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In a new article, Daniel C. Sneider explores the troubling history of China-Japan tension. He concludes that the two countries have every reason to pull back from the brink of conflict—and most importantly, the United States serves a crucial role.
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“Migrant Tastes and Formation of Popular Culture: The Case of Turkey”

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In societies with continuous in-and-out migration in relatively short periods the formation of dominant culture comes into shape as "popular". Continental theories for defining people's culture mostly assume some permanent structures (cultural preferences of elites or classes) in modern societies, yet not so successful for explaining the rise of popular cultures in societies like the USA. Turkey, as a country of migratory waves from its birth, is a pristine example of such a process and unique for its elites' interventions into the cultural sphere. The talk is broadly concerns with three dynamics on the formation of Turkish popular culture - demographic transition, elitist cultural policies, and partly oppositional character of people's taste.

Orhan Tekelioğlu is Chair of Department of New Media at Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul, Turkey) and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennyslvania’s Annenberg School of Communication.  He is a scholar of cultural sociology including such research fields as media consumption, the history of Turkish popular music, the sociological features of Turkish literature, and the cultural politics of the Republican period. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Middle Eastern Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and his Magisterartium degree in Sociology from the University of Oslo. He taughted in Departments of Political Science and Turkish Literature at the Bilkent University in Ankara, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University, and acted as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Communication at the Izmir University of Economics. Dr. Tekelioğlu conducts field studies on popular television dramas and reality shows, and history of jazz and popular music in Istanbul. He has published articles in Turkish and in English and submitted papers to numerous national and international congresses. Among his publications are Pop Ekran [Pop Screen, 2013], Pop Yazılar, [Pop Essays, 2006], Foucault Sosyolojisi [Sociology of Foucault, 2003], Şerif Mardin’e Armağan, [A Festschrift for Şerif Mardin, 2005), "Modernizing reforms and Turkish music in the 1930s"  (Turkish Studies, 2001), and “Two Incompatible Positions in the Challenge Against the Individual Subject of Modernity” (Theory& Psychology, 1997).

Co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum, Program on Urban Studies, the Europe Center, and Turkish Students Association

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Orhan Tekelioğlu Professor and Chair of the Department of New Media at Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul, Turkey) and Visiting Scholar Speaker the University of Pennyslvania’s Annenberg School of Communication.
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Jesus, Lenin, and Victor Hugo: The “Outrageous” Syncretism of Caodai Religion in Vietnam and California

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies

The Caodai religion is unique.  Born in French Indochina in 1926, it mixes Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism with organizational elements from the Catholic Vatican and French spirit-writing practices.  It is a masculine monotheism that worships Cao Dai (the Jade Emperor) as the head of an elaborate pantheon of “spiritual advisors” who include, alongside Asian sages, Jesus, Victor Hugo, Vladimir Lenin, and Jeanne d’Arc.  The religion emerged in tandem with the Vietnamese struggle for independence as a form of “cultural nationalism” expressed as spiritual revival.  Described as both conservative and revolutionary, nostalgic and futuristic, it has been called an “outrageous form of syncretism”—an excessive, even transgressive blending of piety with blasphemy, obeisance with rebellion, the old with the new.   It counts some four million followers worldwide and has grown rapidly in the US, with dozens of temples in California.  Using the case of Caodaism, Prof. Hoskins will explore the controversial concept of “syncretism” and its application to Asian religions.

Janet Hoskins is a professor of anthropology and religion at the University of Southern California.  Her books include Fragments from Forests and Libraries (2001); A Space Between Oneself and Oneself: Anthropology as a Search for the Subject (1999); Biographical Objects: How Things Tells the Stories of People’s Lives (1998); and Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (contributing ed., 1996).  The Association for Asian Studies awarded its Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies to The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on History, Calendars and Exchange (1993).  She has also written and produced three ethnographic documentaries, including “The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California” (2008).

