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Artistic impression of May Hall after restoration

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

(Incorporating the Centre of Asian Studies)

Annual Report 2011-12

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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HIGHTLIGHTS 1

CORE PROGRAMS & EVENTS 4

I. Multi-year Research Clusters 4 1. Trading Empires of the South China Coast, South Asia and the Gulf Region 4

2. Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology and Civil Society 4

3. East Asian Medicine, Science and Contemporary Public Health 5

4. Indigenous Charities in the Modern World 6

5. China-Africa Diasporas 7

II. Global and Multi-year Partnerships on Research Training 7 1. Social Science Research Council and National University of Singapore 7

2. Association for Asian Studies 7

3. Harvard-Yenching Institute and East China Normal University 8

4. Yale University 9

5. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 10

6. D. Kim Foundation 11

III. Nurturing Research Talents 11 1. Sin Wai-Kin Junior Fellow Program 11

2. Recruitment of Young Researchers 11

3. Successful Applications for Competitive Grants 12

4. Research Activities and Teaching in the University 12

5. Advanced Training Workshops 13

IV. Lecture and Seminar Series 14 1. Distinguished Lecture Series 14

2. Lectures and Seminars by Staff and Visiting Scholars 15

3. Lunchtime Series on Interdisciplinary China Studies 16

4. Departmental Seminars 17

5. Lecture Series at Sun Yat-sen University 18

V. Institutional Development 19 1. New Honorary Professors 19

2. Postgraduate Programs 19

3. Financial Summary 20

VI. Publications 21 1. Books and Journal supported by the Institute 21

2. Selected Publications by Staff, 2011-2012 21

VII. Knowledge Exchange 21 1. Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series 21

2. Hong Kong Memory Project 22

VIII. List of Appendices 24

HKIHSS Annual Report 2011‐12 1

HIGHLIGHTS

The year 2011‐2012 has been a year of significance marked by three important events: May Hall as Our New Home The Institute’s offices, previously divided between Tang Chi Ngong Building and ground floor of May Hall, were reunited on the renovated first and second floors of May Hall in September 2012. When the second phase of renovation ‐ which will both restore and revitalise May Hall’s ground floor ‐ completes, the Institute will take over the entire building. Built in 1915 and having been rated by the Government as a Grade 1‐historic edifice, May Hall not only stands the test of time but also echoes our value and our vision. We welcome and embrace what emblematic representation the building has for us. Professor Angela Ki Che Leung as the first Joseph Needham‐Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science and Civilization in HKU Prof. Angela Ki Che Leung, Chair Professor and Director of the Institute, was nominated in April 2012 by the University as the first Joseph Needham‐Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science and Civilization. The professorship is established and endowed by the East Asian History of Science Foundation (Hong Kong), honouring the late Dr. Joseph Needham of Cambridge University, architect of the monumental project “Science and Civilisation in China”, and the late Dr. Philip Wen Chee Mao, founding Chairman of the Foundation. The endowment also highlights one of the Institute’s main themes of research: Humanities in Chinese Science, Technology and Medicine.

Prof. Leung shaking hands with Dr. Peter Lee, Vice‐Chairman, Board of Directors of the East Asian History of Science Foundation (Hong Kong) at the inauguration ceremony of endowed professorships held on April 20, 2012


Conference on Inter‐Asian Connections III: Hong Kong

The second conference of “Inter‐Asian Connections”, a collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC, NY) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), was hosted by the Institute in June 2012. This major event had 106 participants from all over the world and comprised six concurrent workshops:

Anatomies of Knowledge: Medicine, Science & Health in Asia Workshop Directors: Angela Ki Che Leung (HKU) and Izumi Nakayama (HKU)

Asian Crossings, 1789‐1914 Workshop Directors: Ross Forman (University of Warwick) and Julia Kuehn (HKU)

Just Society at Last? Ideals and Projects of the Common Good across Asia Workshop Directors: Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied (National University of Singapore) and Morgan Y. Liu (The Ohio State University)

Networks of Religious Learning and the Dissemination of Religious Knowledge across Asia Workshop Directors: Christophe Jaffrelot (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po) and Mirjam Künkler (Princeton University)

Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and New Spatial Imaginaries Workshop Directors: Çağlar Keyder (Boğaziçi University) and Ravi Arvind Palat (State University of New York at Binghamton)

Sustainability and Citizenship in Asia Cities Workshop Directors: Anne M. Rademacher (New York University), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Yale University) and Billy Kee‐long So (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Each showcasing innovative research from various social science and related disciplines and exploring new dimensions of the varied connections and continuums that criss‐cross the Asian expanse. In addition to the closed workshop sessions, there were three plenary sessions. They included: Interpreting Hong Kong, featuring Margaret Ng (then Legislative Council Member of the

HKSAR), and Stephen Vines (Independent journalist, writer and businessman)

Inter‐Asia, Then and Now, featuring Finbarr Barry Flood (New York University), Takeshi Hamashita (Sun Yat‐sen University), and Engseng Ho (Duke University)

China in Asia, Then and Now, featuring Helen Siu (Yale University and HKU), Wang Gungwu (National University of Singapore) and Xiang Biao (University of Oxford).


Each of these sessions drew an audience of more than 200. The conference ended with a curriculum workshop with the aim to facilitate teaching of the “Inter‐Asian Connections” agenda.

(Clockwise from top left) ‐ Prof. Roland Chin, HKU Provost and Deputy‐Vice‐Chancellor giving a welcome speech at the IAC III

opening. The event was also part of the Centenary celebrations of the University ‐ Prof. Wang Gungwu speaking at the plenary session “China in Asia, Then and Now”. With him are Dr.

Xiao Biao (left), Prof. Helen Siu and Prof. Prasenjit Duara ‐ Speaking in the middle is Mr. Stephen Vines at the plenary session “Interpreting Hong Kong”. With him

are Hon. Margaret Ng (left) and Prof. Helen Siu ‐ Scholar participants in deep thought ‐ Prof. Takeshi Hamashita at the plenary session “InterAsia, Then and Now”


CORE PROGRAMS & EVENTS I. Multi‐year Research Clusters 1. Trading Empires of the South China Coast, South Asia and the Gulf Region

The workshop “Asia Inside Out” was held December 15‐17, 2011 in Doha with “Place” as its theme. This workshop ‐ the second from a series of three ‐ had a focus on both historical and contemporary “place making” in Asia. A team of 12 scholars first shared ideas on the topic of trans‐local connection over two days, then went on a 5‐day field‐trip to Oman, a part of Asia with the significance of serving as a crossroads. The team was able to confirm through this exploration some of their collective findings, particularly regarding their vision of Asia as a whole from various regional perspectives. In the summer of 2012 Professors Helen Siu (Yale), Peter Perdue (Yale) and Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell), Principle Investigators, submitted a 3‐volume book proposal titled “Asia Inside Out” to Harvard University Press. Harvard UP’s

board voted a short while ago on the decision to offer the proposed volumes an advance contract. Editing work on volume 1 is expected to finish in 2013. 2. Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology and Civil

Society Convenors of this cluster, Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan (Yale) and Dr. Anne M. Rademacher (NYU), together with Prof. Billy Kee‐long So of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology attended the Conference on Inter‐Asian Connections III: Hong Kong, June 6‐8, 2012. They co‐chaired one of the six workshops on “Sustainability and Citizenship in Asian Cities”. A volume entitled Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability is slated for publication by the HKU Press in March 2013 as the post‐conference publication of “Urban Ecologies in Asia”, an international conference held in 2010 in Hong Kong.


