Backward Toward Revolution:
A Festschrift to Celebrate the Scholarship of
Professor Edward Friedman
Backward Toward Revolution:
A Festschrift to Celebrate the Scholarship of
Professor Edward Friedman
Saturday October 24, 2009
Campbell Conference Room
University of Toronto
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction
Bruce
Gilley, Portland State University
Welcome
Sam
Crane, Williams College
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 1
MAOISM,
REVOLUTION AND THE RURAL
Yinghong Cheng,
Delaware State University
Maoism through
a Discussion of Revolution and Physics
Bruce
Gilley, Portland State University
Jian
Guo, University of Wisconsin
Debunking Maoism
in the Name of Revolution: A Confucian Endeavor
Stephen
Manning, University of Detroit Mercy
What
does he mean BACKWARD toward revolution?
Ralph
Thaxton, Brandeis University
The Violent
Dawn of Reform: Yanda in the Countryside
Michael
Szonyi, Harvard University
Chinese
Island, Taiwanese Strait: Militarization and Modernization on Quemoy, 1949-1992
10:30 – 10:45 John Dower, MIT
Ed and Me
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:20 Sarah Swider, University of Akron
Beyond the Official
Story: Lessons from Friedman on Conducting
Research
in China
Daniel
Lynch, University of Southern California
Moral and
Ethical Grounding in Inquiry
11:20 – 12:40 Panel 2
PARTY AND THE STATE
David
Bachman, University of Washington
Legitimacy
and Legitimation in China
James
Scott, Yale University
The Art of Not Being Governed
John
Rapp, Beloit College
Denunciations
of Anarchism in the PRC
Tim
Hildebrandt, University of Louisville
Beyond Nomenklature: Explaining and Understanding the Contemporary
Authoritarian State
Phil
Midland
12:40 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 1:45 Richard
Kagan, Hamline College
The Education
of Edward Friedman
1:45 – 2:45 Panel 3
NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Rowena
He, Harvard University
Identifying with a
Rising China? Overseas Chinese Students’ Nationalist Sentiment
Suisheng Zhao,
University of Denver
A
Discussion of Edward Friedman’s Chinese Nationalism
Lisa
Fischler, Moravian College
“Yuan Fen”:
Fortuitous Connections, Gender and Chinese Identity Transnationally
June
Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami
2:45 – 3:45 Panel 4
TAIWAN
Shelley
Rigger, Davidson College
Taiwan,
Nationalism and Democratization
Jean-Pierre
Cabestan, Hong Kong Baptist University
Steve
Tsang, University of Oxford
A
Peacefully Rising China and: Taiwan’s Security Dilemma
Vincent
Wang, University of Richmond
The Role of Democracy
in Cross-Strait Relations: Edward Friedman’s Indefatigable Insights
3:45 – 4:00 Coffee
Break
4:00 – 5:30 Panel 5
DEMOCRACY
David Ost, Hobart and
William Smith College
Some
Thoughts on Ed’s Thoughts on Revolution, Freedom, Liberalism and Democracy
Joseph
Wong, University of Toronto
Tun-Jen
Cheng, College of William and Mary
Democracy Is
a Good Thing, But…
Chong-Yi
Feng, University of Technology, Sydney
Barrett
McCormick, Marquette University
China’s
Internet: Structures, Agency and Democracy
Edward
Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Democracy is NOT Elections
5:30 Closing
Susan
Friedman
A Word of Thanks