China's Global Impact

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Chinese Studies Conference at UVU, March 23-25, 2012

Submission deadlines

(no extensions, if not ready, send draft, but keep deadline)

• Jan 29 Call for papers sent out: additional speakers needed!
• Feb 6 topic, speaker photo for website and evtl. proceedings
• Feb 13 abstracts (150 words), c.v. (100 words), c.v. (1 page)
• Feb 27 paper drafts due (for presentation of 20 minutes, i.e. approx. 7 pages without footnotes and references)
• Mar 5 internal review decision
• Mar 12 final papers due, will be submitted to same reviewers again for final approval
• Mar 20 discussants’ notes due
• Mar 23-24 conference
• Mar 25 hiking excursion to nearby mountains
• May 31 submission of revised papers for proceedings
• Jul 31 proceedings

Schedule

Friday, March 23, 2012

8:30-8:45 Opening

I China’s Economical Impact

8:45-10:15 Panel 1: The historical and geographical macro perspective: Involution and De-Involution, Innovation and India

• Stefan Messmann (Budapest, Hungary): China and India in comparison - Questioning the sustainability of China as the world’s economic engine

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:00 Panel 2: Know-How Transfer, case studies of a medium sized Western enterprise and a Chinese global player

• David McArthur (Orem, USA): Inside China’s “Growth Engine:” How international technology transfer is done and how it changes people, firms, and countries
• Hui Xu (Tianjin, China): Analysis on Impact of Marketing Dynamic Capabilities of the Chinese International Enterprise Huawei against the Value of Stakeholders

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:30 Panel 3: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Economy and an Outlook

• Jonathan H. Westover (Orem, USA): Comparative Worker Attitudes and Human Capital Leadership Strategies in the US and China
• Junhua Zhang (Hangzhou, China): Re-writing the history of conventional capitalism – China’s necessity of restructuring its economy due to a shrinking WTO-dividend

2:30 – 2:45 Break

II China’s Cultural Impact

2:45 – 4:15 Panel 4: Invisioning China: Sinologists in transition and the international Perception of the Chinese Film

• Kirk Larsen (Provo, USA): China’s global impact in modern history
• Greg Lewis (Ogden, Utah): The impact of the Chinese film on the international film [invited paper, not yet confirmed]

Saturday, March 24, 2012

II China’s Cultural Impact

8:30-10:00 Panel 5: The world speaks Chinese - China’s Softpower, Cultural Melting-Pots, and Dual Immersion Programs

• Martin Woesler (Orem, USA): The new ‘super softpower’: China’s Cultural impact in the U.S. and Europe
• Alexander Yuan (Orem, USA): International teaching of Chinese language and culture

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15 – 11:45 Panel 6: China as a leading factor in web literature, comparative writers’ fates and the global validity of Chinese poetry asthetics

• Li Guo (Logan, Utah): Two worlds, one soul: Comparing the life narratives about interwar Ding Ling and Simona de Beauvoir
• Fusheng Wu (SLC, Utah): The need for Chinese poetry in our globalized world, with a focus on Tao Qian

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Break

III China’s Political Impact

12:45 – 2:15 Panel 7: Chinese nationalism, modernization and foreign policy

• Ivan Willis Rasmussen (Medford, USA): Chinese nationalism and the potential for Northeast Asian regional integration
• Eric Hyer (Provo, Utah): The influence of Chinese perceptions of the US on US-China relations - Global impact of Chinese foreign policy and international relations and conflicts

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:30 Panel 8: Perception of China in Western Media

• Jingdong Liang (Orem, USA): China’s changing perception in Western media reports [invited paper, not yet confirmed]
• Daria Berg (St. Gallen, Switzerland): Discourses among Chinese intellectuals, which become more and more part of the global public sphere [invited paper, not yet confirmed]

3:30 – 3:45 Break

3:45 – 4:15 Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion: China’s impact on world economy, politics and culture

confirmed participants so far: Stefan Messmann, David McArthur, Susan Hui XU, Junhua ZHANG, Kirk Larsen, Martin Woesler, Alexander Yuan, Li Guo, Fusheng Wu, Ivan Willis Rasmussen, Eric Hyer

4:15 – 4:30 Final Remarks, official end of conference

Sunday, March 25, 2012

9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:30 – 1:00 pm Hiking excursion to nearby mountain

afternoon Individual return, airport shuttle service

Abstracts

Section I: China’s Economic Impact

► Innovation as a key factor for China’s future - China’s role in historical perspective J. Kent Millington (Hefei, China / Orem, Utah) After 1500 years of astonishing discoveries in science, technology, and navigation, China turned inward at the start of the Ming dynasty in the 15th Century. Today’s rise in innovation and economic strength is a return to its former glory and dignity. China is rapidly moving from the country of cheap production to one of significant technological innovation. China’s scientists are taking their place among world leaders in nanotechnology, sustainable energy, and materials innovations. To facilitate this emergence, China is modernizing its legal system to accommodate intellectual property and legal contract concerns, changing its emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation, and promoting broader ownership rights. Evidence of these changes and examples of technical innovations will be given. China’s emerging leadership in some areas of technology will be highlighted. China’s innovative past is now being tied to its innovative future as the creative genius of its people is being encouraged and liberated.