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Janet Hoskins will spend three months at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as a Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow in spring 2013. She is a professor of anthropology and religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Her research interests include transnational religion, migration and diaspora in Southeast Asia, and she has done extended field research in Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. During her time at Shorenstein APARC, she will be completing a book manuscript dealing with Caodaism, a syncretistic Vietnamese religion born in French Indochina, which now has a global following of about four million people, and a considerable presence in California. She is also co-editing (with Viet Thanh Nguyen) a volume introducing the field of Transpacific Studies (to be published by University of Hawaii Press).

Hoskins is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on History, Calendars and Exchange (University of California, 1996 Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies), and Biographical Objects: How Things Tells the Stories of People’s Lives (Routledge 1998). She is the contributing editor of Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (Stanford 1996), A Space Between Oneself and Oneself: Anthropology as a Search for the Subject (Donizelli 1999), and Fragments from Forests and Libraries (Carolina Academic Press 2001). Hoskins has also produced and written three ethnographic documentaries, including The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California (distributed by Documentary Educational Resources).

Hoskins holds an MA and PhD in anthropology from Harvard University, and a BA in anthropology from Pomona College. She has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Getty Research Institute, the Kyoto Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the University of Oslo, and the Asia Research Center at the National University of Singapore.

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China 2.0 Forum

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China 2.0 Beijing 2013 Forum at The Stanford Center at Peking University

Keynote Speakers
Ambassador Gary F. Locke



Gary F. Locke
U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
Joseph Chen, Chairman and CEO of Renren, Inc.



Joseph Chen
Chairman and CEO of Renren, Inc.
Past China 2.0 Speakers
Past China 2.0 Speakers

The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) of the Stanford Graduate School of Business will host a China 2.0 Forum in Beijing on Friday, April 12, 2013 at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU).

While ample capital was raised in recent years, China's VC and PE markets are now facing a flight to quality. Exits are constrained both in China and abroad. At the same time, rapid changes in social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are changing the landscape for business models and strategy. Which ideas and entrepreneurs in China will break out and why? Will the shift to mobile platforms challenge incumbent players and unlock a new generation of digital economy powerhouses? How are developments in China connected with the global digital economy?

This invitation-only half-day event will bring together current and rising leaders from China’s tech, entrepreneur, and investor communities to discuss topics including:

  • Big Data: A New Frontier
  • Mobile Apps: The Next $100+ Billion Market?
  • Fueling Firm Growth: VC and Entrepreneur Dialogue
  • China and the Global Digital Economy

The Forum will feature keynote speakers, panels, and interactive sessions followed by a networking reception. Attendees will also be briefed on a recent Stanford study on alumni entrepreneurship and have the opportunity to participate in new research led by SPRIE on entrepreneurship patterns in China.


Agenda

1:30 – 2:00 pm Registration
2:00 – 2:10 pm Opening Remarks and Video
Marguerite Gong Hancock & Duncan Clark, China 2.0 Forum Co-Chairs
2:10 – 2:40 pm Keynote: “China and the Global Digital Economy”
Gary Locke, U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
2:40 – 3:25 pm Panel Discussion: “Mobile Apps: The Next $100+ Billion Market?”
Amy Gu, General Manager, China – Evernote Corporation
David Liu, Founder and CEO – RedAtoms
Junde YU, Vice President at APAC, App Annie
Moderator: Richard Lim, Managing Director & Co-Founder, GSR Ventures
3:25 – 3:40 pm Briefing: Stanford Entrepreneurship Research Results and New China 2.0 Research
Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
3:40 – 4:05 pm Tea Break sponsored by Tencent
4:05 – 4:40 pm Panel Discussion: “Big Data: A New Frontier”
Alex Cheng, Vice President at Baidu
ZENG Ming, Chief Strategy Officer – Alibaba Group
4:40 – 5:25 pm

Panel Discussion: “Fueling Firm Growth: VC & Entrepreneur Dialogue”
Ming LEI, Co-Founder – Kuwo, Inc.
Annabelle Yu Long, Member of Bertelsmann Group Management Committee; Chief Executive – Bertelsmann China Corporate Centre; Managing Director – Bertelsmann Asia Investments
LU Dong, Founder and CEO – La Miu China
Hans Tung, Managing Partner – Qiming Ventures
5:25 – 5:55 pm Keynote: “Simple Math for Multiplying Impact:  How to do better in work and philanthropy”
Joseph Chen, Founder, Chairman and CEO of RenRen, Inc.
5:55 – 6:00 pm Closing Remarks
Marguerite Hancock & Duncan Clark, China 2.0 Forum Co-Chairs
6:00 – 7:00 pm Networking Reception sponsored by GSR Ventures

