Programme

  November 6, 2008 (Thursday)

 
9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony

10:00 Keynote Lecture (Chair-person: Helen F. SIU)

    Murat ÇIZAKÇA, Charity in the World of Islam: Waqfs, Origins, Evolution and the Future [Abstract]

10:30-12:30 Session 1 - Charity Hospitals (Chair-person: LEUNG Yuen Sang)

    HO Pui Yin, Tradition and Modernity: The Birth of the First Chinese Hospital in Hong Kong and Its Evolution
A Case Study on Tung Wah Hospital (1869 -1934) [Abstract]

Bambang PURWANTO, Capitalizing Charity in Indonesian Muslim Community: The History of PKU Muhammadiyah-Aisyiah Hospital [Abstract]

LEUNG Ki Che Angela, Charity or control of the sick? Three models of leprosaria in modern China [Abstract]

Discussants: CHOI Chi Cheung, Kentaro MATSUBARA

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Session 2 - Charity and Property (Chair-person: CHOI Chi Cheung)

    CHUNG Po Yin, Chinese Tong as British Company: Institutional Collisions and Legal Disputes in Urban Hong Kong, 1860s -1980s [Abstract]

Kentaro MATSUBARA, Trust or Corporation? -- Problems of Governance in the Management of Chinese Lineage Property [Abstract]

Rajeswary A. BROWN, Islamic Endowments and the Land Economy in Singapore: The Genesis of an Ethical Capitalism, 1830-2007 [Abstract]

Discussants: Helen F. SIU, Murat ÇIZAKÇA

16:00-16:15 Refreshment

16:15-17:45 Session 3 - Shipping Bones (Chair-person: SO Kee Long)

    SINN Yuk Yee, Elizabeth, Comfort the Dead, Comfort the Living: the repatriation of migrants’ remains in the 19th and early 20th centuries [Abstract]

YIP Hon Ming, Networking Charity: The Tung Wah Coffin Home and the North America-Hong Kong-Siyi Connection [Abstract]

Discussants: CAO Nanlai, David FAURE

18:30 Dinner

 
November 7, 2008 (Friday)

 
9:00-10.30 Session 4 - Charity among the Chaozhou People Overseas: Why It Works (Chair-person: David FAURE)

    CHEN Chunsheng and MA Muk Chi, Patriarch Dafeng and Charity Work under His Name among the Chaozhou People [Abstract]

CHOI Chi Cheung, Ritual and Charity: cemetery management organization and the Chinese Grand Universal Salvation Rituals
(Wan Yuan sheng Hui) in Southeast Asia [Abstract]

Discussants: LEUNG Ki Che Angela, Khun Eng KUAH-PEARCE

10.30-12:30 Session 5 - Charity in a Transnational Context (Chair-person: YIP Hon Ming)

    C. Julia HUANG, Indigenously Global: A Brief History of the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Foundation from Taiwan [Abstract]

Khun Eng KUAH-PEARCE, State and the Governance of the Emerging Ethos of Buddhist Philanthropy: Reformist Buddhism in Singapore [Abstract]

CAO Nanlai, The Politics of Christian Charity in Translocal Wenzhou [Abstract]

Discussants: Christian LEKON, YIP Hon Ming

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Session 6 - Colonialism and Indigenous Charity (Chair-person: Rajeswary A. BROWN)

    Christian LEKON, Non-Governmental Welfare in British Cyprus, 1878-1960: A Case of Lifeworld Colonization? [Abstract]

David FAURE, Transforming the Chinese Charity Trust in South China in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century [Abstract]

Discussants: Bambang PURWANTO, C. Julia HUANG

16:00-17:00 Summing up (Chair-persons: David FAURE and Rajeswary A. BROWN)

19:00 Official Dinner (By invitation)

 
November 8, 2008 (Saturday): Visit to Tung Wah Group of Hospitals

  For conference participants only.