► The legacies of involution and de-involution. Theoretical and Practical Implications of China's Development Experience at the Example of Chongqing Philip C. C. Huang (Los Angeles, USA) Theoretical and Practical Implications of China's Development Experience and the New Example of Chongqing In the view of neo-liberal “new institutional economics,” China development in the Reform period has been driven by the rise of private firms and related laws. Walder/Qian, on the other hand, stress instead the role of local governments’ township and village enterprises. But neither approach can explain what happened in the last two decades, when the main engine of development shifted to the local governments’ efforts to “draw in businesses and investment Hampton Inn Hotels” by provisions of low-cost land and support, special subsidies and tax privileges, and circumventing of labour rules and environmental protection. Those informal practices have accounted for both China’s GDP growth and its mounting social and environmental crises. This paper employs historical and theoretical analyses to call for a new understanding of China’s development experience and its implications. The paper then examines China’s latest “Chongqing experiment”, which relies on government-owned firms to fund social equity and infrastructural construction. Conceptualized as the “third hand,” it is unlike the first hand, or Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” and also the second hand, or the visible hand of government tinkerings with the market. It uses market appreciated state assets to fund social equity and infrastructural construction. This third hand is no simple government monopoly, but must compete against other localities and outside competitors. It has been strikingly successful thus far, and may well become a new “model” of equitable development for China.

► China and India in comparison – Questioning the sustainability of China as the world’s economic engine Stefan Messmann (Budapest, Hungary) In the 21st century the competition for the position of the most powerful economic nation of the world will be carried out between China and India. Since the end of the Mao era in China in 1976, China introduced serious political, economic and legal reforms resulting in substantial economic growth and relative wealth of the Chinese population. Thus, in 1980 the average income of a Chinese was half of that of an Indian. Today, China overtook by far her Indian competitor: the average per capita income in China today is more than $7,500 p.a. and thus doubles the average Indian income. China is estimated to reach about 18% of the world GDP in the next 5-10 years, India only 6%. Chinese population is stagnating at around 1.3 billion, Indian’s population being roughly 700 million in 1980, reaches 1.2 billion today. By 2020 there will be assumingly more Indians than Chinese. The advantage of India could lay in her population growth, but it could also be a hitch for her further development. While in China sees 8 to 10 million quite well educated newcomers on the labour market every year, in India these are more than 13 million (tendency increasing) and their education is still rather poor. Besides, in India the privatization of inefficient state owned enterprises is slow, the legal system unreformed, the poverty increasing, the economic growth is legging behind of that of China’s and the still existing cast system continues to be disadvantageous to the country’s further economic growth. These are the indications of the sustainability of the Chinese advantage in the coming years in comparison to India.

► Inside China’s “Growth Engine:” How international technology transfer is done and how it changes people, firms, and countries David N. McArthur (Orem, USA) Since the opening of the Chinese market in the 1980s, Western companies have moved their production technology to subsidiaries and controlled joint venture partners in China. On the heels of successful offshoring, many of these companies now understand themselves as international firms, who move production technology within their international network of subsidiaries, rather than as manufacturers as they had previously. In general, when talking about the Chinese economical miracle, one neglects the role of the international firms, which have not only initiated a one-way know-how transfer and now profit from their exports from China and the emerging Chinese market. The main value creation in China is still done by these international firms. As they direct their direct foreign investment into their Chinese subsidiaries they change the capabilities of workers, teams, subsidiaries, and Chinese competitors. What will happen, when another region becomes the new hotspot for Foreign Direct Investments? What role do different units in their networks play, and how do they interact? How do managers perceive their units' roles, act out their perceptions, and manage disagreement and change in unit roles? How does the cultural environment influence these units? These questions will be answered with a focus on China.

