Chinese Studies Research Day 27 June 2008

Chinese Studies Research Day

Date: Friday, 27 June, 2008

Location: Tutorial / Committee Room, Ground floor, Baillieu Library.

RSVP to Bick-har Yeung bhy@unimelb.edu.au by 23rd June 2008 for catering purposes.

The Chinese Studies Research Day is opened to Chinese Studies postgraduates from Melbourne and interstate.

Program

Morning Session: Chinese Studies Seminar

Chair: Professor David Holm, Asia Institute.

9:45 – 10:10
Registration and morning tea

10:10 – 10:20
Opening remarks: Professor David Holm, Asia Institute.

10:20 – 11:00
Topic: New Urban Space after House Reform: the Commercial Residential Community in Beijing
Speaker: Ying Wu, PhD candidate, the visiting scholar, Faculty of Land and Food Resources, Parent institution: Peking University.
Summary: After house reform, the commercial house became prevalent in China.
Especially with the disintegration of the work-unit, the commercial residential community (CRC) turned into one of the most important urban spaces in Chinese grass-root society. This paper aims to portray the making and remaking process of such a new urban space. By investigating the practice of a commercial residential community in Beijing, I argued that the construction of the CRC is a network process, including the the growth of homeowners, the dependence to the existed institution and the adjustment of the government. According to the new operation and guidelines of the all actors, I can conclude that an automatic state and an autonomy society are taking shape.

11:05 – 11:45
Topic: China and J ø rn Utzon: The role of traditional Chinese art and architecture in the work of J ø rn Utzon.
Speaker: Chiu Chen-Yu, PhD Candidate, Architecture Department.
Summary: Historically, the work of Danish architect J ø rn Utzon (1919- ), the designer of Sydney Opera House, has been influenced by the Chinese art and architecture, and this has been a recurring source of discussion and no little account of puzzlement. However, as a field of historical and critical study of Utzon's work, the significance of Chinese culture has virtually been ignored despite a general and full body of firm evidence suggesting several direct linkages of Chinese inspiration with Utzon's frequent acknowledgements of such a formal debt. The primary aim of this thesis is therefore not only to help to clarify the nature of Utzon's artistic debt to China by examining the impact on his work through the particular channels but also to critically analyze these transcultural puzzles with Utzon's architectural transformation.

11:50 - 12:30
Topic：汉语语法的特点
Keynote Speaker: Professor Huainan Wu. (吴淮南教授), Co-Director, Confucius Institute, The University of Melbourne (院长, 墨尔本大学孔子学院).
Summary：不论是从汉语研究还是汉语教学的角度，了解、重视汉语有别于其他语言（如印欧语言）的特点都是十分必要的，这将有助于汉语科学研究的深入，有助于提高汉语作为第二语言教学的针对性，有助于提高成人汉语学习者对汉语认知的准确度和学习、应用汉语的成效。在这方面，汉语语法特点的研究不可或缺，也是汉语研究、汉语教学和汉语学习者长期关注的热点之一。本讲座综合汉语特点研究的成果，面向汉语研究者、汉语教师和汉语成人学习者，介绍汉语语法相对于其他语言所具有的不同之处，也注意汉语语法本身一些影响全局的现象。演讲人将从汉语缺少形态变化，汉语语素绝大部分属单音节，汉语词类和句法成分之间不存在简单的一一对应关系，汉语句子的构造原则和词组的构造原则基本一致，汉语词序的某种相对固定性和语言单位组合的某种灵活性，汉语应用中句子成分的简省等方面对汉语语法（主要是现代汉语语法）的一些重要特性作通俗性的讲解，也寄望于讲座听众参与深入探讨。
Remark: Presentation will be in Chinese.

12:30 – 1:10
Lunch

Afternoon Session: Chinese Studies Workshop

Chair: Dr. Lewis Mayo, Asia Institute.

1:15 – 2:00
Topic: How research on Chinese society in the 21 st century might deal with the emerging concepts of Biopolitics and Biocapitalism.
Speaker: Dr. Lewis Mayo, Asia Institute.

2:05 – 2:45
Topic: Conversion of a Ph D thesis into a book or similar published work.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Haiqing, University of Tasmania.

2:45 – 3:00 afternoon tea

3:00 – 4:00
Panel on China field trips

(1) 3:00 – 3:15
Field trip in China: Shandong Province. Dr. Zhou Shaoming, Asian Institute.

(2) 3:15 – 3:30
Field trip in China: Yunnan Province. Dr. Zhenyi Guo, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

(3) 3:30 – 3:45
Field trip in China: Beijing. Yuxing Zhou. Ph D Candidate, Asia Institute.

(4) 3:45 – 4:00
Discussions and sharing

Acknowledgment:
This event is proudly supported by the International Relations Office, the University of Melbourne.

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