International Conference on Cultural Governance in Asia (ICCGA)

Soft Power, Place-(re)making and Civility

Time and Location

10 May 2019, City University of Hong Kong 11 May 2019, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Organizing Committee: Selina Ching Chan, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Yuk Wah Chan, City University of Hong Kong Gordon Mathews, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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10 May 2019 Connie Fan Multi-media Conference Room, 4/F, Cheng Yick-chi Building, City University of Hong Kong

Time Connie Fan Multi-media

Conference Room Y5202 Yeung Kin Man Academic Building

Y5203 Yeung Kin Man Academic Building

9.00 Opening

9.05-10.00 Keynote speech: Ien Ang The cultural governance of place: ‘Chinatown’ and urban branding

10.00-10.05 Photo break 10.05-11.25 Panel 1

Cultural city, global city, and transnational networking Panel Chair: Se Hoon Park & June Wang Se Hoon Park & HaeRan Shin: Arrested cultural city: Art and place-making in an aspirational global city, Incheon, South Korea Kimburley Choi, Annie Chan & Anita Chan: From everyday living to abstract living: Private housing advertisements in global Hong Kong (1961-2011)

Yu-Min Joo & KC Ho: Mixed blessing of a mega-project: The creation of dual space and culture in the case of Langham Place, Hong Kong

June Wang & Xu Zhang: Framing creative production networks: Trans-border film production after CEPA

Panel 2 Heritage making, place identity and food Panel Chair: Veronica Sau-Wa Mak Mi Young Park: Slum as heterotopia in Seoul: Urban restoration and the role of art

Thomas Wai Kee Yuen & Winnie Wan-Ling Chu: Cross-regional comparison of the association between alcohol and happiness

Pao-Ning Yin: The imaginary museum on the street: Cultural governance and urban regeneration in Dadaocheng, Taipei

Veronica Sau-Wa Mak: Heritagization of milk tea: Cultural governance and place-making in Hong Kong

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11.25-11.40 Coffee Break 11.40-13.00 Panel 3

Heritage management, curatorship, and cultural tourism 1 Panel chair: Vivian Ting Henry Choi Sze Hang: Preserve or perish? The case studies of Hong Kong Cultural Centre and 1881 Heritage in the Tsimshatsui waterfront

Wen Cuiyan: At the juncture of reform: Heritage making of an industrial town in Pearl River Delta region

Karita Kan & and Vivien K.Y. Chan: Curating the countryside: Rural gentrification in China

Vivian Ting: Whose legacy? On heritage preservation and interpretation in post-colonial Hong Kong

Panel 4 Governing ethnicity and multicultural policy Panel chair: Terence Chun Tat Shum Ooi Kee Beng: Is downplaying ethnicity in Malaysia possible?

Pui Yan Lau: Policing ethnic minorities in Hong Kong: Some observations on the Hong Kong police force

Zhenyan Xi: Development and characteristics of cultural policies in China

Terence Chun Tat Shum: Minority culture and multiculturalism: A study of ethnic minorities cultural governance in Hong Kong

Panel 5 Soft power, nationalism, and transnational ties Panel chair: Tom Patton Laura Pozzi: China’s cultural governance and the memory of colonialism in Asia

Daniele Carminati: Soft power battlegrounds: China and Japan’s competing strategies of attraction in Thailand

Maria Grajdian: High cost, high risk, high return: Studio Ghibli’s animation works as examples of Japan’s soft power endeavors

13.00 Sandwich Lunch

13.45-15.05 Panel 6 Analyzing cultural diversity in Asian civil societies: Immigration, expatriation, lived experience, and identity making Panel chair: Liangni Sally Liu and Junjia Ye Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho: ‘Culture wars’ and new Chinese immigration in multicultural Singapore

Sin Yee Koh & I Lin Sin: Academic expatriates in

Panel 7 Heritage management, curatorship, and cultural tourism 2 Panel chair: James McDougall Cecilia B. Tangian & Rey Luis A. Montesclaros: Heritage and cultural tourism of Provincia de Iligan, 1878-1898