► Analysis on Impact of Marketing Dynamic Capabilities of the Chinese International Enterprise Huawei against the Value of Stakeholders Hui Xu (Tianjin, China) Marketing dynamic capabilities is not only the organizational resources to obtain and maintain competitive advantage when the enterprises faced turbulent environment, but also an important foundation for value creation, and thus has a positive impact on the value network of stakeholders. In this study, based on the marketing dynamic capabilities theory and value of stakeholder theory, the paper uses single case study approach, takes Chinese company Huawei as the study object, and the main line of the study is the relation between value creation and marketing dynamic capabilities which embed in core business processes-product development management, supply chain management and customer relationship management. From the perspective of the three management processes, the paper identify the value creation characteristics, which is helpful for exploring the marketing dynamic capabilities’ impact against stakeholders’ value.

► Comparative Worker Attitudes and Human Capital Leadership Strategies in the US and China Jonathan H. Westover (Orem, Utah) Effective Human Resource Management (HRM) is essential to providing increased value to all organizational stakeholders and enhancing an organization’s strategic competitive advantage, requiring a broad awareness and understanding of a wide variety of psychological, economic, organizational, and social concepts, issues and cross-cultural and global phenomena. Furthermore, “globalization" represents a wide range of complex processes in our modern world and these processes have wide sweeping impacts on the international political economy, international capitalism, and the ability for organizations of all types to gain and maintain a competitive advantage and successfully compete in an increasingly global economy. Furthermore, increasing "globalization" over the past several decades has changed the dynamics of an increasingly international labor force, how organizations compete for this labor, their internal labor dynamics, and ultimately how they do business. Moreover, in this increasingly hyper-competitive and shifting global marketplace, with the emergence of the technology and service-oriented knowledge organization, firms are fighting to stay lean and flexible in an effort to satisfy increasingly diverse and specialized consumer demand around the world, requiring enhanced levels of organizational flexibility and innovation. Within such a dynamic globalized context, firms must continually ask themselves (1) how to maximize the human capital potential of workers to enhance their ability to perform and add value in a hyper-intensive competitive global marketplace, and (2) how the organization can effectively foster a continuous learning and innovation culture, thus enabling them to train the rising generation of knowledge workers with the knowledge, skills, and the ability to perform and add value in a hyper-intensive competitive global marketplace. This presentation will explore these questions as they relate to the comparative work contexts of the U.S. and China, with a focus on comparative worker attitudes and human capital leadership strategies.

► Re-writing the history of conventional capitalism – China’s necessity of restructuring its economy due to a shrinking WTO-dividend Junhua Zhang (Hangzhou, China) China is in a phase of restructuring of its economy. For more than two decades, China has been a great beneficiary of economic globalization thanks to its extremely, sometimes also enthusiastic exploitation of its comparative advantage (in modern liberal sense). Having seen that the country‘s “WTO-dividend” has been shrinking, China’s leadership is forced to create more “competitive advantage” (Michael Porter) by turning the “world’s factory” into a country with more cutting edge technologies in some key sectors. China’s ambitious plan for high-speed rail has been regarded (at least by the Chinese ruling elites) as a successful story for a recipient of technology transfer and a fast-food styled “digesting” of latest exogenous technology. Despite of the tragedy of July 23, China’s practice in building its own high-speed rail and even exporting the new product has induced a series of questions as well as uncertainties regarding “innovative capacities”, “technology transfer” and a late-comer country’s development strategy. Definitively, China is re-writing the rule of the conventional capitalism this way. The question is how and to what extent. In this presentation variables will be worked out to see under which conditions an authoritarian approach will fail or succeed.

Section II: China’s Cultural Impact

► China’s global impact in modern history Kirk Larsen (Provo, USA)

► The new ‘super softpower’: China’s Cultural impact in the U.S. and Europe with a focus on language policy Martin Woesler (Orem, Utah) In recent language immersion programs many U.S. and European students attend half of their courses in Chinese, although statistics reveal Chinese takes 1.6 times longer to master than a Western language. There is no direct domination of Chinese, parents choose it voluntarily to offer their children better job opportunities in a China-dominated global economy. China profits from know-how transfer in university partnerships and joint ventures. It invests a fortune and sends teachers overseas, grants funds for over 500 dependent Confucius Institutes, which differ from Goethe Institutes in criticism and dependency. With the U.S. rise to power, its culture became appealing. English, fast food, prolific U.S. films and a range of popular culture congested the world. Today, popularized elements of Chinese culture - Kung-fu, eating with chopsticks, esoteric interpretation of yin and yang, the decorative use of Chinese characters etc. – fascinate as exotic. Being so distant from Western culture, can Chinese culture become dominant? Does the cultural flow from Europe to China reverse? Is all this a threat to the West?

