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Global China Academy’s Other Events

Global China Academy organizes and participates in activities relating to China in comparative perspective and social sciences and humanities studies on China, and in activities of a different nature that chime with its academic and social missions. Some events associated with the Global China Dialogues or collaboratively with other organisations, such as workshops, symposiums, seminars, lectures, forums and conferences:

2020 A Symposium on China’s Development Path in the New Era from Multiple Perspectives 多重视野看新时代中国发展道路
2019 Global China Media Seminar series (2016–19, UK) 全球中国媒体系列讲座 (2016–19年, 英国)
2018 Academic Publishing and Knowledge Service Conference 中国及中国比较研究学术出版与知识服务大会
2018 Digital Interconnection and Intelligent Manufacturing: Social Change and Cultural Transformation in Global Society 数字互联和智造及全球社会变迁和文化转型
2018 Various Themes of Seminar Series (2015–18, China) 不同主题的系列讲座（2015–18年，中国）
2017 Chinese for Social Science (CSS) Workshop 社科汉语工作坊
2017 Globalization of Chinese Social Sciences Symposium 中国社会科学全球化学术研讨会
2017 Global China Media in Comparative Perspective Symposium 中外传媒比较研究国际学术会议
2017 Forum Series on Transcultural Cooperation and New Methodologies for Social Sciences 转文化合作与社科研究及方法论系列论坛
2016 Corpus Approaches to Chinese Social Science (CACSS) Workshop 语料库与中国社科研究工作坊
2014 A symposium on China-British Cultural Exchange: Strategic Cooperation and Practical Implementation 中英文化交流：战略合作与务实实践研讨会
2013 Max Weber and China conference ‘韦伯与中国：文化、法律与资本主义’国际大会
2013 International Conference: How do Migrants from the BRICS Countries Participate in Shaping the Global Society? 国际大会：金砖国家新移民如何参与型塑全球社会?

Note: Details of each event will be available soon.

2020 A Symposium on China’s Development Path in the New Era from Multiple Perspectives

多重视野看新时代中国发展道路主题研讨会

This is one of the seminars: Surviving the digital age: a close look at how one international Chinese language media – BBC Chinese – is tackling digital transformation, Mr Howard Zhang, Editor-in-Chief of BBC Chinese Service, Date: Wednesday, 6 March 2019, Time: 14:00 – 16:00, Venue: A1.10, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Middlesex

2019 Global China Media Seminar series (2016–19, UK）

全球中国媒体系列讲座 (2016–19年, 英国)

2018 Academic Publishing and Knowledge Service Conference

中国及中国比较研究学术出版与知识服务大会

With the spread of globalization, achievements in China studies around the world have attracted increasing attention. The Academic Publishing and Knowledge Service Forum on China and China in Comparative Studies brought together leading Chinese academic publishers, librarians, scholars, study centres and internationally known social scientists, to discuss how China’s academic publishing can gain international recognition, how China studies and comparative studies on China are developing in the world, and digital solutions for knowledge management and academic collaboration. The aim of the conference was to make cross-faculty, cross-institute or even cross-country academic co-operation more effective, and to promote and enhance the influence of academic knowledge acquisition and dissemination.

Date: 9:30-16:00 Saturday 8 December
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS, University of London

2018 Digital Interconnection and Intelligent Manufacturing: Social Change and Cultural Transformation in Global Society

数字互联和智造及全球社会变迁和文化转型

Driven by information technology, the digital economy has changed not only the means of production but also people’s lifestyles. The Internet has driven a shift in consumption and service patterns, as well as generating new productivity. With the deepening of this new round of the industrial revolution, global interconnected wisdom will inevitably build a human society with common methods of production, resource pooling and wealth sharing.

