5th INTERNATIONAL SINOLOGY FORUM

CHINA EXPOSED. IMPOSED. PROPOSED.

26-28 February 2010 Lisbon Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon

26 February 2010, 14h30   Lisbon 
Panel on Macau, Macau Economic and Trade Representative Office

5-7 March 2010  
Oporto Auditorium of the “Almeida Garrett” Municipal Council Library

Information: 
Tel.: 213619430, ext. 3074 
Mondays, 10h30 - 19h00                                            
E-mail: ipsinologia@gmail.com            
P.O. Box 3271, 1301-904 Lisbon


Organization/Organização:

Portuguese Institute of Sinology [Instituto Português de Sinologia] (IPS)
Centre of Communication and Culture Studies - Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon [Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura – Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Lisboa] (CECC-UCP)
Municipal Council of Oporto [Câmara Municipal do Porto] (CMP)

With the support of the Macau Economic and Trade Office [Delegação Económica e Comercial de Macau] (DECM) and the Scientific and Cultural Centre of Macao [Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau] (CCCM)

Honorary Committee/ Comissão de Honra:

Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Gao Kexiang
Vice-Rector of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon [Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Lisboa] (UCP), Maria Luísa Homem Leal de Faria Geraldes Barba
Mayor of Oporto
Head of the DECM, Raimundo Arrais do Rosário
President of the CCCM, Luís Filipe Barreto

Executive Committee:

Coordination:
Ana Maria Amaro (President of the IPS; Professor Emeritus, High Institute of Social and Political Sciences - Technical University of Lisbon [Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa] (ISCSP-UTL))
Peter Hanenberg (Centre of Communication and Culture Studies - Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon [Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura – Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Lisboa] (CECC-UCP) 
Filipa Correia (“Almeida Garrett” Municipal Council Library
- CMP) [Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett - CMP] (BMAG))

Cooperation:
Gabriela César (DECM)
Ana Clara Neves da Silva (Casa Museu Guerra Junqueiro – CMP) (CMGJ)
Alexandra Cabral (Oficina das Coisas - Oporto)
Joaquim Gonçalves Guimarães (Historian, Guest Researcher of the GEHVID ― Faculty of Arts of the University of Oporto [Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto] (FLUP); Lecturer at the Academia Eça de Queirós; Director of the Solar Condes de Resende)
Elisabetta Colla (Researcher CCCM, I.P.; CECC-UCP)
António Barrento (Vice-President of the IPS)
Maria Teresa Rebelo (IPS)
Dina Santos (DECM)
Irene Rodrigues (ISCSP; IPS)
Tânia Ganito (ISCSP; IPS; CECC-UCP)
Ana Vilela da Costa (IPS)
Bárbara Freitas (IPS)
Ana Raquel Guimarães (Oporto)
 

 

LISBON

26-27 February 2010
Venue: Portuguese Catholic University of Lisboa [Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Lisboa],
Palma de Cima

Friday, 26 February 2010

Auditorium 1

09h30 Welcome of Participants

10h00 Opening Session
Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Gao Kexiang; Vice-Rector of the UCP, Maria Luísa Homem Leal de Faria Geraldes Barba

10h30  Keynote Speech
Professor Gladys Nieto (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
“Ethnicity in China: A National Project Imposed or Proposed?”

11h30 Launch of Issues 4 and 5 of the Journal of Chinese Studies [Revista de Estudos Chineses, Zhongguo Yanjiu 中国研究],  Professor Joaquim Gonçalves Guimarães Guimarães (Historian, Guest Researcher of the GEHVID ― Faculty of Arts of the University of Oporto [Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto] (FLUP); Lecturer at the Academia Eça de Queirós; Director of the Solar Condes de Resende)

12h00 Lunch Break

China Exposed, Imposed, Proposed:
Representations of China I

Chair: Peter Hanenberg (CECC-UCP)

14h00 Carla Isabel P. Fernandes (FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
“China exposed, imposed and proposed by the European Union: from distant neighbours to a comprehensive strategic partnership”

14h30 Marisela Connelly (El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África)
“China as seen by Latin Americans”

