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RediscoveringCHINANEWSLETTER OF THE FUDAN-EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR CHINA STUDIES

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HIGHLIGHTSBuilding a New Corridor – A Successful Visit by the Fudan Delegation to Lund University,

University of Amsterdam, IIAS and Leiden UniversityHigh-level Visit– President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins Visited Fudan and Spoke on the

Importance of Multilaterism“China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day" in Europe

- A Cultural Trip to Université libre de Bruxelles, Palacky University, and Corvinus University of BudapestInsights on China – Selected Lecture Abstracts

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONLife-mode Analysis Meets Chinese Realities

Fudan-UCPH Dialogue on Heritage

ACTIVITIES AND ENGAGEMENTKey Activities at the Centre

Major Events of Fudan-Europe Engagement in 2014

The year 2014 has witnessed several new footprints made by the Fudan Centre. Our coordinated efforts to bring new dynamics of China studies were manifested in an array of activities including lunch talks, public lectures, and many informal meetings and discussions. Questions addressed were multifaceted and quite fundamental. Topics discussed include how foreign policy is made and implemented, how alternative modes of governance have emerged, the sustainability of China-US interdependence, the relevancy of Chinese Confucius values to the global society, how to comprehend the maritime territory dispute between China and its neighbors and how to understand the dynamics of social life in the context of marketization. Discussions, lectures and seminars regarding these subjects all helped us create a greater understanding of the culture and country we deal with.

We understand that both opportunities and challenges lie ahead of us. With its new leadership consolidated, China has continued to transform profoundly in terms of its political process, social forms and economic sustainability, in the context of the “new normal.” Undoubtedly, a nuanced and in-depth knowledge regarding this complex process calls for higher cultural sensitivity, comparative perspectives, and intellectual commitment. To meet these challenges, we will continue to elaborate our activities and build a stronger, enduring academic community while hopefully making China studies more stimulating, collegial and meaningful.

This newsletter gives you a glimpse of some of the ways we have been working to promote China studies since March 2014. We hope you will enjoy our menu of activities and resources and join us in rediscovering China and accompanying the progressive transformations in China.

With warm regards,

Geir Helgesen | DirectorLiu Chunrong | Executive Vice Director

April, 2015

Remarks from the Directors

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ConsultantsChen Yinzhang Nordic Centre, Fudan UniversityChen Zhimin School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan UniversityDing Chun Centre for European Studies, Fudan UniversityHao Mo School of Public Heath, Fudan UniversityPeng Xizhe School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan UniversitySun Xiaoxia School of Law, Fudan UniversityWu Xinbo Institute of International Studies, Fudan UniversityZhang Jun School of Economics, Fudan UniversityJin Guangyao Department of History, Fudan UniversityTroels Østergaard Sørensen Faculty of Social Sciences, University of CopenhagenLars Bo Kaspersen Department of Political Science, University of CopenhagenNiels Thygesen Department of Economics, University of CopenhagenJørgen Delman Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

EditorQian Siyun Fudan Development Institute

ProofreaderKatherine Gagen School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University

Host InstitutionsFudan Development InstituteFudan-European Centre for China Studies

Editorial CommitteeDirectorLin Shangli Vice President, Fudan University

Editors in ChiefGeir HelgesenDirector, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies

Liu Chunrong Executive Vice Director, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies

Zhang Yi Director, Academic Service Center of Fudan Development Institute

Remarks from the Directors

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HIGHLIGHTSBuilding a New Corridor – A Successful Visit by the Fudan Delegation to Lund University, University of Amsterdam, IIAS and Leiden University

High-level Visit– President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins Visited Fudan and Spoke on the Importance of Multilaterism

“China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day" in Europe - A Cultural Trip to Université libre de Bruxelles, Palacky University, and Corvinus University of Budapest

Insights on China – Selected Lecture Abstracts

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONLife-mode Analysis Meets Chinese Realities


ACTIVITIES AND ENGAGEMENTKey Activities at the Centre


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Building a New Corridor

On November 17 2014, Fudan Centre helped

to organize a Fudan delegation’s visit to

Lund University, University of Amsterdam,

International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) and

Leiden University. The delegation was headed by Vice

President Prof. Lin Shangli and includes Prof. Chen

Yinzhang, director of Fudan Nordic Center and special

advisor to Fudan’s President, Liu Chunrong of Fudan-

European Centre for China Studies (Fudan Centre),

Tang Wenqing from Fudan’s Foreign Affairs Office and

Zhao Xinmin of Fudan Development Institute (FDDI).

The purpose of this visit was to consolidate academic

ties between Fudan and its Nordic and western

European partners by extending the role of Fudan

Nordic Centre and Fudan Centre at Copenhagen.

At Lund, the delegation was warmly received by a group of academic leaders and leading

Chinese experts, including Prof. Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, Dean of Social Sciences Faculty;

Prof. Lynn Åkesson, Dean of Humanity and Theology; Prof. Tomas Bergström, Head of the

Department of Political Science; Prof. Michael Schoenhals, Prof. Åsa Lundqvis and Prof. Jen

Nlof Nilsson from Sociology Department; Prof. Marina Svensson; and Prof. Sengt Lundell.

Through a lively workshop on Fudan-Lund Social Science and Humanities (SSH) collaboration,

both sides presented their respective research landscapes and agreed to strengthen joint

research on contemporary China studies. Prof. Chen Yinzhang addressed the role of the Fudan

Nordic Centre in China-Nordic academic engagement. Liu Chunrong presented the mission,

themes, and network of the Fudan Centre, with hopes to build a new corridor for Fudan-Lund

collaborations in SSH. Vice President Lin confirmed that Fudan would continue to work with

leading Nordic universities, including Lund, to upgrade existing collaborations and identify new

research initiatives.

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A successful visit by the Fudan delegation to Lund University, University of Amsterdam, IIAS, and Leiden University

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The delegation then visited the University of Copenhagen

on 18 November and discussed Fudan Centre’s ongoing

programming with Dean Troels Sorensen and department

head Lars Bo Kaspersen. They also spoke about a special panel

to be organized by Fudan Centre at Shanghai Forum 2015.

