Location
May 8: Social Science Matrix, Room 820, Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
May 9: Department of Sociology, Room 402, UC Berkeley
May 8 · Friday
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:05 – 10:45 | Panel 1 State-Led Development of Strategic Digital Industries Chair: Steven Vogel (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Discussants: Bai Gao (Sociology, Duke University); Victor Shih (School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego) The Silicon Valley Model and China's Limited Development in Semiconductors Yan Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) Competitive Developmental Venture Capitalism and the Rise of China's Electric Vehicle Industry Fengming Lu (Australian National University) & Wei Chen (Shanghai Jiaotong University) Regimes of Scale and Velocity: How China's Digital Statecraft Organizes AI Development via Lags and Fixes Tongyu Wu (Zhejiang University) & Bingqing Xia (East China Normal University) |
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:45 | Panel 2 The State as Governor and Participant in Digital Markets Chair: Luis Flores (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Discussants: Cihan Tuğal (Sociology, UC Berkeley); Han Zhang (Sociology, Brown University) Neither Leviathan Nor Polanyian: China's Governance of Transnational Educational Platforms Le Lin (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa) Ghosts in the “Machine that is Learning”: Disruptions and Continuities in Modern China's Experimental and Scientific Governance Jamie Wong (Princeton University)
Incumbent’s Advantage via Expertise Asymmetry: Revitalization of the Chinese Pearl Industry with Livestreaming Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University), Rebecca Karp (Harvard University), Wesley W. Koo (Johns Hopkins University), Liaodan Zhang (Zhejiang University) |
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:45 | Panel 3 Digital Tools and the Transformation of State Institutions Chair: Jack Linzhou Xing (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University) Discussants: Xueguang Zhou (Sociology, Stanford University); Xiaobo Lü (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Disciplining the Discipliners: How Digital Tools Intensified Intra-Bureaucratic Control in China Yan Long (UC Berkeley) & Wei Luo (Peking University) To Comply or Not to Comply? Frontline Bureaucrats under Platform Authoritarianism Jingyang Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) & Kellee S. Tsai (Northeastern University) Culture as Finance: From News Media to Data Infrastructures Angela Xiao Wu (New York University) |
3:45 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:15 | Panel 4 Digital Media, Discourse, and the Making of Subjects Chair: Puck Engman (History, UC Berkeley) Discussants: Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania); Jeff Lockhart (UC Berkeley) Making Gendered Citizens: How the Chinese State Constructed Citizenship through Domestic Violence Narratives on Social Media Zhifan Luo (McMaster University) & Muyang Li (York University) Do Nothing and Win: China's Digital Charm Offensive through Social Media Rongbin Han (University of Georgia) |
May 9 · Saturday
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 | Plenary Remarks Marion Fourcade Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley |
9:30 – 9:45 Coffee Break
9:45 – 11:30 | Panel 5 The State's Footprint in Digital Development Across Borders Chair: AnnaLee Saxenian (School of Information, UC Berkeley) Discussants: Armando Lara-Millán (UC Berkeley); Thomas Cao (Tufts University)
Bringing the Cloud to Ground: Interface Politics and the Transnational Dynamics of Informational Capitalism Bolun Zhang (Zhejiang University) Between Geoeconomic Competition and Local Embeddedness: How Chinese Investors Influence Digitalisation in Acquired German Manufacturing Companies
Lea Schneidemesser (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) Partnerships for Advancing Internationally Oriented Digital Development under One Country Two Systems Yujia He (University of Kentucky) & Ka Zeng (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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