3. East Asian Medicine, Science and Contemporary Public Health Led by Prof. Angela Ki Che Leung (HKIHSS, HKU) and Dr. Izumi Nakayama (Japanese Studies, HKU), this project takes a comparative approach to medicine and health in the colonial period and beyond, and their implications for the construction of modern medical cultures in Asia. The three parts of the project are: (1) policies and moralities regarding disease and epidemic control in the very different historical contexts of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, (2) rapidly changing regional flows of people, goods and diseases, and their impact on health institutions that managed global and inter‐regional health risks, and (3) how modern and contemporary experimental medical sciences and practices affect health practices, gender, social relationships, and new moral debates in Asian societies. This year, the following events were organised by the cluster: In collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (HKU), Prof. Judith Farquhar

of the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago was invited to give a distinguished lecture on October 19, 2011 and to lead a roundtable discussion with local colleagues on the following day. The lecture was titled “Healing and Heritage: Sorting out Ethnic Traditional Medicine in Southwest China”, and during the roundtable discussion on the theme “The Folk and the Formal: Common Sense, Experience and Official Authority in East Asia”, examples of interactions between popular knowledge and elite‐led knowledge production were raised and debated. How folklore and formalised knowledge interweave with each other was also explored and discussed using both historical and sociological theories and methods.

Prof. Judith Farquhar at her distinguished lecture at HKU, October 19, 2011

A workshop on “Recent Works in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine” was co‐organised with The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia on Jan 6, 2012 with young scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China presenting their research on the history of science, technology and medicine.


Held on March 9‐10, 2012 at the University, “The Making of Asia: Health and Gender” was a conference organised by Prof. Angela Ki Che Leung and Dr. Izumi Nakayama. This 2‐day event comprised 16 presentations with each examining, through an interdisciplinary analysis of gender and health, some aspects of the formative issues of “Asia” and “Asians”. Speakers included scholars of different generations from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and the USA. There are plans to publish an edited volume of selected conference papers. (See Appendix 1 for the program of the conference.)

On June 6‐8, 2012, Prof. Leung and Dr. Nakayama directed a workshop: “Anatomy of

Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Health in Asia” at the HKU/NUS/SSRC conference on “Inter‐Asian Connections III”.

In addition to conferences and workshops, the Institute hosted a series of public lectures that were highly relevant to the cluster’s research interests. The intention is for them to become the core of the Institute’s new postgraduate programs. 4. Indigenous Charities in the Modern World

Co‐convened by Prof. Raj Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Prof. David Faure (Chinese University of Hong Kong), the second workshop on “Charities and Legitimacy of Organisation, Law, Accountability, and Transparency” was held on December 13‐15, 2011 in Istanbul. There were 20 presentations on a wide range of governance issues relating to charities and NGOs, and how they interacted with the state, donors, people they served, and society at large. The 2‐day meeting was followed with a visit

to two Islamic charities based in Turkey—Kimse Yok Mu and IHH Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. Participants also saw a logistics center where commodities donated were sorted, recorded and packed for delivery to the needy. (See Appendix 2 for the program of the workshop)


5. China‐Africa Diasporas

Held in August 2010 in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Yiwu (Zhejiang Province), the first meeting of the cluster “China‐Africa Diasporas” focused on African populations in China. Co‐convened by Prof. Helen Siu and Prof. Michael McGovern (Yale), the second meeting cum field‐trip was held in Zanzibar, Tanzania from July 7 to 18, 2012. The meeting was funded by the Institute, the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) and the Inter‐Asia Initiative at Yale, and a core group of 12 scholars from HKU, Yale, Cornell and Illinois had an intensive discussion to examine the historical trading routes between Asia and Africa across the Indian Ocean, and various contemporary forms of Chinese involvement in the African trade. Workshop participants discussed the dimensions of Historical and Contemporary Linkages, Political Landscapes of Development, and China’s Soft Power and New Spaces in the African Countries. The meeting was followed by field visits to the China Agricultural Research

Demonstration Centre, Sisal Plantation at PeiyaPeiya, China Medical Team in Zanzibar, Sino‐Tanzania Friendship Hospital, Central Market and Tazara Railway Station in Dar es Salaam. Interviews with Chinese textiles importers and Tanzanian electrical retailer were also arranged. A workshop report is in Appendix 3. II. Global and Multi‐year Partnerships on Research Training 1. Social Science Research Council and National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore and the New York‐based Social Science Research Council are two important partners of the Institute. The three collaborate on the project “Inter‐Asian Connections” and endeavour to reconceptualise “Asia” as a notion of regional study. Two international conferences have so far been organised as part of the output of this project. (See Highlights) Both conferences have enjoyed great success, which has led to the participation of new partners: Yale University and Koç University (Istanbul) will join in organising a third conference to be held in Istanbul in October 2013. 2. Association for Asian Studies The Institute has entered into an agreement with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), National University of Singapore (NUS), Academia Sinica (Taipei) and Doshisha University (Kyoto) to co‐organise a series of conferences on “Asia in Motion”. The series is to be held in Asia, but the agreement establishes involvement of the US‐based AAS, bringing to the dialogue their expertise and perspective.


A meeting was held in July 17‐19, 2012 at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) of NUS, and was attended by representatives from each institution. After considerable discussion, “Asia in Motion” was selected as a broad theme for a 3‐year series of conferences to be hosted by different institutions across Asia, the inaugural one by ARI/NUS in the summer of 2014. As have currently been envisioned, a second will be held in Taiwan in 2015, jointly organised by the Academia Sinica and the HKIHSS, and a third by Doshisha University in 2016. The specific theme for the 2014 conference in Singapore is “Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation”. It is hoped that this will attract panel and roundtable proposals from humanists and social scientists, as well as people involved in policy making, civic movements, journalism, and other professional fields. As with the AAS annual conference, proposals on all countries and regions of Asia are invited.

