The 18th International Conference on China

 The 18^th International Conference on China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity and Future Prospects

       The 18^th International Conference on China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity and Future Prospects will take place at the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, on October 21-23 2009. The main theme of the Conference shall be “60 Years of the People’s Republic of China”.

The Conference shall be organized by the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies, together with RAS Academic Council on Comprehensive Studies of Modern China, Russia-China Friendship Association and Russia-China Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development.   Apart from two Plenary Sessions, the conference proceedings shall include the following panels:

Ø      Foreign-Policy Contacts between the RF and PRC: From Normalization to Strategic Cooperation and Partnership. (to the 60^th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations)

Ø      Specifics of PRC Economic and Sociopolitical Development

Ø      The Role of RF-PRC Trade and Economic Cooperation in the Context of Globalization and Global Financial Crisis

Ø      Six Decades of the New China's History: Attainments and Experience 

Besides, the conference program is planned to include the round-table discussion on 60 Years of USSR/RF-PRC Diplomatic Relations: Experience and Lessons.

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We invite Russian and foreign scholars to take part in the conference. For more details, please, visit our website: www.ifes-ras.ru

For timely issue of visa-support invitations, hotel bookings and abstract publication, the Organizing Committee requests to fill-in and send us the attached application form plus your presentation abstracts by May 15, 2009 by e-mail to gorbunova@ifes-ras.ru or karganova@ifes-ras.ru, Re: October Conference. Abstracts can be written in Russian, Chinese or English, in RTF format, and should not exceed 8 000 characters (with spaces), Font Times Roman, size 14 (in Russian and English) or size 20 (in Chinese).

The key contact persons at the Organizing Committee are:

Dr. Roustam Aslanov, Chairman – tel.: +7-499-124-0129, fax: 7-495-718-96-56);

Tamara Karganova, Head of Foreign Ties Dpt., (foreign participation) – tel.: 7-499-124-02-13, e-mail: karganova@ifes-ras.ru  

Looking forward to hearing from you and having the pleasure of your participation in our conference,

 

Sincerely,

Dr. Roustam Aslanov, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Chairman, Organizing Committee of the Conference

 

 

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CCPN/pdf/Info_22102009-Engl.doc