On November 19 and 20, the delegation visited the

University of Amsterdam (UvA), the International Institute

of Asian Studies (IIAS), and Leiden University. Prof. Louise

J. Gunning-Schepers, President of the Executive Board of

UvA extended a cordial welcome to the delegation and

expressed his appreciation for UvA’s relationship with

Fudan. Vice President Lin gave a brief statement about

Fudan’s recent development with a focus on the Fudan

research platform for SSH. He called for a cross-disciplinary

collaboration on international business and law with UvA,

which was echoed by the UvA president.

At IIAS, Director Philippe Paycam and his associates warmly

greeted the Fudan delegation and updated the delegation

on IIAS’s new research network building and flagship

programs. Both sides were interested in institutional level

engagement and academic resource sharing, especially on

comparative research on Chinese civilization.

Vice President Lin Shangli, Chen Yinzhang and Liu

Chunrong were then invited by Leiden University and

LERU (League of European Research Universities) to join

a discussion on the role of social sciences and humanities

in meeting the global challenges from November 20-21.

LUND UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAMLEIDEN UNIVERSITY

The event was presented by a group of prominent

academics, university administrators, and policymakers

from throughout the world. The Fudan delegates shared

their Chinese perspectives and agreed on mobilizing

more financial resources and promoting international

partnerships for an expanded role of SSH in coping with

human challenges.

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On Dec. 12 2014, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, paid a visit to Fudan University and delivered a speech titled “Meeting Global Challenges With a Revitalized Multilateral System.” He looked back into the history between Ireland

and China and spoke highly of the two countries’ deep friendship and the two people’s efforts to make our planet economically and culturally better. Three great global challenges were mentioned in his speech: building and sustaining international peace, fostering balanced socio-economic development across the planet, and finding ways to balance sustainability with the right of development. Throughout the speech, Mr. Higgins also emphasized that China and Chinese youths are of great importance in the construction of a new multilateral world, along with other countries that share the same dream.

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High-level Visit President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins visited Fudan and spoke on the importance of multilaterism


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“I am honored and delighted to have been asked to deliver an address at one of China’s oldest and most prestigious universities. As President of Ireland, it is an immense pleasure to be here in China. Our two peoples are united in friendship. With the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries, in 1979, the reciprocal friendship between the Irish and the Chinese has gone from strength to strength. Although geography, scale, and our respective historical journeys differ considerably, there are significant aspects of the collective experience of the Irish and Chinese people which enable us to conduct a historically informed conversation. China fully appreciates the fact that Ireland is exceptional in being a Western European country without a colonial or imperialist past. Ireland attaches great importance to cultural freedom, which it sees as a wellspring of its own independence. And so, when Ireland and China come to exchange views on important matters, we can do so in all sincerity and with genuine mutual respect for our shared experience of resisting domination.

Ireland and China’s collective experiences resonate in other ways too. Here are two peoples who, at several points in their respective histories, have been required to modernize in response to change. Both of our peoples have swiftly shifted from a predominantly rural way of life to an urban-based economy, driven by industry and increasingly, in more recent times, services. Of course such rapid transformations have always brought their own challenges. The Irish economy was then engulfed in a credit-led, speculative property bubble, underpinned by very light regulation in financial markets, which was part of the global financial meltdown of 2008. The social, economic, political and moral consequences of this collapse have been devastating in Ireland as they have been in the rest of Europe.

Fortunately, the Irish people once again called on a resilience hard-earned. They have made great sacrifices, they have worked very hard to come out of the depths of this crisis and embark upon a renewed journey of what we hope will be sustainable prosperity for all. Today Ireland is seeing the fruit of such hard-won efforts: our economy is growing again.

Despite such positive trends, it is, in my view, crucially important that we do not let go to waste the opportunity of addressing the root causes of the recent and worldwide crisis. Indeed there is a context to this crisis that must be recognized: over the past couple of decades, most governments in the world have been under pressure to orchestrate a shrinking of state action which left an enormous institutional and regulatory void in governing globalised markets and created a lack of accountability. From such failed paradigms and narrow intellectual formations we must break free.

We must seize this opportunity of exploring alternative models of socio-economic and cultural development. And it is my profound conviction that China has much to contribute to the conversation.

The emergence of new poles of economic and demographic vitality, and the re-emergence of older ones are necessarily lapping the waves against an international architecture, which was designed in a very different era. As the world’s fastest growing economy for the last thirty years, as a country comprising one fifth of the world’s population, China is to the fore of these transformations.

Thus contemporary China is faced with a unique opportunity of being able to engage with the world without being constrained to adopt an externally imposed model of development. Today the Chinese

Below is an excerpt from his speech:

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people are in a position to freely and creatively engage with change and explore the possibilities for new models to be crafted.

My wish – as President of a country which deeply values multilateralism – would be that China seizes fully this opportunity, not just to foster cultural and socio-economic progress among its own people, but also to enhance and extend the standing and effectiveness of those multilateral institutions that are concerned with humanity’s common good.

Let us pause a moment and ask: what is the alternative to multilateralism? As a Head of State from a continent which has been devastated, in the last century, by two World Wars and a Great Depression, it is my profound conviction, shared by many Europeans, that a world where peace depends merely on balanced power relations between states, and where each state makes decisions according to a narrow conception of its national interests – such a world is a dangerous one.

We should strive, rather, to reinvigorate a genuine “society of nations” between and among whom a real dialogue is organized – one that would allow for a concerted undertaking of common actions governed by the rule of law, and aimed at advancing our shared interest in global peace and prosperity. I believe that this can be achieved without undermining national sovereignties.

Unfortunately, such a dialogue between nations is currently impeded by the upsurge of dangerous versions of nationalism and fundamentalism across the world – in Europe, Africa, America and also here in Asia. Multilateralism, as a set of principles, relies on an interlocking of institutions, from the national to the regional and global levels. It is based on a vision of spaces and interests as being in solidarity rather than exclusionary, and of identities as being complementary. It calls upon us to recognize that decisions are improved

through negotiation with others, and that mutuality and interdependence are a strength, not a weakness.

I would now like to turn to some of these great challenges. As for the first challenge – the building and sustaining of international peace – I am delighted to be able to say that both Ireland and China are constructively engaged in supporting the work of the United Nations in conflict prevention, mediation, and resolution.