Date: 6 December
Venue: Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent St, University of Westminster

2018 Various Themes of Seminar or Lecture Series (2015–18, China)

不同主题的系列讲座（2015–18年，中国）

2018 Marxist Sociology (4 seminars) 马克思主义社会学
2017, November, Big Data and Computational Social Science (3 seminars) 大数据与计算社会科学
2017, March, Corpus Approaches to Social Scienc (3 seminars) 语料库与社会科学
2016 Analyses Based on Contemporary Chinese Social Life Data (5 seminars) 基于当代中国社会生活资料的若干分析
2015 Philanthropic and Charitable Sociology (5 seminars) 慈善社会学

Northeast Normal University, China

2017 Chinese for Social Science (CSS) Workshop

社科汉语工作坊

Along with China’s increasing influence on the world, it is important to understand how the Chinese government’s policies are reshaping and governing the global community, in addition to understanding Chinese social culture. In this regard, Chinese for Social Science might provide a useful aid for help. ‘Chinese for social sciences’ is in fact ‘Chinese language for Social Sciences’, a branch of ‘Chinese for Specific Purposes’ (CSP), like ‘Chinese for science and technology’ or ‘business Chinese’.

In responding to demands from users of our bilingual websites, Global China Academy is developing supplementary course material based on our articles from Journal of China in Comparative Perspective, material of the Global China Dialogues and publications by Global Century Press in both English and Chinese. It aims to serve the purposes of providing a better understanding and basic knowledge on China, and improving students’ and scholars’ language skills in English or Chinese on social science issues.

Date: Saturday 2 December
Venue: S0.13, Strand Campus, King’s College London

2017 Globalization of Chinese Social Sciences Symposium

中国社会科学全球化学术研讨会

Along with the introduction and application of general social scientific theories and methods in studying Chinese society, there are two prevalent perspectives in the Chinese social science circle: firstly, that foreign scholars’ endeavours to study China are ineffective and cannot solve practical problems; secondly, that Chinese social scientists should ‘break the Western academic hegemony’.

The so-called Western academic hegemony includes the publishing of articles in English, writing in accordance with Western social science norms and style, authors being accepted by the Western academic system, and works being understood through the lens of Western ‘ideology’. To Chinese scholars, these requirements are seen as an ‘academic hegemony’. So, in the case of Fei Xiaotong, even if all his works were translated into English, the English version could not always accurately express the essence of his academic thought.

Date: Thursday 30 November
Venue: Fyvie Hall, the University of Westminster

2017 Global China Media in Comparative Perspective Symposium

中外传媒比较研究国际学术会议

In the new century, with the end of the Cold War and rapid development of a market economy, information industries, democratic politics, civic culture, new media and globalization, many important changes have occurred within Chinese and foreign media industries and in education and research. At the same time, the exchange and comparison of related fields are becoming increasingly prevalent in other regions and countries. ‘Change’, ‘blend’, ‘compare’, ‘learn from’: these have all become commonly used buzzwords when discussing research on media and communication in new situations.

This symposium served as one of the academic events commemorating the 110th Anniversary of Tongji University. It welcomed over 60 esteemed scholars, school deans, journal editors, and other media and communication experts. Attendees hailed from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States, various European countries, and other regions worldwide.

Date: November 19, 2017
Venue: Room 401, Building C of the Sino-French Center, Siping Road Campus, Tongji University, Shanghai

2017 Series Forum on Transcultural Cooperation and New Methodologies for Social Sciences

转文化合作与社科研究及方法论系列论坛

Forum One: Transcultural Cooperation between China and North-Eastern Asia 中国与东北亚转文化合作

Forum Two: Transcultural Cooperation between China and the West 中西方转文化合作

Forum Three: New Methodologies for Social Sciences 社会科学新锐方法论

Date: 22-24 March, 2017
Venue: Multi-functional Hall 229, Marxism Department, Northeast Normal University

2016 Corpus Approaches to Chinese Social Science (CACSS) Workshop

语料库与中国社科研究工作坊

With the enhancement of interdisciplinary awareness, linguistic methods, such as corpus based discourse studies, have been applied to disciplines such as sociology, ethnography, cultural studies, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science. Over the past decade, Chinese social scientists have sought new methods of analysing large quantities of texts in addition to qualitative analysis. For example, the Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Centre (CCSLC), Fudan University of China, has collected a unique set of data on contemporary Chinese social life since 1949, consisting of more than 300,000 personal correspondences, over 1,000 books of personal notes, diaries, information of the history of personal life, as well as large amount of interview notes, and monographs. The Brill publishing house has signed a contract with Fudan University Publishing House for publication of 30 volumes of them.