15h00 Liang Hongling (Université de Lyon)
“‘Traditional’ Chinese medicine proposed – dilemma between the nationalist construction and the modernist ideology”

15h30 Lucy Corkin (SOAS, University of London)
 “China in Africa: An analysis of representation in the media”

16h00 Debate and Conclusions

16h30 Coffee Break

Made in China:
China Exposed, Consumption and Material Culture

Chair: Ana Margarida Abrantes (CECC-UCP)

16h45 Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (Université de Lille III)
“China exposed, transposed and metamorphosed: consuming Chinese material culture and chinoiserie in eighteenth-century England.”

17 h15 Thomas Boutonnet (Université de Jean Moulin – Lyon, Institut d’Études Transtextuelles et Transculturelles (IETT))
“Consumer «harmonious» society exposed: visual cacophony and schizophrenia of Beijing’s street billboards in 2006.”

17h45 Alison Hulme (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
          “On the trail of the ‘China price’: value, innovation and potency in the low-end commodity chain”

18h15 Debate and Conclusions

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Auditorium 1

09h30 Welcome of Participants

Exhibitions in China and China in Exhibitions

Chair: Elisabetta Colla (Researcher CCCM, I.P.; CECC-UCP)

10h00 António Barrento (Vice-President of the IPS)
 “Beyond Meaningless Hardship: Tourism and the West Lake Exhibition of 1929” 

10h30 Valentina Boretti (SOAS, University of London)
           “‘To interest children and instruct parents’: Toy exhibitions in modern China”

11h00 Coffee Break

11h15 Weipin Tsai (University of London)
“Promoting China in the Universal Exhibition 1873 in Vienna: the Port Catalogues of Chinese Customs’ Collection”

11h45 Ming Turner (De Montfort University, Leicester)
 “Visualization and Globalization: Analyses of the Taipei Biennial from 1998 to 2008”

12h15  Maurizio Marinelli (University of Bristol, Centre for East Asian Studies)
           “China as the new World’s Exhibition?  The Long March from Beijing 2008 to Shanghai  2010”

12h45 Debate and Conclusions

13h15 Lunch Break

Visual Arts in China I

Chair: Tânia Ganito (ISCSP; IPS; CECC-UCP)

14h30 Jelena Gledic (University of Belgrade)
“Film Censorship and Cross-Cultural Concepts of Intimacy and Love: Constituents of Closeness in Different Versions of “Lust, Caution”

15h00 Elena Pollacchi (University of Cambridge)
            “Golden Lions: the role of international film exhibitions and awards in the evolution of the Chinese film industry from Zhang Yimou (1992,1999) to Jia Zhangke (2006)"
 
15h30 Iván Villarmea Álvarez (Universidad de Zaragoza)
 “Urban Transformations in China through the Cinema of the Sixth Generation”

16h00 Laura Montero Plata (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
 “In search of an animation to fit a Regime”

16h30 Viviana Gonzalez Dieguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
 “A Film Festival Cartography of China”

17h00 Coffee Break

17h15 María Elvira Ríos Peñafiel (El Colegio de México)
 “Guanyin Chuanqi: Guanyin’s image in TV series and its contribution to the Buddhist imaginary of the bodhisattva devotees”

17h45 Ksenia Markina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies)
 “Representation of Modern China through younger generation’s attitudes and values (inspired by popular Chinese TV-series)”

18h15 Leung Wing-Fai (SOAS, University of London)
 “Pan-Chinese Filmmaking and Performance: Discourse of (Quasi-) Nation and Identity “

18h45 Debate and Conclusions

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Auditorium 2

09h30 Welcome of Participants

Theoretical Models for the Analysis of China

Chair: Marília dos Santos Lopes (CECC-UCP)

10h00  Mary Mazzilli (University of London)
“Theoretical studies of China: Comparative literature, the debate on postmodernism in China and the quest for a ‘transnational’ intellectual”

10h30  Mariarosaria Gianninoto (Université Stendhal, Grenoble)
“Western Grammars of the Chinese language“

11h00  Coffee Break

11h15  Sofia Gaspar (Universidade de Coimbra)  
            “A theoretical assessment of the evolution of PRC’s participation in International Organizations"
11h45  Carmen Amado Mendes (Universidade de Coimbra)
   “Theorizing over China’s negotiation techniques and the behaviour of its entrepreneurial diaspora:  contributions for a model of analysis?”

