Internationale Konferenz, November 2010: Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung (ASC) und Kick-off Workshop des BMBF-Kompetenznetzes „Regieren in China“

14:00-14:15

Opening Remarks: Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg)

14:15-15:15

Sebastian Heilmann (University of Trier), “The Reinvention of Development Planning in China, 1993-2010"

Commentary: Markus Taube (University of Duisburg-Essen)

15:15-16:15

Marcus Conlé (University of Duisburg-Essen): “Health Biotechnology in China: National, Regional, and Sectoral Dimensions“

Commentary: Cui Zhiyuan (Tsinghua University)

16:15-16:30

Coffee break

Chair (Part 2):

Monika Schädler (University of Applied Sciences Bremen)

16:30-17:30

Elena Meyer-Clement (University of Tübingen): “Institutional Developments in the Chinese Film and Music Industries - The Role of Private Production Companies”

Commentary: Doris Fischer (German Development Institute, DIE)

17:30-18:30

Ching Kwan Lee/Zhang Yonghong (UC Berkeley and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou): “Seeing Like the Grassroots State: How China Maintains Social Stability in 2008”

Commentary: Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Vienna)

9:00-9:15

Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Tübingen): Introductory Remarks on the Duisburg-Tuebingen Project

9:15-10:15

Anna Ahlers and Gunter Schubert (University of Tübingen): “Strategic Groups and Rural Development: Experiences from Three Counties”

Commentary: Stig Thøgersen (University of Aarhus)

10:15-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:30

Thomas Heberer and René Trappel (University of Duisburg-Essen): “Strategic Groups and Institutional Maneuvering: Evaluation Systems as a Case Study”

Commentary: Susan Whiting (University of Washington, Seattle)

11:30-12:00

Heberer/Schubert: Preliminary conclusions

12:00-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-15:30

Open Discussion: Local Governance in the PRC: the state of the field

• Input 1: Vivienne Shue (University of Oxford)
• Input 2: Stig Thøgersen (University of Aarhus)
  
  

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:30

Business Meeting of the ASC
(International guests and non-ASC members may participate in a guided city tour)

19:00

Conference Dinner (Juliusspital)

9:00-10:00

Felix Wemheuer (University of Vienna): “No Sex in the City: Dangerous Desires of Chinese Peasant Workers in the Official Discourse”

Commentary: Dominique Schirmer (University of Freiburg)

10:00-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-11:15

Christian Göbel (University of Lund): “State Propaganda, New Socialist Countryside and Local Social Identities”

Commentary: Stephan Ortmann (Distance Learning University of Hagen)

11:15-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Daniela Stockmann (University of Leiden): “Advertising Chinese Politics: The Effects of Public Service Announcements in Urban China”

Commentary: Heike Holbig (GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg)

12:30-13:00

General Discussion and Conclusion of the Conference