CONFERENCE - From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism (9-10 June 2010; U of Hong Kong) [08.06.2010]
From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures' American Studies Programme and the Hong Kong-America Center are co-organizing a two-day conference entitled “From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism” on June 9 and 10, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong. A post-conference workshop in China sponsored by the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University in Guangzhou and the Guangdong Qiaoxiang Culture Research Center at Wuyi University in Jiangmen will follow from June 11 to 13.
The Conference brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Hong Kong who specialize in the fields of Chinese American and diaspora studies. These historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and literary and cultural critics will explore new patterns and themes of scholarship related to the flow of people, resources and ideas between Southern China and North America over the past two hundred years.
List of Participants:
Dr. James K. Chin (HKU)
Prof. Cindy Chu Yik-Yi (HKBU)
Prof. Louise Edwards (HKU)
Dr. Staci Ford (HKU)
Prof. Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown)
Prof. Madeline Hsu (Texas at Austin)
Prof. Gray Kochhar Lindgren (University of Washington & HKU)
Ms. Heidi Kong (UBC & Sun Yat-sen)
Prof. Robert G. Lee (Brown)
Prof. Li Jinzhao (Beijing Foreign Studies U)
Prof. Haiming Liu (Cal Poly Pomona)
Dr. Liu Jin (Wuyi)
Prof. Long Denggao (Tsinghua)
Prof. Andrea Louie (Michigan State)
Prof. Kam Louie (HKU)
Dr. Nicole Newendorp (Harvard)
Prof. David Pong (U of Delaware & CUHK)
Prof. Jay Qian Suoqiao (CityU)
Prof. Edward Rhoads (Texas at Austin – retired)
Dr. Glenn Shive (HKAC)
Prof. Elizabeth Sinn (HKU)
Prof. Chee-Beng Tan (CUHK)
Ms. Tan Jinhua (Wuyi & HKU)
Prof. Wan Xiaohong (SCNU)
Prof. Wing-kai To (Bridgewater & HKU)
Prof. Wu Jinping (Jinan)
Prof. Hon-ming Yip (CUHK)
Prof. Philip Yuen Sang Leung (CUHK)
Prof. Zhang Guoxiong (Wuyi)