Tea / Coffee Break |
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16:15-17:30 |
ICCS Business and Planning Meeting (John Knight) |
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17:45 |
Group Photo |
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18:15-19:00 |
Ceremony & Drinks Reception in Doctorow Hall |
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19:00-20:30 |
Farewell Dinner in Wolfson Hall |
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8/8
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Saturday
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08:00-08:30 |
Continental Breakfast at William Miller Building |
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10:30 |
Check-out from William Miller Building |
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11:00 |
Guided Tour of Oxford (optional) |
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