Conference Papers and Presentations

“Serving and Caring: Chinese Voluntary Associations in Japan as Intermediaries in Chinese Diaspora Policies.” Chinese Studies Association of Australia Biannual Conference: Changing China, Then and Now. Canberra, Australian National University, 29 November-1 December 2021 (online).

“CPC Ideology: A Historical Perspective.” International Conference on CPC Futures. Singapore, East Asian Institute, 19-21 November 2021 (online).

“Chinese Intellectuals at a Crossroads: Post-1989 Critiques of Radicalism in Sinophone Discourse.” Singapore, East Asian Institute, 27 August 2021 (online).

van Dongen, Els and Jia Yonghui. “China’s Diaspora Policies through a Local and Organizational Lens: ‘New Migrant’ Voluntary Associations in Japan in the New Millennium.” Workshop on Workings of the Chinese Diaspora State (conveners: Mette Thuno and Maggi Leung), 30 April 2021 (online).

“What Constitutes a ‘Transoceanic Encounter’?: Reflections on Past and Recent Approaches to Global History.” European Transoceanic Encounters and Exchanges (ETEE) Inaugural Conference. Leuven, ETEE Consortium, 14-15 October 2020 (online).

“The End of Empire and Sino-Southeast Asian Interactions: (De)Mobilizing Ethnic Chinese Students in the PRC.” AAS-in-Asia, Kobe, 31 August-2 September 2020 (online).

van Dongen, Els and Jia Yonghui. “Chinese Diaspora Policies and ‘New Migrant’ Voluntary Associations: The Case of Japan.” Workshop on Workings of the Chinese Diaspora State (conveners: Mette Thuno and Maggi Leung), 25 June 2020 (online).

“What was the May Fourth Movement and What Did It Mean for Singapore? Perspectives on Its Hundredth Anniversary” [With David Kenley and Huang Jianli]. Singapore, National Library, 28 November 2019.

“New Directions in Asian History” [with Farish Noor, Jessica Hinchy, Wen-Qing Ngoei, and Taomo Zhou]. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, 14 November 2019.

“Making Sense of May Fourth after the Cold War: Transnational and Diasporic Chinese Interactions in the Journal Twenty-first Century (Ershiyi Shiji).” International Conference for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO). Guangzhou, Jinan University, 8-11 November 2019.

“The ‘Localization’ of Ethnic Entrepreneurship and the Case Study of ‘Chinese’ Chips Shops in Belgium,” ICAS 11 Conference. Leiden, Leiden University, 16-19 July 2019.

“Book Presentation: Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989,” ICAS 11 Conference. Leiden, Leiden University, 16-19 July 2019.

“Conceptual History across Communities of Discourse: Re-envisioning Chinese Pasts after 1989,” Chinese Studies Association of Australia 16th Biannual Conference. Melbourne, La Trobe University, 1-3 July 2019.

“Notes for a Comparative Research Agenda: Four Key Points from Chinese Migration Policies.” The Politics of Migration Policies: Towards an Empirically Grounded, Comparative Political Theory of Migration Politics. Paris, SciencesPo Center for International Studies and Agence Francaise de Developpement (French Development Agency), 17-18 December 2018.

“Transnational Intellectuals and Voluntary Associations: Changing Chinese Migrant Communities in Japan” (with Jia Yonghui).  Conference on Sustainability, Security and Governance. Singapore, NTU, 16-17 November 2018.

“Chen Lai and Mainland New Confucianism.” Book Launch Seminar on Confucianism for the Contemporary World (with Tze-ki Hon, Kristin Stapleton, and Hok-yin Chan), Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, 16 April 2018.

“Global, Yet Divided: Ideological Re-education and Cultural Diplomacy in 1950s Guangzhou.” International Conference on Global Cities: The Networks of Connectivity in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Region, 1850-1950. Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, 13-14 April 2018.

“History at NTU: Context, Curriculum, and Development” [with Hallam Stevens and Hong Liu]. Third Workshop of JSPS Global Initiatives: International Comparative Research on How to Adapt Nation-State Oriented University History Education to the Era of Globalization. Osaka, Graduate School of Letters of Osaka University, 10 December 2017.

“Chen Lai and Mainland New Confucianism.” Book Launch Seminar on Confucianism for the Contemporary World (with Tze-ki Hon and Hok-yin Chan). Singapore, NTU, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 10 November 2017.

“After Revolution: Rethinking May Fourth in 1990s China.” Taipei, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern Chinese History, 6 October 2017.

“Migration, Integration, and the Question of Transition: Lessons from China,” Metropolis Conference. The Hague, World Forum, 18-22 September 2017.

“Moral Ambiguities, Fluid Boundaries: Returned Overseas Chinese in the PRC, 1950s-1960s,” Chinese Studies Association of Australia 15^th Biennial Conference. Sydney, Macquarie University, 10-12 July 2017.

[Public Outreach] “(De)Tour with Dr. Els van Dongen (Belgium/Singapore).” Part of NTUCCA Programme for Exhibition of Ulrike Ottinger’s “China: The Arts – The People. Photographs and Films from the 1980s and 1990s.” Singapore, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, 5 July 2017.

Commentator and Chair, Panel on “Comparative Nation-Building in Postcolonial Southeast Asia: Counterinsurgency, Development, and Self-Determination in Malaya and the Republic of Vietnam.” AAS Annual Conference. Toronto, March 16-19, 2017.

