(Source: Xinhua News Agency, original webpage http://jl.news.cn/20230812/2128d21d37454f9381be499dc45dd25b/c.html)
On August 12, the opening ceremony of the East Asian Sociological Association (EASA) Annual Conference, hosted by the EASA and organized by the School of Philosophy and Sociology of Jilin University, the Institute of Northeast Revitalization and Development, and the East Asian Social Research Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association, was held at the central campus of Jilin University.
(Jiang Zhiying, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin University, delivered a welcome speech. Photo: Xinhua News Agency)
The two-day annual conference, themed “Modernization and Post-Modernization: Comparison and Prospect of East Asian Social Development,” aimed to continue the dialogue on East Asian development from a global perspective, compare the social development models of East Asia, and explore the social development conditions in East Asia. The conference was chaired by Han Xiping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin University. Jiang Zhiying, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin University, delivered the welcome speech, and Bing Zheng, EASA Chinese President and Dean of the Institute of Northeast Revitalization and Development at Jilin University, delivered the opening address. Congratulatory remarks were given by Li Youmei, President of the Chinese Social Change Research Association and Professor at Shanghai University; Yazawa Shujiro, EASA Japanese President and Professor Emeritus at Seijo University; and Shin Kwang-yeong, EASA Korean Vice President and Professor at Chung-Ang University.
Jiang Zhiying extended a warm welcome and sincere greetings to the experts and scholars attending the EASA Annual Conference. He expressed that holding the conference would inject new vitality into the development of East Asian sociology as a discipline, provide new impetus for the prosperity of East Asian countries, and contribute new wisdom to the exchange and mutual learning among East Asian civilizations. He wished the grand academic event a complete success and hoped it would contribute to promoting exchange and development in the East Asian region.
(Bing Zheng, EASA Chinese President and Dean of the Institute of Northeast Revitalization and Development at Jilin University, delivered the opening address. Photo: Xinhua News Agency)
After the opening ceremony, keynote speeches were delivered on topics including the converging trends of modernization and post-modernization, the transformation of China’s social structure, the relationship between social science and contemporary society, and themes of post-Western sociology. The speakers included Sari Hanafi, President of the International Sociological Association and Professor at the American University of Beirut; Kim Seung Kuk, Professor Emeritus at Pusan National University; Zhang Yi, President of the Chinese Sociological Association and Director of the Institute of Social Development Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Neil Fligstein, Class of 1939 Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; and Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
(Event scene. Photo: Xinhua News Agency)
The conference featured twelve sub-forums on the following themes: “Asian Capitalism and Development,” “Social Changes under Global Transformation,” “Post-Western Sociology,” “Political Sociology in the Anthropocene Era,” “New Perspectives on Maritime Sociology,” “Rural Modernization in East Asia,” “Economic and Social Transformation,” “Post-Western Sociology: Theory and Experience,” “East Asian Youth Culture,” “Comparative Studies on the Development Paths of East Asian Societies in the Postmodern Context,” “Postmodern Perspectives on Resilience to Health Crises,” and “Stratification and Inequality in East Asia in the 21st Century.” More than one hundred experts and scholars from Peking University, Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Jilin University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, Pusan National University, Nagasaki University, Keio University, and the National University of Singapore participated and shared over 120 high-quality papers. Sociologists from around the world conducted comprehensive academic exchanges, playing a catalytic role in the research and development of theoretical and practical issues in East Asian sociology.