At present, Ireland has soldiers serving as peacekeepers in UN operations across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I am particularly pleased to note that Irish troops and officers are serving alongside Chinese counterparts in a significant number of these operations. China and Ireland thus share a similarly deep commitment to the peaceful settlement of disputes and resolution of conflicts. I hope that our two countries, together with our partners, can continue to promote the pacific settlement of international disputes in line with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

May I now turn to the second global challenge facing our multilateral system – namely the need to foster balanced socio-economic development across the planet and more particularly, to ensure the food security of the world’s poorest. I would like to start by emphasizing how, in meeting this particular challenge, the world has much to learn from China’s demonstrated ability to take far-sighted decisions when confronting complex policy questions. This is a most remarkable achievement, indeed one of global significance: the 114 million people whom China has rescued from hunger since 1990 represent nearly two-thirds of the total 173 million people who were lifted from food insecurity worldwide over the same period. This progress is rightly celebrated as an economic triumph, but it is first and foremost a human triumph, in that so many of your fellow citizens are now able to enjoy lives free from food insecurity.

I am convinced that your country, recognized for such achievements, will continue to play a vital role in contributing to delivering what is one of the most fundamental of human rights – namely the right to food and adequate nutrition. I can assure you that Ireland looks forward to working closely with China and our other partners to contribute to a strong and measurable global development agenda that will seek to eradicate extreme poverty in the next generation, through a process which gives voice to those most affected by global inequalities.

Prosperity, of course, cannot be measured only through the prism of growth rates, or even solely in economic terms. There are serious reasons to believe that the current path of global economic growth, and the metrics that go with it, are not sustainable and might end up, if no radical action is taken at global level, in an irreversible destruction of our natural environment. As anthropologist Margaret Mead once put it: “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”


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One of the most pressing issues of our times, therefore, is to find ways of balancing sustainability and the right to development. I know that the consequences of the environmental crisis are acutely felt in China: water pollution and water shortages; soil pollution and desertification; energy scarcity, and the question of the sustainability of mega-cities. The search for new models of regional and territorial balance, the exploration of new forms of rural development and urban planning are indeed a great challenge to both scholarship and policy.

We in the West should exercise restraint in any urge to propose ready-made solutions to China’s environmental problems. China will have to develop its own model of inclusive and sustainable development, and I believe that it has the capacity, the required long-view and the intellectual heritage to choose to do so. Indeed Westerners can hardly invoke moral superiority on environmental matters when, through history, they have contributed significantly to pollution in developing countries.

An area, let us be very clear, in which multilateral cooperation is not just mutually beneficial but absolutely essential, is that of global climate change. Indeed climate change is perhaps the most serious threat our planet has ever faced, one for which there simply is no other option than a collective and coordinated global response. Global warming shows us that rather than a patchwork of nations, we are in fact deeply interdependent and interconnected as members a common humanity.

I know that Chinese leaders take climate change very seriously, and that China has invested substantially in renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency. China’s pledge to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030, if not sooner, by increasing the use of clean energy sources, such as solar power and windmills, to 20% by 2030 is highly commendable. Although those goals have yet to be put into a formal agreement, the fact that the world’s two largest economies were able to announce solid numbers after months of negotiations must be strongly welcomed.

It is the job of governments to define objectives, make policy decisions, and take action accordingly. However, it is the job of young people, of students like yourselves, who will inherit the planet, to make sure your decision-makers remain focused on the goal of handing on a safe and hospitable world to future generations.

In speaking about some of the global challenges we, Irish and Chinese, jointly face in this 21st century, I have endeavored to address some of the areas where there is a need for a new, effective form of multilateralism. In the task of forging this new form of multilateralism, there is a role for large and strong countries such as China, as well as for smaller but intellectually and diplomatically active countries such as Ireland. And there is a role in all of this for the sincere, open and, inevitably, sometimes challenging, dialogue that Ireland and China are willing to pursue with each other – the

unlimited exchange of friends who are concerned with and respectful of one another.

Such a dialogue will only succeed if it is underpinned by genuine mutual understanding and vibrant intercultural exchanges. We live in an era of unprecedented mobility. People are moving from the countryside to cities, between cities, between countries, between continents and, let us never forget, between cultures. Such mobility demands an ability to adapt to new modes of thinking and living, and at the global level, it requires a deep understanding of, and openness to, other cultures, the diversity of memory, and the integrity of imagined futures.

I profoundly believe that students, and academic institutions such as Fudan University, have a fundamental role to play in advancing the kind of deep intercultural conversation we need between China and Europe, and between China and Ireland. I know that Fudan has several joint programs in place with University College Dublin, and I was also delighted to witness, earlier today, the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding with another Irish university, Trinity College Dublin, to promote student exchanges and joint research in the humanities. Cooperation with our oldest university will also contribute to the development of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, which will be important in advancing scholarship on your great Chinese civilization.

May we, then, in our collective efforts now, and in the future, breathe new life into the spirit of internationalism and cross-border solidarity that infused the visit of George Bernard Shaw to Shanghai in 1933 – so that, together, we may craft a truly peaceful, plural and humane world civilization, worthy of our peoples and their futures.”

(Note: The text of speech is derived from the official website of the Ireland government.)

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From Sept. 29 to Oct. 6 2014, Fudan University sent a delegation to Europe to hold the “China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” in Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. The delegation consisted of Zhu Chouwen, Director of Foreign Affairs Office, Chen Zhimin, Dean of School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Ding Chun, Director of Centre for European Studies and other teacher and student representatives. The delegation visited one university in each country: Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, Palacky University in the Czech Republic, and Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary. The majority of the event was comprised of academic lectures, exhibitions, enrollment consulting and Chinese instrument performance. The event ultimately achieved

its goal of further promoting humanity and literature communication between China and the European Union.

The first station of this visit was Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium on Sept. 29 and 30. Fudan has maintained a stable cooperative relationship with universities in Belgium for many years. From Mar. 4-6, on behalf of Fudan Centre, Chunrong Liu joined a delegation from China and visited the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. The delegation was hosted by the Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union and includes Prof. Feng Xiaoyuan (VP of Fudan University), Prof. Yin Zhihong (VP of Renmin University of China), and Prof. Shi Jian (VP of Sichuan University). As a warm-up for the following “China Day” event in Belgium, the visit aimed to advance the strategic research collaboration of China-EU relations. Chunrong Liu also met with Prof. Gustaaf Geeraerts, Director of Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies (BICCS), about institutional engagement.

