Overseas Chinese Students: Expression, Identity, and Politics

December 16th  

10:00 - 10:30 - Introductions 

Stéphanie Balme, directrice du CERI ; Thomas Gold, Berkeley ; Jérôme Doyon, CERI-Sciences Po

10:30 - 12:30 - Panel 1: Trajectories of overseas students 

Speakers:

• Ma Yingyi (Syracuse), “Driven but drifted: how overseas Chinese students with American degrees navigate global job market”
• Claudia Astarita (Sciences Po) and Wang Simeng (CNRS), “Thoughts on the Chinese students’ mobilities to France and Europe: paths and impacts”
• Claire Hao (Oxford), “The transition of Chinese international Students from high schools in China to universities abroad”
• Tang Lingyue (Sciences Po) and Jean-Louis Rocca (Sciences Po), “The debate on Work among Chinese students: a qualitative approach”

Chair/discussant: Stéphanie Balme

14:00 - 16:00 - Panel 2: Political Socialization

Speakers:

• Han Rongbin (Georgia) and Wendy Zhou (UVA), “US vs. China? Chinese overseas youths’ positioning amid geo-political tensions”
• Diana Fu (Toronto) and Jessica Teets (Middlebury), “Liberated Minds? The Political Socialization of China’s Overseas Gen-Z”
• Jiang Shanshan (Berkeley), “Chinese students’ self-censorship and attitudes about social activism”

Chair/discussant: Chloé Froissart (Inalco)

16:30 - 18:30 - Panel 3: Overseas Students’ Identity Formation 

Speakers:

• Wu Yidi (Elon), online, “Re-establishing Alma Mater Overseas: St. John’s in Hong Kong and Taiwan”
• Anthony Spires (Melbourne), “Queer Chinese diasporic activism”
• Guo Weirong (Harvard) and Liu Qing (SUNY Albany), “Privilege or Marginalization: How Chinese Youth from Divergent Class Backgrounds Experience Racialization in the United States and Australia”
• Zhou Yunyun (Queen Mary), “Feminist and Queer Activism among Chinese Overseas Students in UK and France”

Chair/discussant: Hélène Le Bail (CNRS)

December 17th

10:00 - 12:00 - Panel 4: Political pressure and state-led mobilisation

Speakers:

• Sofia Graziani (Trento) and Laura De Giorgi (Venice), “Preliminary survey on Chinese students in Italy during the Cold War, 1949-1991” 
• Dimitar Gueorguiev and Ma Yingyi (Syracuse), “Under-serviced and Under Pressure: Insights from Chinese International Students in New York Universities”
• Liu Jiaqi (Singapore Management), “Opportunistic diplomacy: diaspora youths and the mirage of Global China.”
• Jérôme Doyon (Sciences Po), “Cultivating Chinese Student Abroad: the CSSA, the State and the Party”

Chair/discussant: Konstantinos Tsimonis (KCL)