Public Policy for a Modernizing China
The Challenge of Financing Services for a Footloose Society
Christine Wong, University of Melbourne
The hukou, the household registration system created under the planned economy, was widely adopted as a convenient and foolproof instrument for discriminating between local residents (with local hukou) and new…
2014
CSCC 2nd Annual Conference
New Media, The Internet, and a Changing China
This two-day international conference addresses the dynamic and evolving relationships among China's new media, civil society, public opinion, commerce, international relations and legal system. Twelve leading scholars present in four panels, followed by comments from expert discussants and open Q&A. No registration required, open to all.
Vance Hall is located at 37th St & Spruce. Please see campus map for directions
Thursday,…
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Prof. Nee will discuss his new book, co-authored with Sonja Opper, Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China. Studying over 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, Victor Nee and…
China's Third Plenum and the Future of Reform: Historic Change or More of the Same?
The just-concluded Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress and its decision on major reforms have outlined ambitious blueprint for China's future development.…
Film Screening Dinner - The Warriors of Qiugang
Followed by a discussion with scholars from Center of the Study of Contemporary China
Asian Law & Politics Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China invite you to Film Screening Dinner -- The Warriors of Qiugang, followed by…
Defining Democracy in China
Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
The conventional wisdom among China watchers is that political reform in China has not kept pace with the wide-ranging economic reforms of the past few decades. China remains a classic example of a one-party…
U.S. China Relations under Obama: From Hu to Xi-- A Policy Roundtable
Thomas J. Christensen, William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and Director of the China and the World Program, Princeton University. Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Thomas J. Christensen is William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and Director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University. From 2006-2008 he served as Deputy Assistant…
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How Important is Internet Satire in China?
2013 Distinguished East Asia Lecturer
Perry Link, Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching, Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages, UC Riverside; Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University
Beginning in the late 1950s,the harshness of late Maoism brought to Chinese society a bifurcation of language--clearer and sharper than it is in most other societies--between official and unofficial language.…
Qadi Justice in Chinese Courts: The Bureaucratization of Islamic Procedural Justice in the People’s Republic of China
Matthew S. Erie, Ph.D., J.D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Princeton University
Fueled by charges of orientalism, current trends in sociolegal studies have denigrated Weber’s insights on Islamic and Chinese law. While factually Weber mis-characterized these legal systems, concepts he developed…
Is the Social Volcano Still Dormant?
Trends in Chinese Attitudes toward Inequality
Martin King Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Data from two China national surveys, in 2004 and 2009, focusing on popular attitudes toward current inequalities and mobility opportunities, are compared to examine two key questions: (1) Did the continued rise in…