Jieyi Xie: A chronology of the making of a world

Panel 8 Border crossing, governance, and civil spaces Panel chair: Renaud Egreteau Wan-Ying Lin & Xinzhi Zhang: Are social media political movement equalizer? Survey evidence from two Asian polities

Sabbir Ahmed: The politics of migration in India: A case of ‘illegal’ migration in

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Malaysia: Host country policies and the hidden injuries of mobility

Junjia Ye: The management of urban diversity and coexistence: Relationalities and stratifications of inclusion and difference in public space

Liangni Sally Liu: Expats and their heterosexual encounters in Singapore: Mobility, privilege, gender and ethnicity

heritage site

James McDougall: Educational tourism in global Asia and the re-balancing of the knowledge economy

Assam

Haeri Joo: Reconstructing sustainable governance on human rights in Asia Yi Hu: What the socialism with Chinese characteristics could be?

15.05-15.25 Coffee Break

15.25-17.20 Roundtable Cultural governance and cultural civics in Asia Panel chair: Yuk Wah Chan & Tim Winter Shu-Mei Huang & Hyun-Kyung Lee: Re-governing the governed: Colonial heritage-making and post-colonial capital city identity in Taipei and Seoul

James Farrer: Culinary politics and urban foodways in Asia

Chee-Kien Lai: Deciphering Buket Brown: Knowledge of the interred for the sake of the living

Pitch Pongsawat: Cultural governance and urban development in Bangkok under the coup regime (2014-2019)

Yuk Wah Chan: ‘Hong Kong will be good when China is

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good’: Social and cultural dissonance in post-colonial Hong Kong

Tim Winter: Imagining Eurasia as shared heritage: The Silk Roads 21st century

18.30 Welcome dinner City Top Café, City University of Hong Kong

11 May 2019 Research Complex Low Block, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Time RLB 303 RLB 302

9.30-10.30 Keynote speech: Chua Beng Huat: Governing culture

10.30-10.50 Photo taking and Coffee Break 10.50-12.10 Panel 9

Place making and city branding 1 Panel chair: Napong Tao Rugkhapan Lijuan Qian: Being local: State place-making strategies in tourist towns in Yunnan

Kenneth Chan: Hong Kong’s global standing: From blowing our own trumpet to addressing capabilities-expectations gap

Qi Tong: Hi-Tech ancient town: Combining nostalgia and technology in Wuzhen’s national image building

Napong Tao Rugkhapan: Disrupting the creative district: Policy mobilities, expertise, and exclusion

Panel 10 Body and governance Panel chair: Gonçalo Santos Yuk-sik Chong: Public toilets: Cultural governance and the making of social body in colonial Hong Kong

Md. Nazrul Islam: Chinese medicine in postcolonial Philippines: Pluralism and multiculturalism

Penn Tsz Ting Ip: Theorizing Shanghai service workers: Rural migrant women, affective labour, and the Chinese dream

Gonçalo Santos: Everyday toilet practices and the politics of material civilization in rural China

1210-1320 Lunch

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1320-1440 Panel 11 Religion and cultural governance Panel chair: Selina Chan Chan Kwok Shing: Religion and cross-strait relations: The role of Mazu in Macau Ming-chun Ku: Governing ‘Mazu culture’: The use of popular religion and the cultural politics of China’s rise

Abdulkadir Alkan: Accommodation of Christianity in contemporary mainland China: State-centered reconstruction of Christianity

Selina Chan: Refashioning religious heritage and inventing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Cultural Festival in Hong Kong

Panel 12 Media, creative arts and popular culture Panel chair: Rui Sun Liew Vun Huang: Korean wave: Local identity confusion among youth in a Malaysian private university

Katrich Anastasiia & Shilina Anna: Russian and Korean student’s perceptions towards country images

Miaotong Yuan: Beyond connectivity: Soft power, media infrastructure and digital China

