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| The China Model of State Capitalism: Appeals and limitations 28 March 2011 | ||
 Professor Suisheng Zhao, Editor of the Journal of contemporary China, argues that while China indeed presents a unique model of rapid economic growth and relative political stability, it is hardly avictory of state capitalism. For all its appeals, the China model has serious flaws that may threaten its sustainability.Professor Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, the only English language journal edited in North America that provides exclusive information about contemporary Chinese affairs for scholars, businessmen and government policymakers. | ||
| May | ||
| Professor Jun Xu: Medicinal Chemistry Inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine Informatics 5 May 2011 | ||
 Co-presented with the Faculty of Phamacy Presenter: Prof. Jun Xu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Thisseminar presents case studies on deducing novel Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) anti-influenza and anti-hyperlipedemia prescriptions from structure biology. The studies suggest that, by further investigating TCM theory and mining TCM databases, a better drug discovery paradigm may arise - one that can be beneficial to both TCM and modern medicine. Professor Jun Xu, Professor of Med-chem & CADD, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the director and founding professor of the research centre for drug discovery (RCDD) at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China. His main focus at SYSU has been to apply the principles of chemoinformatics to the design of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) remedies. | ||
| China and Latin America Workshop 11 May 2011 | ||
 Relations between China and Latin America are an emerging feature of international relations. The University of Leeds Department of East Asian Studies and the University of Sydney China Studies Centre have collaborated to organize a workshop on this topic for May 2011 in Leeds. The aim is a collection of essays examining different aspects of the China Latin America relationship. PROGRAMME 9:30-10:00 INTRODUCTION East Asia and Latin America: Interactions and lessons
David S G Goodman, University of Sydney The China Model: Implications and impact José Luis León Manríquez, UNAM China, Latin America and the USA SHORT COFFEE BREAK Adrian Hearn, University of Sydney Clarifying Transparency: The China-Latin America-U.S. Triangle Chinese Foreign Direct Investment: The case of Chile, Peru and Argentina.
13:30-15:00 CHINA AND MEXICO Roberto Hernández Hernández, UdeG China and Mexico Negligence or Arrogance?: Mexico from the China perspective Comparative Health Care: China and Mexico 15:00-15:15 COFEE BREAK 15:15-16:45 BILATERAL RELATIONS Gonzalo Paz, George Washington University China and Argentina Rhys Jenkins, UEA China and Brazil Ana Lucía Salinas de Dosch, Leeds Metropolitan University China and Ecuador 16:45-17:00 SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND PUBLICATION PLANS David S G Goodman and Jörn Dosch 17:00-18:00 BOOK LAUNCH Adrian H. Hearn and José Luis León Manríquez (eds) China Engages Latin America: Tracing the Trajectory, Lynne Rienner | ||
| Professor Xia Fei: Police Power in China 18 May 2011 | ||
 Jointly presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, the Institute of Criminology and the China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney Police power control has become a hot issue in China in recent years. In this seminar, Professor Xia Fei will discuss the police power of administrative management, the police power of criminal investigation and the improvement of the police power control system in China. | ||
| The Use of Culture in China 22 May 2011 | ||
 The workshop is designed both as a start to dialogue between scholars in China and from the rest of the world on this topic; and to interface with current discussions taking place for theWUNGlobal Challenge on Cultural Understanding to organize a project on The Use of Culture more globally.
Culture in National Humiliation Discourse and Patriotic Education Discussant:Andrew Thompson, University of Leeds
The New Creative City and Culture as Copy
Confucius in the Twenty-first Century Discussant:Ka Lin, Zhejiang University Discovering 'Culture' Along the Ancient Tea Horse Road 12.45-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.45 Terry Woronov, University of Sydney The 'Cultured' Young Person 2.45-3.30 Wu Zongjie, Zhejiang University Vernacular Heritage, Fragments and Confucian Historical Narrative- The Uses of Heritage as Cultural Transformational Practice 3.30-3.45 Break Culture Feedback(文化反哺)The Use and Abuse of Modern Chinese Culture. Discussant:Gordon Houlden, University of Alberta Other participants include: | ||
| June | ||
| Mike Chinoy: Assignment China 15 June 2011 | ||
Co-presented with Sydney Ideas  For over sixty years, reporting by a handful of American journalists has shaped global perceptions of China. Covering China has long been one of the most difficult assignments in journalism. It is also one of the most important.
