Governance and Challenges in China's Peripheries and Ecology

Dates: 28-29 May 2015

Convenor: Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, IIAS Visiting Professor, Taiwanese Chair of Chinese Studies / National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

For over a century and a half, China has undergone tumultuous changes and transformations. Like most developed and developing countries, China has defined its pursuit of modernity in terms of industrialization, economic growth rate and urbanization of its landscape. China today is acclaimed to be an upcoming regional superpower and such success comes with a price of serious air pollution, environmental degradation and multitudes of dislocated migrant workers, diminishing natural resources, and political asymmetry of state and society.

The Chinese party-state has proved to be a versatile and resourceful corporate apparatus coping with various crises for the recent three decades. Hence, it would be a path-making development in the global community if China can achieve modernization without recolonization and exploitation, and if China’s economic growth can be redistributed equally, and can reduce ethnic tension on a par with other nation-states that have been striving to achieve this balance since the post-war eras.

To reach out for such a forward-looking level of theorization, this workshop includes papers analyzing territorialization of peripheral regions in Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Southwestern and Maritime Southeastern China historically and contemporary, and discuss topics of social equity, politics of resource allocations, constructions of people and nature, and contestations over ecological imperialism. 

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies and the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.  

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