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Comparing China:
Hopes and Fears of a Rising Power |
| | Monday, April 27, 2015
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
UC Irvine School of Law, EDU 1111 (Directions)
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| | This workshop is intended to serve as the first in a series of annual Irvine gatherings devoted to placing contemporary Chinese phenomena into both interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, taking advantage of the depth of knowledge about Chinese society spread across several UC Irvine schools, as well as the rising interest among non-China specialists in bringing data from and case studies of the country into comparative studies.
This inaugural gathering of interdisciplinary scholars will focus on the mixture of excitement and anxiety that has been triggered by China’s recent economic boom, increased enmeshment in international structures and systems, and growing geopolitical clout. We live in a moment of strongly articulated hopes related to China, some of them invoked by Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” allusions and expressed in the posters that promote this slogan. Competing with Xi’s optimistic visions of a resurgent China and individual tales of upward mobility is a constellation of fears and worries. These relate to everything from daily life concerns of health and well being, to broad concerns about corruption, censorship, and the way that the country’s rapid development threatens the global environment. Details on event page >
Featured Speakers
Prof. Carl Minzner, Keynote Speaker
Fordham University School of Law |
Dr. Elizabeth Pisani
Ternyata Ltd. |
Prof. Emily Baum
UC Irvine, Dept. of History |
Prof. Michele Goodwin
UC Irvine School of Law |
Prof. Alex Wang
UCLA School of Law |
Prof. Benjamin van Rooij
UC Irvine School of Law |
Dr. Maura Cunningham
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations |
Prof. Yan Yunxiang
UCLA, Dept. of Anthropology |
Prof. Mei Zhan
UC Irvine, Dept. of Anthropology |
Prof. Yong Chen
UC Irvine, Dept. of History |
Prof. Victor Shih
UCSD, Dept. of Political Science |
Prof. Wang Feng
UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology |
Prof. Zhang Xiaojing
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Dept. of Economics |
Prof. Ching Kwan Lee
UCLA, Dept. of Sociology |
Prof. Dorothy Solinger
UC Irvine, Dept. of Political Science |
Prof. David Smith
UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology |
Prof. Yang Su
UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology |
Prof. Paul Pickowicz
UCSD, Dept. of History |
Prof. Kyung Kim
UC Irvine, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literature |
Prof. Hu Ying
UC Irvine, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literature |
Prof. Molly Roberts
UCSD, Dept. of Political Science |
Prof. Tom Bernstein
Columbia University, Dept. of Political Science |
Prof. Jeff Wasserstrom
UC Irvine, Dept. of History |
Prof. Lisa Rofel
UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Anthropology |
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