Keynote and Panel Speakers include:
Alistair G. L. Borthwick, University of Oxford, U.K., “A Century of Change: the Environment and China”
James Vincent Feinerman, Georgetown University, U.S., “One Hundred Years of Legalization: China’s Quest
for a Modern Legal System”
Karl Gerth, University of Oxford, U.K., “China’s Embrace of Western Lifestyles and Its Consequences”
Guanghu He, Renmin University, P. R. China, “Nationalism and Christianity in Contemporary China”
Jing Lin, University of Maryland, U.S., “China’s Higher Education Development and Strategies to Build World
Class Universities: From 1977 to the Present”
Kang Liu, Duke University, U.S., “Searching for a New Cultural Identity: China's Soft Power and Media
Culture Today”
Peng Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, P. R. China, “Change of Religion in China: 1979–2009”
Yi Liu, Shanghai University, P. R. China, “Confucianism, Christianity and Religious Freedom: The Intellectual
and Political Paradox during the Transformation Period of Modern China 1900–1920s”
Lauren Pfister, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “Missionary-Scholars and the Modern Disciplines
of Religious and Philosophical Studies in 20th Century Chinese Academia”
Heidi Ross, Indiana University, U.S., “Reconstructing the Rural through Modern Education / Reconstructing the
Modern through Rural Education: 1923–2009”
Robert Sutter, Georgetown University, U.S., “China’s Encumbered Rise: Implications for Sino-American
Relations”
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, U.S., “Religious Policies in the PRC: A Sociopolitical History”
Jianrong Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, P. R. China, “From Rigid Stability to Resilient Stability:
On the Analytical Structure of China’s Social Order”
David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, “Diaspora Delivers Diversity:
The Impact of Overseas Study on China’s Modernization”