The reporters whose stories are told in the two episodes Mike will screen are legendary figures in the world of journalism. They include: -Seymour Topping, who covered the Chinese civil war for the Associated Press and later became Managing Editor of the New York Times -Roy Rowan, who was Life magazine's Shanghai correspondent from 1947-49 -John Roderick, who covered China for the Associated Press from 1945-48, including seven months in Yenan with Communist leaders, and later returned to reopen the AP bureau in Beijing in 1979 -Annalee Jacoby, who covered China in the mid-1940s for Time and was the co-author, with Theodore White, of the acclaimed book Thunder Out of China -Henry Lieberman, who was the New York Times China correspondent from 1945-49 -Doak Barnett, who reported from China for the Chicago Daily News from 1947-49 Among the others who feature in the documentary are virtually all the journalists who opened the first U.S. news bureaus after normalization in 1979: -Richard Bernstein (Time) -Fox Butterfield (The New York Times) -Frank Ching (The Wall Street Journal) -Bruce Dunning (CBS News) -Sandy Gilmour (NBC News) -Jim Laurie (ABC News) -Melinda Liu (Newsweek) -Jay Matthews (The Washington Post) -Linda Mathews, (Los Angeles Times) Described by the Washington Post's current Beijing correspondent Keith Richburg as "a must-see for anyone interested in the media, China, or both," by former CBS News anchor Dan Rather as a "great project", and by former U.S. Ambassador to China Winston Lord as "invaluable for classroom use and more broadly for the general public," Assignment: China offers a rare - and entertaining - glimpse of some crucial moments in the history of journalism and China. | ||
| Prof. Erik Olin Wright: Understanding Class 16 June 2011 | ||
 Prof. Erik Olin Wright argues that although the Marxist tradition is a valuablebodyof ideas because it successfully identifies real mechanisms that matter for a wide range of important problems, this does not mean it has a monopoly on the capacity to identify such mechanisms. In practice, sociological research by Marxists should combine the distinctive Marxist-identified mechanisms with whatever other causal processes seem pertinent to the explanatory task at hand. What might be called a 'pragmatist realism' has replaced the 'grand battle of paradigms'. In this seminar, Prof. Wright will focus on three clusters of causal processes relevant to class analysis, each associated with a different strand of sociological theory. Erik Olin Wright is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research has mainly concerned comparative class analysis and problems of rethinking the foundations of contemporary Marxist theory. He has published more than 10 books, including Reconstructing Marxism: essays on Explanation and the Theory of History, with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine (Verso, 1992), Interrogating Inequality (London: Verso, 1994), Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2000), and recently American Society: how it really works, with Joel Rogers (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). | ||
| Conference: Social Sciences and Humanities Meet the Changing World 25 June 2011 to 26 June 2011 | ||
 The conference will feature two prominent scholars as keynote speakers: Professor Francis Fukuyama from Stanford University and Professor Tu Weiming from Harvard University. The purpose of this conference is to direct scholarly attention to profound changes in values, norms, lifestyles, developmental models, and institutional arrangements as well as the social and political restructuring of the world order and other social, economic, political and environmental impacts on the world brought about by globalization, green revolution, and other transnational and global forces. China Studies Centre Executive Committee members Alison Betts, Thomas J. Berghuis, Yiyan Wang and members Peter Jia, Duanfang Lu and Hyun Jin Kim will attend the conference. (Image: Li Xiaobin) | ||
| July | ||
| Kevin O'Brien: Politics at The Boundary 8 July 2011 | ||