► International teaching of Chinese language and culture Alexander G. Yuan (Orem, USA)

Section III: China’s Political Impact

► Chinese nationalism and the potential for Northeast Asian regional integration Ivan Willis Rasmussen (Medford, Massachusetts) Along with the Middle East and South Asia, Northeast Asia remains one of the least integrated regions. The benefits of integration are significant: Economic success through regional projects can be seen in Europe with the EU, Southeast Asia with ASEAN, and even in the emerging African efforts with the AU. Trade barriers and social tensions have been mitigated, even erased with these efforts even though progress was not inevitable. Longstanding historical conflicts are typically cited as explanation for ‘stunted’ Northeast Asian integration along with a limited level of bilateral normalization of relations (Rozman). Despite the limits and challenges of cooperation leading to integration, the potential exists in several formal and informal mechanisms such as the Six Party Talks and Free Trade Agreements between China, South Korea, and Japan. Framed as a ‘win-win’ for all states involved, integration offers the possibility of increasing the already strong Northeast Asian economic dynamism (Kühnhardt). At the center of any regional project would be China; the historical legacy of the Chinese tribute system as a form of regional economic interaction complicates any project. Additionally, the modern manifestation of Chinese nationalism acts as an obstacle to integration. The following study will examine the potential for Northeast Asian regional integration in the context of increasing Chinese nationalism and shifting Chinese foreign policy. The author will argue that while nationalism does create several salient obstacles for integration, economic jingoism in China could be harnessed as a tool that invigorates public support for regional efforts.

► The influence of Chinese perception of the US on US-China relations Eric Hyer (Provo, Utah)

► Fusheng Wu (SLC, Utah) Fusheng Wu (SLC, Utah): The need for Chinese poetry in our globalized world, with a focus on Tao Qian

C.V.s

Martin Woesler

DR. MARTIN WOESLER

organizing committee chair

address

Utah Valley University, 800 W University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058-5999, phone (o) +1 (801) 863-5195, fax (o) +1 (801) 863-6256, martin.woesler@uvu.edu, http://research.uvu.edu/woesler/

current position

• Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Dept. of Languages, MS 167; Utah Valley University, Orem UT, USA
• Director of “International Postgraduate School of Humanities” network, Utah Valley University, Orem UT, USA
• Professor of Intercultural Communication, Chair of Chinese Studies, University of Applied Languages, Munich, Germany

academic education

• Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from Bochum University, Germany in 1998
• M.A. Bochum University, Germany in 1995, B.A. in 1992, majors: Chinese Studies, German Literature, minors: East Asian Politics, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
• 1990-1992 Study at Peking University, Dept. of Chinese Language & Literature, Peking, China

past positions / past work

2010-2011 Visiting scholar at Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cambridge MA

2007- Chair of Chinese Studies, tenured professor of intercultural communication with the University of Applied Languages Munich, full professorship awarded by the Ministry of Science, State of Bavaria/Germany

2004-2007 Assistant Professor of Chinese at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, head of “China College”

2001-2003 Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

In 2000, Assistant Professor, one-year position, Academy of Euro-Asian Economy and Culture in Achern, Germany

teaching experience

Utah Valley University since 2011; Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China 2010; University of Applied Languages, Munich, Germany 2007-2010; University of International Business and Economics, Peking, China in 2006-2007; Nanking University, Nanking, China 2005-2007; Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany 2004-2007; Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 1998-2003; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 1998-1999; Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 1996-1999.

professional qualifications

1998 Ph.D.: The Chinese Essay - Authors of the 20th century, Ruhr University Bochum, published 1998 1995 M.A.: Modern Chinese Essays: The author Wang Meng, Ruhr University Bochum, published 1998

selected publications

20 monographs, 80 scripts in Chinese Studies. Most of them are about premodern, modern and contemporary Chinese culture and literature. 25 text books about teaching Chinese as a foreign language and I have written several articles about literature and culture in peer reviewed German journals and anthologies, also in Chinese in China.

monographs and scripts in English

1. Comparing Chinese and German culture, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 2 2. A new model of intercultural communication – critically reviewing, combining and further developing the basic models of Permutter, Yoshikawa, Hall, Hofstede, Thomas, Hallpike, and the social-constructivism, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 1 3. Harvard lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, book series Scripta Sinica vol. 4 4. Yale lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 2nd ed. 2005, ISBN 9783899661026, 58 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 3

text books (Chinese-English)

5. The Chinese Essay in the 20th Century, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 496 (xlii, 205, 229) pp., ISBN 3-934453-14-7, China Science, Bd 2, ISSN 1616-1556, incl. 42 essays with their English translation, and an introduction to the genre with texts from Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Xu Dishan, Yu Dafu, Zu Ziqing, Bing Xin, Ba Jin etc.

