最近几天一直在欧洲，从法国穿越英吉利海峡又来到了英国。明天和后天将在英国牛津大学和曼切斯特大学参加英国几大著名高校联合举行的名为“The Global Politics of China”的国际论坛。本次论坛由英国高校联盟中国中心（the British Inter-University China Centre http://www.bicc.ac.uk）主办。本次论坛集中了来自世界各地有关中国研究的学者，将是一次中国研究思想的盛宴，我也将应邀在论坛上做关于中国海归研究的报告。

 

The Global Politics of China

 

An international conference

organised by

 

the British Inter-University China Centre

 

27-29 November 2009, London and Manchester

 

The Global Politics of China

China is emerging as a world power, causing seismic shifts in the geoeconomic balance and the geopolitical balance. The British Inter-university China Centre, a national centre of excellence for research and teaching, will host an international conference to critically consider the impact of the global politics of China. This conference will include a high-profile event in London and an academic conference in Manchester.

 

27 November

The British Inter-university China Centre

  

The Global Politics of China

  

Friday 27 November 2009

Cavendish Conference Centre, Duchess Mews, London

  

10am: Introduction: Frank Pieke, Director of BICC

 

10:30-11:15: keynote speech:

Six modest proposals for how to understand China’s foreign policy

William A. Callahan

 

11:15-11:45: Discussion

 

12 noon lunch

 

1-2pm:

Roundtable discussion (1): China’s role in the world: a new multipolar world of the EU, US, and China?

Chair: William A. Callahan

Panelists: François Godement (Science Po), Rod Wye (FCO), Jing Men (College of Europe), Rosemary Foot (Oxford)

 

2:15-3:15 pm

Roundtable discussion (2): China’s role in the world: BRICs as new poles?

Chair: Frank Pieke

Panelists: Gonzalo Paz (George Washington Univ.), Jeffrey Henderson (Bristol), David Kerr (Durham University)

 

3:30-4:30 pm

Roundtable discussion (3): China’s role in the world: nationalism, transnationalism and soft power

Chair: Robert Bickers

Panelists: Wei Ling (China Foreign Affairs Univ.), Richard Curt Kraus (University of Oregon), Christopher R. Hughes (LSE), William A. Callahan (Manchester)

 

5:00pm Reception

 

Please send registration enquiries to daniel.holloway@area.ox.ac.uk

 

Please send registration enquiries to daniel.holloway@area.ox.ac.uk

The British Inter-university China Centre

  

The Global Politics of China

  

Saturday 28 November 2009

University Place, University of Manchester

(for panel details, click here)

Panel One: China’s Future – and the World’s Future

 

Chair: William A. Callahan (Manchester)

 

Pal Nyiri (Amsterdam), China’s Overseas Projects and the Re-emergence of Concessions

David Kelly (University of Technology, Sydney) China, Australia and the Global South 

Marieke Ohlberg (Heidelberg),Creating a Favourable World Opinion: Changes in Chinese Propaganda Targeted at Foreigners, 1989-2009

Zheng Feng (Tsinghua, China), Historical Myths and Contemporary Chinese IR Thinking

Merriden Varrall (Macquarie University), China’s New Global Role: Views from Beijing

William A. Callahan (Manchester), Patriotic Cosmopolitanism: China’s Nonofficial Intellectuals Dream of the Future

 

 

Panels Two and Three: Diversity and Mobility

 

Panel Two: The Politics of Diversity: Minorities and Immigrants

 

Chair: Elena Barabantseva (University of Manchester)

 

Discussant: Pal Nyiri (Free University Amsterdam)

 

Barry Sautman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Scaling Back Minority Rights?: the New Debate about China’s Ethnic Policies

 

 Zhang Haiyang Central University for Nationalities, Beijing

China Returnees Business: Environment, Strategy, and Performance.

 

Dibyesh Anand (Westminster University)

Tibet and China's Global Public Diplomacy

 

Wooyeal Paik (Ewha Womans University and Chinese Academy of Social Science) and Myungsik Ham (Jilin University)

From Autonomous Diasporas to Non-Autonomous Diasporas: The Politics of Korean Minority Migration in Contemporary China

 

Frank N. Pieke (University of Oxford)

Immigrant China

 

Pang Lihua (Peking University)

Trends and Characteristics of Foreigners Living in China, 1978-2008

 

 

Panel Three: Chinese Foreigners and Foreign Chinese

 

Chair: Frank Pieke (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Barry Sautman (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 

Wang Huiyao (Centre for China and Globalization and the China Western Returned Scholars Association, Beijing)

Chinese Returnees---Thriving Forces behind China’s Globalization.

 

Cong Cao (State University of New York)

Who Returned to China from the U.S.?

