CONFERENCE  PROGRAM

Association of Chinese Political Studies

International Symposium and 21st Annual Meeting

 “China After the 17th Party Congress”

Sponsored by

The Provost Research Incentive Grant Program

The Public Affairs Grant Program,
The Asian Arts and Letters Initiative &
The Political Science Department 
Missouri State University

October 11-12, 2008

Welcome!

Welcome to Missouri State University and the 21^st Annual International Meeting of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS).  We hope that you will enjoy your stay at MSU—a university with over 20,000 students, a state-wide mission in public affairs and a larger presence in China than any other public university in the state. 

This two-day conference brings together some of the world's foremost experts to discuss political, economic and social developments in China following the landmark 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2007.

When & Where

The ACPS conference will be held on October 11 & October 12 in The Plaster Student Union. Please note that the conference meets in different locations within PSU on Saturday (PSU 300) and Sunday (PSU 313).

No Admission Charge and Free Parking

The conference is free and open to the public.  Parking during the conference is available in Lots 13 and 14, located off National and Monroe, as well as Lot 29, located off John Q. Hammons Parkway.

Need More Information?

For more information, contact the Political Science Department at 417-835-5630 or Dr. Dennis Hickey at 417-836-5850.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Plaster Student Union Room Ballroom East
(PSU 300)

Opening Plenary Session   8:30 am – 10:00 am

8:30–8:35am   Introduction 

8:35–9:00am   Welcome Speech
                        Dr. Frank Einhellig, Dean of the Graduate School, Missouri State University

9:00–9:45am    Keynote Speaker

Dali Yang, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for

East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago

Topic: “The Revenue Imperative and the Role of Local Government in China's Economic Transition and Development”

Coffee Break  9:45 am – 10:00 am

First Session  10:00 am – 12:20 pm

Panel 1 (10:00 am – 11:10 am)

The Politics of Reform Policy after the 17^th Party Congress

Chair: Jie Chen, professor and chair of Department of Political Science, Old Dominion University <Email: jchen@odu.edu>

Big Ministries: Bureaucracy and the Policy Processes Revisited after the 17th CCP Congress

Dr. Zhu Xufeng, Associate Professor, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University

The Local Politics of Restructuring State-Owned Enterprises in China

Jin Zeng, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations & Geography
Florida International University

Kellee S. Tsai, Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

China’s New Left and Its Impact on Reform

He Li, Professor, Department of Political Science, Merrimack College

Hong Kong’s Democratic Prospects after the 17th CCP Congress

Daniel Garrett, ODNI Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research

National Defense Intelligence College, Arlington, VA.

Discussant:  Sheng Ding, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bloomsburg University <Email: shengding.research@gmail.com>

Panel 2 (11:10 am – 12:20 am)

The Politics of Regulation in China

Chair: He Li, Professor, Department of Political Science, Merrimack College <Email: He.Li@merrimack.edu>

The Politics of Regulation in China

Yang, Dali, Professor and Director, East Asian Institute, Singapore

From Taming to Empowering the Regulatory Regime:  The New Politics of Regulatory Reform in China

Baogang Guo, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Dalton State College

乡镇政府的角色冲突：分析框架与表征诊断

何精华教授，上海师范大学 公共管理系

China’s Media Practices and Regulations after the 17th Party Congress

Xi Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Texas, Pan American

Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones? Labor Market Deregulation and Reregulation in China

Chia-chen Chou, PhD candidate, Department of Government at Cornell University

Discussant: Dr. Yuchao Zhu, Professor of the Department of Political Science

University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada <Email: Yuchao.Zhu@uregina.ca>

Second Session  1:40 pm – 4:00 pm

Panel 3 (1:40 pm – 3:10 pm)

Effective Governance in China

Chair: Yang, Dali, Professor and Director, East Asian Institute, Singapore <Email: daliyang@gmail.com>

A “Trapped Transition” or A “Rising Loadstone”: An Assessment of CCP’s Governance Performance after the 17th CCP Congress

Sheng Ding, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bloomsburg University

Generalized vs. Particularized Social Capital: Social Capital and Local Governance in Urban China

Jie Chen, professor and chair of Department of Political Science, Old Dominion University

Effective Governance in Non-Democracies: The Role of Informal Civil Society in Increasing Pluralism and Accountability in China

Jessica C. Teets, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Why is Xinjiang Still a New Dominion for China?

