All day
Through July 19, 2019
University of Chicago Center in Beijing
20th Floor, Culture Plaza
59A Zhong Guan Cun Street
Haidian District, Beijing
Jul. 17
ORGANIZED BY
Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China
Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University
The University of Chicago Center in Beijing
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 17（Morning）
08:30
Registration
Venue: UChicago Center in Beijing
09:00-09:15
Opening Ceremony
ZHAO Dingxin, FENG Shizheng
Session One Ethnicity and Party
Moderator: Jonathan HEARN
09:15-10:15
Nationalism, Ethnic Competition, and Violence in the Modern World
Andreas WIMMER, Columbia University
10:15-10:35
Q & A
10:35-10:55
Coffee Break
10:55-11:55
Competition and Party Formation
John Levi MARTIN，the University of Chicago
11:55-12:15
Q & A
12:15-14:00
Lunch
Wednesday, July 17（Afternoon）
Session Two Power and Order
Moderator: John Levi MARTIN
14:00-15:00
Competition as Legitimation: How Distributions of Power Get Justified in Modern Liberal Societies
Jonathan HEARN, University of Edinburgh
15:00-15:20
Q & A
15:20-15:40
Coffee Break
15:40-16:40
Between Hierarchy and Spontaneity: Competition and Order through Law
Poul F. KJAER, Copenhagen Business School
16:40-17:00
Q & A
17:00-18:00
State Competition: Sociological Concepts and Historical Trajectories
Tobias WERRON, Bielefeld University, Germany
18:00-18:20
Q & A
Thursday, July 18（Morning）
08:00
Registration
Venue: UChicago Center Beijing
Session Three War and Peace
Moderator: FENG Shizheng
08:30-09:10
Military Reform and the Eight Banner System in Late Qing
DING Yizhuang, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Institute of History, Retired
09:10-09:30
Q & A
09:30-10:10
Crisis, Contingency, and Historical Change: Rethinking the Causes of Revolutions and Wars
ZHANG Yang, School of International Service, American University
10:10-10:30
Q & A
10:30-10:50
Coffee Break
10:50-11:30
Competition and Isomorphism: Institutional Changes of Chinese Buddhist Organizations in Three Modern Chinese Societies
SUN Yanfei, Zhejiang University
11:30-11:50
Q & A
11:50-14:00
Lunch
Thursday, July 18（Afternoon）
Session Four Policy and Institution
Moderator: ZHANG Yang
14:00-14:40
The Political Logic of Reform Decisions: Rural Policy Making in the 1980s
ZHAO Shukai, Development Research Center of the State Council
14:40-15:00
Q & A
15:00-15:40
“Mainstream Economists” vs. “Political Economists”: State, Professional Jurisdiction and Social Alignment
LI Jin, Zhejiang University
15:40-16:00
Q & A
16:00-16:20
Coffee Break
16:20-17:00
Institutional Competition and State-building: The Systems of Petitioning and Comprehensive Governance of Public Security in China
FENG Shizheng, Renmin University of China
17:00-17:20
Q & A
Friday, July 19（Morning）
08:00
Registration
Venue: UChicago Center Beijing
Session Five Market and Communications
Moderator: SUN Yanfei
08:30-09:10
Market and Political Considerations in Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement
DENG Feng, Institute for Law & Economics, Peking University
09:10-09:30
Q & A
09:30-10:10
Public Communications, Media, and Multiple Consensus in Social Transformation: The Experience and Legacy of the Progressive Movement in the United States
HU Baijing, Renmin University of China
10:10-10:30
Q & A
10:30-10:50
Coffee Break
10:50-11:30
Market of Hot-styles: The Temporal Structure of Production Market under Uncertainty
LI Linzhuo, University of Chicago
11:30-11:50
Q & A
11:50-14:00
Lunch
Friday, July 19（Afternoon）
Session Six Competition and Evolution
Moderator: LI Jing
14:00-14:40
Competition and Hierarchy: Political Processes from the Perspective of Economic Anthropology
XIANG Biao, the University of Oxford
14:40-15:00
Q & A
15:00-15:20
Coffee Break
15:20-16:00
Devolution: Competition and Social Power in the Kula Ring
LIANG Y. Jia, Zhejiang University
16:00-16:00
Q & A
Closing Ceremony
16:20-16:20
Closing Remarks
ZHAO Dingxin
Speakers and Organizers
Jonathan HEARN
Professor of Political and Historical Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Research Interests: Theories of Social Power, Nationalism and National Identity, Liberal Society, Social Evolution, Sociology of Competition, Sociology of Scotland, Scottish Enlightenment Thought
Poul F. KJAER
Professor of Governance and Sociology of Law, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
Research Interests: Constitutional Sociology and Theory, Law of Political Economy, Colonialism, Globalization Studies, European Integration, Global Governance, State Formation, Legal and Social Theory
John Levi MARTIN
Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Theories of Action, Political Parties, Algebraic Methods, Culture and Cognition
Tobias WERRON
Professor of Sociological Theory and General Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany
Research Interests: Sociology of Competition, Nationalism, Globalization and World Society Studies, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Sports, Arts and Music
Andreas WIMMER
Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy, Columbia University
Research Interests: State Formation, Nation Building, Civil Wars, Ethnic Boundary Making, Immigration, Global Cultural Diffusion
DENG Feng
Professor, Law School, Peking University; Co-Director, Institute for Law & Economics, Peking University
Research Interests: Economic law; Enterprise and Company Law; Economics of Law
DING Yizhuang
Professor Emeritus, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Institute of History,
Research Interests: History of the Qing Dynasty; History of Ethnic Groups; History of the Manchus; Qing Social History
FENG Shizheng
Professor, Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China
Research Interests: Political Sociology; Historical Sociology; Social Inequality; Social Conflict, Social Movements and Revolutions
HU Baijing
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China
Research Interests: Communication Study; Public Communication
LI Jing
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University
Research Interests: Historical-comparative Studies; State Theory; Profession and Knowledge
LI Linzhuo
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Market and Economic Change; Cultural and Ideological Change; Local Finance
LIANG Yongjia
Professor, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University
Research Interests: Asia-Pacific Ethnographies; Political Anthropology
SUN Yanfei
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion; Political Sociology; Empires and Nation-States
XIANG Biao
Professor, Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford
Research Interests: Migration; Asia
ZHANG Yang
Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University
Research Interests: Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Contentious Politics; Political Networks; Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ZHAO Dingxin
Max Palevsky Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Science Methodology
ZHAO Shukai
Research Fellow, Development Research Center of the State Council
Research Interests: Local Governance; Chinese Politics; Rural Development