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 Dear all:

apologies for cross-posting.
CHINESE GLOBAL ENGAGEMENTS ABROAD: CHANGING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL
CONFIGURATIONS

*An international conference for PhD candidates and post-doctoral
researchers, 5-6 July 2019*

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, HKUST

*Organizers: *French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) and
the School of Humanities and Social Sciences

(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

*With the support of: *National Institute of Oriental Languages and
Civilizations (INALCO, Paris), the French Research Institute on East Asia
(IFRAE), Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC)

Argument:

There has been significant expansion and globalization of Chinese capital,
people, and ideas since the early 2000s. The Chinese government's "going
out" (*zou chuqu*) policy and more recent *Belt and Road Initiative *reflect
a domestic context of capital over-accumulation, an attempt to ensure
adequate supply of raw materials and energy, as well as interest in
fostering the global competitiveness of its enterprises. In the process,
China's foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased globally,
particularly in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. This has resulted
in China becoming the most important source of FDI in the world with 158.29
billion US$ annually in 2017. Flows of capital, people, and ideas from
China have not only increased, but also greatly diversified over the last
two decades to reach fields as diverse as energy, trade, transport, media,
education, finance, and so on. If China's global imprint has been most
prominent in the economic or geo-economic fields, the country's increasing
presence also has important social, cultural and political aspects. Hence,
this conference will discuss how Chinese global engagements shape new
political, economic, and social configurations.

In addition to shedding light on the transformations of the Chinese state's
expansion and globalization strategy, this conference will also explore how
Chinese entrepreneurs, engineers, journalists, diplomats, NGO delegates,
etc. interact with the general public, and with business and political
elites in the hosting societies.

Moving beyond the assessment of the possible benefits and harms of the
increasingly global reach of Chinese capital and aiming at avoiding the too
often homogenized and ethnicized depiction of Chinese presence abroad
(Nyiri 2012; Tan and Grillot 2016; Lee 2017), this conference aims at
gathering contributions that will engage empirically and theoretically with
the complexities of the entanglements between an increasingly diverse
Chinese presence abroad (from petty entrepreneurs, state corporations
managers, engineers, NGO

practitioners, to unskilled laborers) and local actors. In this sense, the
conference also seeks to expand our understanding of the evolving features
of global capitalism in its quest for and in the production of "new
frontiers", and consider how they produce new assemblages of sovereignty,
governmentality, and political economies (Mezzadra and Neilson 2013).

The main purpose of the 4th edition of this Conference is to provide a
forum for PhD and postdoctoral researchers to engage with each other's work
and foster a better understanding of economic and socio-political processes
at work in contemporary China, as well as internationally, given China's
increasing importance as a global actor.

The Conference will be an occasion to facilitate exchanges on common
research subjects, compare perspectives and methodologies, and promote
interdisciplinary dialogue. By providing a space for debate and reflection,
the Conference intends to contribute to the emergence of more diverse
theoretical approaches of global China and contemporary capitalism, both in
their domestic and international dimensions.

The participants will present their research in thematic panels. Each
speaker will deliver a paper in English, followed by a discussion with an
invited discussant. The best contributors will be invited to submit their
papers for a special issue of a peer-reviewed academic journal, as well as
shorter versions of their articles aimed at a general audience for a
special issue of the *Made in China *Journal to be published in 2020.

Contributions may focus on, but are not limited to, the following questions
and topics:

   - The connection between the transformations of domestic economic
   development strategies and accumulation regimes on the one hand, and the
   expansion and globalization of China's reach, on the other. In particular,
   what are the economic and political goals of the expansion of Chinese
   capital beyond "accumulation for accumulation's sake"? (Lee 2017: 7);
   - How China's increasingly global reach and the expansion of Chinese
   capital has been received and represented at the levels of political and
   business elites, as well as ordinary citizens;
   - How various flows and networks of migrants articulate with and rework
   the local political economies and the relationship between formal and
   informal labor and migration regimes and how this can be related to
   networks of accumulation, as well as to contentious politics;
   - The changing politics and industry of migration: roles of brokers,
   migration infrastructures, trade unions, ;
   - How these flows alter the relationship between different generations
   of (im)migrants, the politics of ethnicity and identity, and the
   relationship with the Chinese state; what roles do the various Chinese
   associations and networks play in these economic, political, and cultural
   processes?

   - The transformation of the Chinese state's representation of
   international Chinese migrants and how this resonates with changing
   economic development paradigms and strategies in foreign

Quoted references:

Lee Ching Kwan (2017). *The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and
Foreign Investment in Africa. *Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mezzadra, Sandro and Brett Neilson (2013). *Border as Method, or the
Multiplication of Labor*, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press.

Nyiri, Pal (2012). «Enclaves of improvement: Sovereignty and
developmentalism in the special zones of the China-Lao borderlands».
*Comparative
Studies in Society and History*, 54(3), 533-562. DOI:
10.1017/S0010417512000229

Tan, Danielle et Caroline Grillot (2014). *L'Asie du Sud-Est dans le «
siècle chinois » : Cambodge, Laos et Viêt Nam. *Nouvelle édition [online].
Bangkok : Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporain
books.openedition.org/irasec/1169>. ISBN : 9782355960260. DOI :
10.4000/books.irasec.1169.

Who can apply?

The Conference is designed for doctoral candidates and post-doctoral
researchers in humanities and social sciences.

Practical arrangements:

The conference organizers will sponsor accommodation in Hong Kong for
selected participants (this will be confirmed to the participants once
their proposals are accepted by the scientific committee); however, no
funding is available for transportation costs.

Registration details and schedule

   - A paper title and abstract (500-600 words), and a brief bio in English
   is to be sent *by 15 March by applying through
   cefc.com.hk/call-for-papers-conference2019
   <http://www.cefc.com.hk/call-for-papers-conference2019>*
   - The selected participants will be notified by 15 April 2019
   - The final papers (up to 8000 words) should be sent by 1st June 2019

Scientific Committee

Alpermann Bjorn (University of Würzburg) Judith Audin (CEFC)

Sébastien Billoud (CEFC)

Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Hong Kong Baptist University) Bu Maoliang (Nanjing
University)

Sébastien Colin (National Institute of Oriental Languages and
Civilizations, Paris) Eric Florence (CEFC)

Ivan Franceschini (Australian National University) Nicholas Loubere (Lund
University)

Ching Kwan Lee (University of California, Los Angeles)

David O'brien (University of Nottingham)

Florence Padovani (CFC, CEFC)

David Palmer (The University of Hong Kong) Judith Pernin (CEFC)

Céline Pierdet (CEFC)

Christoph Steinhardt (The University of Vienna)

Kellee Tsai (Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology) June Wang
(City University of Hong Kong)

Zhan Zhang (Università della Svizzera italiana) Yu Zheng (University of
London)

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Jun Wang
City University of Hong Kong
june.wang at cityu.edu.hk
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