This precious material is inevitably adopted as a default resource for research in which language matters. It will undoubtedly be very helpful for understanding the construction of contemporary China’s social order and the deep structure of ordinary people’s relationships. Inspired by the ESRC Centre of Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, CCPN Global engaged with CASS, the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL) of UCL, the Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Centre (CCSLC) of Fudan University, and the Research Centre for Discourse and Communication (RCDC) of Zhejiang University of Media and Communication), together developing the programme of the CACSS.

This workshop introduced related work and engaged further discussions with people interested in this initiative.　　

Date: Saturday, 9:00-16:30 3rd December
Venue: S-2.23, the Strand Building, King’s College London

2014 A symposium on China–British Cultural Exchange: Strategic Cooperation and Practical Implementation

中英文化交流：战略合作与务实实践研讨会，2014年12月

As 2015 is a year of China-British cultural exchange, numerous cultural activities are in the planning stages, and a few have already begun to be executed.

This symposium focused on the following tapics: Can China’s model of ‘Culture builds the stage; commerce performs the show’ be successfully promoted abroad? What is the relationship between ‘culture building the stage’ and ‘commerce performing the show’? Why do some perspectives view ‘Culture builds the stage; commerce performs in the show’ not as true cultural exchange but as a display of economics hijacking culture? What is the significance of the experience and lessons of China’s recent modernization for the modernization processes of countries all over the world? How does the Chinese experience aid in the study of Europe? How should strategic cooperation for China-British cultural exchange be planned? Examples of practical implementation of China-British cultural exchange.

Date: 6th December, 2014
Venue: Conference Room of the Grand Skylight Hotel, 100 Baise Road, Shanghai, China

2013 International Conference on Max Weber and China: Culture, Law and Capitalism

‘韦伯与中国：文化、法律与资本主义’国际大会

Max Weber is not only celebrated as a founder of modern social science but also for his view that modern capitalism was the achievement of a uniquely Western rationalism. His celebrated study of China argued that its legal institutions and ethical and religious culture had prevented a similar development there. But he also drew on his knowledge of China in developing his ideas of bureaucracy, authority and legitimacy.

The economic success of China over the last 30 years represents for some the biggest challenge yet to Weber’s account of its culture, to his theory of capitalism and to the methods he employed in arriving at his account. But it also brings into question the self-image of the West and the idea of modernity. This conference brought together scholars from the social sciences and humanities in a West / East dialogue central both to mutual understanding between China and the West, but also to an exploration of the possible varieties of capitalism.

Date: 5-6 September 2013
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: SOAS, University of London

2013 International Conference: How do Migrants from the BRICS Countries Participate in Shaping the Global Society?

国际大会：金砖国家新移民如何参与型塑全球社会?

China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) at LSE (the predecessor of CCPN Global and GCA) was engaged in an international collaborative research project known as ‘Comparative Studies on the New Migrants from BRIC counties in America, Australia, Japan and the UK’ (2009–2013). The project was a collaboration with the School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. It was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and involved researchers from Australia, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, UK, and the USA. The research focused on ‘new migrants’ who have migrated from BRIC countries to the UK, the USA, Australia and Japan since 1989.

Instead of performing ‘migration studies’, this project expanded the field into ‘migrant studies’. It focuses on ‘ordinary migrant people’ in contrast to simply paying attention to a special group of people as an example of human rights issues in migration studies. We believe ‘ordinary people’ are the basis of any society.

Date: 2nd March 2013
Venue: CLM.2.02 of LSE

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