Conference Program
Sunday, January 8, 2012
13:00 Hotel Check-In & Registration
Monday, January 9, 2012
08:30-09:00 Conference registration
09:00-09:20 Opening and welcome remarks by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: 100 years in search of a new political and economic system for China: some preliminary reflections on creating myths for Xinhai Revolution
Panel 1 The historical significance of the Xinhai Revolution
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna
Chair: Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
09:25-09:45 Yuan Weishi: Achievements and damages caused by the Xinhai Revolution
09:50-10:10 Xu Jilin: Why authority was replaced by power: Wrong paths in the transformation of the political system before and after the Xinhai Revolution period
10:10-10:25 Coffee Break
10:25-10:45 Wang Xianming: From unrest to tradition – the Xinhai Revolution and the epochal turning point in the discourse on “revolution”
10:45-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 Flemming Christiansen: The 1911 Revolution and the Issue of “Second Modernity”: Implications for Globalization Theory 100 Years on
Panel 2 Different evaluations of the Xinhai Revolution
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
Chair: Axel Schneider
14:00-14:20 Sang Bing: Knowledge and System Transformation and its Relation to the Xinhai Revolution
14:25-14:45 Kubo Toru: Simpathy and Antipathy: the Xinhai revolution seen from the Meiji Japan
14:50-15:10 Jens Damm: The Contemporary Political and Public Discourse on the Xinhai Revolution in Taiwan
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-15:50 Astrid Lipinsky: The Xinhai Revolution in Taiwan: On the sustainability of artificially institutionalized history
15:55-16:15 Lei Yi: Xinhai: The revolution caused by the Qing court
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:45 Discussion
Keynote Lecture
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
17:45-18:45 Frank Dikötter: The Rise and Fall (and Great Muddle) of Political Openness in China since 1911
18:45-19:45 Dinner
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Panel 3 China’s political system in the last 100 years
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna
Chair: Agnes Schick-Chen
09:00-09:20 Yang Tianshi: Sun Yat-sen’s decision on the form of society and China’s development path in the last 100 years
09:25-09:45 Wu Guoguang: From Prosperity to Revolution: The Political Economy of China in a Macro-Historical Perspective, 1911-2011
09:50-10:10 Xia Baige: Looking at the Preamble of the Constitution to decipher China’s tortuous path to Constitutional Government in the last 100 years
10:10-10:25 Coffee Break
10:25-10:45 Zhang Qianfan: The Development Path of China’s Constitutional Government in recent years
10:50-11:10 He Weifang: The indroduction of the separation of powers and judicial independence in China during the late Qing and early Republican periods
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Panel 4 The political system in Republican China
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
Chair: Flemming Christiansen
14:00-14:20 Peter Zarrow: Revolutionary Organization and State-building: “Popular Sovereignty” in Sunism and Maoism
14:25-14:45 Xu Yong: The Soldiers Council and the Mutation of Politics in the early days of the Chinese Republic
14:50-15:10 Zhang Jing: The Mass Line – The Chinese Communist Party’s Experiment of Ruling in the Border Areas
15:10-15:25 Coffee Break
Panel 5 Discussion on political theory
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna
Chair: Peter Zarrow
15:25-15:45 Wu Zhe: Facing the Han-dominated Republic of China – The Dilemma and Choices of Ethnic Minorities
15:50-16:10 Ko Shih-Ming: Controversy and enlightenment: The “New Three Principles” against the background of the historical relationship between the KMT and the CCP
16:15-16:35 Axel Schneider: Why revolution is bad: critique of progress around 1911
16:40-17:00 Shih Chia-Yin: Ideology and Revolution: A Comparison of the Standpoints of the KMT and the CCP
17:05-17:25 Zhao Jinkang: Comparing the National Party Congress of the KMT and the CCP
17:25-17:45 Coffee Break
17:45-19:00 Discussion
19:00-20:00 Dinner
Keynote lecture
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
20:30-21:15 Shen Zhihua: The Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 – Rethinking this particular incident against the background of the Xinhai Revolution
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Panel 6 China and the World
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
Chair: Frank Dikötter
09:00-09:20 Zhu Jiaming: 100 years of Sino-Western interaction
09:25-09:45 Bae Kyuonghan: Sun Yatsen’s Conception of Pan-Asianism and Korea – The usefulness of the “perspective from the periphery”
09:50-10:10 Wu Lin-Chun: American Big Business and the Internationalization of China before and after World War I
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-10:50 Shen Zhihua: A choice that was no choice: The tortuous path to the establishment of the Sino-Soviet Alliance (1944-1950)
10:55-11:15 Tang Chi-Hua: The elevation of China to a position of equality: to revise or abolish the unequal treaties
11:20-11:40 Felix Wemheuer: Great Leaps and Famines: Comparing the Soviet and the Chinese Cases
11:40-11:55 Coffee Break
11:55-13:10 Discussion
13:15-14:15 Lunch
Parallel Panels 7.1 & 7.2 100 years of economic transformation
Panel 7.1
Location Seminar Room "Sigmund Freud", Hotel Rathauspark, Rathausstraße 17, 1010 Vienna
Chair: Zhu Jiaming
14:30-14:50 Hsu Chen-Kuo: The Experiences in Economic and Political Development of the Nationalist Government in Mainland China: A Modern Sovereign State
14:55-15:15 Lin Ching-Yuan: The Status and Significance of Taiwanese Experiences in Economic Development in the 100-year-long History of Republican China
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-15:50 Wei Sen: Some fundamental problems of economic and social transformation
15:55-16:15 Wu Jingping: The Modern Transformation of China’s Financial System since the Xinhai Revolution
16:15-17:30 Discussion
Panel 7.2
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
Chair: Benjamin Steuer
14:30-14:50 Zhu Ying: Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Conflict about the Existence of the Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s
14:55-15:15 Cheng Hwei-Shing: Noble House Capital and State Enterprises
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-15:50 Liu Hong: The 1980s: A comparison of the two different transformation processes in Taiwan and Mainland China
15:55-16:15 Xu Jiajun & Liu Suyu: The Interactive Relationship between the Reform of China’s Banking System and International Financial Regulations: A Historical Perspective
16:15-17:30 Discussion
19:00-21:00 Dinner
Thursday, Januar 12, 2012
Panel 8 Culture and Intellectuals
Location: Senatssaal, University of Vienna
Chair: Felix Wemheuer
09:00-09:20 Helmut Opletal: Concepts of political reforms and liberalization in the un-official grass-root Democracy Movements of the 1970s and 1980s in mainland China
09:25-09:45 Fu Guoyong: Tortuous Path Choices of Chinese Intellectuals in the last 100 years
09:50-10:10 Monika Lehner: Hidden Grammars of Discourse
10:10-10:25 Coffee Break
10:25-10:45 Yao Zhongqiu: Revolution and the “Tao”: The Revival of Confucianism in the Century of Revolutions
10:50-11:10 Lena Springer: Newly defined experts of Chinese health care: a field of contestation before and after the Xinhai Revolution
11:10-11:25 Coffee Break
11:25-12:40 Discussion
12:40-13:30 Concluding Remarks by Zhu Jiaming
13:30-15:00 Lunch