monographs in German

6. Chinese cultic literature 2008/2009 - authors, works, trends, Munich 2009, 127 pp., book series Sinica vol. 25 7. Chinese contemporary literature - authors, works, trends – A snap-shot 2007/2008, Munich 2008, 267 pp. 8. Timeless Chinese poetry from the beginnings to the “China avant-garde”, Bochum 4th ed. 2007, 72 pp. 9. The history of the Chinese essay, Bochum, 2nd ed. 2009, xiii, 900 pp. 10. My Essays are my ‘Longing for Freedom’ - Wang Meng, Former Minister of Culture, as Essayist in the Period 1948-1992, ix, 394 pp, Frankfurt / Main, Peter Lang Press 1998 11. Political Literature in China 1991-92 - Wang Meng's 'Reform of Breakfast Habits'. A Translation of the Story “Hard Porridge” and the Documentation of an Absurd Debate, Bochum 2nd ed. 2003, 252 pp., book series Sinica vol. 13 12. Valuation criteria for literature – The Dream of the Red Chamber as the most important Chinese novel, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, 66 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 7 13. The film makers of China, Bochum 2004.6, 52 pp. , book series Scripta Sinica 9

edited journals

14. European Journal of Sinology (co-edited with Stefan Messmann/Budapest, Hungary, Luigi Moccia/Rome, Italy) 15. Bulletin of the German China Association (co-edited with Gregor Paul/Karlsruhe, Germany)

edited anthologies

16. Chinese Literature in translation – Proceedings of the conference at the University of Applied Languages Munich 2009/6/27, Munich 2009, 164 pp. 17. Law and justice in China. Festschrift in honor of Konrad Wegmann’s 75th anniversary, Munich: 2007, 251 pp. 18. Zhang Junhua, Martin Woesler eds., China’s digital dream. The impact of the Internet on Chinese society, The University Press Bochum 2002.10, 274 pp., ISBN 3-934453-90-2, China Science & Scholarship 5 19. The Modern Chinese Literary Essay - Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century - Conference Proceedings, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 327 S., ISBN 3-934453-15-5, China Science, vol. 3, ISSN 1616-1556

edited book series [partly in German]

20. 漢學論壇 Sinica (ISSN 1613-6187, 30 vols.) 21. 漢學論文 Scripta Sinica (ISSN 1614-3663, 55 vols., some published in the 3rd edition) 22. Comparative Cultural Science (co-edited with Matthias Kettner, 8 vols.) 23. Suggestive Papers (ISSN 1439-5215, 7 vols.)

grants, honors, research, teaching

see http://research.uvu.edu/woesler/

David Mc Arthur

DR. DAVID N MCARTHUR

Address Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, david.mcarthur@uvu.edu, phone (801) 863-7144 (o), home address: 58 West 1740 North, Orem, UT 84057, phone +1 (801) 224-2558

Position Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy Chair, Department of Management, Woodbury School of Business, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Education Ph.D., Business Administration, University of South Carolina, 1998, major: International Business, cognate area: Strategic Management • 1999 Richard Farmer Dissertation Award Finalist, Academy of International Business. MA, International & Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1990, Asian Studies. MBA, Brigham Young University, 1989, International Business and Finance. BS, Marine Engineering, United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1977.

Current Research Interests International technology transfers within and between firms, the building of organizational knowledge capabilities (esp. technological capabilities); the roles of subsidiaries and managers in the MNE as a network, the diffusion of innovations in international settings, and in the advancing state of the art in international business research methods.

Peer-reviewed Publications appear in • Journal of Marketing Education • International Journal of Applied Philosophy • Complexity and Policy Analysis: Tools and Methods for Designing Robust Policies in a Complex World • Journal of Business Inquiry • Journal of Process Analytic Chemistry • International Journal of Advertising (twice) • Journal of Advertising Research (twice) • Journal of Business Research • R&D Management • International Marketing Review

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations and Proceedings • 8th World Congress of the Academy for Global Business Advancement • INFORMS Marketing Science Conference • Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, • Mountain Plains Management Conference (twice) • International Workshop on Complexity and Policy Analysis • Academy of International Business Annual Meeting (twice) • Academy of Management Annual Meeting (twice) • American Academy of Advertising Annual Meeting, • Portland International Conference on Technology Management (twice)

Stefan Messmann

DR. STEFAN MESSMANN

Stefan Messmann is Professor of International Business Law at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, since 1998, where he is actually head of the Legal Studies Department. He also served as Academic Pro-Rector of CEU between 1999 and 2003.

Professor Messmann was born in Serbia, educated in Germany and Switzerland and is of German nationality.

He obtained his Licence en droit 1970 in Geneva and Doctorat en droit 1978 in Fribourg.

