MCLC: Impact of War on Modern Chinese Society

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Chi-Kong Lai <c.lai at uq.edu.au>
Subject: Impact of War on Modern Chinese Society
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International Conference on the Impact of War on Modern Chinese Society
University of Queensland

We are delighted to announce that the International Conference on the
Impact of War on Modern Chinese Society will take place at the University
of Queensland, on Friday-Saturday, October 18-19, 2013. This international
conference will involve a broad range of scholars from Australia, China,
Hong Kong, Japan and Canada, comparing and contrasting a variety of issues
and research methods relating to the theme of conflict in modern China.
Our interests range geographically from China’s far west to the Yellow Sea
and Japan, Manchuria to Chongqing. Temporally, we range from the late-19th
to the 21st century. Our topics are as diverse as battlefield tactics,
rural reconstruction, woodblock printing and microblogging.

This diversity illustrates the theme of the conference. War is not
restricted to battle – it involves society at all levels, and continues to
influence society long after the combatants have left the field. We will,
therefore, seek to discuss our varied research interests in terms of the
social impact of war. Can we, for example, look at war in terms of
production and consumption? How does war seek to manage or engineer
society? How is conflict an intellectual exercise, a media construction,
or a political expedient? Above all, how is war a social problem?

Our keynote speakers will be Professors Ricardo K.S. Mak, (Hong Kong
Baptist University), Ka Po Ng (Aichi Bunkyo University), and Colin
Mackerras (Griffith University). The conference is open to the public and
participation is free of charge. We can still accept one or two good
papers. Proposals for papers, as well as further enquiries, should be
submitted by email to the conference convener (c.lai at uq.edu.au) or the
conference's secretariat (cqwxl2009 at hotmail.com).

Pre-Conference Public Lecture on the Impact of War on Modern Chinese
Society
Venue: University of Queensland, Colin Clark Building, Room 105,
10:30-11:50am, 15, October, 2013.
Dr. Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng (ANU)
“The Chongqing negotiations: A reappraisal”
   Chair: Dr. Chi Kong Lai (HPRC, UQ)
Discussant: Mr. Chris Yuan (History, UQ)
Professor James Flath, History, University of Western Ontario

The Impact of War on Modern Chinese Society Reading Group Meeting: 2-2:50pm
(Reports on Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire [Joshua
Lovett]; Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China [Wu Xiaolu]; War and
Nationalism [Aaron William Moore]; What Remains: Coming to terms with
Civil war in 19th century China [Chris Yuan]
Chair: Dr Adam Bowles (religion, UQ)

Response: Professor James Flath, (History, University of Western Ontario),
Dr. Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng (ANU), Dr. Su Mingxian (Ph.D, Griffith) and
Chi Kong Lai)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
OCT 18-19 at The University of Queensland:
Venue: Sir Llew Edwards Building, Room 116, University of Queensland

Schedule:
18 October Friday
9 a.m. OPENING
WELCOME by Associate Professor Martin Crotty (Head of School, HPRC),
Professor Ping Chen (Director, UQ Confucius Institute) and Professor
Frederick D'Agostino (Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts)?
REMARKS by Dr. Chi Kong Lai and Associate Professor James Flath,
Co-conveners

9:30 a.m.-11 a.m.  SESSION ONE: DISTINGUISHED PANEL
Chair: Dr Patrick Jory (HPRC, UQ)

1st Keynote address: “Reconsidering Several Major Questions of the Battle
of the Yellow Sea: With Reference to Two Reports of Constantin von
Hanneken (1854-1925)”
Professor Ricardo K.S. Mak, (Head, Department of History, Hong Kong
Baptist University)

2nd Keynote address: “China’s Insecurity and National Development”
Professor Ka Po Ng (Faculty of Humanities, Aichi Bunkyo University, Japan)

Discussant: Professor C. L. Chiou, (Political Science and International
Studies, UQ)

11 a.m. -11:20 a.m. TEA BREAK

11: 20 a.m-12:50 p.m. SESSION TWO: WAR MEMORY
Chair: Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (Head, School of Journalism and
Communication)

