ChiSRA: The China Dream

Provisional Programme
Wednesday 24
th
September 2014
TIME ROOM (TBC) SESSION

9:30 REGISTRATION
Refreshments will be available
10:30 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
KEYNOTE: Prof Zhong Xin (Renmin University), paper title tbc
12:00 PAPER PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 1
THEME: Conceptualising the China Dream
Jinghan Zeng (De Montfort
University, Leicester, UK)
Factional Politics behind China Dream:
Displaying Loyalties through
Ideological Campaigns in China
Sun Yue (Jacobs University,
Bremen)
Chinas Cultural Logic of Datong (Great
Harmony) and Its Possible
Contributions to Construction of the
Future World Order
Zhao Yupei and Jiang Mengjie
(University of Leicester, UK)

A Study of Asian and Western Media
Representations of China Dream
Concept
13:30 LUNCH
14:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 2
THEME: Communicating the China Dream
Peter Ferdinand (University of
Warwick, UK)
China Dream or Dream of the Chinese?
Evelyna Vatova (Independent
Researcher)
Chinas Dream. Communication
Deconstruction

Tbc


16:00 BREAK FOR REFRESHMENTS
16:30 Tbc
18:00 NETWORKING/FREE TIME
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
20:00 ENTERTAINMENT


Thursday, 25
th
September 2014
TIME ROOM (TBC) SESSION

09:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 3
THEME: Visualising the China Dream
Amy Jane Barnes (University of
Leicester, UK)
Visual Representations of the China
Dream (provisional title)
Li Mingxia (University of the
West of Scotland, UK)
Visualising Chinas Social and Economic
Transition with a Focus on the Socialist
Worker: LI Shaohong's Red Suit
Michael Pearce ( Californian
Lutheran University, USA)
Emergence and Art in the Chinese
Dream
11:00 BREAK FOR REFRESHMENTS
11:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 4
THEME: Making and Consuming the China Dream
Ken Wang (University of
Leicester, UK)
The implications of Chinese dreams on
cultural, economic and political
dimensions
Toby Lincoln (University of
Leicester, UK)
Chinas Urban Dream: Contemporary
urbanization in historical perspective
Tiantian Zheng (University of
Leicester, UK)

Whither guanxi?: An social-historical
analysis of guanxi practices in the
process of market reform of crop seeds
market
13:00 LUNCH
14:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 5
THEME: Consuming the China Dream
Ming Lim (University of
Leicester, UK)

Cultural Legitimacy and Chinas
Contested Rise: Media Representations
of Chinese Elite Wine Consumption
Kristie Thomas (University of
Nottingham, UK)
Building the consumer dream: The role
of law in emerging consumer rights in
China
Shi Yajuan (Beijing Institute of
Fashion Technology, China)
China Dream and Chinese-style of
Fashion Design
16:00 BREAK FOR REFRESHMENTS
16:30 KEYNOTE: tbc
CLOSING REMARKS
18:30 END