Introduction
The international conference “China Studies as a Vocation: Celebrating Deborah Davis’ 50-year contributions to scholarship and to CUHK” is jointly organised by the Department of Sociology and the Universities Service Centre for China Studies (USC) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and sponsored by Faculty of Social Science, CUHK.
The conference will provide an opportunity both to discuss the state-of-the-art of China studies by debating the issues and theoretical frameworks to which Professor Deborah Davis has contributed: inequality, family, urbanization and migration, and consumption and civic culture, and celebrate her contributions to these research areas and to CUHK.
Date : 7 January 2018 (Sunday)
Time : 9:00 a.m. - 5:40 p.m.
Venue :
Cho Yiu Conference Hall, CUHK
Speakers, discussants and moderators
The biographies of the speakers, discussants and moderators can be accessed here.
Keynote Speaker
| Deborah Davis Yale University |
Moderators
| Ching Kwan Lee University of California, Los Angeles |
| Kin-man Chan The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Speakers
Discussants
| Kin-man Chan The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Susanne Y.P. Choi The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Kwok-fai Ting The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Hung Wong The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Programme
PDF version of the detailed Programme Rundown can be accessed here.
9:00 - 9:20 |
Opening Ceremony |
| 9:20 – 9:50 | Keynote speech by Professor Deborah Davis |
9:50 – 11:15 |
Session 1: Urbanization and Migration |
| 11:15 - 11:35 |
Tea/ coffee break |
| 11:35 – 13:00 |
Session 2: Consumption and Civic Culture |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 – 15:55 | Session 3: Inequality |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Tea/ coffee break |
| 16:15 – 17:40 | Session 4: Family |
Registration
All are welcome to attend the conference for free. Please click the button below to the online registration form:
Map and Transportation
The conference will be held at Cho Yiu Conference Hall, University Administration Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Conference shuttle bus service for public audience
Conference shuttle bus will be arranged for public audience between MTR University Station and the conference venue. The shuttle bus schedule is listed below:
| 8:30 | MTR University Station (Exit A) > Cho Yiu Conference Hall |
8:45 | MTR University Station (Exit A) > Cho Yiu Conference Hall |
| 17:50 | Cho Yiu Conference Hall > |
The pick-up / drop-off point will be Statue of Liberty (民主女神像) at the Exit A of MTR University Station. Our staff / student helper will escort the participants to take the shuttle bus. The bus service is on a first-come-first-served basis.
Taking CUHK Shuttle Bus to Cho Yiu Conference Hall
Please get on a campus shuttle bus (Route H) outside Exit A of University MTR Station, get off at the bus stop outside Sir Run Run Shaw Hall and walk towards the University Library as marked on the map below. The Cho Yiu Conference Hall is on G/F of University Administration Building beside the University Library.
On Sundays and public holidays, Route H will depart at 00, 20 and 40 in every hour from 8:20 a.m.
Campus Shuttle Bus route and timetable
Blue tag: Conference venue
Green tag: pick-up / drop-off of conference shuttle bus for public audience
Yellow tags: CUHK Shuttle Bus stops
Online Photo Album
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Contact us
Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: (852) 3943 6271
| Conference coordinators: |
| Kin-man Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Ching Kwan Lee (University of California, Los Angeles) |
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