Inside/Outside: 60 Years of Chinese Politics:

An International Conference

Organised by the

Hong Kong Political Science Association

20-21 August 2009

Venue:The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 Tentative Programme 

Inside/Outside: 60 Years of Chinese Politics

20 August 2009

0830-0930 / Registration
0930-1030 /  Opening Session
Welcoming Address: HKPSA President David Zweig
First Keynote Address: TBC
1030-1200 / Concurrent Session 1 – Domestic Politics in China Chair: David Zweig
Chia chen Chou On the Incentives to Experiment in a Decentralized Authoritarian Regime: The Politics of SOE Labor Policy Reform in China
Hwang Yih-jye &
Florian Schneider Performance, Meaning and Ideology in the Making of Legitimacy: The Celebrations of the People’s Republic of China’s Sixty-Year Anniversary
Ting Luo What accounts for the variance of democratization in rural China?
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1030-1200 / Concurrent Session 2 – China and the World Chair: Sara Jordan
Ramon Pacheco Pardo Peaceful rise, responsible stakeholder: A constructivist explanation of improving Sino-American relations
Tim Dunne &
Li Meiting Desperately Seeking Status: China’s Rise as a Social Power in
International Society
Thomas Kane &
Xiudian Dai New Players, New Rules? Sino-European Space Cooperation as a Case Study in Chinese Foreign Policy
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1200-1330 / Lunch
1330-1500 / Concurrent Session 3 – Cross Straits Relations Chair: Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Wang Chuanxing Taiwan Strait as a Routeway or as a Roadblock: A Study of Taiwan’s
Identity Change
Wilfried Sawadago Cross-Strait Economic Interdependence under the Leadership of
President Ma Ying-jeou and Implications on the Taiwan Issue
Chen Ching-Chang The ‘China Threat’ and the ‘Taiwanese’: Taiwan’s Security Policy and the Politics of Identity

Question and Answer session and discussion from floor

1330-1500 / Concurrent Session 4 – China and Northeast Asia Chair: Brian Bridges
Shi Yinhong China, the Nuclear Problem, and Prospect of the Peninsula: Persistent Dilemmas with a Promising Future
Brian Bridges From Nordpolitik to the MB Doctrine: South Korean Perspectives on China and North-east Asian Security
Chung Chien-ping ((10 + 3) – 10) + (6 – 1) = A North-East Asian Economic and Security Community?
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1500-1530 / Tea & Coffee Break
1530-1730 / Concurrent Session 5 – Politics and Identity in Greater China
Chair: Ng Kai-hon
Malte Kaeding Identity and Electoral Marketing in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Shan Wen Ting Money Politics and Democracy-An Exploration on Government Anti-corruption Strategies in Taiwan
Huang Tzu Chiang Corruption and Plight of Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation
Eilo Yu Wing yat &
Natalie Chin Ka-man Political Opposition in Macao: Revolutionist or Loyalist

Question and Answer session and discussion from floor

1530-1730 / Concurrent Session 6 – New Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy
Chair: Zhang Baohui
Chen Zhimin &
John Armstrong Beyond Honeymoon: Searching for a Matured EU-China Partnership
Zhang Baohui Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition
Jin Canrong How to understand the latest diplomatic activism of China?
Willy Wo-lap Lam China’s Quasi-Superpower diplomacy

Question and Answer session and discussion from floor

1830-2000 / Dinner

Inside/Outside: 60 Years of Chinese Politics

21 August 2009

0900-1000 / Second Keynote Address Chair: David Zweig

TBC

Question and Answer session and discussion from floor

1000-1015 / Tea & Coffee Break
1015-1215 / Concurrent Session 7 - State Relations with Business and Media
Chair: Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Nerisa Chan Role of business associations in the transformation of China
Shao JiangUnofficial Political Publications in the PRC from 1950s to mid 1990s
Xi Chen State Regulation of Media in China: In the Middle of Nowhere?
Robert Hanlon Reforming China’s human rights regime: Can business play a role?
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1015-1215 / Concurrent Session 8 – China’s relations with developing regions
Chair: Nicholas Thomas
Howard Liao You-te China and the Third World
Nicholas Thomas China’s Oceanic Relations: Expanding the Periphery
Ruben Gonzalez
Vicente Development and engagement in South America’s resource sector: Is China replicating the African experience?
Yang Zixiao Does Anti-Americanism Correlate with Pro-China?: A
Regression Analysis to Sixteen Countries’ Public Opinions