As a comprehensive university founded in 1834, Université libre de Bruxelles is one of the top universities in Belgium. It has cultivated 3 Nobel Prize winners: two in medical fields, and the other in the chemical field. The history of cooperation between Fudan and ULB traces back to 1987, when the two universities signed a cooperative agreement to carry out student exchanges and research collaboration. The relationship between Fudan and ULB is much strengthened these years, and our event was strongly supported by Prof. Jean-Michel de Waele, Vice President of ULB, who is specifically in charge of Chinese universities affairs.

The “China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” in Belgium was successfully held on Sep.30, ULB. The event was divided into two parts, academic lectures and information exhibition, which were conducted simultaneously. Prof. Gao Xi from Fudan’s Department of History and Associate Prof. Xiao Jialing from Fudan’s School of International Relationships and Public Affairs both delivered lectures in the Université libre de Bruxelles’ European Research Institute called “Understanding Medical Science, Chinese Patients and Chinese Culture in China Society: From A Western Perspective” and “System Background of China’s Diplomatic Policy Determination.” These lectures were

“China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” in Europe

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A cultural trip to Université libre de Bruxelles, Palacky University, and Corvinus University of Budapest

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hosted by Prof. Mario Telo, the former Director of ULB’s European Research Center. Both of the lectures provoked animated discussions among teachers and students in ULB. Prof. Chen Zhimin, the representation from the Fudan delegation, gave an opening speech and introduced the mission of the visit. Anne Weyembergh, president of the ULB European Institute, gave an amiable welcome to Prof. Gao Xi, Prof. Chen Zhimin, Prof. Ding Chun, and Associate Prof. Xiao Jialing. They all agreed on the importance of a close cooperation relationship and the deepening of academic exchanges and communications. Before the lecture, the Fudan Chinese Traditional Orchestra performed a spectacular Chinese traditional concert to the audience. Afterwards, Fudan University introduced its overseas study programs at Bâtiment F1, including Chinese programs, an English Degree Program, exchange programs, and 7 oversea Confucius Institutes. The introduction event attracted a large number of students at ULB.

From Oct. 2-3, the delegation visited Palacky University in the Czech Republic. It is one of oldest universities in Czech, founded in 1573. In the spring of 2014, Jaroslav Miller, President of Palacky University; Ivana Oborná, Vice President of Palacky University; Prof. Huang Xiaoming, the Chinese President of the Confucius Institute; and Ms. Lucie Laníková, the Foreign President of the Confucius Institute, visited Fudan University. They expressed their communal desire to establish a long-term cooperative relationship between the two universities. Mr. Miller said that October would be the Chinese Culture Month and they would fully support the “China Day” event. Later on Oct. 2, “China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” was successfully implemented in the main building of Palacky University and attracted many teachers and students. The event was comprised of Chinese campus photo exhibitions, oversea study promotion, and lectures. Associate Prof. Xiao Jialing gave a lecture during the event to a full audience. Chinese traditional songs played by Fudan Chinese Traditional Orchestra was received with high praise from Palacky teachers and students. During this visit, both Fudan and Palacky reviewed the achievements of the cooperation since its inception and explored a future cooperation plan, specifically for the student exchange program. The delegation and the Confucius Institute explored topics including local Chinese Mandarin education and Chinese research.

On Oct 5 and 6, the delegation visited its third and final stop: Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 1948, Corvinus University of Budapest is the top comprehensive university in Hungary. Fudan and Corvinus have worked together in cooperation since 2009. Prof. Tamas Meszaros, President of Corvinus University, visited Fudan University in June 2009 and agreed to create a partnership between the two academic institutions. Now there are exchange and volunteer programs, along with students and faculty from Fudan teaching Chinese in Corvinus University’s Center of Chinese Studies.

On Oct 6, the “China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” was successfully carried out in the center hall of the main building in Corvinus University. Mr. Zoltan Szanto, Vice President of Corvinus University, gave a warm welcome to the Fudan delegation and spoke highly of the exchange program and communication between the two universities. He put forward that this activity was of great importance as it helped them learn and know more about China. He also made a wish that there would be a similar activity like “Hungary Day” in Fudan University. The event’s arrangement was the same as the first two in Belgium and Czech. It was noticeable that students from Loránd University came to attend this event as well, because their Confucius Institute keeps cooperation with Corvinus University in Budapest Center of Chinese studies. In the afternoon, Prof. Zoltan Galik hosted a theme seminar. Prof. Ding Chun, Prof. Chen Zhimin, and Associate Prof. Xiao Jialing gave lectures about social, political, economic, and diplomatic problems in China and further communicated with the audience during the Q&A session.

With thoughtful arrangement from our Foreign Affairs Office and Confucius Institute’s Affair Office, and great support and cooperation from European partner universities, the whole event of the “China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” concluded successfully. The event achieved its original intention: to spread Chinese culture actively, expand Chinese universities’ fame and influence among European universities, and enrich the substance of humanity and literature communication between China and the European Union.

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Insights on China

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Selected Lecture Abstracts

Many lecture events have been organized and co-organized at Fudan Centre in 2014. This section shows five selected lecture abstracts, covering Chinese politics, economy, and culture. Fudan-based economist Prof. Zhang Jun addressed the

sustainability and dynamics of the Chinese economy in the context of the “new normal”, which he presented at a conference “Financing the Future” honoring Prof. Niels Thygesen at the University of Copenhagen. Prof. Bai Tongdong’s two lectures addressed whether and how Confucianism may be exported from China to other countries as an alternative to mainstream Western models in meeting the dilemmas and challenges associated with modernity. Prof. Lars Bo Kaspersen’s seminar explored how to compare small and big states. Prof. Daniel Bell’s guest lecture demonstrates the idea and reality of political meritocracy in the Chinese context.

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Professor Zhang began by presenting the miserable picture of the Chinese economy at present, namely the output growth rate that has been falling dramatically for years. GDP has been lingering at about 7.5% since 2012. The estimated GDP for 2015 is only 7%. Most economists and Chinese government think tanks believe that a growth rate of 7%, or possibly lower, will become the harsh reality. They believe that China’s economy has already waved goodbye to the good old time of rapid growth and, has entered a “New Normal” with low-to-medium speed growth.

