Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 14 September 2007

Chinese Studies Research Group Lunch Seminar 14 September 2007

Venue: Tutorial / Committee Room, Ground Floor, Baillieu Library

Program:

11:30 - 11:45

Registration and morning tea

11:45 - 11:50

Welcome (Jonathan Benney, President, Chinese Studies Research Group; Ph D Candidate, Asia Institute )

11:50 - 12:30
Topic: Dirty Secrets of Rising China and Peaceful Aus.
Speaker: Lili Wang, Independent Writer

12:35 - 1:15
Topic: Dual netizens? Chinese Protestants and the World Wide Web

Speaker: Emily Dunn, PhD Candidate, Asia Institute

1:15 - 2: 00 Lunch

2:00 - 2: 40

Remarks: RSVP to Bick-har Yeung bhy@unimelb.edu.au by 7 September 2007 for catering purpose.

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Program Details

11:50 - 12:30

Topic: Dirty Secrets of Rising China and Peaceful Aus.
Speaker: Lili Wang, Independent Writer
Summary: The Chinese independent writer Wang Lili has been called a hero by the West as she is a voice for the ‘no voice class' during the rise of China. In her first two fictions, she wrote about migrants, sex-traders, spinsters and others with great understanding and respect. She is now living in Melbourne as a visiting writer, meeting celebrities as well as people on the streets, doing her private research on peaceful and harmonious society, writing about non-fiction on Australia, especially Melbourne. One day, she was thrown out of the door as she refused her sponsor's sexual advances, and she lost her home in a flash. She became a homeless when she finally found the dirty secrets abo! ut Melbourne, Australia …

12:35 - 1:15
Topic: Dual netizens? Chinese Protestants and the World Wide Web

Speaker: Emily Dunn, PhD Candidate, Asia Institute
Summary: Over the past few decades, Christianity in China has attracted not only middle-aged women in rural areas, but also younger, well-educated and “wired” urbanites. My talk will examine contemporary Chinese Protestants’ use of the internet. In particular, I consider the ways in which their online activities support and / or subvert Chinese state agendas. While some Christians use online spaces to challenge state constructions of orthodoxy either explicitly or implicitly, others express respect towards the state while expressing their religious identities, and in this sense may be considered netizens of both earthly and heavenly realms.

2:00 - 2:40

Topic: Ethnic Groups and Their Languages in China 中国的民族和语言
Speaker: Professor Huang Xing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
黄行教授 , 中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所副所长 (http://iea.cass.cn/org/)
Summary:
China has been a country with many ethnic groups who speak different languages. This talk discusses the historical origins of these ethnic groups and their languages, and the criteria for identifying and classifying them, which will have implications for a linguistic and ethnological classification of these ethnic groups.
中国自古是多民族和多语言的国家。本报告介绍中国不同民族和语言的历史来源与识别划分的方法，以及中国民族和语言分类的人类学意义。
This talk will be presented in Chinese.