12h15 Debate and Conclusions

12h45  Lunch Break

Visions of China in the Chinese Diaspora

 
Chair:  Irene Rodrigues (IPS)

14h30  Gladys Nieto (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
“Conflicting Modernities. Forms of Being Chinese Amongst Youth Migrants in Spain”

15h00  Dirk Vetter (Universität Freiburg)
“‘China es de…tiene muchos colores’ – Heterogeneous concepts of greater China in the language of the Chinese diaspora in Argentina.”

15h30  Valentina Pedone (Università di Urbino)
              “A first overview of Chinese-Italian literature”

16h00  Coffee Break

16h15  Eugène Zagrebnov (Université de Paris - VII)
    "Chinese migration in the border cities of the Russian Far East and the emergence of   transnational market"

16h45  Vladimir Datsyshen (Siberian Federal University)
    “Peculiarity of Chinese migration in Russia”

17h15  Elena Bazhenova (Russian Academy of Sciences)
 “New wave of the overseas Chinese and the contribution of Chinese diaspora in the economic development of China”
 
17h45  Andrei Ostrovskiy (Russian Academy of Sciences)
   “Chinese Diaspora as the Important Reserve of Intellectual Labor Force for China”

18h15  Debate and Conclusions

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Venue: Scientific and Cultural Centre of Macau [Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau],
Rua da Junqueira, 30

15h00   Shanghai Film Session

Oporto

5-7 March 2010
Venue: Auditorium of the “Almeida Garrett” Municipal Council Library, Crystal Palace Gardens
[Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Jardins do Palácio de Cristal]

Friday, 5 March 2010

09h30  Welcome of Participants

10h00  Opening Session
Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Gao Kexiang; Mayor of Oporto

10h30  Keynote Speech
    Zhang Yinde (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III)
“Shanghai Modern: commonplace and heterotopia”

11h30  Presentation of Issues 4 and 5 of the Journal of Chinese Studies [Revista de Estudos Chineses, Zhongguo Yanjiu 中国研究], João Paulo Meneses (TSF-Rádio Jornal)

12h00  Lunch Break

Visual Arts in China II

Chair: Tânia Ganito (ISCSP; IPS; CECC-UCP)

14h30  Christin Bolewski (Loughborough University School of Art and Design)
“A contemporary approach to Traditional Chinese landscape painting between Eastern and Western tradition”

15h00  Michelle Ying-Ling Huang (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland - U.K.)
“From Exhibitions to Interpretations: The Value of Chinese Painting in Early 20th Century Britain”

15h30  Chien Li-kuei (SOAS, University of London)
“From Li Qun’s Woodcut to Left Wing Identity in 1930s China”

16h00  Coffee Break

16h15  Michele Matteini (National Gallery of Art, Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, New York City – U.S.A)
            “Landscapes after Old Masters by Luo Ping (1733-1799) or the place of Culture in 18th century China”

16h45  Sandy Ng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
          “Searching for the Self: Tradition and the Human Body in Contemporary Chinese Art”

17h15  Nicole Wong (Chinese University, Christie’s Education, New York)
“The Contorted Sublime: Contemporary Art Negotiates Violence Embedded in Progress”

17h45  Davide Quadrio aka Dadou (Bizart, Co-Director, Shanghai)
          “The perfection of the imperfection or the principles of adaptation”

18h15  Debate and Conclusions

Saturday, 6 March 2010

09h30 Welcome of Participants

Tourism in China

Chair: António Barrento (Vice-President of the IPS)

10h00  Aurore Dumont (École Pratique des Hautes Études - Paris)
           “Some Reflexions on the Ethnic Tourism among the Reindeer Evenki of Inner Mongolia”

