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The ACPSS 24th International Conference proposal due date has been extended to September 4th, 2018.

The 24th ACPSS International Conference
美国华人人文社科教授协会第二十四届国际会议

In Collaboration with Troy University

October 12-14, 2018
Troy University
Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A.

 

 

General Theme: China and the World in a Community of Shared Future for Mankind

A community with a shared future pursues an inclusive, clean, and beautiful world that enjoys lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity. This idea has gained wider international recognition for offering China's solutions to cope with global challenges. This idea holds that communities of all countries should respect one another, and discuss issues as equals. Each country should take a new approach to developing state-to-state relations via communication, and respect the diversity of civilizations. In handling relations among countries, estrangement, confrontation, and hegemony should be replaced with dialogue exchanges, mutual learning, and coexistence. Humans should be kind to the environment, cooperate to tackle climate change, and protect the planet for the sake of human survival. Therefore, 2018 annual conference of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States invites papers and panels that focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:

1. Globalization and its impact
2. Inequality and societal development
3. Immigration, openness and isolation
4. Cultural exchange, communication and conflicts
5. Saving our earth and environment
6. Social media and mass communication
7. Education in an age of increasing diversity
8. Population Growth, Urbanization, and Public Health
9. Pedagogical practice of teaching Chinese as a Second Language
10. Confucianism, Confucius Institute, and Modern China

 

Submission Guidelines:

*** Submission Deadline has been extended to September 4th, 2018 ***

Deadline: The submission deadline is August 6th, 2018.  We require that those whose paper abstracts are accepted submit their full papers no later than September 24th, 2018.

Language: The conference will accept papers in both English and Chinese.

Required submission information: All paper abstracts or panel proposals must include the title, the author(s) or panel members, details of current position, the institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for each author or panelist.

How to submit: Please submit your paper abstracts or panel proposals (300 words) at: Google Form. For any submission related inquiry, please contact Dr. Ronghua Ouyang at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference will be considered for publication in American Review of China Studies – the official journal of ACPSS. After the conference, the collection of the conference papers and abstracts will be published on CNKI (中国知网).

 

Conference Registration Fees:

ACPSS member with paper: $100

Non-ACPSS member with paper: $150

Student with paper: $50

Attendance with no paper: $150

In order to register with ACPSS member rate ($100), you must become an ACPSS member and pay a minimum of one-year membership fee ($50). If interested, please download the Application Form. Once filled out, send the application form and a $150 check to Treasurer Dr. Daliang Wang at the following address: Dr. Daliang Wang, One University Parkway, High Point, NC 27268. (ACPSS website currently does not support online membership application/renew or fee payment.)

 

Becoming an ACPSS Member:

We welcome new members from all disciplines. To become an ACPSS member, or to renew your ACPSS membership, please visit our website at www.acpssus.org and download the Application/Renew Form. Once filled out, please send the form and membership fees to Treasurer Dr. Daliang Wang.

Membership fees:
    One-year membership: $50
    Two-year membership: $80
    Three-year membership: $100
    Five-year membership: $150
    Life-time membership: $300 (best value)

All questions related to membership fees and registration fees should be directed to Treasurer Dr. Daliang Wang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

 

About Troy University

Troy University is a comprehensive public university that is located in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded on February 26, 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System by an Act of the Alabama Legislature. It is the flagship university of the Troy University System. Troy University is regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) to award associate, baccalaureate, master, education specialist, and doctoral degrees.

 

About Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery, capital of Alabama, lies in the center of the state on the east bank of the Alabama River. It is regarded as the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. In the Baptist church in Dexter Avenue the first activities of the movement gathered around Martin Luther King, Jr. Nearby is the Civil Rights Memorial in memory of those who gave their life for the movement. Old Alabama Town with its 19th C houses preserves something of the atmosphere of old Montgomery, once an important cotton market. Other places of interest are the Capitol and the White House, the oldest in the Confederate states. On the eastern outskirts of the town are the Museum of Fine Arts and the renowned Alabama Shakespeare Festival Theater.

 

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The 22nd ACPSS International Conference
美国华人人文社科教授协会第二十二届国际会议

In Collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) and Confucius Institute at Community College of Denver (CCD)

October 14-16, 2016
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

 

Theme: Diversity in a Globalized World: Co-existence and Cooperation
《全球化世界的多元化问题：共存与合作》

With the acceleration of globalization, cultural clashes and intensified regional and worldwide conflicts have apparently become one of the leading themes at the beginning of the 21st century. It is an era of opportunities, changes, disruptions and challenges. Better understanding of this diversified world is essential to national and world development and solidarity among all ethnic groups and nationalities. Through academic researches, inclusive data collection, innovative research methods, pedagogical innovations, and civic engagement, scholars from diverse backgrounds and disciplines work together to better understand this world around us. This conference invites research papers and panel/workshop proposals that address emerging diversity issues in the globalization era as well as related topics pertaining to China and world development from the perspectives of all disciplines in humanities and social sciences.