Sun Rui: The cultural governance through social media in China

1440-1600 Panel 13 Cultural governance in the broadest senses of the term: Castration, football, death, and funerals in India, China, and Japan Panel chair: Gordon Mathews and Yang Yang Ina Goel: Cultural governance, castration and the hijras of India Shiyi Gao: Governance from the mundane: Transnational football fandom in China

Andrew B. Kipnis: The cultural governance of funerals and cemeteries in China

Gordon Mathews & Yang Yang: State, market, and fear of death in Japan and China

Panel 14 Place making and city branding 2 Panel chair: Hong Gang Dandan Zhou: Heritage preservation and place re-making: A case of Chikan in South China

Yifan Yang: When ancient and modern meet: City re-branding practice of Xi’an

Andres Ruiz Serrano, Emilio Ruiz Serrano, Carolina Serrano Barquín & Julie Juan Li: The urban and cultural heritage, gentrification and city identity, sustainability and territoriality: Four essential brand attributes of a city

Gang Hong: The production of a heroic city: Towards a theory of spatial visibility in place making

Participants Institution

Andres Ruiz Serrano City University of Hong Kong

Andrew B. Kipnis The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Cecilia B. Tangian &

Rey Luis A. Montesclaros

MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology

Chan Kwok Shing Hong Kong Baptist University

Chee Kien Lai Singapore University of Technology and Design

Chan Kwok Shing Hong Kong Baptist University

Chua Beng Huat National University of Singapore

Dandan Zhou

Xiamen University

Daniele Carminati City University of Hong Kong

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho National University of Singapore

Gonçalo Santos University of Hong Kong

Gordon Mathews

Yang Yang

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Haeri JOO City University of Hong Kong

Henry Sze Hang Choi Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Hong Gang Sun Yat-sen University

Ien Ang Western Sydney University

Ina Goel Chinese University of Hong Kong

James Farrer Sophia University

James McDougall Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute

Jieyi Xie The Australian National University

June Wang & Xu Zhang City University of Hong Kong & Wuhan University of Technology

Junjia Ye Nanyang Technological University

Karita Kan, Vivien K.Y. Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Katrich Anastasiia Shilina Anna Higher School of Economics, the faculty of World Economy and International

Affairs

Kenneth Chan Hong Kong Baptist University

Kimburley Choi, Annie Chan & Anita Chan City University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University & The Education University of

Hong Kong

Laura Pozzi

University of Warsaw

Liangni Sally Liu Massey University

Liew Vun Huang Sunway University

Malaysia

Lijuan Qian The University College Cork

Maria Grajdian Hiroshima University

Md. Nazrul Islam Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

Mi Young Park Southern Illinois University

Miaotong YUAN Communication University of China

Ming-chun Ku National Tsing-Hua University

Napong Tao Rugkhapan Thammasat University

Ooi Kee Beng Penang Institute, Malaysia

Pao-Ning Yin National Taiwan University of Arts

Penn Tsz Ting Ip York University

Pitch Pongsawat Chulalongkorn University

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Participants Institution

Pui Yan Lau,Flora Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Qi Tong Chinese University of Hong Kong

Renaud Egreteau City University of Hong Kong

Se Hoon Park & HaeRan Shin Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements & Seoul National University

Selina Ching Chan Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Shiyi Gao Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shu-Mei Huang Hyun-Kyung Lee National Taiwan University &

Seoul National University

Sin Yee Koh & I Lin Sin Monash University Malaysia

Sun Rui The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Terence Shum Tat Shum The Open University of Hong Kong

Thomas Wai-Kee Yuen

Winnie Wan-Ling CHU

Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Tim Winter The University of Western Australia

Tom Patton City University of Hong Kong

Veronica Sau-Wa Mak Chinese University of Hong Kong

Vivian Ting University of Leicester

Wan-Ying Lin

Xinzhi Zhang

City University of Hong Kong &

Hong Kong Baptist University

Wen Cuiyan Sun Yat-Sen University

Yi Hu University of Hull

Yifan Yang East China Normal University

Shanghai

Yu-Min Joo and KC Ho National University of Singapore

Yuk Sik Chong Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yuk Wah Chan City University of Hong Kong

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