Qian Guo, Professor, Department of Geography, San Francisco State University

Explaining Evolutionary Institutional Change: Evidence from the News Media in Five Chinese Provinces

Orion A. Lewis, University of Colorado

Discussant: John Kennedy, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas <Email: kennedy1@ku.edu>

Panel 4 (3:10 pm – 4:20 pm)

China’s Foreign Policy after the 17th Party Congress

Chair: Dr. Yuchao Zhu, Professor of the Department of Political Science

University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada <Email: Yuchao.Zhu@uregina.ca>

The Chinese One World View and Foreign Policy

Shiping Hua, associate professor of Political Science and director of Center for Asian Democracy, The University of Louisville

The China World Order: A Dialectical Point of View

Josef Gregory Mahoney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and East Asian Studies, Grand Valley State University

China’s Asian Policy in the Early Twenty-first Century: Adjusting to Its Increasing Strength

Joseph Y.S. Cheng, Chair Professor of Political Science, City University of Hong Kong

Match Words with Deeds?: China and Regionalism in East Asia

Enyu ZHANG, Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Seattle University

Globalization and China's Human Rights Foreign Policy
Dingding Chen, Visiting assistant professor, Hamilton College

Discussant: Greg Moore, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Eckerd College <Email: mooregj@eckerd.edu>

Coffee Break   4:20 pm – 4:40pm

Third Session  4:40 pm – 6:00 pm

Panel 5 (4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

China’s Foreign Relations: Past, Present and Future

Chair:  Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Associate Professor of International Relations，San Francisco State University <Email: jmfblanc@sfsu.edu>

A Triangle Relationship: China, Russia, and the U.S. over Central Asia

Han Lheem, Assistant Professor, Department of Government and History, Fayetteville State University

China and Japan: Nationalisms and “Face Politics”

Greg Moore, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Eckerd College

Asymmetric Triangle Relations in the post-Cold War Era: South Korea between the U.S. and China

Myungsik Ham, Research Fellow of Center for Contemporary International Relations Studies, Jilin University, China

China-Mideast Relations: An Energy Perspective

Dr. Muhamad S. Olimat, Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics, Eckerd College

China’s Burden of African Reach

Kate Zhou, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Hawaii

Eric Kiss, MA student, Political Science, University of Hawaii

Discussant:  Joseph Y.S. Cheng， Chair Professor of Political Science, City University of Hong Kong <Email: rcccrc@cityu.edu.hk>

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Plaster Student Union Parliamentary Room
(PSU 313)

Fourth Session   8:30 am – 10:10 am

Panel 6 (8:30 am – 10:10 am)

会议专题 : 中国政治发展三十年的 回顾与展望

Featured Panel: 30 years of China’s Political Development: Retrospect and Prospect

专题主持人 郭苏建

Panel Chair: Sujian Guo, Professor and Director, Department of Political Science and Center for US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University

中国改革开放时代的中国人的行动结构

Chinese Behavioral Structure in an Era of China’s Reform and Opening up to the World

邓正来，上海复旦大学 社会科学高等研究院院长、教授

Deng Zhenglai, Dean and Professor, Fudan University Institute for Advanced Study on Social Science, Shanghai, China

中国政治发展与宪政建设

China’s Political Development and Constitutionalism

谢庆奎, 北京大学政府管理学院政治发展与政府管理研究所所长、教授

Xie Qingkui, Director and Professor,  Peking University Institute for Political Development and Governance

政治文明的多样性与中国的宪政建设

Diversity of Political Civilization and China’s Constitutionalist Construction

赵保佑, 河南省社会科学院副院长、研究员　

Zhao Baoyou, Vice President and Researcher, Henan Academy of Social Sciences

我们如何面对西方政治文明

Political Civilization: How China Meets the West?

丛日云, 北京政法大学政治与政府管理学院教授

Cong Riyun, Professor, School of Political Science and Public Administration, China University of Political Science and Law

政党主导的国家合作模式：1978年以来中国工会的改革

State Corporatist Model Dominated by the CCP: China’s Trade Union Reform since 1978

齐凌云， 上海社会科学院当代中国政治研究中心研究员

Qi Lingyun, Researcher, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Center for Contemporary Chinese Political Studies

十七大后的中国发展新趋势---透视“后奥运”现象

China’s New Development Trends –A Look into the “Post-Olympic” Phenomenon

周翔，北京大学政府管理学院博士后选人

Zhou Xiang, PhD Candidate, Peking University School of Government and Public Administration

Coffee Break  10:10 am – 10:20 am

Fifth Session  10:20 am – 12:10 pm

Panel 6 (10:20 am – 11:20 am)

China’s Rise and Soft Power

Chair:  Joseph Y.S. Cheng， Chair Professor of Political Science, City University of Hong Kong <Email: rcccrc@cityu.edu.hk>

The Study of China’s Soft Power in Hu Jintao Era

Yu-Nu Lu, Professor, Department of Information & Communication, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan 

When Soft Power Meets Nationalism: An Analysis of China’s Charm in South Korea

Jih-Un Kim, Assistant Professor, Dept of History, Politics & IR, Webster University (St. Louis, MO)

Discussant: Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Associate Professor of International Relations，San Francisco State University <Email: jmfblanc@sfsu.edu>

Panel 7 (11:20 am – 12:10 am)

The Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations

Chair: Hue-Ping Chin, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University.