(From left) Prof. Ming‐Kou Chan, Prof. Gail Hershatter, Prof. Angela Leung, Prof. Yun‐Han Chu, and Prof. Helen Siu at AAS Annual Conference 2012

3. Harvard‐Yenching Institute and East China Normal University During the past few years, the Institute partnered with HYI to co‐organise three training workshops in Beijing and Shanghai for postgraduate students and junior faculty from Hong Kong, China, elsewhere in Asia and the United States. All trainees benefited tremendously from the workshops. Among them, three from HKU were awarded a 1‐year fellowship at HYI for their outstanding work. As the workshops received great acclaim from participants and partners, the Institute teamed up with HYI and our long‐term partner, East China Normal University, in organising a 3‐year program on “Urban Studies and the China Experience” in 2011. The first event of this program was a 2‐day workshop on “China’s Urban Political Culture in Comparative Perspective”, held at Harvard University on May 4‐5, 2012. There were 4 panels with presentations by 12 scholars. Prof. Helen Siu, Dr. Elizabeth Sinn and Dr. Jascha Yu of the Institute attended the workshop. Prof. Siu chaired one of the panels and Dr. Sinn presented a paper comparing the political cultures in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the late 19th century. (See Appendix 4 for the workshop program)


“China’s Urban Political Culture in Comparative Perspective” workshop at Harvard, May 2012

A second conference and the first training workshop on “City and State” have been planned for June 2013, to be held in Shanghai. 4. Yale University

Yale University has been a vital partner of the Institute since its establishment in 2001. In particular, the Institute has worked closely with the Council on East Asian Studies and the Inter‐Asia Initiative at the Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies. They have offered both financial and administrative support to the research cluster “China‐Africa Diaspora”, especially in organising a workshop in Tanzania in July 2012.

Senior colleagues of Yale University including Professors William Kelly (Anthropology), Deborah Davis (Sociology), Peter Perdue (History), James Scott (Political Science) and Chen Zhiwu (Finance) have also been involved with the Institute’s activities. To cooperate and facilitate an expanding intellectual agenda, colleagues such as Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan (South Asian Council) and Prof. Michael McGovern (Anthropology) have been invited to serve as convenors of two of the Institute’s research clusters, namely “Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology and Civil Society” and “China‐Africa Diasporas”. The Institute also plans to invite Prof. Deborah Davis to deliver a Distinguished Lecture in January 2013. Yale University, in collaboration with the Institute, the SSRC and NUS, will organise the Conference on “Inter‐Asian Connections: IV”, which will be held in Istanbul in October 2013.


5. Sun Yat‐sen University, Guangzhou Sun Yat‐sen University is one of the Institute’s most important partners. Over the past 11 years, the Institute has established a close working relationship with units from Sun Yat‐sen University such as the History Department, the School of Asia‐Pacific Studies and particularly the Centre for Historical Anthropology. We have collaborated in organising an annual lecture series and advanced summer workshops to nurture a generation of young scholars, and for over a decade, ten summer workshops have been organised with far‐reaching impact. They have become a model for similar training programs in China and former trainees of these programs have started their teaching career in different universities. To better draw the benefits of this partnership, colleagues of the Institute and Sun Yat‐sen University decided to shift training targets from postgraduate students to junior faculties by reinforcing, deepening and extending the content of the workshops. The first redeveloped workshop was held in Guizhou in 2011, and the second in Hunan from August 3 to 13, 2012, engaging 13 trainees from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. (See Appendix 5 for the program of the second workshop)

Sun Yat‐sen University and the Institute also jointly produce the Journal of History and Anthropology (《歷史人類學刊》) and a Chinese language series of monograph “History in the Field”, both of which have received high acclaim from academic circles. The Journal of History and Anthropology was included in November 2012 by the National Science Council in Taiwan as a core journal of the “Taiwan Humanities Citation Index” (臺灣人文學引索引核心期刊). The increase in visibility and impact that the journal has is unquestionable.

Training workshop cum fieldwork in Hunan, August 2012


6. D. Kim Foundation Established in 2008, the D. Kim Foundation is a leading international funding agency for furthering studies of the history of science and technology in modern East Asia. The Foundation held its second annual trustee’s meeting cum workshop on January 5‐6, 2012 with the Institute as local host. The two will continue to work closely together as the Foundation’s mission coincides with the Institute’s research and teaching agenda. Prof. Angela Ki Che Leung, a trustee of the Foundation, is going to attend its next meeting in Paris in January 2013, to explore opportunities for further collaboration.

Trustees of The D. Kim Foundation at HKU: (from left) Prof. Kuiryama Shigehisa, Prof. Christopher Cullen, Prof. Dong‐won Kim, Prof. Angela Leung, Prof. Stuart W. Leslie, and Prof. Takehiko Hashimoto III. Nurturing Research Talents It has always been a vision of the Institute to nurture young scholars. We believe that they have great capacity for critical thinking, and will benefit tremendously from any opportunities to broaden their horizons. For this reason, the Institute has established itself as a platform for these young scholars to progress and blossom. 1. Sin Wai‐Kin Junior Fellow Program In April 2011, the Institute received a generous donation from Dr. Sin Wai‐Kin, part of which was used to set up the “Sin Wai‐Kin Junior Fellow Program”. The fellowship provides financial and academic support to nominated junior colleagues or postgraduate students for the implementation of their research projects. Initially, the program will run for six years, beginning in the academic year of 2011‐2012. The first Sin Wai‐Kin Junior Fellow Dr. Izumi Nakayama (Japanese Studies, HKU), historian of medicine in modern Japan, was nominated in 2011‐12. 2. Recruitment of Young Researchers As part of its expansion, the Institute has recruited from top‐tiered universities overseas additional


academic staff to meet the growing demand in both research and teaching. Research interests of these new faculty members very closely parallel the Institute’s China and Inter‐Asia agenda: Dr. Matthew Mosca (Ph.D. 2008 Harvard University), Research Assistant Professor Dr. Ji Li (Ph.D. 2009 University of Michigan), Post‐doctoral Fellow They have, in a relatively short time, increased visibility of the Institute’s programs, and, with proper support, will be an integral part of our commitment to both research and inter‐disciplinary teaching. 3. Successful Applications for Competitive Grants In 2011‐12, these colleagues successfully obtained research grants from external funding: Dr. Nanlai Cao has obtained his second grant from the General Research Fund (2011‐12) for his project on “China’s Private Commercial Engagement in Africa: The Wenzhou Trade Diaspora in Nigeria”. The grant, valued at HKD 608,546 over two years, is funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC). 4. Research Activities and Teaching in the University In addition to their individual research, the Institute encourages its research staff to strengthen ties with other faculties of both the University and other academic institutions through actively participating in various conferences and teaching activities. In the past year, Dr. Charles Wheeler and Dr. Matthew Mosca represented the Institute in organising these conferences with their colleagues: Conference on “Nguyen Vietnam: 1558‐1885” (May 11‐12, 2012, HKU)

This conference was organised jointly with the Asia Center of Harvard University, and was convened by Dr. Wheeler and Prof. Hue‐Tam Ho Tai of Harvard University. There were 13 presentations on the history of Vietnam in the Nguyen Dynasty, followed by a wrap‐up discussion on new sources for the study of Vietnam.


