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20-12-2017
New Orders in Global Politics and Economics – The Challenges and Opportunities of China Studies
The 5th Young Scholars’ Conference on China Studies organized by The China Studies Programme, the Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies and the Institute of Creativity of HKBU was held from 18 to 19 December. Nearly 70 young scholars and researchers from around the world had the opportunity to explore and discuss the global perspectives on China Studies.
In the conference, it was a great honour for us to have Prof. CHAN Kam Wing, Department of Geography, The University of Washington and Prof. LIU Shouying, School of Economics, Renmin University of China to give us a keynote speech. Their topics are : “Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: The Hukou System and Migration” and “The Structure and Changes of China's Land Institutions”.
A total of 21 panels were held and the topics included Ethnic Studies, Art Theories and Chinese Arts, History of Everyday Life in China, China Business and Management, Catholic Church and Chinese Science, Urban Studies and Studies on Chinese Classics, etc.
An Outstanding Paper Award was introduced in the Conference to encourage, commend and reward research papers for high quality, originality and significance. The Outstanding Paper Award was given to three excellent scholars:
莊宏忠（信陽師範學院歷史文化學院）
移民、聚落與文化擴散：中國北方農牧交錯地區天主教的環境適應（1700-1950）
CHU Wai Li（Hong Kong Baptist University）
Colonial Relation as ‘Britain’s Other Foreign Policy’: Decolonisation and Britain-Hong Kong Relation in the 1970s
TSAI Pi-Han（College of Economics, Zhejiang University）
Fiscal Incentives and Land Finance Cycles of Prefectures in China
The Honorable Mention Award was also given to six outstanding scholars, and they are:
陳鴻明（臺灣師範大學歷史學系）
政治巨變下的企業抉擇：上海商業儲蓄銀行的遷臺與復業（1950-1965）
李淵源（中國社會科學院研究生院文學系）
人民公社時期婚姻禮俗變遷研究（1958-1983）—以嵖岈山人民公社為例
劉俊紅（華東理工大學）
領導力還是員工力－互聯網時代組織管理的雙動力模型
林昉（京都大學大學院文學研究科）
新中國建立初期北京市貫徹婚姻法運動再考
ZHANG Jiyu（Department of Literary and Film Studies, Leiden University）
The Ideology of Homeland: Nationhood, Kinship, and Individuality in Sinophone Cinema
PENG Juan（School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University）
Living in Liminality: Familiarity or Strangeness? Returned Women Migrant Workers in Qianjiang, Hubei Province
The conference was co-organised by the School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University (Beijing), Asia-Pacific Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Queensland (Australia), Institute of Taiwanese History of Academia Sinica (Taipei), and Asper School of Business of the University of Manitoba (Canada).