New Directions and New Concepts:  President Ma and Taiwan's Chief Challenges

Dennis Hickey, The John F. Morris Professor of Political Science, Missouri State University

Regime Type and Decision Making in the Taiwan Strait

Yitan Li, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, Seattle University

Taiwan’s Defense Budget Battle in the DPP Era: How has the Legislature Thwarted the Defense Spending?

Bang Quan Zheng, Asian Studies, University of Michigan

Discussant: Chung-chian Teng, Professor, Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University  <Email: ccteng@nccu.edu.tw>

Sixth Session  2:00 pm – 4:40 pm

Panel 8 (2:00 am – 3:30 am)

China and International Political Economy

Chair: Dennis Hickey, The John F. Morris Professor of Political Science, Missouri State University <Email: DennisHickey@MissouriState.edu>

China’s Strategic Maneuver in the Acquisition of Oil Resources toward Latin America and Africa

Chung-chian Teng, Professor, Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University

What Causes Capital Account Openness in Developing Countries?  A Focus on China

Lilly Kelan Lu, Ph.D. Student, Political Science Department, University of North Texas

Assessment of the Impact of Foreign Investment in the Post-Hu Generation

Chun-Yi Lee, Research Associate, Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK

China’s Oil Industry and Energy Security after the 17th National Congress of the CCP

Dai Guanhui, Department of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford

Discussant: Jih-Un Kim, Assistant Professor, Dept of History, Politics & IR, Webster University, St. Louis, MO. <Email: kimjih@webster.edu>

Coffee Break   3:30 pm – 3:50 pm

Seventh Session   3:50 pm – 6:15 pm

Panel 9 (3:50 pm – 5:30pm)

China in Search of a Harmonious Society

Chair:  Josef Gregory Mahoney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and East Asian Studies, Grand Valley State University <Email:  mahoneyg@gvsu.edu>

Norm, Law, China’s Legal Reform and Harmonious Society

-The case of Xinfang (Letters and Visits)

Dr. Yuchao Zhu, Professor of the Department of Political Science

University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Marching toward a Harmonious Society:

A Study of Happiness and Governance in Urban China

Diqing Lou, Ph.D. Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University

Road to Ethnic Harmony: The Case of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Yiran Zhou, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, Missouri State University

Harmonious Gender Balance: Identifying the “Missing Girls” in Shaanxi.

John Kennedy,  Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas

Shi Yaojiang, Director of the Northwest Socio-economic Development Research Center (NSDRC), Northwest University, Xian

Politics of Korean Minority's Migration in Contemporary China: Transformation from Autonomous Diasporas to Non-Autonomous Diasporas

Myungsik Ham, Research Fellow of Center for Contemporary International Relations Studies, Jilin University, China

Wooyeal Paik, Ph.D. Candidate of Political Science Department, University of California at LA

The Politics of Environmental Conservation and the Conserving of the Political Environment: A study of the Interaction of Politics, Civil Society, and the Environment in China

Joshua Su-Ya Wu, PhD student, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University

Discussant: Dr. Zhu Xufeng, Associate Professor, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University <Email: zhuxufeng@nankai.edu.cn>

Panel 10 (5:30 pm – 6:15 pm)

China’s Modernization and the Military

Chair: Baogang Guo, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Dalton State College <Email: bguo@daltonstate.edu>

Modernization and Cooperation: Chinese Military after the CCP 17th Congress

Xiaobing Li, Director and Professor, Western Pacific Institute, University of Central Oklahoma

China’s Military Modernization: Image and Reality

Steve Henry, Graduate Student, Political Science Department, Missouri State University

The modernization of China military-industrial complex: Trends and Prospects after the 17th CCP Congress

Emmanuel Puig, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laboratoire Communication et Politique

CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research)

Discussant: Joseph Y.S. Cheng， Chair Professor of Political Science, City University of Hong Kong <Email: rcccrc@cityu.edu.hk>

Many thanks to Missouri State University for helping make the Conference possible!

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