International Workshop on “Defining the Jecen – the Evolution of the Qing Frontiers, 1644‐1918” (May 25‐26, 2012, HKU and Hong Kong Baptist University)

Dr. Mosca co‐organised this workshop with Dr. Victor Zatsepine (History, HKU) and Dr. Loretta Kim (History, HKBU). Eighteen contributors were invited to present their research regarding China’s frontiers during the early modern period. They reinterpreted the concept of “frontier” in different contexts, among them the political, economic, social and cultural. World‐renowned scholars including Prof. Mark Elliott (Harvard), Prof. Takeshi Hamashita (Sun Yat‐sen University), and Prof. Alexander Woodside (University of British Columbia) were among the workshop’s keynote speakers. Teaching undergraduate courses gives the Institute’s research staff an opportunity to offer and showcase their expertise. Last year, Dr. Nanlai Cao conducted a small research seminar entitled “Modern China Studies Research Project” for undergraduates admitted to the Modern China Studies Program. Dr. Cao also gave a guest lecture on Human Evolution to students enrolled in “Introduction to Anthropology”, an undergraduate course offered by the Department of Sociology. Dr. Mosca taught a course on “Qing China in the World” in the Department of History. On the other hand, young colleagues from various departments of the University were invited to participate in the Institute’s restructured postgraduate program. 5. Advanced Training Workshops Advanced training workshops have long been an invaluable resource for postgraduate students and junior faculty members. In the past ten years, the Institute has partnered with Sun Yat‐sen University (Guangzhou), East China Normal University (Shanghai), Beijing Normal University (Beijing), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) and the Harvard‐Yenching Institute (Boston) in running workshops with diverse themes, targeting trainees from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and Europe. These workshops have had far‐reaching impact.


IV. Lecture and Seminar Series We have had five series of lectures and seminars: (1) Distinguished Lecture Series: these lectures were delivered by world‐renowned scholars in the humanities and social sciences; (2) Lectures and Seminars by Staff and Visiting Scholars; (3) Lunchtime Series on Interdisciplinary China Studies; (4) Departmental Seminars: this series provides a platform for our students, colleagues and friends to engage in in‐depth discussions led by invited speakers or in‐house researchers; and (5) lecture series co‐organised with Sun Yat‐sen University in Guangzhou. The following activities were organised in the reporting year: 1. Distinguished Lecture Series In 2011, the University received a generous donation from Dr. Sin Wai‐Kin to establish a professorship bearing his name, and on March 21‐31, 2012, the Institute had the honor of welcoming the first Sin Wai‐Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Prof. Wu Jinglian (吳敬璉), a leading Chinese economist. On March 23, Prof. Wu gave a lecture on “中國改革的總體規劃和頂層設計問題 ” (Comprehensive Plan and Top‐Level Design for China’s Reforms) where he reiterated the need for political reform and economic restructuring for healthier and more sustainable development in China. He was then joined by Prof. Lawrence Lau, former Vice‐Chancellor of CUHK, and Prof. He Weifang of Peking University Law School in a forum moderated by Prof. Richard Wong, HKU Chair Professor of Economics. More than 350 guests were in attendance. Wang Gungwu Theatre reached its maximum capacity and an adjacent classroom was opened where guests saw both events through video broadcast.

On stage are (from left) Prof. He Weifang, Prof. Wu Jinglian, Prof. Lawrence Lau, and Prof. Richard Wong at the forum on March 23, 2012

On March 26, Prof. Wu also spoke in a seminar for postgraduate students on the theme “中國經濟取得的成績和面臨的挑戰” (Achievements of Economic Development in China and Challenges Ahead). The seminar was facilitated by Prof. Xu Chenggang, HKU Quoin Professor in Economic Development.


In addition, four distinguished scholars from major overseas universities gave lectures on topics in their areas of expertise in the last academic year.

(From left) Prof. Judith Farquhar, Prof. Ronnie Hsia, Prof. Roel Sterckx, and Prof. Mark Elliott at their lectures Date Title Speaker 19/10/2011 Sorting Out Ethnic Traditional Medicine in

Southwest China Prof. Judith Farquhar (Chicago University)

14/11/2011 From Buddhist Monk to Western Confucian; the Career of Matteo Ricci in Ming China

Prof. Ronnie Hsia (Penn State University)

17/2/2012 Modern Agendas through Ancient Texts: Ecology and Environment in early China

Prof. Roel Sterckx (Cambridge University)

28/5/2012 “Imperial Thinking” and the New Qing History Prof. Mark Elliott (Harvard University)

2. Lectures and Seminars by Staff and Visiting Scholars Date Title Speaker 16/9/2011; 7/10/2011; 28/10/2011; 11/11/2011

日本文化系列 1‐4 Dr. Wenna Guan (HKIHSS, HKU)

10/11/2011 日本歷史、茶道、武士道及相關社會文化村井康彦、笠谷和比谷教授 21/11/2011 East‐West Technology Transfer: Multi‐nationals

in China during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Prof. David Sicilia (University of Maryland)

21/11/2011 Print Capitalism and Academic Professionalization in Early 20th Century China

Prof. Tze‐ki Hon (State University of New York at Geneseo)

17/5/2012 Technology, Charity, and Ethical Imagination: an Anthropological Perspective

Dr. Gonçalo Santos (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)


3. Lunchtime Series on Interdisciplinary China Studies

The Lunchtime Series on “Interdisciplinary China Studies” brings together those University or visiting colleagues who are engaged in Chinese Studies to discuss and exchange their latest research output on a regular basis. Dr. Charles Wheeler and Dr. Matthew Mosca are the organizers of this year’s series and fifteen sessions were organized.

The presentation by Prof. Paul Cohen on January 17, 2012 attracted colleagues from HKU faculties

Date Title Speaker 27/9/2011 Philosophical Foundations of International Law,

Ancient and Modern, China and the West Prof. Tony Carty (Law, HKU)

11/10/2011 Global Business and Transnational Investment: Houqua and his China Trader Partners in Early Nineteenth‐Century Canton

Mr. John Wong (Visiting Scholar, HKIHSS; Harvard University)

25/10/2011 China and Women’s Rights in a Transnational Frame

Dr. Adelyn Lim (Modern China Studies, HKU)

8/11/2011 Samuel Wells Williams, Printer: Opening the Treaty Ports and Closing “The Chinese Repository”(1832‐51)

Dr. Kendall Johnson (Modern Languages & Culture, HKU)

22/11/2011 Traffic, Trade, Trams and Total Turnover: Victorian Hong Kong in Text and Image

Dr. Julia Keuhn (English, HKU)

6/12/2011 Beijing’s Ten Great Buildings in the Great Leap Forward

Dr. Tao Zhu (Architecture, HKU)

17/1/2012 The Power of Story and Popular Memory: Six Countries in Crisis

Prof. Paul Cohen (Visiting Scholar, HKIHSS; Harvard University)

31/1/2012 Good‐bye to All That. An autobiography with digressions. Mumbai to Hong Kong, via Ceylon, Singapore, Burma, Indonesia, Japan, Hawaii and Saudi Arabia. And all in twenty‐five minutes!

Dr. Verner Bickley (HKIHSS Fellow)

14/2/2012 Microblogging China: A Research Agenda Dr. King‐wa Fu (Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU)

28/2/2012 The Mysterious Third Sister (San Po): Adventures in Historical and Religious Sleuthing

Prof. Robert Antony (History, University of Macau)


13/3/2012 Tribute to the Great Khan: Mongol Authority and Identity in the painting Khubilai Khan Hunting

Dr. R L Hammers (Fine Arts, HKU)

27/3/2012 Workplace depoliticized: Rural teachers under corrupt bureaucracy in China

Dr. Dan Wang (Education, HKU)

10/4/2012 Xenophobia, Nationalism, and Missionaries: Religion and Conflicts at the end of Nineteenth Century

Dr. Li Ji (HKIHSS)

24/4/2012 Writing the City of Hong Kong: Topography, Poetics and Everyday Life

Dr. Esther Cheung (Comparative Literature, HKU)

8/5/2012 The “international” and the “transnational” in the history of International Women’s Day in China (1924‐1949)

Prof. Louise Edwards (Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU)

4. Departmental Seminars Established in September 2011, the Departmental Seminar series provides a platform for students and colleagues to engage in intellectual discussions with invited speakers or the Institute’s researchers. Four sessions were organized in the academic year of 2011‐12.