10h30  Dennis Zuev (University of Oxford)
“Building the Great Wall: analysis of representations from Tang poetry to modern tourism icon”

11h00  Coffee Break

11h15  Zélia Breda (Universidade de Aveiro)
             "The Chinese Invasion": Implications of the awakening of the dragon upon international tourism flows and opportunities for Portugal”

11h45  Roger Greatrex (Lunds Universitet)
“The Mists of Maoshan: the development of Chinese tourism over the centuries in the Jiangsu region”

12h15  Debate and Conclusions

12h45  Lunch Break

China Exposed, Imposed, Proposed:
Representations of China II

Chair: Joaquim Gonçalves Guimarães (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto)

14h30  Shu-Yun Ma (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
           “Chinese Gradualism as Darwinian Evolution: The Dual Track Price Reform”

15h00  Valeria Zanier (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
        “‘The survival of the fittest’: Chinese discourse on modernity across time”

15h30  Enze Han (George Washington University)
           “External Kin, Ethnic Identity, and Pursuance of More Autonomy: The Politics of Ethnic Mobilization in the People’s Republic of China”

16h00  Coffee Break

16h15  Eva S. Chou (The City University of New York)
           “Representations of China: The New Look in Chinese Men, 1900-1911”
 
16h45  Henrique Altemani (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
“China: de potência económica a potência internacional?” [China: from Economic to International Power?]

17h15  Yi Li (Tacoma Community College)
“China in America’s Textbooks”

17h45  Debate and Conclusions

Sunday, 7 March 2010

09h30 Welcome of Participants

Shanghai in Western Literature and Cinema

Chair: Roger Greatrex (Lunds Universitet)

10h00  Rosa Lombardi (Università di Roma)
           “China and Shanghai through the eyes of Italian writers”

10h30  Joaquim Gonçalves Guimarães (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto)
  “Xangai na Imprensa Portuguesa” [Shanghai in the Portuguese Press]

11h00  Alberto Elena (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
“Filming Shanghai: A Chinese Remake of a Spanish Movie”

11h30  Debate and Conclusions

12h00  Closing Lecture
 Manuel Pimentel Graça (CMP)

13h00 Official Closing
 Town Councillor for Culture of the CMP

13h30 Lunch Break

15h00  Shanghai Film Session
           “Shanghai Dreams”,  Wang Xiaoshuai 
 
 
 

Parallel Activities

Lisbon

26 February 2010, 9h30 
Venue: Macao Economic and Trade Representative Office [Delegação Económica e Comercial de Macau] 
Av. 5 de Outubro, 115, ground floor

Colloquium – Macao and Shanghai, Two Exposed Cities
[Colóquio – Macau e Xangai, duas cidades expostas]

Oporto

“Exhibition of Batiks of Chinese Ethnic Minorities”
[Exposição de Batiques das minorias étnicas chinesas]
Casa Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Rua D. Hugo 35, Oporto

“Workshop and Exhibition of Paper Cut-Outs”
[Workshop e exposição de papéis recortados chineses]
Oficina das Coisas, Rua da Alegria 1955, Oporto

 


Languages of the Forum:
Lisbon: English
Colloquium– Macao and Shanghai, Two Exposed Cities: Portuguese
Oporto: Portuguese and English (simultaneous interpretation available)

Interpretation services:
JP Galvão Lda.
e-mail: jpgalvao@netvisao.pt
Tel.: +351 964 088 644

Sponsors:

Jorge Álvares Foundation [Fundação Jorge Álvares]; Macau Foundation [Fundação Macau]; Foundation for Science and Technology [Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia]

      
Support:

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China; House of Macao [Casa de Macau]

Other Support:

Association of Tourism of Lisbon [Associação de Turismo de Lisboa]; Centre of Tourist Promotion and Information of Macau in Portugal [Centro de Promoção e Informação Turística de Macau em Portugal]; Association for the Development of Tourism in the Northern Region [Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Turismo da Região Norte] (ADETURN), Delta Cafés