Before joining CEU, he held positions of Senior Legal Counsel with Volkswagen AG in Germany, Deputy General Manager and Commercial Executive with Shanghai Volkswagen in Shanghai, was member of supervisory boards of companies of the Volkswagen group, General Manager for Asia and the CIS with Umformtechnik GmbH, Erfurt, with seat in Shanghai and head of Shanghai Branch Office of Wessing, a German international law firm.

Speaking several languages, Professor Messmann has extensively written and lectured on international joint ventures, as well as on foreign investment, company and contract law in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

In 2006, he received the Dr. Elemér Hantos Prize (http://www.hantosprize.org) for co-editing, with Professor Tibor Tajti, the book “Investing in South Eastern Europe”. He also published, among others, about foot-binding practices and Jews in China.

Within the China-EU School of Law’s Professional Training Committee Professor Messmann is in charge of organizing training programs for European lawyers in China. He is also Co-Editor and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of Sinology.

Kent Millington

J. KENT MILLINGTON, DBA

Address 5006 Country Club Drive, Highland, Utah 84003, 801-368-2146, email jkentmillington@yahoo.com

Experienced senior executive with extensive P&L responsibility and a strong record of building profitable operations in large companies as well as entrepreneurial ventures. International experience having lived in three countries, with substantial experience and networks in Asia (China, Japan, Thailand, Philippines). Specialist in developing new technologies into profitable businesses. Professor of entrepreneurship and finance with excellent teaching skills.

Representative Accomplishments • Built start-up companies to world leaders with profit margins as high as 50%. • Built and managed major operations with sales growing to exceed $500 million. • Developed and managed an important new initiative in technology transfer for one of America’s large national laboratories. • Managed international operations with 300 employees and 4,500 agents. • Successfully introduced new products in markets as diverse as financial services, Internet technologies, and digital forensics. • Received “Outstanding Professor” awards at two universities.

Experience • Business Leader: Twenty-five years of senior level experience, creating and motivating teams to extraordinary achievement with emphasis on building and rapidly expanding profitable operations. Helped build one of the world’s largest Internet companies. Effected the turn-around of an IT company and increased sales by 400% in three years. Extensive international experience, especially in Asia. Served on several Boards of Directors. • Academic Leader: Nine years of full time teaching at the university level, creating entrepreneurship courses and teaching finance and strategy. Taught professional training (CPE) courses for CPAs for over 20 years. Currently teach innovative online MBA courses to students worldwide and serve as Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Science and Technology of China. • Community Leader: Lifelong commitment to service in community and church. Served national small business interests on two committees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (7 years). Local school board president and member (6 years). Currently serving my fifth year of a six year appointment on Utah Transportation Commission.

Education • Have earned BA, MBA, and DBA degrees. Strong advocate for education.

Ivan Rasmussen

IVAN WILLIS RASMUSSEN

Address PhD Candidate, Tufts University, the Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, email ivan.rasmussen@tufts.edu, phone (859) 421-9232, home address: 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155

Education 08/07-present The Fletcher School, Tufts University Medford, MA Doctorate of Philosophy (candidate) Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (May 2009) 09/02-06/06 Princeton University Princeton, NJ A.B., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Professional Experience 02/10-09/10 On The Ground Coordinator for Duke Engage Abroad Program Zhuhai, PRC DukeEngage and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Duke University 06/08-08/08 Foreign Affairs Rosenthal Fellow Washington, DC U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Teaching Experience 09/10-present Teaching Assistant, PS 61: Intro to International Relations Medford, MA, Political Science Department, Tufts University 09/09-present TA, Graduate Statistics Course (four semesters) Medford, MA, The Fletcher School, Tufts University 09/10-01/11 TA, Graduate Course on Processes of International Negotiation Medford, MA, The Fletcher School, Tufts University 09/09-01/11 TA, PS 135: Comparative Revolutions (two semesters) Medford, MA, Political Science Department, Tufts University 02/10-05/10 Friend or Foe? Sino-US historic and contemporary relations Medford, MA, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tufts University

Selected Conferences, Presentations, and Papers 04/11 Association for Asian Studies Conference Honolulu, HI 03/10 “From PLA to MBA: China’s Fifth Generation of Leaders” Hong Kong, PRC 02/10 Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia New York City, NY 01/10 “Regional Conflict and Contrasting Nationalisms” Taipei, Taiwan, Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs. (Volume 26, 2008) peer reviewed 06/09 North American Taiwanese Studies Conference Austin, TX 12/08 “Torture in the United States and China” Singapore, Asian Journal of Public Affairs. (Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2008) peer reviewed 11/08 Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford Shanghai, PRC 04/08 Murrow Center Conference on Credible Public Diplomacy Medford, MA