Prof. John Shepherd speaking at the first Departmental Seminar on November 10, 2011

Date Title Speaker 10/11/2011 The Practice of Footbinding: Neglected Evidence

from the Censuses of Taiwan Prof. John Shepherd (University of Virginia)

18/1/2012 Letters from Manchuria: Faith, Gender, and Christianity in Northeast China, 1840‐1900

Dr. Ji Li (HKIHSS, HKU)

29/2/2012 Maritime Trade and Business Networks: The Hokkien Merchants in Historical Maritime Asia

Dr. James K. Chin (HKIHSS, HKU)

25/4/2012 The Many Faces of Shilian Dashan: Buddhism and Its Transoceanic Effects

Dr. Charles Wheeler (HKIHSS, HKU)


5. Lecture Series at Sun Yat‐sen University

Since 2006, the Institute and Sun Yat‐sen University have co‐organised lecture series in Guangzhou. Seventy‐two lectures have been given by renowned speakers from both mainland and abroad so far. These lectures have been consistently well received and highly praised by the audience. In the academic year of 2011‐12, eight sessions were organised. Date Title Speaker 23/9/2011 陸梁名義新釋―附說《禹貢》梁州與「治梁及

岐」之梁 Prof. Deyong Xin (Peking University)

18/10/2011 Man and Nature are One: Living with plants, thinking up medicine

Prof. Judith Farquhar (Chicago University)

13/11/2011 Plants and Culture: An Alternative Interpretation of Human History (植物與文化：人類歷史的又一種解讀)

Prof. Tingshuo Yang (Jishou University)

23/12/2011 Ivory Ball: Art and Technical Exchange of Canton, Qing Court and the Holy Roman Empire (象牙球所見之工藝技術交流-廣東、清宮與神聖羅馬帝國)

Prof. Ching‐Fei Shih (National Taiwan University)

5/4/2012 Liang Shumin’s Questions and Reconsideration of Revolutions in Modern China ‐ Also on Liang Shumin's unfinished manuscript The Road to the Founding of China (梁漱溟的問題與現代中國革命的再理解-兼論梁漱溟未完稿《中國建國之路的特

別歷史認知價值》)

Prof. Zhaotian He (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

6/4/2012 From “Crisis of Legitimacy” to “Crisis of Validity”: A New Perspective on the Abdication of the Last Emperor (從正统性危機到合法性危機-觀察清帝遜位的一個新視角)

Prof. Nianqun Yang (Remin University of China)

18/4/2012 Moving Stories: Memorialisation and Identity in Treaty Port China

Prof. Robert Bickers (University of Bristol)

27/4/2012 Han Tombs in North Vietnam: A Study based on Cultural Contact and Exchange (越南北部漢墓專題研究)

Prof. Haiji Ruan (University of Humanities and Social Sciences, VNU, Hanoi)


V. Institutional Development In 2011‐12, we witnessed a number of key institutional developments in consolidating and expanding the Institute’s programs and global partnerships. 1. New Honorary Professors In the past year, four new honorary professors were appointed to enhance the Institute’s research and teaching capacities: Prof. Francesca Bray (Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh), Honorary Professor Prof. Dorothy Ko (History, Columbia University), Honorary Professor Prof. Helen Siu (Anthropology, Yale University), Honorary Professor Dr. Izumi Nakayama (Japanese Studies, HKU), Honorary Assistant Professor 2. Postgraduate Programs The Institute restructured its postgraduate programs in the 2011 academic year and now offers both Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in the humanities and social sciences with a focus on medicine, science and technology in East Asian societies. Teaching staff comprises members from the Institute and from the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, as well as the University’s Distinguished Visiting Professors in the humanities and social sciences from overseas. In addition, the Institute has continued to devote time and effort to enrich the content of these postgraduate programs, and two curriculum workshops were held this year for this purpose. On June 9, 2012, the first workshop explained the process of incorporating the “Inter‐Asian Connections” perspective into the postgraduate curriculum. HKU faculty members had an in‐depth, interactive discussion with scholars from the SSRC, Ohio University, NUS, Oxford and Yale. The second workshop, held June 18, 2012, focused on ways to enhance the Institute’s new interdisciplinary teaching program on the history of science, medicine, and technology in East Asia. Prof. Angela Leung and Dr. Izumi Nakayama, co‐conveners of the workshop, shared views and teaching experience with invited scholars, including Prof. Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor of the Institute), Prof. Fa‐ti Fan (State University of New York, Binghamton) and Dr. Sean Lei (Academia Sinica).


In the academic year of 2012‐13, we recruited three students from China, Taiwan and France. Mr. Brian Po‐huei Hsieh (3‐year PhD)

Field of Research: History of medicine Topic of Research: The Classification of Medicine in Late Imperial China

Mr. Ning Rundong (MPhil)

Field of Research: Social Anthropology Topic of Research: Psychological Condition and Mental Health Care System of Migrant Workers’ Children in Pearl and Yangtze River Delta

Miss Mathilde Biard (MPhil)

Field of Research: History of Medicine Topic of Research: Conception and Representation of the Body in Europe and China and Its Influence on Surgery (1830‐1911)

3. Financial Summary

A brief financial summary for 2011‐12 (1 July to 30 June) is as follows: (HK$M)Available balance as at July 1, 2011 1. Funds carried forward from 2010‐11: Public funds Private funds

7.310.0

2. Funds received in 2011‐12: Public funds Private funds

11.03.0

Total: 31.3Expenses as at June 30, 2012 Staff cost/honorarium Research, publications and outreach Operational expenses

12.02.60.5

Total: 15.1

Balance as at June 30, 2012: 16.2


VI. Publications Over the past years, the Institute has consistently published much of its research and academic output, frequently with HKU Press. 1. Books and Journal supported by the Institute The Institute supports the publications of scholars who have participated in our research programs. Select titles from the past year include: Kelly, William W. and Susan Brownell (eds.), The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports. Yale CEAS Occasional Publications, Volume 3 (New Haven, Conn., 2011). Matthew Mosca, From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China. (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). Journal of History and Anthropology (歷史人類學學刊): Two issues were published in the past year: Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2011) and Volume 10, Number 1 (April 2012). Details are available at: ha.sysu.edu.cn/ziyuan2‐1.asp?id=1019.