China Studies Distinguished Lecture Series  The state is a famously elusive concept. One way to understand a state is to view it from below, from the perspective of people advocating change. Prof. O'Brien suggests, in China, lawyers, journalists and NGO leaders who operate at the boundary of the acceptable are attentive to signals about what the authorities will tolerate. Their experiences suggest that mixed signals about the limits of the permissible is a key feature of the Chinese state. Beyond a few, well-patrolled "forbidden zones," the Chinese state speaks with many voices and its bottom line is often unclear. In China and other authoritarian regimes, how the authorities treat advocacy reveals much about the nature of the state. At the border of the ordinary and the forbidden, the Chinese state is not the high-capacity juggernaut familiar from the headlines, but a hodgepodge of disparate actors ambivalent about what types of activism it can live with. Professor O'Brien's research focuses on Chinese politics in the reform era. His most recent work centres on theories of popular contention, particularly the origins, dynamics and outcomes of "rightful resistance" in rural China. He is the author of Reform Without Liberalization: China's National People's Congressand the Politics of Institutional Change (Cambridge, 1990, paperback, 2008) and the co-author of Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge, 2006). He is the co-editor of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice (Stanford, 2005, paperback 2010) and the editor of Popular Protest in China (Harvard, 2008). In October 2010, his new co-edited volume, Grassroots Elections in China, was published by Routledge. | ||
| August | ||
| Social Change In China 9 August 2011 | ||
 Co-Presented with Sydney Ideas Dr Beatriz Carrillo will discuss population movements in and out of China's vastnetwork of towns and small cities. Here the inclusion/exclusion of rural migrant workers is assessed through an examination of rural workers' immersion into a small town's labour market, their access to welfare benefits and to social services, such as housing, education and health. Dr Minglu Chen will discuss, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership indicates that despite gender inequality for women during China's reform years, women are playing a more active and significant role in China's economic development than currently thought. She will examine the deeper realities of women entrepreneurs in China, and by extension the role of leading women in the workforce. BOOK LAUNCH Professor Maurizio Marinelli, Director, Centre for Social & Cultural Change in China Investment, UTS, Sydney will launch three new books by Dr Beatriz Carrillo, Dr Minglu Chen and Dr Jane Duckett. China's Changing WelfareMix: Local Perspectives (Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, JaneDuckett) Small TownChina: Rural Labour and Social Inclusion (By Beatriz Carrillo) Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China (By Minglu Chen)Beatriz Carillo is originally from Mexico. She completed her first degree in International Relations at the TEC de Monterrey (ITESM). She lived, studied and worked in Japan and in China, before coming to Australia to undertake her doctoral studies. She completed her PhD at UTS in 2006 with the doctoral thesis New Urban Space in China: Towns, Rural Labour and Social Inclusion. Minglu Chen is Australian Research Council Postgraduate Research Fellow in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of SydneyHer research concentrates on social and political change in local China and entrepreneurship in China. | ||
| Gilbert Rozman: How China's assertiveness is impacting the search for regionalism in East Asia 15 August 2011 | ||
Professor Rozman's introductory comments at the Roundtable will centre on the dynamics of the search for regionalism in East Asia and the driving forces of China's assertiveness. Assessing Chinese writings on regionalism in 2009-11 in contrast to those of Japan and South Korea, Rozman will cover the East Asian Summit, ASEAN + 3, the Six-Party Talks, and trilateralism in Northeast Asia. Gilbert Rozman is Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His current research focuses on national identities in China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, and how they shape bilateral trust and evolving relations in the region. | ||
| Gilbert Rozman: East Asian National Identity Gaps 16 August 2011 | ||
Introducing a six-dimensional, comparative approach to national identity, ProfessorRozman will trace the recent evolution of national identity in China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. He will argue that evolving national identity gaps involve much more than historical memories of war. Gilbert Rozmanis Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Hiscurrent research focuses on national identities in China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, and how they shape bilateral trust and evolving relations in the region. | ||
| Building an Asia Pacific Community: Economic, Security and Socio-Political Dimensions 30 August 2011 | ||
 Presented by The Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL) and TheCentre for Asian And Pacific Law (CAPLUS) Sponsored by the China Studies Centre (CSC).