Fellowships and Awards Pacific Forum Young Leaders Program (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Next Generation Grant (Harvard Program on Negotiation / http://www.pon.harvard.edu/) Rosenthal Fellow (U.S. State Department) Academic Fellow (The Institute of Law, Economics, & Politics, Hong Kong / www.instituteleap.org) Dean’s Discretionary Fund for Research (The Fletcher School) Critical Language Scholar (U.S. State Department) Woodrow Wilson School Undergraduate Research Fund Award (Princeton University)

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Margot Schüller

DR. MARGOT SCHÜLLER

Date of birth: September 30, 1950 Address: German Institute of Global and Area Studies/Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) Rothenbaumchaussee 32, -20148 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49 40 42887431; Fax: +49 40 4107945 e-mail: Schueller@giga-hamburg.de web: http://www.giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?folder=staff/schueller&file=schueller_en.html

Professional employment and academic education 1990 – present Senior Research Fellow, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) 2005 – 2007 Deputy Director, GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg 2010 - present Deputy Director, GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg 2004 – 2008 Faculty Member of the Dual Degree Program Master / MBA International Business and Economics (MIBE) - China Focus (Hamburg and Fudan University); Courses on Chinese Economy 1990

1982 PhD in Economics (magna cum laude); Thesis: “Reform of the Agricultural Property Rights Structure in China 1979-1987”, University of Paderborn, Germany Msc in Economics/ University of Paderborn, Germany 1978 Master of Business Administration (MBA)/University for Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

Scholarships, Academic Memberships 1983- 1985 Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for language studies and field research in China 1986-1989 PhD-Scholarship from the Federal State North Rhine Westphalia • Member of the Board of the German Association of Asian Studies (DGA) • Member of the Social Science China Research Network (ASC/ DGA) • Member of the Association of Asian Studies • Member of the Research Committee on Economic Systems and Institutional Economics (Verein für Socialpolitik)

Funding accomplishments (since 2006) • „Facilitating the Bi-Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Diaolog”, 2008-2011, Cooperation with 16 research partners in the EU and ASEAN, Financed by the 7th EU-Framework Programme (98,000 Euro). • „New Challenges for Germany in the Innovation Competition“, 2007-2010, Research Project together with Fraunhofer Systems and Innovation Research and Georgia Tech, financed by the German Ministry of Education and Research (50,000 Euro) together with Iris Wieczorek • China's Engagement in Southeast Asia, 2009-2010; Research Funding from the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (112,112 Euro), together with Marco Buente

Susan Hui XU

DR. HUI XU

Position Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Department of Marketing, Business School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Currently Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Utah Valley University, phone (1)801-615-9582, E-mail: susan_xhui@126.com

Research Directions 1. Marketing, 2. International Business Management, 3. Internationalization of Service Enterprises

Ongoing Research Projects (selection) [1] Research on the Risk Identification Mechanisms, Measure Indicators, and Mangement Control in the Internationalization Process of Chinese Companies. Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 70572081 [2] Research on MNES’ Global Strategies (Presided by Zhang Yuli) Supported by the Research Foundation from Ministry of Education of China (Grant No.05JJD630026) [3] Research on risk identification and prevention control for Chinese enterprises’ entering international market. Supported by National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 03CJY0117)

Teaching Graduate: Marketing, Service Marketing, Market Research and Forecasting; Professional degree: Service Marketing, Public Relationship Marketing; Undergraduate: Marketing, Service Marketing, Business English.

Papers

• Xu Hui, Zou Hui-min.Research on the influence of International Risk on International Performance.Journal of Management Science.2010(2):2-10
• Xu Hui, Zou Hui-min,Wang Jian-ming.Risk Identification In Multinational Enterprises In The Context Of International Operating Strategy Transformation. Economic Management Journal.2009(9):142-150
• Hui Xu, Zou Huimin.The Assessment of International Risks from the View of the Decision-maker---Empirical Research Based On Chinese International Enterprises. Journal of Marketing Science.2009,5(2):109-120.
• Xu Hui; Zou Hui-min; Shan Feng-ling.Research on the Influencing Factors of Foreign Investment in the Producer Service Industry of China---From the Perspectives of Industrial Interaction and Systematic View. Economic Survey,2009(5):39-43.
• Xu Hui, Wan Yiqian,Pei Degui, A study on risk perception and risk identification in the internationalization process of Chinese hi-tech enterprises----A case study of Huawei Technologies, Management World, 2008(4):140-149
• Xu Hui,A Research Of the Service Firms’ Locational Decision of International Investment: Based on the Study of Investment of MNCs to Chinese Service Industry. Economic Survey.2008(3):77-81
• Xu Hui, Han Jinglun, Zhang Jun, Research on Choice of Strategic Mode of Canadian Enterprise Entry into Chinese Market: Based on Dynamic Interaction between FSAs and CSAs.Journal of International Economics and Trade Research,2007(8):40-44
• Xu Hui, Risk Identification and Prevention for Export-oriented enterprises’ Expanding International Market: Tianjin Cases. International Trade, 2007, (3):36-40