2. Select Publications by Staff, 2011‐2012 (See Appendix 6) VII. Knowledge Exchange Knowledge Exchange, along with Research and Teaching, is one of our core commitments. In the reporting year, the Institute succeeded in disseminating its academic vision and research output to the community through the programs of “Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series” and “The Hong Kong Memory Project”. 1. Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series Since 2005, the Institute has organised several documentary film events open to the general public, bringing renowned filmmakers such as Sue Williams and Jian Yi and their new productions to Hong Kong. These events have always garnered a lot of accolades, and having laid this groundwork, the Institute transformed in 2011 what used to be stand‐alone events into a “Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series” and now plans to organise more regular screenings of these documentaries. The focus of the series is on works by directors from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, and the aim is to inspire the audience, through images that are at times provocative, to look more closely


into the Greater China region, while facilitating more analysis of social, political, economic and cultural issues. Three film shows with themes relating to Social Justice, Urban Development, Gender were held in the past year. Date Title Director & Guests 14/10/2011 《田喜回家》Tianxi Back

Home Ai Xiaoming (艾曉明) (Director), Haitao Huang and Marco Wan (HKU)

25/11/2011 《煤市街》Meishi Street Ou Ning (歐寧) (Director) 13/4/2012 《私角落》Corner’s Zero Chou (周美玲) (Director)

Hoho Liu (劉芸后) (Cinematographer) Posters of the film shows held in 2011‐12

Post‐screening discussions often proved to be inspiring. Audience members would relish the experience, taking advantage of each opportunity to engage in face‐to‐face conversations with the filmmakers while directors and producers alike would find each occasion the perfect platform for intellectual and artistic exchange. 2. Hong Kong Memory Project The Institute is committed to preserving Hong Kong’s historical and cultural heritage using digital means, and the Hong Kong Memory Project, led by Dr. Elizabeth Sinn and sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, is our channel to share with the public such preserved records. This project, through modern display formats, encourages youths of the current generation to make connections between the past, the present and the future. The project’s website was finally


open to public perusal in December 2012 after six years of content development. In its initial phase the website contains 11 collections and 6 exhibitions, each with its own theme on an aspect of Hong Kong’s past. More phases are to be launched, and when finished, there will be an estimated total of 30 collections and 15 exhibitions. Archives of digitised photos, videos and documents are already accessible on the Hong Kong Memory website: www.hkmemory.hk. Another important purpose of the Hong Kong Memory Project is to invite local communities to create and re‐create cultural memories of Hong Kong. Under the “School Memories Project”, participating schools record and share their history on a subsidiary website under HKM. Since 2011, the program has archived a rich collection of photos, videos and school publications, featuring stories from many campuses. Through intensive workshops organised under “Humanities and Creativities”, students learn to record the history of their communities and to present their studies through creative multimedia. Another program called “Our Digital Stories” has reached out to the public where members from various communities and organizations record stories of their “Hong Kong experience”. The collection of their living memories is to become a colourful chapter on the website of the Hong Kong Memory Project.

Dr. Wong Wai Ling of HKMP sharing her experience on oral history at the University of Macau


VIII. List of Appendices Appendix 1 Program of the conference on “The Making of Asia: Health and Gender”, March 9‐10,

2012 Appendix 2 Program of the workshop on “Charities and Legitimacy of Organisation, Law,

Accountability, and Transparency”, December 13‐15, 2011 Appendix 3 Workshop report on “China‐Africa Diasporas” Appendix 4 Program of the Workshop on “China’s Urban Political Culture in Comparative

Perspective”, May 4‐5, 2012 Appendix 5 Program of the Summer Training Workshop, August 3‐13, 2012 Appendix 6 Selected Publications by Staff, 2011‐2012


Appendix 1

International Conference on ‘The Making of “Asia”: Health and Gender’

March 9‐10, 2012 Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

Conference Program

Date Time Event

Mar 8 (Thu) p.m. Overseas participants check in at: Island Pacific Hotel, 152 Connaught Road West, Hong Kong

Mar 9 (Fri) 09:00‐09:15 Registration 09:15‐09:30 Introductory remarks by Angela LEUNG, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social

Sciences, The University of Hong Kong Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The

University of Hong Kong

09:30‐12:30 PANEL 1: Civilizing Asian Bodies

Chair: Charlotte FURTH, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California

09:30‐09:40 Susan BURNS, Department of History, University of Chicago The Japanese Patent Medicine Trade in East Asia: Marketing

Health, Modernity and Asian Womanhood

09:40‐09:50 Jen‐Der LEE, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Sex and Reproduction in “Physiology and Hygiene” Textbooks: Post‐

War Taiwan and Beyond

09:50‐10:00 Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

New Bodies for a New Age: The Study of Japanese Children’s Physical Development and Questions of Civilization, ca. 1905‐1930

10:00‐10:10 SHAO Dan, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign

“Five Admonitions to Physicians,” Mao Zedong Thought, and Consent Form: Doctor‐Patient‐State Relations in Chinese Obstetrics, 1953‐2002

(Paper to be read by Angela LEUNG)

10:10‐10:20 Angela LEUNG, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

Interpreting Gender and Modernity in Colonial Asia: the Jiaoqi/Kakke/Beriberi Traditions, ca. 1860‐1930

10:20‐11:00 Discussant: Charlotte FURTH, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California

11:00‐11:15 Tea Break


Date Time Event 11:15‐12:30 Questions & Answers

12:30‐13:30 Lunch (buffet on conference site)

13:30‐16:30 PANEL 2: Knowing Healthcare Practice

Chair: Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

13:30‐13:40 Sonja KIM, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University

A “Heavenly” Profession: Training Nurses in Colonial Korea

13:40‐13:50 Sean Hsiang‐Lin LEI, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Housewives as Kitchen Pharmacists: Dr. Zhuang Shuqi’s Regimen

and Gendered Identity in Contemporary Taiwan

13:50‐14:00 Yi‐Li WU, Center for Chinese Studies and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Body, Gender, and Medical Authority in Chinese Views of Western Medicine: the Case of Wang Shixiong 王士雄 (1808‐68)

14:00‐14:10 Shao‐Hua LIU, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica Gender, Class, and Sociality in China’s Leprosy Control

14:10‐14:20 LIN Yi‐Ping, Institute of Science, Technology and Society National Yang‐Ming University

From Philco, Mitsumi to RCA: Trichloroethylene and Female Electronic Workers’ Occupational Disease

14:20‐15:05 Discussant: Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

15:05‐15:20 Tea Break

15:20‐16:30 Questions & Answers

16:30‐18:30 Break

18:30‐20:30 Dinner (Ningbo Club)

Mar 10 (Sat) 09:30‐12:30 PANEL 3: Reproductive Technologies Chair: Rayna RAPP, Department of Anthropology, New York

University

09:30‐09:40 Marcia INHORN, Department of Anthropology, Yale University Reproductive Exile in Global Dubai: Inter‐Asian Connections (Paper to be read by Rayna RAPP)

09:40‐09:50 Margaret SLEEBOOM‐FAULKNER, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex

Asia as a Platform of Resistance‐examples from Asian Bioethics (Paper to be read by Izumi NAKAYAMA)

09:50‐10:00 Wen‐Hua KUO, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang‐Ming University

A Woman’s Project: Shu Tze‐kuan and Her Family Planning Career, 1952‐1973


Date Time Event 10:00‐10:10 Azumi TSUGE, Department of Sociology and Social Work,

