Back to Bipolarity: Structural-Realist Theory and the Rise of China
Karen Ruth Adams, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Montana
Karen Adams argues that the unipolar international-political system dominated by the United States ended in 2014 with China’s rise to great-power status. The argument has four steps. First, she situates and…
Trends in Protecting Intellectual Property Online in China
Joe Simone, Simone IP Services
After spending most of his career with big law firms, in 2012 he established SIPS (Simone IP Services) a Hong Kong-based IP boutique. Joe has been on the front lines in advising American and European IP owners in…
The Specter of Global China: Is Chinese Capital a Different Kind of Capital?
Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Drawing on data collected through comparative ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese investments in Zambia in the past five years, this talk seeks to answer the questions: What is the peculiarity of Chinese capital?…
Constitutional Review on Taiwan: Review and Prospects
Dennis Te-Chung Tang, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Constitutional judicial review—the authority of a court to declare a decision by a state organ unconstitutional—has existed in Taiwan since 1949 and has developed dramatically since then. Decisions by…
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Town Hall with Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
6:00 PM - Presentation by Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7:00 PM - Live national webcast on U.S.-China Relations
China's…
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Daniel Bell, Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholars program, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Director of the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture.
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades,…
Gender and Professional Career: The Feminization of Judges in China
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily. More importantly, many female judges have risen to mid-level leadership positions, such as division chiefs, in the judicial…
I Am From Xinjiang
Kurbanjan Samat, Photographer, Central China TV
Kurbanjan Samat is of Uyghur nationality, born in Hotan, Xinjiang. He is a member of China Photographers Association, China Folklore Photographic Association(CFPA), member of China Uyghur History and Culture…
Internationalization of the Renminbi? -- Prospects and Challenges
Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School
"Internationalization" of the Renminbi has been an important economic and foreign policy goal for China. And it is a precondition to China's currency becoming a…
Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
William Hurst, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
"Ruling Before the Law" begins by arguing that in order to understand the politics of legal institutions in authoritarian, socialist, and post-colonial contexts, we must abandon teleological frameworks such as the…