For the full program, please visitSydney Law School website. Registration fees | ||
| September | ||
| Firewall China: the Internet and Social Media 5 September 2011 | ||
 Co-presented withSydney Ideasand the Australian Centre on China inthe World at Australian National University. The Chinese internet is fundamentally different from the internet most westerners experience. It is highly controlled and censored. Blog posts, newspaper reports, and even government propaganda articles and videos sometimes disappear without any notice. Chinese internet users are very cynical, often believing that anything reported in the official and commercial media is likely to be a lie.
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| Event Cancellation: China and the United States in Global Governance 26 September 2011 | ||
 Due to unforeseeable circumstances, we have to cancel Professor Rosemary Foot's Roundtable at China Studies Centre on Monday 26 September. We apologise any inconvenience this might cause and will reconstitute this arrangement at a later date. China and the United States have been interacting in international organizations and other global governance mechanisms for the pastfour decades. How have they interpreted each others' behaviour in such organizations? How productive have their encounters in these venues been, both in terms of their own interests and for global order? What do their recent interactions tell us about the extent to which China, as its relative power has grown, is setting out to resharp global norms and institutions? These questions will form the basis of a paper that Professor Rosemary Foot will be drafting over the next few months and will form the starting point of this Round Table discussion. Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. Her principal research interests are in the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, particularly security policies, human rights, regional institutional and normative developments, and US-China relations. | ||
| Event Cancellation: China, the United States, and Global Order 27 September 2011 | ||
 Due to unforeseeable circumstances, we have to cancel Professor Rosemary Foot's Sydney Ideas Lecture in the New Law School Tuesday 27 September. We apologise any inconvenience this might cause and will reconstitute this arrangement at a later date.Co-presented with Sydney Ideas In this talk, Rosemary Foot will discuss the main conclusions of her recent book China, the United States, and Global Order (co-authored with Andrew Walter, Cambridge). As the two most important states in the international system, Foot recognizes the United States and China as crucial to the evolution of global order. Increasingly, they have come to see each other as vital players in a range of issues of global significance, including the use of force, macroeconomic policy, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, climate change and financial regulation. Foot will explore the question of Chinese and US behavioural consistency with global norms in these issue areas, explaining why sometimes there has been convergence with significant norms and sometimes divergence from global normative frameworks. She will also show how the US-China bilateral relationship itself influences the stances that each country takes. Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. Her principal research interests are in the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, particularly security policies, human rights, regional institutional and normative developments, and US-China relations. | ||
| October | ||
| Justice and Community in Chinese and Western Political Thought 6 October 2011 | ||
 Presented by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Sponsored by China Studies Centre Please RSVP:arts.dean@sydney.edu.au | ||
| CANCELLED: Reflections on Cultural Identity 26 October 2011 | ||
 Presented with Sydney Ideas andthe Departmentof Anthropologyand theDepartment of Ancient History and Classics, the University of Sydney The visit of Professors Jean and John Comaroff is jointly sponsored by the China Studies Centre, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,, the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry(SOPHI), the School of Social and Political Sciences(SPSS) and CCANESA; at the University of Sydney. The politics of cultural identity, far from receding with the modernity, appears to have taken on new force in the wake of the cold war - especially with the triumphal rise of neoliberal capitalism on a global scale. This has yielded many efforts to explain the continued salience of ethnicity in a "new" world order that, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was widely predicted to dissolve difference in the face of global flows of people, objects, currencies, signs, styles, desires. Less attention, however, has been paid to a subtle shift in the nature of ethnicity: its commodification. Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, and in the Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Chicago. She has conducted fieldwork in southern Africa and Great Britain and is interested in colonialism, modernity, ritual, power, and consciousness. Her specific foci of study have included the religion of the Southern Tswana peoples (past and present); colonialism and Christian evangelism and liberation struggles in southern Africa; healing and bodily practice, and the making of local worlds in the wake of global "modernity" and commodification. | ||
| Word and Image : East and West 28 October 2011 to 29 October 2011 | ||
 The symposium is organized by Giorgia Alù andFrancesco Borghesi of the Department of It has been generously supported by the China Studies Centre (The University of Sydney), as well as by the School of Languages and Cultures, the Power Institute and the School of Letters, Art, and Media (The University of Sydney), and the China Research Centre (UTS). It has also been kindly supported by IAWIS - International Association of Word and Image Studies. In the last twenty years the relationship between the visual and the verbal has become a key issue in the humanities in general and, in particular, in the creation of new inter-, multi- or transdisciplinary areas of study. Reaction to the growing presence of images in contemporary culture has, thus, led to a flourishing of publications, conferences and academic courses on the varied interactions between text and image. Yet, a comparative investigation on the way the East and West perceive the interrelation between the visual and the textual still needs The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scholars and researchers from different backgrounds (historical, literary, theoretical or philosophical) in order to discuss and compare the mutual interdependence of words and images, the mixed mediality of the visual and the verbal, and the way they have been interlacing in different geographical and cultural areas, from Europe and the US to the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region, throughout the years.