Question and Answer session and discussion from floor

1215-1345 / Lunch
1345-1545 / Concurrent Session 9 – Tibet Chair: Dibyesh Anand
Dibyesh Anand Tibetan Buddhist Reincarnation and International Relations
Barry Sautman Tibet as a Pseudo State
Hu Yan Resolving Conflicting Loyalties: Role of Monks in the Tibet
Autonomous Region
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1345-1545 / Concurrent Session 10 – China’s Foreign Economic Relations
Chair: Sara Jordan
Jean Marc F.
Blanchard China’s Long March Outward: China’s Emergence as an Overseas Investor
Han-Pu Tung Common Agency and China’s Trade Policymaking: An Endogenous Switching Regression Analysis
Rafael Leal-Arcas China – The Rise of a Global Economic Superpower
Nayia Pyridi Evolution and transformation of the People’s Republic of China foreign economic diplomacy: The rise of Western fears from the emergence of a new international donor
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1545-1600 / Tea & Coffee Break
1600-1730 / Concurrent Session 11 – Perceptions and Misperceptions of China
Chair: David Zweig
Pang Yang Huei The PRC “Management” of World Opinions in the 1950s
Dan Garrett Getting Hong Kong Wrong: Misconceptions of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in the American Media and US Government
David Zweig &
Han Dong-lin Images of the Outside World: Does Studying Abroad Affect
Attitudes Towards International Affairs
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1600-1730 / Concurrent Session 12 - China’s International Engagement
Chair: Nicholas Thomas
Joel Wuthnow Deliberating Peace: China, Strategic Choice, and the Politics
of Collective Security
Ian Holliday Beijing and the Myanmar Problem
José Carlos Matias
dos Santos Macau, China and the Portuguese Speaking Countries
Question and Answer session and discussion from floor
1730 / Close of Conference

Inside/Outside: 60 Years of Chinese Politics

20-21 August 2009

List of Paper Presenters

Dibyesh AnandReader, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster

John ArmstrongLecturer, Department of International Politics, Fudan University

Jean Marc F. Blanchard Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, San Francisco State University

Brian Bridges Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Lingnan University

Nerisa Chan Part-time lecturer, Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Chen Ching-Chang Assistant Professor, Institute of International Strategic Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University

Xi Chen Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, University of Texas

Chen Zhimin Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

Chia chen Chou PhD candidate, Department of Government, Cornell University

Chung Chien-ping Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lingnan University

Natalie Chin Ka-man MPhil candidate, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau

Xiudian Dai Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Hull

Tim Dunne Professor and Head of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Exeter

Dan Garrett ODNI Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Defense Intelligence College

Han Dong-lin PhD Candidate, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Robert Hanlon PhD Candidate, Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Ian Holliday Professor and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong

Hu YanProfessor, Central Communist Party School, China.

Huang Tzu Chiang PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of Political Science, National

Taiwan Normal University

Hwang Yih-jye Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Leiden University, Netherlands

Shao Jiang PhD Candidate, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster

Jin Canrong Professor, School of International Relations, People’s University

Malte Kaeding PhD Candidate, Department of Government and International Studies
Hong Kong Baptist University

Thomas Kane Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Hull

Willy Wo-lap LamProfessor of China Studies, Akita International University, Japan

Rafael Leal-Arcas Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London

Li Meiting PhD Candidate, Politics Department, University of Exeter

Howard Liao You-te PhD Candidate, Department of Diplomacy, National Cheng-Chi University

Ting Luo PhD Candidate, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science

Pang Yang Huei PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore

Ramon Pacheco Pardo PhD Candidate, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics & Political Science

Nayia Pyridi PhD Candidate, Department of International Studies, Aristotle University

José Carlos

Matias dos Santos Journalist, Radio Macau, Macau

Barry Sautman Associate Professor Division of Social Science Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Wilfried Sawadago PhD Candidate, Department of Diplomacy, National Cheng-Chi University

Florian Schneider Lecturer, Chinese Department, Leiden University

Shan Wen Ting PhD Candidate, Institute of Political Science, National Taiwan Normal University

Shi Yinhong Professor of International Relations, Director of Center for American Studies, Renmin University

Nicholas Thomas Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Han-Pu Tung PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University

Ruben Gonzalez Vicente MPhil Candidate, Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong

Wang Chuanxing Associate Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai

Joel Wuthnow PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Yang Zixiao MPhil, Candidate, Division of Social Science Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Eilo Yu Wing yat Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau

Zhang Baohui Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lingnan University

David Zweig Chair Professor of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

HKPSA Executive

Professor David Zweig – President

Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan – Treasurer

Associate Professor Nicholas Thomas – Secretary

Associate Professor Zhang Baohui

Dr Sara Jordan

Dr Maria Francesch

Dr Ng Kai-hon

Professor Michael DeGolyer ex-offico

conference Secretariat

Mrs Meggy Wan