Panel III: Personal and Cultural Identities, State and Corporation

The Panel III Chair was Professor Peter Schröder, Department of History and European & International Social & Political Studies, University College London; Vice-President & Founding Fellow of Global China Academy

Professor Peter van der Veer, Professor and Director of the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Institute, Germany; Life Fellow of Global China Academy, contributed with an online speech on Religious and secular identity in China from a comparative perspective

Professor Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Research Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France; Life Fellow of Global China Academy, contributed online. Her speech was entitled Young Chinese migrants, compressed individual and global conditions

A video presentation on Glocal China: the rural face of Shenzhen followed, given by Professor Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Professor and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University, Germany; Vice-President and Founding Fellow of Global China Academy

Dr Qing Cao, Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University; Member of Global China Academy Council, spoke online on Chinese state developmentalism and cultural heritage

The last contribution to this panel was delivered online by Professor LI Chunling, Professorial Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Director of Youth and Social Issues Research Office, China, who spoke on Children of the reform and opening-up: China’s new generation and new era of development

The Discussant was Professor David Parkin FBA, Emeritus Professor, Fellow All Souls College, Former Head Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford; Life Fellow of Global China Academy

Q & A

Coffee/tea break 

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