Thursday, 1 July
Introduction
12:00 CEST (Norfolk, VA 6:00, Shanghai/Hongkong 18:00)
Tao Chen and Jan Zofka: Socialist Globalization and the Economic Dimensions of the Sino-Soviet Alliance and Split
12:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA 6:30; Shanghai/Hongkong 18:30)
Huajie Jiang (Shanghai University): Trade with Socialist Comrades? China and the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (1949–1959)
Comment: Uwe Müller (GWZO)
13:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA 7:30; Shanghai/Hongkong 19:30)
Tao Chen (Tongji University, Shanghai): China and the Leipzig Trade Fair (1950–1965)
Comment: Max Trecker (GWZO)
14:20-15:30 CEST Late Lunch/Breakfast/Dinner break
15:30 CEST (Norfolk VA 9:30; Shanghai/Hongkong 21:30)
Austin Jersild (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA): The “Socialist World System” from Beijing to Conakry. Sino-Soviet Conflict as a Model for Failure in the Global South, 1950–1964
Comment: Steffi Marung (Universität Leipzig)
16:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA 10:30; Shanghai/Hongkong 22:30)
Péter Vámos (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest): „Our Chinese comrades are determined to split and struggle.” The influence of the Sino-Soviet split on technological cooperation: the case of Hungarian railway experts in China
Comment: Elisabeth Kaske (Universität Leipzig)
Friday, 2 July
9:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA 3:30; Shanghai/Hongkong: 15:30)
Lin Chaochao (Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences): Rethinking the Stalinist Model: The Origin and Institutional Logic of the Great Leap Forward in China
Comment: Felix Boecking (University of Edinburgh)
10:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA: 4:30; Shanghai/Hongkong: 16:30)
Ylber Marku (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou): Preparing for an alliance: China’s socialist model and Albania’s economic design in the early Cold War
Comment: Bernd Schäfer (Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC)
11:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA: 5:30; Shanghai/Hongkong: 17:30)
Valeria Zanier (Catholic University of Leuven): High hopes and low expectations. Introducing technology in the PRC in the years of the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Comment: Koji Hirata (Cambridge University)
12:30 (Lunch/Early Dinner/Wake-up Break)
Outlook and Conclusion
14:30 CEST (Norfolk, VA: 8:30; Shanghai/Hongkong: 20:30)
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (Hongkong University): Toward a Political Economy of Socialism
Final Discussion