Speakers

  • Alex Cheng, Vice President at Baidu
  • Duncan Clark, Chairman, BDA China & Senior Advisor to China 2.0, SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • DONG Lu (MBA ’04), Founder & CEO, La Miu
  • Amy Gu (MBA '09), General Manager, China, Evernote
  • Marguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Ming LEI (MBA ‘05), Co-Founder, Kuwo
  • Richard Lim (MBA ‘88), Managing Director & Co-Founder, GSR Ventures
  • Annabelle Yu Long (MBA ’05), Member of Bertelsmann Group Management Committee; Chief Executive, Bertelsmann China Corporate Centre; Managing Director, Bertelsmann Asia Investments
  • David Liu (MS ‘98, PhD ‘03), Founder and CEO, RedAtoms
  • Hans Tung (BS ‘93), Managing Partner, Qiming Ventures
  • Junde YU, Vice President, APAC, App Annie
  • ZENG Ming, Chief Strategy Officer, Alibaba Group

SCPKU at night

Venue

The Stanford Center at Peking University is located on the site of a former imperial palace on the northeast area of the Peking University campus. Opened in March 2012, SCPKU uniquely combines a traditional Chinese wood courtyard building with a modern, state-of-the-art facility. For map and directions, please click here.

 

Map of Route from Peking University's Southeast Gate to SCPKU


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Platinum Sponsor
Networking Reception
 
GSR Ventures
GSR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm building world-class technology companies in China. The firm invests primarily in the Internet, wireless, green technology and semiconductors sectors. Founded in 2004, GSR has more than 50 companies in its portfolio and more than $1 billion under management.


Gold Sponsor
Tea Break
 
Tencent
Founded in November, 1998, Tencent has grown into one of China's largest provider of comprehensive Internet services. It went public on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2004. Tencent aims to enrich the interactive online experience of Internet users by providing a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through its various online platforms, including Instant Messaging QQ, web portal QQ.com, the QQ Game Platform under Tencent Games, multi-media social networking service Qzone and wireless portal, Tencent services the largest online community in China and fulfills the user’s needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce on the Internet.


Silver Sponsors
 
 
Alibaba Group is a family of Internet-based businesses which makes it easy for anyone to buy or sell online anywhere in the world. Since its inception, it has developed leading businesses in consumer e-commerce, online payment, business-to-business marketplaces and cloud computing, reaching Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba Group consists of 25 business units and is focused on fostering the development of an open, collaborative and prosperous e-commerce ecosystem.
 
App Annie is the industry leader in app store analytics and market intelligence for the global app economy. More than 80 percent of the Top 100 iOS publishers use its services, and more than 200,000 apps from over 24,000 unique app publishers rely on App Annie Analytics to track their downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews. App Annie is a privately held global company with offices in Beijing, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and London.
 
Baidu is the largest Chinese-language search engine. Since its founding in 2000, Baidu's mission has been to provide the best and most equitable way for people to find whatever they're looking for online. Powered by world-class technology and a deep understanding of Chinese language and culture, Baidu now provides intelligent and relevant search results to over five hundred million users. In addition, Baidu has become the largest media platform in China for businesses to effectively reach potential customers online. Baidu continues to innovate to fulfill the needs of users, leveraging it unrivaled cloud infrastructure to deliver the best experience on any device as the shift toward mobile Internet continues in China.
 
CIB Productions
CIB Productions is a Beijing-based television and video production services company staffed with international talent experienced in producing to broadcast standards. Our services include high-end corporate video production, production services for broadcasters and visiting production companies and filming of live events.
 