 

Submission Deadline:

Deadline: The submission deadline is August 31, 2016. We require that those whose paper abstracts are accepted submit their full papers no later than September 24, 2016.

Language: The conference will accept papers in both English and Chinese.
Required submission information: All paper abstracts or panel proposals must include the title, the author(s) or panel members, details of current position, the institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for each author or panelist.

How to submit: Please submit your paper abstracts or panel proposals (300 words) using this online form. For any submission related inquiry, please contact Dr. Ronghua Ouyang at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference will be considered for publication in American Review of China Studies – the official journal of ACPSS. After the conference, the collection of the conference papers and abstracts will be published on CNKI (中国知网).

 

Conference Registration Fees:

ACPSS member with paper: $150

Non-ACPSS member with paper: $220

Student with paper: $80

Attendance with no paper: $240

In order to register with ACPSS member rate ($150), you must become an ACPSS member and pay a minimum of one-year membership fee ($50). If interested, please download the application form at http://www.acpssus.org/. Once filled out, send the application form and a $200 check to Treasurer Dr. Yunqiu Zhang at the following address: Dr. Yunqiu Zhang, 210 Heritage Creek Way, Greensboro, NC 27405. (ACPSS website currently does not support online membership application/renew or fee payment.)

We welcome new members from all disciplines. To become an ACPSS member, or to renew your ACPSS membership, please visit our website at www.acpssus.org and download the application/renew form. Once filled out, please send the form and membership fees to Treasurer Yunqiu Zhang.

Membership fees:
    One-year membership: $50
    Two-year membership: $80
    Three-year membership: $100
    Five-year membership: $150
    Life-time membership: $300 (best value)

All questions related to membership fees and registration fees should be directed to Treasurer Yunqiu Zhang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

 

Hotel Information:

We are very pleased to offer discounted group rate via Marriott SpringHill Suites Denver Downtown (located on the campus of MSU Denver).

Room rate: the discounted rate is $159/night ($182.45 after taxes and fees). Rooms are very limited in quantity so please book at your earliest convenience.

Deadline: The hotel takes reservation until Sep. 13, 2016. After the deadline, the hotel will not be able to offer rooms with the discounted group rate.

To reserve your guestroom online, go to: http://goo.gl/TiWC4R

 

Transportation Information: coming soon.

 

Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver)

MSU Denver is founded in 1965 in downtown Denver, Colorado, USA. Denver is the 21st-largest city in the United States and is located at the heart of Colorado. Denver represents a diversified population, with jobs in high-tech, transportation, financial services, the military, education, health services, tourism, and energy. Denver is also nicknamed as the “mile-high city,” where there are 300 days of sunshine every year. Denver’s diversified culture and natural beauty make it the world's top travel destinations. Many of these points of interest are within walking distance from MSU Denver: the Larimer Square (on the National Register of Historic Places), 16th Street Pedestrian Mall (with FREE Mall Shuttle), The Elitch Theme Park (America's Only Downtown theme and water park), The Pepsi Center, The Coors Field, Union Station, Colorado Convention Center (featuring a giant blue bear peeking from the outside), The Denver Center for Performing Arts, the State Capitol (with the famous gold dome), and many award winning restaurants.

As stated in the mission statement, MSU Denver has always aspires to be a top quality urban University of opportunity and to fulfill this mission by preparing a diverse undergraduate student body to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing multicultural and technological world. MSU Denver strives to create a community of learning where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to engage with each other and their chosen disciplines for professional and academic advancement, educated citizenship and lifelong learning. It is the first university in the nation to offer in-state tuition for qualified undocumented students. We look forward to seeing you at MSU Denver during the beautiful October in Denver, Colorado.

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The 23rd ACPSS International Conference
美国华人人文社科教授协会第二十三届国际会议

In Collaboration with High Point University

October 20-22, 2017
High Point University
High Point, North Carolina, U.S.A.

 

 

General Theme: Coping with the Challenge of Globalization

Globalization in the last two decades or so has produced seismic changes in our world. These changes include, on one hand, the phenomenal economic growth in countries such as China and India and the economic disarray in Western countries and, on the other hand, drastic income polarization in many countries even though their GDPs have multiplied. This growing economic maladjustment has also triggered problems ranging from polarized public opinion, social unrest, and racial tension to political instability. At the same time, uneven progress in the age of globalization has raised questions about the validity of the international order that came into existence at the end of World War II. The growing tension between the West and Non-Western worlds, the dispute over the South China Sea, and the imminent trade war between the US and China, etc. suggests the coming of a period of uncertainty and instability. All these unprecedented developments pose a grave challenge to scholars in social sciences and the humanities as well as political leaders all over the world. It is indeed a time that calls for serious reflections, constructive ideas and frank and honest exchanges among people from different cultures and countries. The 2017 annual meeting of the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States therefore invites papers and panels that focus on, but not limited to the following themes.