Books

• Research on International Risk Identification and Control,Science Press,2010.
• Prevention of Firm’s International Risk. Press of Renmin University of China.2010
• Risk Management in International Business, University of International Business and Economics Press, 2006
• Speeding up Internationalization-Strategies for Developing the International Markets, Tianjin University Press, 2003

Junhua Zhang

DR. JUNHUA ZHANG

Junhua Zhang, Ph.D. is currently a Professor in the Political Science department at the College of Public Administration at Zhejiang University. He is also senior associate at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) based in Brussels. He was recently designated as executive director of the Centre for Contemporary Sino-Israel Studies(CCSIS). Since 2008 he has been guest editor for the Journal of Historical Sociology based in London.

Dr. Zhang received his PhD in philosophy from the J.W.Goethe-University in Germany. Apart from his long-term academic career at the Free University Berlin and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin in Germany, he has also served as a visiting professor at several universities around the world, including the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, the University of Moscow, and the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales, in Berlin and Brussels. Since 2007 he has been a member of the Advisory Board and guest professor of the Donube University Krems in Austria.

His research involves the topics, among others, of comparative development strategies, e-government, comparative public policy and climate diplomacy. Past research projects include the “Political Culture after the Power Transition 2002 in China,”, the “Internet Policy of PRC”, “China’s Climate Diplomacy” and the “Implication of China’s Labor Law Contract”. He compiled the monograph in German Die schwierige Geburt der Freiheit (Peter Lang, 2001) and he is co-editor of China´s Digital Dream –Impact of the Internet on Chinese Society (European University Press, 2002). In last few years, he extended his research field to international political economy and social memory study. His recently books (as co-author) The Perspective of China’s Labor Law Contract (in Chinese, CASS Publishing House 2010), Industrial Relations – China, South Korea and Europe in Comparison ((in English and Chinese, CASS Publishing House 2010)), and Social Memory and Global Communication (in Chinese, CASS Publishing House 2010) testify his endeavors in the above mentioned fields.

Dr. Zhang is an author of various articles on Chinese politics in international journals and newspapers. Thanks to his solid knowledge on Chinese politics he was invited by the American Foreign Policy Council and many other European think tanks to give talks and lectures.

Jon Westover

DR. JONATHAN H. WESTOVER

Address: Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, MS-119, Orem, UT 84058-5999, Office Phone: (01) 801-863-8215; Email: jonathan.westover@uvu.edu; Home Address: 479 W 2325 N, Lehi, UT, 84043

Position: Assistant Professor of Management, Woodbury School of Business; Director of Academic Service Learning, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Education: • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Utah, 2011: Comparative International Sociology: International Political Economy; Sociology of Work and Organizations • Graduate Demography Certificate, University of Utah, 2007: Labor force dynamics • M.S., Sociology, University of Utah, 2007: Work and Organizations Emphasis • Graduate Higher Education Teaching Specialist Certificate; University of Utah, 2007: Adult Learning • MPA, Brigham Young University, 2005: Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior • B.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University, 2003: Research and Analysis Emphasis; Business Management Minor; Korean Language Minor Current Research: Professor Westover’s ongoing research examines issues of globalization, labor transformation, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, work-quality characteristics, and the determinants of job satisfaction cross-nationally. Over the past 5 years, he has published 28 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in a variety of academic journals (6 more currently submitted and at various stages in the peer-review process), 14 other editorial-reviewed scholarly articles, 6 academic books/texts (2 more forthcoming), 15 book chapters (2 more forthcoming), 16 conference proceedings (1 more forthcoming), and has made more than 70 scholarly and teaching presentations at academic conferences.

Professional Distinction: Professor Westover recently received the prestigious Fulbright Scholar award to be visiting faculty at Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus), where he will be teaching in the MBA program in the School of Business and Management of Technology and conducting research and consulting with business and civic groups on human resource development and performance management issues. Additionally, he is a visiting faculty member in the MBA program at the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China).

Eric Hyer

Dr. Eric Hyer

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Organizing Committee

Monlyn Yi HU, Sam Y. LIANG, Jingdong LIANG, Kent Millington, David McArthur, Mark Olson, Jon Westover, Martin Woesler (committee chair), Susan Hui XU, Alex Guofang YUAN