Qiming Venture Partners
Qiming Venture Partners invests in young, fast-growing companies across China in the media and internet, IT, consumer and retail, healthcare, and clean technology sectors. It is an early to growth stage venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. Founded in 2006, Qiming currently manages five funds with over $1.1 billion in assets.
 
RedAtoms is a mobile social game company committed to producing well-crafted games that connect people. Headquartered in China and with locations in Hong Kong, Tokyo and San Francisco, RedAtoms has produced top ranking card battle and music games, where millions of players interact with each other on a daily basis.

 

About the China 2.0 Initiative

China 2.0 is a research and education initiative led by SPRIE at the Stanford Graduate School of Business focusing on the drivers and dynamics of the rise of China’s internet industry and its global implications. China 2.0 is a bridge between Stanford/Silicon Valley and China, academia and industry, and current and next generation entrepreneurs on both sides of the Pacific.

Participants at a past China 2.0 event

Past China 2.0 Events

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Workshops

Bureaucratic Autonomy and Dysfunctions of the American State

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Speaker Bio:

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010. He comes to Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.

Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, and Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States.

Francis Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He served as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.

Dr. Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of a new magazine, The American Interest, which he helped to found in 2005. He holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), and Kansai University (Japan). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, member of the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and member of the advisory boards for the Journal of Democracy, the Inter-American Dialogue, and The New America Foundation. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.

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Francis Fukuyama

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Director of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy
Research Affiliate at The Europe Center
Professor by Courtesy, Department of Political Science
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Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and a professor (by courtesy) of Political Science.

Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His book In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir will be published in fall 2026.

Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004. He is editor-in-chief of American Purpose, an online journal.

Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland). He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Trustees of Freedom House, and the Board of the Volcker Alliance. He is a fellow of the National Academy for Public Administration, a member of the American Political Science Association, and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.

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Pak Kyong-ni, My Mother

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Kim Young Joo will discuss the literary works of Pak Kyong-ni (1926-2008), a prominent South Korean novelist and her mother, who was best known for her 21-volume novel, Toji (The Land), set in the turn of the 20th century. It took 25 years (1969-1994) for Pak to complete the epic novel.

Kim Young Joo is currently the chairperson of the Toji Cultural Foundation which was established by Pak Kyong Ni for the purpose of fostering creative thinking and lifestyles. The Foundation aims to facilitate a forum for international writers, artists and scholars to discuss contempoarary issues such as environment and future concerns. Kim's publications on Korean art includes Korean Art History (1997). She received a BA and an MA in sociology from Yonsei University, and was a lecturer at Yonsei and Sogang Universities.

Kim Young Joo is married to Kim Jiha, a South Korean poet. (http://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/korea/events/gan_tae_hap_duk__mountains_and_waters/)

 

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Kim Young Joo Chairperson, Toji Cultural Foundation Speaker
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Shui Yung Chang

Encina Hall
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Shui Yung Chang (張水庸) is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan). 

Mr. Chang is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Service in 1992 and has served in various capacities in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and America. His overseas posts for the Foreign Service include Vice Consul in Johannesburg, South Africa; First Secretary in New Delhi, India; and Director in Miami, Florida, United States. In Taipei he held the positions of Desk Officer of African Affairs; Section Chief of the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs (formerly known as Foreign Service Institute); Secretary of the Coordination Council of North American Affairs; Director of the Public Diplomacy Coordination Council on home assignment and served as the External Affairs Officer and translator to the Premier Office of Executive Yuan, R.O.C.

Mr. Chang graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1991. He continued his education on History of Art at University of Pretoria, South Africa 1996-1997, and obtained Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from Australian National University, Australia in 2005. He also received his certificate on diplomacy from Oxford University, United Kingdom in 1995. 

Mr. Chang speaks fluent Taiwanese, Mandarin and English. His research interests include Asia studies, International Affairs, Taiwan Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, Democracy and Development. In his career he also actively involved in the promotion of culture, academy and humanitarian work for Taiwan. Over the years, Mr. Chang has travelled widely across countries and continents on his official trips and personal tours with family. He is married to Ms Maya Chen and has two children, Sonia and Sophia Chang. They currently reside in Taiwan.

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