Professor Zhang then went on to say that, if China’s economy continues to stay at around 7%, its potential growth rate must already have dropped to that level. However, Professor Zhang does not believe China’s growth drop is a result of a decreased potential growth because no cogent evidence is available to him. China suffered less compared to other emerging markets during the global crisis in 2008. Without external shock, structural factors are insufficient to explain and support such a sudden drop in potential growth rate of an economy that could grow almost 10% just three years before. According to his speech, even an explanation based on demographic dividends would be irrelevant.

Professor Zhang attributes the growth drop to the huge debt burden facing the Chinese economy, which is a result of the four trillion RMB stimulus plan of 2008. Since 2008, all types of debt and debt-induced interest service have snowballed. Professor Victor Shih of University of California, San Diego estimated that the interest service would be almost twice the volume of the nominal GDP increment in 2014; therefore, a massive amount of liquidity is needed to ensure that the debt chains do not snap. For years, colossal bad debts have been harassing local governments, undermining their capacity of public capital expenditure, limiting private demand for productive investment, and preventing China’s economy from getting back on track.

Finally Professor Zhang discussed policies regarding this issue. He first recommended that the government cut interest rate without delay in order to reduce the burden of interest payment for the debtors and contribute to GDP growth. But in order to untie the Gordian debt knot, the Chinese government must wield more active fiscal policy than monetary policy. Since the debt is too large and local governments and SEOs have burdened the majority of defaults and bad debt, write-offs are perhaps the simplest and most imperative approach. Some percentage of debt should be written off quickly. The capital for such write-offs can be raised through central government bonds. Debt and bond swap is a viable action because the central government of China enjoys favorable fiscal conditions and has a rather low debt-to-GDP ratio of about 20%. Of course, without curbing future debt increase, a simple write-off of the past will lead us nowhere. That means that China’s economic growth in the future has to be achieved through changing the bank-based way that local governments finance their capital construction and nurture the development of bond and equity market.

If we can shake off the current “abnormal”, the Chinese economy has every possibility to maintain a medium-to-high speed growth. Critics are pessimistic because they take the “abnormal” as the “new normal”. The Chinese economy has yet to match high-income countries in terms of labor productivity, and it still has not finished the move to the economic structure of high-income countries. Therefore, China still has a relatively large growth potential ahead, and a medium-to-high speed growth can be expected in the decade to come.

Charging the Long-Term Economic Growth in China Zhang Jun, Fudan University


Lecture I Confucianism to Save the World: The Cultural Messages of a Rising China

China is rising, but what messages can and should a rising China deliver to the world? Focusing on the normative aspect of this question – what messages China should, not actually does, bring to the world – Prof. Bai Tongdong argues that we should look into traditional Chinese philosophy, especially Confucianism, in order to discover these messages. Taking Confucianism as a universal teaching that is meant for all, not just the Chinese, and is still relevant to contemporary political issues in the world, he argues that it can offer alternative and even better political models than the mainstream, Western models. With regard to the issue of national identity and international relations, Dr. Bai argues that Confucianism can offer models different from and superior to both the nation-state model and the cosmopolitan model. With regard to governance, he argues that the Confucian hybrid regime can address issues that democracies are structurally unable to address. In this sense, the Confucian revival in China is not only relevant to the Chinese, but to everyone in the world.

Lecture II Ethnic Issues, National Identity, and International Relations: A Confucian Theory and Its Superiority to the Nation-State and Liberal Models

An assumption of this paper is that China’s Zhou-Qin transition is a modernization, and the pre-Qin Chinese thinkers already addressed issues of modernity. On the issue of national identity, the nation-state model is a special answer to some general issues in modernity, but not the only answer. Early Confucians had a different answer to these issues. Their state identity was based upon a Confucian conception of compassion and the distinction between the civilized and the barbaric. On the basis of this model of state identity, their theory of international relations recognizes the legitimacy of sovereignty and allows it to be overridden under certain conditions (“humanity [ren] overrides sovereignty”). The Confucian answer is arguably superior to both a strong version of the nation-state model and to cosmopolitanism, and thus offers a better alternative that addresses the issues of modern state identity and international relations. It can also address various ethnic issues in contemporary China.

Understanding the Relevance of Confucianism Bai Tongdong, Fudan University


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This lecture compares and contrasts the state development strategies in Nordic countries and China. Often it has been argued that comparative research requires entities, which are comparable. Consequently, it seems to be difficult to compare China with small open economies such as those of Nordic countries. Professor Kaspersen, however, argues that there can be good reasons to compare these entities because despite the difference in territory and population, there are major similarities. The lecture builds upon the assumption that China, throughout history, can be conceptualized as a survival unit, and the survival issue has framed and shaped the structure and development of China. The same goes for the Nordic countries. Moreover, China and Nordic countries both share the fate to border USSR/Russia, the former Soviet Union, which has influenced China as well as the Nordic region. Furthermore, the two entities have both experienced state-led development strategies. Other factors, such as cultural homogeneity, are important as well. Today, China and the Nordic region are interdependent, and future development depends on their ability to learn from each other.

What is the right formula for choosing political rulers? The idea that a political system should aim to select leaders with superior ability and virtue has a long history, both in the West and in China. In this lecture, Prof. Bell argues that it is good for a political community to be governed by high-quality leaders and, in particular, to select and promote government officials on the basis of ability and morality, rather than political loyalty, wealth, or family background. He investigates the major qualities that matter for political leaders and the mechanisms and institutions that can increase the likelihood that officials are selected and promoted on the basis of those qualities in the Chinese context. This lecture is based on the speaker’s new book The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, in which he explores how the Chinese-style political meritocracy can be morally desirable and politically stable and how it can help remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy.

State and Societal Development: The Nordic Countries and China Compared

The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

Lars Bo Kaspersen, University of Copenhagen

Daniel A Bell, Tsinghua University


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Rediscovering China • RESEARCH COLLABORATION

The Fudan-European Centre for China Studies has partnered with various actors of China studies at UCPH to advocate many new agendas and forms of collaboration with Fudan under the broad umbrella of themes including security, welfare, and culture. In this section, we cover two emerging initiatives: comparative analysis of state form and life-modes and comparative research on heritage.

In March and April 2014, Fudan Centre helped organize a research field trip to China for the Centre of State and Life-mode Analysis. Besides visiting several scholars and universities, the

research group also visited factories, community centers, and NGOs, and they took part in typical family dinners in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hubei. A special event, the Sino-Nordic Workshop on Life-Mode Analysis, was also organized at the Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center at Fudan University.