Commentator for Liu Qing, “Chinese Democracy with(out) Illusion: The Transformation of the Social Imaginary and Its Political Implications in Contemporary China.” Conference on “Democracy and China,” Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Singapore, NUS, 12-13 December 2016.

“Educating the Overseas Chinese in the PRC, 1949-1966: Between ‘Education Revolution’ and Changing Sino-Southeast Asian Ties.” Ninth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO). Vancouver, University of British Columbia, July 6-8, 2016.

“Universities for the Chinese Overseas in the PRC: Globalization, Education, and Institutional Heritage.” AAS-in-Asia Conference. Kyoto, Doshisha University, June 24-27, 2016.

“Of States, Markets, and Networks: The PRC and the Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia.” Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference. Kyoto, Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia, December 12-13, 2015.

“Becoming Chinese Again? On the Identity Triangle of the PRC, the New Migrants, and the Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia.” AAS-in-Asia Conference. Taipei, Academia Sinica, June 22-24, 2015.

“Regionalizing Capitalism? Chen Lai and the Discourse on Confucianism and ‘East Asia’ during the Reform Era.”  Third Congress of the Asian Association of World Historians. Singapore, NTU, 29-31 May, 2015.

“Imagining East Asia: Reflections on the 1980s Debates on Confucian Values and Industrialization.” Imagining Asia: A Symposium at Nanyang Technological University in Collaboration with the University of Leeds.  Singapore, NTU, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, January 16-18, 2015.

Chou, Meng-Hsuan, Harlan Koff, and Els van Dongen. “Is Securitizing Migration a Mandatory Choice? Lessons from the EU and China.” EUSC Workshop on EU-China Security Cooperation. Beijing, Renmin University, October 16-17, 2014.

Chou, Meng-Hsuan and Els van Dongen. “High-skilled Immigration Policies in the EU and China and Prospects for Future Cooperation.” Dialogue on Skilled Immigration Policies and Concerns of Sending and Receiving Countries and China’s Policy Studies. Beijing, State Administration of Foreign Experts (SAFEA) and Talent Management Office of the Organization Department of the CCP, June 16-17, 2014.

现代化范式与当代中国历史学：关于中国与其他的思考 (The Modernization Paradigm and Chinese Historiography Today: Reflections on China and beyond). “全球化时代的中国历史：中国研究的新趋势和新方法” 国际学术研讨会 (Chinese History in a Global World: An International Conference on New Approaches to Chinese Historical Studies). 上海, 华东师范大学与中国留美历史学会, 2014年6月6-8日。

Chou Meng-Hsuan and Els van Dongen. “The Non-Securitization of Migration in China?” EUSC Workshop on EU-China Security Cooperation. Brussels, April 1-2, 2014 (Skype Presentation).

“Inclusion, Exclusion, Confusion: Chinese and Indian Diaspora Policies and Changing Conceptions of the Nation.” International Conference on the New Horizons of Diasporic Chinese Studies. Singapore, NTU, March 21-22, 2014.

“The Making of ‘Chindia’: Avenues and Opportunities.” New Silk Road Peak of Excellence Workshop. Singapore, NTU, March 13-14, 2014.

“Political Sustainability and University Diplomacy: Chinese Overseas Education and Research in the PRC.” Workshop on Plural Coexistence and Sustainability: Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Towards Sustainable Development.” Kunming (China), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, March 6-8, 2014.

Chou Meng-Hsuan and Els van Dongen. “Who Are ‘the Chinese’ in Europe?: From Temporary to Permanent and Mobile.” Europe’s Pivot towards Asia? New Opportunities and Challenges in EU-Asia Relations. Jointly organized by the GEAR Research Group on EU-Asia Relations and the East Asian Institute, NUS. Singapore, East Asian Institute, January 14, 2014.

“Managing Mobility?: Policy Responses to the New Migrants in the PRC,” Theorising Mobilities in/from Asia. Singapore, NUS Asia Research Institute, 14-15 November 2013.

“Xiao Gongqin and the Politics of History: ‘Neo-conservatism,’ ‘Radicalism,’ and Modernization in Early 1990s China,” ICAS 8 Conference. Macau, June 23-27, 2013.

Liu, Hong and Els van Dongen. “When the State Meets the Diaspora: Understanding the Dynamics and Characteristics of the Chinese Experience.” International Conference on Plural Co-existence and Sustainability: Asian Experiences in Comparative Perspectives. Singapore, NTU, March 11-12, 2013.

“(Re)Framing the Nation: Chinese and Indian Diaspora Policies in Historical Perspective,” Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT). New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Centre for the Study of Social Systems,  22 December 2012.

Liu, Hong and Els van Dongen. “The Chinese Model of Diaspora Management.” International Conference on Potential and Prospects of Pakistani Diaspora. Islamabad, Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF), November 14-15, 2012.

“Weberizing Confucianism: Chen Lai and the East Asian Development Model,” Beyond New Confucianism Conference. Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, April 27-28, 2012.

“Rewriting Modern Chinese History during the Early 1990s: A Critical Engagement with Modernity?,” International Conference on History, Identity, and the Future in Modern East Asia. Shanghai, Fudan University, December 14-16, 2009.

“Reading Yan Fu in a ‘Neo-conservative’ Key: Xiao Gongqin’s Historical Escapade,” Conference on the Writing of History in 20th Century East Asia. Leiden, Leiden University, June 4-7, 2007.

“Goodbye Radicalism!: Rewriting Modern Chinese History during the 1990s,” Defining the Field: Contemporary China Studies Conference. Cambridge, Cambridge University, April 12-15, 2007.