Conference Program

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Venue: Kleiner Festsaal

7:00-9:00 PM Opening Event

Keynote Lecture

PHILIPP BLOM

The Vertigo Years - Europe 1900-1914

Discussants

JIN GUANGYAO

KAWASHIMA SHIN

DANIEL MARC SEGESSER

XU GUOQI

SUSANNE WEIGELIN-SCHWIEDRZIK

CHANG CHIHYUN

An informal reception will follow the opening event co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Department (MA 7), City of Vienna

Friday, July 4, 2014

Venue: Seminar Room "Japanologie 1"

8:00-9:00 AM Registration

9:00-9:30 AM Opening remarks

9:30-10:30 AM Keynote Lecture

XU GUOQI: WWI and China's Historical Transformation

10:30-12:00 AM PANEL I - "Modernization"

(Chair: Olga V. Alexeeva)

• DANIEL MARC SEGESSER: Why (not only) China matters in a global history of the First World War
• EUGENE W. CHIU : WWI and China's Modernity
• LIN WANPING: The establishment of the nation-state: The First World War and the Republic of China

12:00 AM-1:30 PM Lunch

1:30-3:30 PM PANEL II - "Foreign Policy"

(Chair: Eugene W. Chiu)

• JIN GUANGYAO: The Preparation of China's Diplomatic Circles for the Paris Peace Conference
• XU LAN: From the Paris Peace Conference to the Cairo Conference: The Rise of China
• TANG CHI-HUA: Studying the Government Instructions for the Chinese Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
• PAUL BAILEY: Chinese Contract Workers in WWI France. An Overlooked Episode in the Evolution of Chinese Foreign Policy and of Modern China's Labour History
• OLGA V. ALEXEEVA: Chinese Workers in Russia during the First World War: Victims of Another War

3:30-4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00-6:30 PANEL III - "Economic Development"

(Chair: Jin Guangyao)

• LIU WEI: The Shortage of Capital Goods, Monetary Squeeze and the Decrease of China's Aggregate Supply (1914-1918) - Research Based on the Premises of Supply Constrained Economies
• JIAN XIAOQING: World War I and its Impact on the Hong Kong-Guangdong Rails
• WU LIN-CHUN: Economic Relations Between China and America During WWI: The Case of the "American Asiatic Association"
• CHANG CHIHYUN: World War I and China's Indemnities and Foreign Loans
• LIU SUYU & JIANG XIAOHUI: The Influence of WWI on China's National Economy - A Case Study of Zhang Jian's Business
• ZHU JIAMING: The Impact of WWI on China's Financial Sector and Monetary System

6:30-7:00 PM Dinner

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Venue: Seminar Room "Japanologie 1"

9:00-11:30 AM Panel IV - "Sino-Japanese Relations"

(Chair: Wu Lin-chun)

• HOU ZHONGJUN: The Neutrality Choice of China at the Early Stage of WWI - An Investigation focused on Japan's Declaration of War on Germany
• KAWASHIMA SHIN: The Japanese Twenty-One Demands and the Relationship between Japan and China
• WANG YUQI: The Jiaozhou Area under Contend of the Great Powers and its Historical Consequences
• LI YANG: The German-Japanese Navy Battle During the Siege of Qingdao in 1914
• WANG WENLUNG: China's Seizure of "War Booty" Ships in WWI
• PETER HARMSEN: Fighting the Last War: The 1937 Battle of Shanghai Through the Prism of WWI

11:30 AM-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00-1:30 PM PANEL V - "Revolution"

(Chair: Hsu Chen-kuo)

• ZHANG BAIJIA: Rethinking the Historical Background of the Founding of the CPC - An Analysis of Li Dazhao's Views on World War I and the Russian Revolution
• JIN YAN: The First World War and the Russian Revolution
• QIN HUI: The Impacts of "Japanese Liberalism" and "Russian Socialism" on China before and after WWI
• ASTRID LIPINSKY: The Internationalization of Women's Activism in China and the Impact of World War I

3:00-3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30-6:00 PM PANEL VI "Intellectual Development"

(Chair: Qin Hui)

• LEI YI: The Rise of "New Confucianism" and World War I: A Close Look Back at the History of Science and Metaphysics
• ZHU KUNRONG: The Japanese Democratic Movement and Imperialist Expansion - The Shandong Question from an Intellectual History Perspective
• XU ZHIYUAN: WWI and Liang Qichao
• WANG YUAN-YI: Anti-Capitalist Tendencies among Chinese Intellectuals after WWI - The Case of Hu Shih's Liberalism
• HSU CHEN-KUO: The Source, Nature and Limitations of "Mr. Science": Introducing the Concept of Science during the May Fourth Movement

6:00-6:30 PM Concluding remarks

6:30-7:00 Dinner

 Conference languages: English/Chinese