The life-mode analysis is a theoretical framework based on the assumption that a state depends on the life modes of its social formation, and every life mode is dependent on the specific political, legal, and economic structures of the state form that protects the social formation wherein the life mode has a possible place. It shows how important it is to map the scales of values in a population and how one can use mapping of innovation and diffusion of values to explain people’s behaviors.

Ethnologists in Copenhagen wrote the first books on modern life modes in the 1970s, when states in northern Europe became interested in decentralizing the physical planning, which earlier had been an exclusive part of state planning and management. A new perspective of this kind of planning was to involve the citizens in the planning process itself. The new and more efficient trend was that the planning process should listen to the different wishes or needs - cultural, social, or industrial - in the different parts of the population to improve the efficiency and the suitability of the plans and the planning process. This generated a substantial demand for information about the life-mode of social groups. In Thomas Højrup’s words, “This kind of planning process laid bare harsh contradictions behind visible and concrete conflicts between the different needs and wishes of the different parts of the population. Because of that the authorities thought that it perhaps could be useful to ask the ethnologists if they could help the planners, the politicians, and the authorities to understand the background of the different ways in

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which the different people conceived the needs, the wishes, the planning process, and the meetings.”

Similar processes and problems have occurred in China’s market transition since the reform. As Chunrong Liu stated a group discussion, “With the decline of traditional socialist collective regime, the Chinese state has withdrawn much from society since reform. However, its efforts to reengage and reconfigure the social forces have not been given up. New programs such as urban community building scheme and new socialist rural village

building projects are good examples of the new presence of state power in social life. What kinds of life-modes have emerged or declined as a result of this entangled process of transition? As what happened in 1970s in Denmark, much can be said about the invisibility of many social actors in the state policy making and planning process. What motivates the organizing of this research visit is that we need better theoretical tools to understand such a complexity from comparative perspectives, and this fit well with Fudan Centre’s mission to explore and facilitate the important hidden research agendas that have not been investigated systematically by existing China studies.”

At the workshop, Thomas Højrup presented a special lecture on “The essence of life-mode analysis”, followed by Fudan anthropologist Prof. Zhang Letian’s lecture on “Collectivism in Rural China”. The workshop includes two sessions of discussion on state power and social life transformation. Chunrong Liu gave a talk on the social impacts of China’s hyper-urbanization. Scholars from both sides were preoccupied with the overlapping interests explored through this workshop. Prof. Zhang Letian, the director of Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center and a leading anthropologist on rural issues in China, found the life-mode analysis

extremely interesting, stating that “the theory stresses the importance of mapping the scales of values in a population that are able to shape and reproduce their own conditions of existence, which is undoubtedly inspiring and relevant to the analysis of Chinese society.”

The project team core member, Prof. Niels Jul Nielsen, had visited China several times before, but this time it was a proper research trip. He explained, "What really stands out, compared to earlier visits with less opportunity to discuss with Chinese scholars, is the insight into the importance of the Chinese state. On the one hand it provides considerable room for market forces, on the other hand it strategically organizes production, labour, infrastructure and networks across the whole continent – with huge implications for everyday life in China. The contrast to the European Union that has similar incentives but lacks the executive means is striking."

One of the dramatic ongoing changes in China is the dramatic urbanization and growth of large cities. The everyday conditions differ greatly between inner city cores, suburbs, inland towns and rural areas. For Dr. Jeppe Høst, this trip was a great experience to learn about the diversity of China: “We saw many different urban settings and environments but did also have time to visit rural areas. The rate and scope of urbanization in China is truly fascinating, but it is hard to understand without knowing the living conditions and life-modes in the countryside. China is on the threshold to extensive agricultural and rural reforms, and how these challenges and policies are approached will be critical to the future development and social sustainability.”

The aim of the trip was to study the life of people working in Chinese subcontractors, partner companies, and departments of the Danish enterprises whose life modes we are studying in Denmark and start to research Chinese ways of life that can be compared to the kinds of life modes we are studying in Europe. For Professor Thomas Højrup, it was his first time in China and the beginning of a better understanding of globalization. “We know that these very distinct ways of life are related through the world market and through political and legal relations between our countries,” he explained, “but we do not know how these relations are undergoing changes and transformations at the local level in China versus Europe, and how the different local processes of neoculturation in China and Europe are connected and are implying the formation of distinct life modes in each locality.”

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Heritage has become an important focal point for identity and value building in contemporary societies and is often associated with writing the history of civilization. Heritage acts at

all levels of social organization, from the individual through local communities to the national state. On an international level, UNESCO is attempting to identify values shared across cultures and nations, creating World Heritage sites across the globe. Today, heritage plays a large role in policy making and regulation. A vast amount of research has focused on the legal aspects and implementation of heritage law. But do we have a clear understanding of the basic terminology?

With growing global tourism, migration, and the opening of the world through the media and the internet, we should ask ourselves if our understanding of basic heritage concepts are precise enough to facilitate a meaningful dialogue or, at the very least, sensitive enough to avoid fatal misunderstandings. The word heritage and its translation into other major languages than English should be examined, not in order to standardize meaning, but to generate awareness of semantic nuances in order to improve understanding across cultural and political boundaries.

Fudan’s relevant departments and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS) of the University of Copenhagen have begun a cross-institutional cooperation, which we hope will be very fruitful, not only in regards to gaining different perspectives on the subject

at hand, but also with future research projects. Certain plans have already been drafted on how Fudan and ToRS may potentially work together to create a greater understanding of heritage and Chinese society.

Several of these ideas include Fudan-UCPH cooperation in the teaching of a pilot course on cross-cultural heritage issues, as well as lectures and seminars at Fudan during the course trip to China. Topics of these seminars could be, but are not limited to: ‘The Influence of the Museum in Chinese Society’, ‘National and Regional Planning’, ‘Chinese Concepts of Heritage and Civilization’ and so on. Moreover, it will be important to identify other issues and further develop courses designed to raise awareness of cross- and multi-cultural heritage issues.

