China's Global Impact

Conference Website: http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/index.php/China's_Global_Impact. - Secure part of the website: (access for organizing committee only).

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