 

Sara Sterling and Ching Lin Pang (University of Leuven)

‘Managing Multi-mobility and Multi-Layered Identity in China: How Ethnic Chinese-Venezuelan Returnees Cope with Chinese Language, Culture, and Identity’

 

Elena Y. Sadovskaya (Research Council on the CIS States Migration Studies, Centre for Migration Studies, Institute of Economic Prognosis, Russian Academy of Sciences Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Chinese Migration Patterns to Kazakhstan in the 2000s: Dynamics and Structure

 

Yoon Jung Park (University of Johannesburg)

Contemporary Chinese Migration to Africa

 

Solange Guo Chatelard (Fondation Nationales des Sciences Politiques, Paris)

Chinese Footprints in Africa: An Ethnography of the First Generation of Chinese Migrants in Zambia

 

 

Panel Four (parallel with Panel Five): Internationalisation and Civil Society Organisations in China

Chair: Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

 

Dr Eileen Walsh, Oxford

International support for Chinese lawyers
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Dr Cecilia Milwertz, NIAS

The Relational Becoming of Popular Organizing for Social Change - the case of the Yunnan Reproductive Health Research Association

Mr Edward O'Donovan, Frontline,

Working with Human Rights Defenders in China; A Case Study

Dr Sylvia So, World Vision

NGOs and Localisation: a way to reveal and accomodate cultural differences?

 

Panel 5—Sino-European Relations:

Sectoral Dialogue and its contribution to Strategic Goals

Chair: Winnie King (University of Bristol, BICC Fellow)

Discussant: Jianxiang Bi (University of West England)

Speakers:

Jing Men and Benjamin Barton (College of Europe, Bruges)

Climate Change and EU-China Partnership

Abstract:

The dialogue on environmental issues is one of the earliest dialogues established between the EU and China. Since the beginning of the 21^st century, this dialogue has been updated to the ministerial level. Nowadays, climate change has become a major concern of the world. As the EU and China share the common ground that joint efforts need to be made to counter the negative impact of climate change, the dialogue in this field between the two is getting noticeably important in recent years. In this paper, we will first briefly review EU-China relations and the historical development of sectoral dialogues. Then, we will examine the dialogue on environmental issues to see how it was established and developed, what the EU and China have been doing in the framework of dialogue and what have been achieved. In the third part, we will analyse EU-China partnership and their convergent and divergent interests in the field of climate change. The development of EU-China partnership on climate change seems to indicate that the dialogue is an indispensable means to facilitate cooperation.

 

Alanna Krolikowski (University of Toronto)

EU-China technology transfers in the space and aircraft sectors: A comparative perspective with reference to the US

EU and US policy on technology transfer to China is converging in some sectors and diverging in others. These differences are particularly striking in two aerospace technology sectors. The aircraft and space technology sectors present the EU and US each with a similar mix of economic and security incentives for and against technology transfers to China. Yet  EU and US policies are not evenly converging across these areas. The EU’s approach is becoming relatively permissive across the two sectors. The US, however, adopts an increasingly permissive aircraft-sector transfer policy alongside a restrictive space-sector policy. These differences in sectoral outcomes are traceable to underlying differences in how participants in each sector, including technical experts and policymakers, implicitly theorize and reason about technologies in general. Participants in the space and aircraft sectors hold two different informal and practically oriented sociologies of technology, each comprising distinct understandings of the relationship between technology, society and geopolitics. These shared assumptions shape policy debates and choices. Considering the implicit sociologies of technology held by these communities sheds light on cross-sectoral and cross-national variation in technology transfers to China that international relations theories do not adequately explain.

 

Philippa Jones (China Research Network)

Trade and Economic Dialogues:  Where the EU plays a Strong China Hand

 

Abstract:

Over the past five years, through a growing web of trade and economic dialogues, the EU and China have quietly been developing a strong network of working-level interaction among trade and economic officers.  Through its management of these dialogues, supported with generous facilitation funds, the EU has substantially strengthened its trade and economic links with China, often to the envy of its US colleagues, despite the higher levels of strategic interaction between the US and China. This paper argues that the work of these substantial, if lower-profile, EU-China dialogues, may have been, particularly in the short term, of much more benefit to the EU-China relationship than a much-trumpeted High Level Strategic Dialogue that continues to elude Brussels.

 

The paper scans the breadth of the dialogues, ranging from financial and IP discussions through agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary meetings.  It goes on to discuss different outcomes in respective sectors.  The paper then takes the Regulatory Dialogue between the European Commission's Directorate General for Industry and Enterprise and China's State Administration for Quality, Standards, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) as a case study. This Dialogue has developed rapidly over the last few years and is cementing extensive cooperation between the EU and China on a wide range of critically important standards issues. The paper concludes with a discussion of the use of technical assistance funds to support trade objectives.

 

Jianxiang Bi (University of West England)

The Security Linkages of China and the EU: Peacekeeping in Africa

 

 

Language Learning Workshop

 

University Place, University of Manchester

 

29 November 2009

 

 

11:30 Introduction: Mr Shio-yun Kan, University of Oxford

11:40 Hu Bo BICC: What are the difficulties in learning Chinese?
12:10 Wendy Che Oxford Brookes University: Some challenges and coping strategies in learning Chinese :
12:40 Tom McAuley: learning characters

1:10 Lunch

1:40 Song Lianyi SOAS
2:10 Liu Lixin Peking University: Improving Listening and Speaking through Authentic visual materials
2:40 Student speaker
3:00 End of workshop