On a long-term scale, the collaboration ultimately wishes to introduce the research initiative Horizon 2020, which addresses Cultural Property Protection during conflicts. Colleagues from Fudan could take part in the development of a large research application to study issues of heritage and conflict. Ultimately the application would be submitted to the European Union and, if successful, would involve a long-term international research activities based in Copenhagen. Participation would not only include historians but also political scientists, heritage experts, legal scholars etc.

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Key Activities at the Centre

Rediscovering China • ACTIVITIES AND ENGAGEMENT

On behalf of Fudan Centre, Chunrong Liu joined a delegation from China and visited College of Europe at Bruges, Belgium. The delegation was hosted by Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union and includes Prof. Feng Xiaoyuan (VP of Fudan University), Prof. Yin Zhihong (VP of Renmin University of China) and Prof. Shi Jian (VP of Sichuan University). The visit aimed to advance the strategic research collaboration on China-EU relations. Chunrong Liu also met with Prof. Gustaaf Geeraerts, Director of Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies (BICCS), for institutional engagement.

Prof. Francis Muller of the University of Strasbourg visited Fudan Centre and gave a lunch talk on “Creativity, Growth, Nudge, and Happiness: the Case of Shanghai”. Prof. Muller has been a visiting scholar at the School of Economy at Fudan. His talk showed interesting economic perspectives on the measurement and dynamics of happiness in the Chinese context.

Fudan Centre brought together the Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center at Fudan and a research group of life-mode analysis from UCPH’s Saxo Institute and organized a “Sino-Nordic Workshop on Life-Mode Analysis” at Fudan University.

Fudan Centre received a visit from a delegation from Fudan Law School led by Vice Dean Prof. Wang Wei. Working jointly with Centre for Enterprise Liability of the Law School of UCPH, the Centre organized two special discussion sessions: “China and Arctic: Legal Perspective” and “China’s Legal Reforms”. After that, Geir Helgesen, Chunrong Liu, and Bent Ole Gram Mortensen signed a Letter of Intent between Fudan Centre and the Danish Forum for Chinese Law and Legal Culture. With support from the S.C. Van Foundation, the forum was led by Prof. Ditlev Tamm and Prof. Bent Ole Gram Mortensen and served as a platform for research and other related activities regarding Chinese Law and Legal Culture.

Fudan Centre was involved in the 2014 BI-Fudan MBA Faculty Meeting in Copenhagen. Chunrong Liu discussed the role of Fudan Centre in facilitating innovative business education programming between Fudan and its Nordic partners with representatives from the Fudan School of Management and BI-Norwegian Business School. Prof. Chen Yinzhang, advisor to Fudan Centre and director of Fudan Nordic Centre, also attended the meeting.

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Fudan Centre actively participated in NIAS strategy meeting in Oslo. The Centre’s development was well integrated into the new NIAS Strategy (2014-2017). Chunrong Liu, along with colleagues from NIAS, worked to develop the vision and strategy of Fudan Centre as well as its “organic bonds” with NIAS.

Fudan Centre organized a group of UCPH scholars to participate and observe the Shanghai Forum 2014, an international economic forum hosted by Fudan University. The delegates include Lars Bo Kaspersen, Geir Helgesen, Bertel Heurlin, and Camillar Sørensen. During the visit, Prof. Kaspersen and Director Helgesen discussed the strategy of Fudan Centre with Fudan VP Prof. Lin Shangli, and UCPH’S talent PhD program and research cooperation with SIRPA of Fudan. In collaboration with the Seaker Chan Centre for Comparative Political Development, Fudan Centre also hosted a special lecture by Prof. Kaspersen that discussed how to compare sociopolitical development between China and the Nordic countries.

Prof. Liu Chenggong, Vice Chancellor of Fudan, led a delegation to visit UCPH. Fudan Centre organized a seminar on Fudan-UCPH research collaboration in humanities and social sciences. Major China related programs, including ADI and ThinkChina, and “emerging collaborative research interests”, including the comparative study of migration and urbanization, cultural heritage, and state-society relations, were extensively discussed in the seminar. Dr. Zhang Yi, Deputy Director of the Office of Humanities and Social Sciences Programs at Fudan and Director of Shanghai Forum briefed the participants on the Fudan Development Institute and the Fudan Platform for Humanities and Social Sciences. UCPH’s Prorector Prof. Thomas Bjørnholm greeted the delegation. The visit has identified some common interests and reconfirmed the strategic ties between Fudan and UCPH.

Chunrong Liu delivered the opening research presentation at the Asia Brown Bag Lecture Series, which was jointly organized by NIAS and ADI. The topic, titled “Governing China’s Urbanization”, touched upon the critical aspects of governing challenges associated with massive urbanization in China. He also analyzed recent policy and institutional responses to these challenges.

Chunrong Liu gave a lecture on “Ideological Innovation in China” at the UCPH summer course “The Chinese Dream: Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Contemporary China” organized by the Dept. of Anthropology and ADI. He showed the post-reform adaptation of political ideologies and examined their relevance to ordinary people’s quandaries, hopes, and desires.

Dr. Nancy Chen, Associate Professor of Management and Director of Master Program on Organization Behavior at Hong Kong based Lingnan University, visited Fudan Centre and NIAS. She delivered a talk on “Harmony in Sino-Western Joints Ventures in China: the Role of Guanxi and Constructive Controversy" at the Centre’s lunch lecture series. Geir Helgesen and Chunrong Liu moderated the discussion and emphasized that “harmony”, despite being multifaceted, is a shared and relevant value in both Chinese society and the West.

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Chunrong Liu was invited to University of Oslo (UiO) and presented the Fudan Centre to the China experts community at UiO. He was also engaged in the discussion of “Nordic Center Fudan as a Tool for Bilateral Cooperation with China”. Prof. Stein Kuhnle from University of Bergen, Prof. Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen from Center for Gender Research at UiO, and Special Advisor Ann Elin Hattrem of Norwegian Research Council contributed to the seminar discussion. UiO Prorector Ragnhild Hennum addressed the seminar with the hope to achieve a more productive relationship with Fudan.

Chunrong Liu worked with Dr. Camilla T. N. Sørensen of Department of Political Science at UCPH to develop a joint graduate course on “Domestic change and the development of China as a great power” (Fall semester 2014). As an effort of Fudan Centre to promote studies of Chinese politics at UCPH, this course addresses main issues pertaining to Chinese development, focusing on the interaction between domestic socio-political developments in China and the changing roles and policies of China in the international system. About 20 students are enrolled in or sit in on the course. The joint course features some guest lectures and a special visit and lecture at the Chinese Embassy in Denmark.