1. Impact of globalization
2. Understanding of and teaching about globalization in the classroom
3. Globalization of education
4. Human, cultural and environmental costs of high speed economic growth
5. Immigration, Migration in the age of globalization
6. New ideas in saving mother earth
7. Globalization and national identity
8. Managing US-China relations in the age of growing economic competition
9. How to avoid the Thucydides Trap between China and the U.S.?
10. Relevance of the humanities in an increasingly materialistic world
11. Crucial role of international/cross-cultural dialogues
12. Economic modernization and political reform
13. Global community in the age of mass media and instant news
14. Democracy and the rule of law in China since the Cultural Revolution
15. Anti-Rightist Campaign revisited 60 years later
16. Role and impact of media in the age of globalization
17. Sociology in the age of globalization
18. Arts and literature in the Age of globalization

 

Submission Guidelines:

*** Submission deadline has been extended to August 25, 2017 ***

Deadline: The submission deadline is July 15, 2017.  We require that those whose paper abstracts are accepted submit their full papers no later than September 24, 2017.

Language: The conference will accept papers in both English and Chinese.

Required submission information: All paper abstracts or panel proposals must include the title, the author(s) or panel members, details of current position, the institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for each author or panelist.

How to submit: Please submit your paper abstracts or panel proposals (300 words) at: https://goo.gl/forms/zM103kMOoZ9JB5UJ2. For any submission related inquiry, please contact Dr. Ronghua Ouyang at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference will be considered for publication in American Review of China Studies – the official journal of ACPSS. After the conference, the collection of the conference papers and abstracts will be published on CNKI (中国知网).

 

Conference Registration Fees:

ACPSS member with paper: $100

Non-ACPSS member with paper: $150

Student with paper: $50

Attendance with no paper: $150

In order to register with ACPSS member rate ($100), you must become an ACPSS member and pay a minimum of one-year membership fee ($50). If interested, please download the Application Form. Once filled out, send the application form and a $150 check to Treasurer Dr. Yunqiu Zhang at the following address: Dr. Yunqiu Zhang, 210 Heritage Creek Way, Greensboro, NC 27405. (ACPSS website currently does not support online membership application/renew or fee payment.)

 

Excursion to the Blue Ridge National Parkway on Sunday, October 22, 2017 (Optional):

The Blue Ridge National Parkway is one of the most beautiful highways in the United States and best route to enjoy the fall colors in the Appalachian Mountains in mid-October.

Cost of the Excursion (transportation and two meals): $60.

If you want to take the excursion, please contact Dr. Yunqiu Zhang also.

 

Becoming an ACPSS Member:

We welcome new members from all disciplines. To become an ACPSS member, or to renew your ACPSS membership, please visit our website at www.acpssus.org and download the Application/Renew Form. Once filled out, please send the form and membership fees to Treasurer Yunqiu Zhang.

Membership fees:
    One-year membership: $50
    Two-year membership: $80
    Three-year membership: $100
    Five-year membership: $150
    Life-time membership: $300 (best value)

All questions related to membership fees and registration fees should be directed to Treasurer Yunqiu Zhang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

 

Hotel Information:

Radisson High Point
135 S. Main St. High Point, NC 27260
$109 per night (double room or standard king)
Reservation by phone:
    +1 (800) 333-3333 (US/Canada Toll-free)
    +1 (336) 889-8888
On-line Reservation: https://www.radisson.com/high-point-hotel-nc-27260/usahigh
Reservation Deadline:  October 3, 2017.  
Note: Please tell the hotel that you are participants in the ACPSS’s 2017 conference.

For further information about local matters including transportation and accommodation, please e-mail Prof. Peng Deng at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or call him at (336) 841-9117 (O).

 

About High Point University

Founded in 1924, High Point University is a private liberal arts university in High Point, North Carolina, U.S. As a vibrant and ambitious community of higher learning, HPU has eight schools and colleges that offer 47 undergraduate majors, 51 undergraduate minors and 12 graduate-degree majors with a total enrollment of 4,500. In 2015, High Point University was ranked No. 1 in the annual U.S. News & World Report Regional Colleges South rankings. In the 2016 rankings released HPU ranks No. 1 Best Regional College in the South for the fourth consecutive year and No. 1 Most Innovative Regional College in the South. It has one of the most beautiful campuses in southeast U.S.

 

About High Point and the Piedmont Triad Area

Geographically, High Point belongs to an area called the Piedmont Triad that also includes Greensboro and Winston-Salem. This area in central North Carolina has a population of over 1.5 million. The city of High Point has easy access both by air and ground travel. The Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTI) is only 15 miles from HPU campus while the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) and Douglass International Airport in Charlottes (CLT) both are 80 miles or so from High Point.

Interstate 85 runs through southern High Point. The new Interstate 74 runs north and east of the city. To the northwest it extends to Interstate 40 in Winston-Salem.
The Piedmont Triad has a very rich history made by both Native Americans and European settlers. During the colonial era, High Point had one of the first Quaker communities in southeastern United States while Winston-Salem was founded by Moravian settlers from central Europe. During the American Revolution, the Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781 in Greensboro was one of the most crucial battles in the South. The world-renowned Blue Ridge Parkway National Parkway is less than two hours’ drive from High Point.