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| Inclusive growth in China & India: Role of institution building and governance 28 October 2011 | ||
 The workshop is organised by the School of Economics, in association with the China Studies Centre and South Asian Studies Group. Canvassing a variety of issues around development and inclusive growth, the workshop will feature a special keynote address "Making Democratic-Governance Work: The Consequences for Prosperity", by Professor Pippa Norris (Harvard), currently Visiting Professor of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. The workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss matters pertinent to women's employment and enterprise, rural workers and the challenges of inclusive urban development, and politics and governance in both China and India. Showcasing experts from across the University of Sydney (Government & Industrial Relations, Political Economy, Sociology and Social Policy and The China Studies Centre), the workshop will also feature papers by Visiting Academicsfrom as The Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Hyderabad Campus and the Copenhagen Business School. | ||
| November | ||
| Latin America and China: Beyond Trade and Investments? 1 November 2011 | ||
 Co-presented with Sydney Ideas, this presentation will look atthebilateralrelationship from a socioeconomic perspective, discussing the possibilities for expanded cooperation in areas such as research and development, technology, education, and expanded cooperation in projects of mutual interest. To address these issues, the case of Mexico and China will be taken up as the focus, with the subsequent discussion looking for lessons from the existing Australia-China relationship. Enrique Dussel Peters is a Professor of Economics at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM). His research has concentrated on theory of industrial organization, economic development, political economy, as well as on the manufacturing sector, trade and regional specialization patterns in Latin America and Mexico. He has collaborated and coordinated projects with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean (ECLAC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), Ford Foundation and the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), among other institutions. | ||
| China's Responses to the Arab Events 16 November 2011 | ||
Presented by the China Studies Centre, this seminar  examines Chinesegrovermment's various responses to democratsation. The Chinese government has developed effective managerial strategies to respond to each of these waves. In order to examine and understand the government's particular response to the Arab events, this seminar proposes that it is necessary to take into account the three democratic waves together, not in isolation. Professor Baogang He (BA, Hangzhou Uni, 1981; MA, People's University of China, Beijing, 1986; Ph.D, ANU, Australia, 1993), Chair in International Studies at the School of Politics and International Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Professor He is the author of four single-authored books and three edited books, and 50 international refereed journal articles. His research interests cover deliberative democracy, Chinese democratization, Chinese politics, comparative politics, political theory, Asian regionalism, and federalism in Asia. | ||
| Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy. Book launch 22 November 2011 | ||
 Co-presented with Sydney Ideas, Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy will be launched by David Goodman.
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| Sydney China Business Forum 2011 29 November 2011 | ||
The Sydney China Business Forum is a new international leaders forum addressing global and strategic China business issues of importance to Australia. The Sydney China Business Forum brings together Australian and Chinese thought leaders and decision makers to discuss emerging opportunities, challenges and to devise strategic responses. The Sydney China Business Forum will feature interactive panel discussions addressing trade and investment strategies, joint finance of Australian resources infrastructure, Chinese outward investment, and internationalisation of the Chinese RMB.
Please note, ticket price includes an invitation to the opening cocktail reception at Government House on Monday 28 November, as well as full-day entry to the forum at Customs House on Tuesday 29 November. | ||