Meiji Gakuin University Considering Our Societies through Views about Eggs and Egg

Donation

10:10‐10:20 Chia‐Ling WU, Department & Graduate Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University

Excluding Unmarried Women: Assisted Reproductive Technology Governance and Access Politics in Taiwan

10:20‐10:30 Howard Hsueh‐Hao CHIANG, Program in History of Science, Princeton University

The Sinophone (Re)Production of Transsexuality

10:30‐11:15 Discussant: Rayna RAPP, Department of Anthropology, New York University

11:15‐11:30 Tea Break

11:30‐12:30 Questions & Answers

12:30‐13:30 Lunch (buffet on conference site)

13:30‐15:30 Plenary Session

Chair: Angela LEUNG, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

Panelists: Charlotte FURTH , Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts

and Sciences, University of Southern California Izumi NAKAYAMA, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,

The University of Hong Kong Rayna RAPP, Department of Anthropology, New York University

15:30 End of Program

15:30‐18:30 Free time for conferees

18:30‐20:30 Dinner (Optional in hotel)

Mar 11 (Sun)

By 12:00 Overseas participants check out


Appendix 2 International Workshop on

“Charities and Legitimacy of Organisation, Law, Accountability, and Transparency”

December 13 – December 15, 2011 Boğaziçi University, 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

Date Time Event

Dec 13 (Tue) 08:45‐09:00 Registration 09:00‐09:20 Opening remarks / Keynote speech

David FAURE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 09:20‐09:30 Tea break and group photograph

09:30‐11:30 Panel 1: Transnationalism and Modern Transformation of Gifting in China, Palestine, and Parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia

Chair: Angela LEUNG, The University of Hong Kong

09:30‐09:45 Jonathan BENTHALL, University College London Regulation of Islamic charities with special reference to Palestine

09:45‐10:00 Emanuel SCHAEUBLIN, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Decentralization vs. Authoritarian Control: Palestinian Zakat Institutions (1961–2011)in The Local Context

10:00‐10:15 Melani CAMMETT, Brown University Shia Sectarian and Religious Organizations in Lebanon: Charitable Activities and Analytical Distinctions

10:15‐10:30 Anthony SPIRES, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Grassroots NGOs in China: Filling in the Landscape

10:30‐10:50 Discussant: David FAURE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

10:50‐11:30 Questions and Answers

11:30‐12:30 Lunch (on campus)

12:30‐14:30 Panel 2: Internal Forms of Governance and Self Regulation: Comparative Case Studies

Chair: Jonathan BENTHALL, University College London

12:30‐12:45 Maren EHLERS, University of North Carolina‐Charlotte Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Poor Relief and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan

12:45‐13:00 Sachiko HOSOYA, Toho University Strategy for Achieving Legitimacy in Local Contexts: A Case Study of the Kahrizak Charity Care Center for the Elderly and Disabled in Iran

13:00‐13:15 Khun Eng KUAH‐PEARCE, The University of Hong Kong Delivering Buddhist Philanthropy: Chinese Women and Religious Volunteerism

13:15‐13:30 Thomas DUBOIS, Australia National University Private Charities and the Public Good – Institutional Memory of Plague Prevention in Manchuria

13:30‐13:50 Discussant: Angela LEUNG, The University of Hong Kong


Date Time Event 13:50‐14:30 Questions and Answers

14:30‐14:45 Tea break

14:45‐17:00 Panel 3: Legal Regulatory Framework of Civil Society Chair: Peter ZABIELSKIS, University of Macau

14:45‐15:00 Oliver WALTON, University of Birmingham ‘Everything is Politics’: understanding the political dimensions of NGO legitimacy in conflict‐affected regions

15:00‐15:15 Nanlai CAO, The University of Hong Kong In the World But Not Of the World: Governing Christian Charities in Contemporary China

15:15‐15:30 Martin LAU, University of London Religious Norms, Secular Forms: The Role of Judges in the Implementation of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

15:30‐15:45 Justin PIERCE, University of East London Blasphemy: Religious or Secular Law?

15:45‐16:05 Discussant: CHOI Chi‐cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Dec 14 (Wed) 09:00‐11:30 Panel 4: Sources of Funds, Transnationalism, Legal and Economic and Gender Issues

Chair: Sachiko HOSOYA, Toho University

09:00‐09:15 MA Jianxiong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Re‐creating Hui identity and the charity network in the imperial extension from Ming to Qing in Southwest Chinese frontier

09:15‐09:30 Christian LEKON, European University of Lefke Sa’udi Charity To Hadhramaut As A Bone of Contention: The Hijaz Fund Episode, 1949‐50

09:30‐09:45 Fulya APAYDIN, Institut Barcelona D’Estudis Internacionals Boundaries of Non‐state Welfare Provision: comparative evidence from Turkey, Sudan and Germany

09:45‐10:00 Rajeswary BROWN, University of London Saudi Charitable Impulse Abroad: The Coercive Power of Belief and Money in Thailand

10:00‐10:15 Tea break

10:15‐10:45 Discussants: Oliver WALTON, University of Birmingham Thomas DUBOIS, Australia National University


11:30‐12:30 Lunch (on campus)

12:30‐14:30 Panel 5: Corporate and NGO Ethics: Bribery and Corruption Chair: Rajeswary BROWN, University of London

12:30‐12:45 Hilman LATIEF, Universiteit Utrecht How Does the Private Sector Engage Social‐Welfare Enterprises? Corporate (Islamic) Philanthropy in Indonesia


Date Time Event 12:45‐13:00 Justin PIERCE, University of East London

Zakat Funds & Terrorism: Need for State Regulation?

13:00‐13:15 CHOI Chi‐cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ancestors are watching: ritual and governance of a Chinese cemetery organization in Singapore

13:15‐13:30 Peter ZABIELSKIS, University of Macau Seeking a Moral Economy from a Charitable Place: Village life in an urban waqf as a critique of development in Penang, Malaysia

13:30‐13:50 Discussant: Mine EDER, Boğaziçi University


14:30‐14:45 Tea break

14:45‐17:00 Wrap‐up discussion Chairperson: David FAURE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Comments by charities practitioners

15 Dec (Thu) Visit to local charities 09:00 Assembly at Nippon Hotel’s lobby for coach transfer 10:00‐12:00 Visit Kimse Yok Mu

(Çobançeşme Mah. Kalender Sok. No: 5 Yenibosna, Istanbul)

12:00‐14:00 Lunch and coach transfer

14:00‐16:00 Visit to IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation (Büyük Karaman Cad. Taylasan Sok. No:3 Pk. 34230 Fatih, Istanbul)