Chunrong Liu was invited by Ulf Hedetoft, Dean of Faculty of Humanity at UCPH, to present Fudan Centre at the Deans’ Summit for the Faculties of Humanities at the universities in Nordic capitals (Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen). Chunrong Liu introduced Fudan’s platform of humanity and social sciences and Fudan Centre’s strategy to the participants, followed by a vivid discussion on the future of humanity research as well as topics and possible areas of cooperation.

Chunrong Liu was invited by Prof. Li Xing to visit the Research Center on Development and International Relations at Aalborg University. He also met Prof. Marianne Rostgaard, head of the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg, and discussed possible collaborations and the facilitation of faculty mobility. Chunrong Liu also delivered a talk at the center on Chinese Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance at the center.

Prof. Ding Chun, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of Center for European Studies at Fudan University, visited Fudan Centre and NIAS. In a public lecture co-organized with ThinkChina, Prof. Ding talked about “The New Horizon of China’s Social and Economic Development”, focusing on welfare-oriented reforms in light of China’s recent economic and social development.

Prof. Daniel Bell of Tsinghua University and Prof. Xiao Jialing of Fudan University visited Fudan Centre and NIAS. They were invited to a lunch talk on China and joined with a NIAS delegation to Reykjavik, for a special lecture event on Chinese Politics at the University of Iceland. The lecture program is a part of the 8th NIAS Nordic Coucil Annual Meeting. The speakers addressed the rise of meritocracy and the institutionalization of Chinese foreign policy respectively. This event was highly attended by a large audience comprised of China experts and students, including political leaders such as Halldor Asgrimsson, the Former Prime Minister of Iceland, and the Secretary General of Nordic Council of Ministers. After the lecture, Chunrong Liu joined Prof. Chen Yinzhang and visited Dr. Jón Atli Benediktsson, prorector of University of Iceland, to discuss bilateral cooperation between Fudan and University of Iceland.

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Prof. Bai Tongdong of Fudan University was invited by Fudan Centre and to give a talk about “Confucianism to Save the World”. Prof. Bai addressed whether Confucianism may be exported from China to other countries as an alternative to mainstream Western models in meeting the dilemmas and challenges associated with modernity. The lecture was co-organized with ThinkChina. During his visit, he also delivered a seminar on “Ethnic Issues, National Identity, and International Relations: A Confucian Theory and Its Superiority to the Nation-State and Liberal Models” at the Department of Political Science at UCPH.

Fudan Centre co-organized a special panel on “Maritime Territorial Dispute: China and its Neighbors” with Prof. Bertel Heurlin of Department of Political Science at UCPH at the ADI’s annual conference. A dozen experts from China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, and Korea were invited to discuss and debate this complicated issue, including the mechanism of securitization process in the East Asia. Prof. Xin Qiang of Fudan

University delivered a presentation on the pattern of China’s response to maritime disputes, arguing that the behavioral pattern is fundamentally a reactive one as before, but is now becoming more assertive than it used to be because of the strong attachment to sovereignty and territory integrity.

Prof. Zhang Jun, a leading Fudan-based economist in China, was invited to visit Fudan Centre and the Department of Economics of UCPH. Prof. Zhang gave a speech on Sino-US economic interdependence for the ThinkChina group on Chinese economy followed by a comment by Carsten Boyer Thøgersen, the Director of Confucius Institute at CBS. Prof. Zhang then attended the international conference “Financing the Future” in honor of Prof. Niels Thygesen and delivered a talk on the “Charging the Long-term Economic Growth in China” in the context of China’s “new normal”.

An international workshop, “Law and Transitional Society: Chinese and Global Perspective,” was held at the Law School of UCPH, aiming to revisit the roles of law in the governance of transitional society. The event was organized by the Center for Studies in Legal Culture of Faculty of Law and TorS and participated by a delegation from Wuhan University, China. Chunrong Liu, representing Fudan Centre, joined the workshop and delivered a presentation titled “Rule of Law and Community Governance in Urban China”, in which he uncovers the problems and challenges of legalization in China’s local governance. The papers delivered in the workshop will be published at the Journal of Law and Social Research, a peer reviewed annual research journal at TorS. It was hoped that a new research community on law and society in China could be further developed.

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Date Event

26/2Sir David King, The Special Representative for Climate Change of UK government visited Fudan and gave a lecture titled “Clean Air - Cool Planet: the co-benefits of tackling local and global pollution”

4-6/3 A delegation led by Prof. Feng Xiaoyuan, Vice President of Fudan, visited the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium

12/3 Brendan Howlin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform of Ireland attended the opening ceremony of the Ireland Week at Fudan

17/3 Course by EU delegation in China – How Europe is Overcoming the Crisis

15/4 Norway Day at Fudan

5-6/5 Sino-Nordic network in Ethics of Research and Public Health Launched

15/5 Center for French Studies established at Fudan

6/6 Book launch – Sino-Nordic Welfare Research Network

10/6 Photo exhibition on the social life of Germany hosted by the European Study Centre and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

16/6 Switzerland Day at Fudan

27/6-10/7 Summer course – Doing Business in China held at Fudan Nordic Centre

14-25/7 Summer course – Chinese Politics and Society held at Fudan Nordic Centre

29-30/9 Hamburg University President Prof. Dieter Lenzen visits Fudan for further cooperation

29/9-6/10 The “China Day, Fudan Day, Confucius Institute Day” in Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Hungary

14/10 BI President and Fudan VP sign Agreement of Intent

20-21/10 Nordic Centre Global Health Conference

21/10 Denmark Day organized by Innovation Center Denmark

24/10 Nordic Education Day at Fudan

28/10 Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen visits Fudan

30/10 Ireland Minister of Education Jan O’Sullivan visits Fudan

28-29/10 Research workshop of Sino-Nordic Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network (UGSCN) held at Fudan

17-21/11 Nordox, Nordic Documentary Film Festival at Fudan

19/11 Finland Day at Fudan

28-29/11 Sino-Nordic Welfare Research Network Conference

8/12 Visit from Uppsala Innovation, meeting with the Office of Industry of Fudan

10/12 Visit from Dutch Ministry of Education

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