“The demise of Moghulistan and the power of the Chinese Khaghan in the
writings of Molla Musa Sayrami”
Dr. Terrance Hayes (History, UQ)

“War and Popular Culture: The Prequel”
Professor James Flath (History, University of Western Ontario, London
Ontario Canada)

Discussant: Dr Melissa Curley (Political Science and International
Studies, UQ)
           Dr Andrew Bonnell (History, UQ)

12:50-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00-3: 30 p.m. SESSION THREE: CYBER WARFARE
Chair: Professor David Trigger (Head, School of Social Sciences, UQ)

“Internet War in Today’s China”
Ms. Yang Yang (Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, UQ)
“Defending Cantonese Weibo and geo-identity politics in Guangzhou, China”

Mr. Wilfred Yang Wang (Queensland University of Technology)

Discussant: Professor Paul Turnbull (HPRC, UQ)
Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner, FAHA (Centre for Critical and Cultural
Studies, UQ)?

3:30-4:00 TEA BREAK

4:00-600 UQ CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE PUBLIC LECTURE ON CHINESE CULTURE
Chair: Professor Ping Chen (Director, UQ Confucius Institute)

“Western Images of the PRC, With Some Focus on Attitudes to China’s Recent
Rise”.
Professor Colin Mackerras (Griffith)

6:00 -7:00 p.m. RECEPTION

19 October Saturday

8:20- 9:40 a.m. SESSION FOUR: WARLORD AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Chair: Associate Professor Chris Dixon (Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts)

The Guangxi Clique and the “June 1 Movement” in 1936
Dr. Su Mingxian (Ph.D, Griffith)

“Warlord and Rural-reconstructionist: Zouping (1931-1937) as a model”
Mr. Yan Zhe YANG (UQ, HPRC).

Discussant: Dr. Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng (ANU)

9:40-11:20 a.m. SESSION FIVE: COMMERCE AND DIPLOMACY
Chair: Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze (UQ Philosophy)

“Lu Zuofu and the Business Operation of the Minsheng Industrial Company in
Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945”
Dr. Chi Kong Lai (School of HPRC)

“Hygiene, Uniform and Identity- The everyday life of Wartime Chongqing”
Ms. Xiaolu Wu (HPRC)

“The Japan- US relationship in 1930s and the outbreak of The Sino-Japanese
War”
A/Professor Yang Junwei (Gansu Agricultural University of China)

Discussants:
Dr. Chi Wai Lui (School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences,
UQ).
Dr Hui (Steven) Feng (Political Science and International Studies, UQ)

11:20-11:30 TEA BREAK

11:30-1:20 p.m. SESSION SIX: THE IMPACT OF WAR ON SOLDIERS
Chair: Dr David Pritchard (Classics, UQ)

"Price of tactical sophistication: Fengtian Army 1919-1931”
Dr. Kwong Chi Man (History Department, Hong Kong Baptist University)

“The Nationalist soldiers’ everyday life during Second Sino-Japan War”
Mr. Yuan Tzu-Hsien, School of HPRC

“Families, Returned Soldiers and Living with Disability in Postwar Japan”
Assoc. Prof. Morris Low, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and
Classics

Discussant: Dr. Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng (ANU)
           Professor David Carter (School of English, Media Studies and Art
           History, UQ)?

1:20-1: 40 p.m. CONCLUDING REMARKS:
Professor Leong Liew (Director of Tourism Confucius Institute, Griffith)
Dr. Chi Kong Lai

8:00-9:00 p.m. ROUNDTABLE (Chi Kong’s House)

Conveners: Dr Chi Kong Lai and Associate Professor James Flath
Management committee:
Chi Kong Lai (Chair)
Xiaolu Wu (secretary)
Judy King (Editor)
Patrick Jory
Adam Bowles
Chris Yuan
Yan Zhe Yang
Morris Low

Sponsored by School of HPRC, UQ Confucius Institute and Tourism Confucius
Institute of Griffith University.