Appendix 3

China Africa Diasporas Trip Report

Angela Leung, Mike McGovern, Helen Siu, co‐organizers The trip to Tanzania had two parts, first an academic conference held on the Island of Zanzibar, and secondly a field research component held in Dar es Salam (Tanzania's capital city) and in the environs of Morogoro, a small city in the interior, about four hour's drive to the West of Dar es Salam. Both the conference and the field research components were highly productive. The conference was especially fruitful because it brought together both specialists on China (for instance, Leung, working on Chinese medicine from the perspective of medical anthropology, and Cole, working on Chinese socialist architectural outreach to Africa, Siu who contributed a paper on financing Chinese enterprises) and specialists on Africa (for instance McGovern, who works on socialist and post‐socialist cultural policy in the Republic of Guinea, and Brennan, who works on urban culture under Nyerere's socialist government in Tanzania). It also combined Anthropological and historical approaches, placing every participant's research in the context of a wider inter‐Asian perspective, as developed by Siu at Yale and in Hong Kong. Field research allowed participants to speak with a variety of Chinese citizens living and working in Tanzania. These included small‐scale entrepreneurs selling housewares in the main Kariakoo market in Dar es Salam; Chinese restaurant managers who deal with a variety of Chinese and African clients, laborers and engineers involved in road construction in rural Tanzania; doctors working in a Friendship Hospital in Zanzibar; and agricultural extension specialists who work in demonstration farms intended to introduce new techniques to Tanzanian farmers. The group also spoke with many Tanzanians about their experiences with and opinions of the different Chinese actors with whom they interact. They included villagers displaced by Chinese farms, and one businessman who controls much of the electric light and electrical engineering business in Tanzania, and has been visiting factories and doing business in China since the 1980s.


From 7 to 18 July, 2012, the trip focused on a conference and short research trip organized under the auspices of the China Africa Diasporas research group and funded by Yale's Council on East Asian studies. Several HKU faculty presented aspects of their research, namely Cao Nanlai, Angela Leung, Cole Roskam, and Helen Siu, who is affiliated both with HKU and Yale. Yale professors Mike McGovern (Anthropology) and Jing Tsu (East Asian language and Literature) were joined by Professors James Brennan (History, U. Illinois) and Eric Tagliacozzo (History, Cornell). Four PhD students in Anthropology gave papers and participated in the research. They are Susanna Fioratta and Michael Degani (students of McGovern, working in Guinea and Tanzania, respectively), and Minhua Ling and Yu Luo (students of Siu, both working in China, but with China‐Africa interests). Although he was unable to attend in person, Professor Paul Richards of the University of Wagenigen also sent a paper, entitled, “Seeking Food Security: What Africa and China might Share.” Each participant gave a paper that will be included in revised form in an edited volume planned for 2013. A list of presenters and paper topics is

attached below. After the three‐day conference, the participants also spent one week visiting sites on Zanzibar, in Dar es Salam and Morogoro district where Chinese construction projects, demonstration farms, small and medium sized merchants, and both for‐profit and NGO doctors were working. Members of the group interviewed both Chinese and Tanzanians about the nature of the interaction and the different actors’ intentions. Interviews were in Mandarin, Kiswahili and English, and the mix of China and Africa experts in the group facilitated a very productive week of research. This trip is the third main event in the trajectory of the “China‐Africa Diasporas” project, which has included a trip to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Yiwu, China in August 2010, and an international conference held at Yale in October 2011. The four graduate students listed above have been integrally involved in all stages of the project. The activities of this research group have continued to move forward. We are planning an edited volume. Siu and Susanna Fioratta have also designed a course entitled “China‐Africa Encounters.” It is being taught as an undergraduate/graduate seminar in the Spring semester of 2013.


China‐Africa Diasporas Zanzibar conference

10‐11 July, 2012 July 10 (morning) 8.45 a.m. Introducing the themes: Mike and Helen July 10 (morning) Historical and contemporary linkages (9.00 a.m. ‐10.30 a.m.) 1. Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University “China and Africa in the Earliest Centuries of Contact: Prolegomenon” 2. Jing Tsu, Yale University “Coolie Labor in South Africa: An Unexpected History” tea break (11.00 a.m. ‐12.30 p.m.) 3. Susanna Fioratta, Yale University “Necessary? Evil? Suspicions, Stereotypes, and Survival from West Africa to China” 4. Nanlai Cao, Hong Kong University “China’s state‐private partnership in resource‐rich Africa: An ethnographic exploration of the Wenzhou trade diaspora” lunch ‐ 12.30‐2.00 p.m. July 10 (afternoon) Political Landscapes of Development (2.00 p.m. ‐3.30 p.m.) 5. James Brennan, University of Illinois “Arguing About Socialism and Development: Tanzania and the Wider World” 6. Mike McGovern, Yale University “Land, Food Security, Chinese Agribusinesses and the Livelihoods of African Farmers” tea break (4.00 p.m. ‐5.30 p.m.) 7. Helen Siu, Yale University “Financing Chinese Business in Africa: New State Spaces” 8. Cole Roskam, Hong Kong University “China, Africa, and the Politics of Architecture in the ‘Intermediate Zone.’”


July 11 (morning) Soft Power and New Spaces (9.00 a.m. ‐10.30 a.m.) 9. Yu Luo, Yale University “Poachers, Tourists, Activists: China's Role in African Wildlife Conservation” 10. Mike Degani, Yale University “Bodaboda: China/Africa objects at different scales” tea break (11.00 a.m.‐12.30 p.m.) 11. Angela Leung, Hong Kong University “Chinese medicine in Africa: Soft power, Business, Evolving Knowledge and Practice?” 12. Minhua Ling, Yale University “Exporting or Hijacking Hope? The Chinese‐Africa Project Hope in Dispute” lunch 12.30‐2.00 p.m.


Appendix 4

China’s Urban Political Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Sponsored by the Harvard‐Yenching Institute, East China Normal University, and the Hong Kong

Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5

Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Harvard University Friday, May 4 12:00‐1:00 Welcome Lunch (on site) 1:15‐3:30 Panel I: Urban Culture in late Imperial and Republican China

(Chair: Helen Siu, Yale University/HKIHSS)

Xu Jilin, East China Normal University 城市文化權力網路中的知識份子:現代歷史中的上海與北京比較研究 Intellectuals in the Urban Cultural Nexus of Power: A Comparison of Shanghai and Beijing in Modern History

Elizabeth Sinn, Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences

Merchants as Political Actors: Urban Political Culture in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the Late 19th century

Feng Xiaocai, East China Normal University 僭民政治：20 世紀上半葉中國城市“政治文化＂之初步評估 Politics of Usurpers: A Preliminary Assessment of Early 20th Century Chinese Urban “Political Culture”

3:30‐3:45 Coffee Break 3:45‐6:00 Panel II: Publishing, Education and Philanthropy in Republican China

(Chair: Hue‐Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University)

Qu Jun, East China Normal University 現代中國政治文化的基礎常識建構——以轉型時代的民眾讀本為中心 (1895‐ 1928) Constructing Contemporary Chinese Political Culture: Mass Booklets in a Transitional Time, 1895‐1928

Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University/Harvard‐Yenching Institute Managing Student Protest in Republican China: St. John's (Shanghai) and Yenching (Peking) Compared Ruan Qinghua, East China Normal University 試論近代上海民間慈善事業的網路化發展——兼與寧波、杭州、北京比較 The Development of Non‐Governmental Philanthropy Networks in Modern Shanghai—A Comparison with Ningbo, Hangzhou and Beijing 6:30 Dinner

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