On Decemberf 19, a UrbaChina workshop was held in Paris. Dring this event, Prof. Feuchtwang pressented us hios team’s finding on the subject of “urban communities and social sustainability”.
His ppt presentation is available here:
This presentation was given by Stephan Feuchtwang during the 4th international conference of UrbaChina held in Chongqing from May 28th to May 30th, 2014. It shows the results of the fieldwork completed this year in five neighbourhood committees (juweihui－居委会) in Chongqing.
On December 20, 2012, an UrbaChina workshop was held in Paris. Every European academic member of the consortium was represented. Cristina Marcuzzo (European Commission) attended this meeting and highlighted the importance of the UrbaChina FP7 programme on the future of EU-China academic relations. This meeting was an opportunity for the participants to review the work and progress made so far.
From left to right: Hanna Ai (CNRS), Cristina Marcuzzo (EU commission), Stephan Feuchtwang (LSE), Jacqueline Nivard (EHESS), François Gipouloux (CNRS), Athar Hussain (LSE), Andrea Ricci (ISIS)
Each workpackage leader presented to the audience his or her first fieldtrip results and his or her observations about a particular topic on China’s urbanisation trends.
Management and dissemination issues were also discussed during this workshop. Participants agreed to increased cooperation for fieldtrips. They also decided to start conducting surveys on improving syllabuses for urban studies in Chinese and European academic institutions.
The second international UrbaChina conference, including both European and Chinese institutions, will be held in Kunming, China on June 3-5, 2013.
「城镇化中国」项目于2012年12月20日在巴黎召开欧盟伙伴会议，席中每一位欧盟成员皆出席，欧盟委员会（European Commission）的Cristina Marcuzzo在会议中再次强调了欧盟第七架盟下: 「城镇化中国」项目中，欧盟与中国伙伴间合作交流关系的重要性。此次会议的目的，在于提供与会者交流并检讨过去项目计划的缺失与改进方法。
「城镇化中国」项目计划中的每位专题主持人，皆介绍了他们的调研成果与发现，也分享了他们对未来中国城镇化的看法 :
会议中也针对「城镇化中国」项目研究成果的管理与未来传播管道进行讨论，与会成员皆赞同未来各专题间共同参与调研的可能。在项目计划专题6 (Workpackage 6)中，未来将对中国与欧洲学术机构在促成城镇化发展中，所开设的课程进行比较研究。
城镇化中国项目的国际年度会议将于6月3日至6月5日在云南大学召开，会议将邀请欧盟与中国项目伙伴出席，共同参与讨论。
26 May 2010, 2p.m.-4p.m.
Stephan Feutchwang (London School of Economics), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen Institute Colloquium and member of UrbaChina. His current research interests include re-introducing the long term in a comparative approach to civilisations defined as spreads and mixtures with many centres, not as cultures that clash.
Video on Vimeo.
Commentators on China frequently find a continuity of imperial dynastic rule with the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, thus perpetuating the stereotype of Asian despotism, not knowing the character of the Chinese civilisational tradition of sage rule. Or else they predict, starting with the successors to Mao, a gradual transition to the full panoply of democratic and civil society under the influence of entry into the world capitalist economy. Conversely, there is a reverse politics by Chinese political leaders, Chinese intellectuals and many middle-class Chinese promoting the national civilisation of China and identifying it with the philosophy of Confucius. The paper argues that there is continuity, but it is neither of despotism nor of Confucianism. It presents a summary of sage rule and self cultivation and analyses how the Chinese republican state has transformed sage rule and popular self-cultivation into a quite different state relationship.
Feuchtwang, Stephan (2012) “Chinese civilisation in the present”. The Asia Pacific journal of anthropology, 13 (2). pp. 112-127. ISSN 1444-2213. Published item via DOI
List of publications of Professor Stephan Feuchtwang on his webpage
Professor Feuchtwang’s fieldwork photos
