Third Chinese Political Sociology Workshop
- When:
- Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:00 am - Friday, July 19, 2013 6:00 pm
- Where:
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The University of Chicago Center in Beijing
20th floor, Culture Plaza
No. 59A Zhong Guan Cun Street
Haidian District Beijing 100872 - Description:
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This workshop, the third in a series of workshops on Chinese Political Sociology, follows successful workshops held in 2011 and 2012. The 2013 workshop focused on the theme of Revolutions and Modernization. U.S. and China-based scholars discussed their research on revolutions in their own countries and other parts of the world, as well as implications for modern Chinese nation-state building and economic development in China.
THE THIRD CHINESE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY WORKSHOP
Wednesday, July 17
08:00 Registration
08:30 Opening Remarks
Session 1 Revolutions in the World
08:45 Timothy TACKETT—The Revolutionary Process in France, 1789-1793
09:45 Q & A
10:05 Coffee Break
10:25 Saïd ARJOMAND—The Arab Spring and Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979
11:25 Q & A
11:45 lunch
13:30 George LAWSON— Revolutions and International Relations
14:30 Q & A
14:50 Summary & Conclusion
15:10 Coffee Break
Session 2 Explaining Chinese Revolutions
15:30 Qisheng WANG— Rolling Rock from the Mountain Top: The Continuation and Escalation of Revolutions in 20th-Century China
16:10 Q & A
16:30 Summary & Conclusion
17:10 Jin XU— From Revolutionary Secret Society to State: An Analytical Framework to Explain the Dynamics of Chinese Communist Revolution
17:30 Q & A
Thursday, July 18
08:00 Registration
Session 3 Dynamics of China’s Revolutions
08:30 Chunsong GAN—Who Were the Revolutionaries: The Rise of Revolutionary Groups in Late Qing and Early Republican China
09:10 Q & A
09:30 Xiaobing TANG—The Twists and Turns of Public Opinions in Modern China: From the Perspective of Revolution
10:10 Q & A
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Daoxuan HUANG—Here Comes the Revolution: The Long Bow Village in William
Hinton’s Fanshen
11:30 Q & A
11:50 Summary & conclusion
12:10 Lunch
Session 4 Revolutions in Post-revolutionary Era
14:00 Michel BONNIN—The Post-1968 Rustication Movement: The Last Experiment
for Mao Zedong’s Continuous Revolution Theory
14:40 Q & A
15:00 Lili WU— The Dilemma of Charismatic Authority: Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China
15:40 Q & A
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 Guoqiang DONG— The “Nanjing Incident” of 1976: Factional Identity, Personal
Experience and Political Choice during the Cultural Revolution
17:00 Q & A
17:20 Summary & Conclusion
Friday, July 19
08:00 Registration
Session 5 Revolution and Order
08:30 Peiguo ZHANG— Rural Revolutions and the Transformation of the State in Modern China
09:10 Q & A
09:30 Yongle ZHANG— Revolution, Compromise and Constitutional Government: An Analysis of the 1916 Argument for Legally Constituted Authority
10:10 Q & A
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Naiteh WU— Explaining Taiwan’s Political Transition: Myth and Reality
11:30 Q & A
11:50 Summary & Conclusion
12:10 Lunch
Session 6 Looking Forward by Looking Back
14:00 Shizheng FENG— Studies of Revolutions in China: Challenges, Agendas, and Pitfalls
14:40 Q & A
15:00 Dingxin ZHAO— Studies of Revolutions: Theories, Perspectives, and New Agendas
15:40 Q & A
16:00 Coffee Break
16:20 Movie Screen
17:40 Wrap-up and Closing Remarks
Organizers: Dingxin Zhao (Department of Sociology) in collaboration with Shizheng Feng (Department of Sociology at Renmin University).