The China Challenge: Shaping The Choices of A Rising Power
Thomas Christensen, William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Princeton University
Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine…
Critical Journalists and the State in China: The Case of Guarded Improvisation
Maria Repnikova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
This talk introduces the key findings from Dr. Repnikova’s book project on the relations between China’s critical journalists and the party-state in the past decade. It explains how critical journalists who…
Social Welfare under Authoritarianism: The Politics and Policy of Social Health Insurance in China
Xian Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Contrary to the received wisdom that the welfare state is a feature associated with democracies, social welfare in China has undergone a dramatic expansion over the past decade without democratization or significant…
Seeking Truth from Facts: Data-driven Environmental Policy in China
Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
When China’s environmental policy is discussed, scholars frequently point to an “implementation gap” between national environmental policy creation and execution at the local level. In particular, scholars of Western…
2015
Comparative Approaches to Regulation in India and China Conferenc
Leading scholars, policy-makers and practitioners from law and related fields will present their perspectives on topics within the conference theme. Papers will address patterns and challenges of regulation in the…
China’s Economic Slowdown and Spillover to the Rest of the World
David Dollar, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
China’s economic growth is slowing down and this is creating jitters throughout world markets. President Xi Jinping on his recent visit said this was a normal development now that China has reached middle…
Participatory Autocracy: Private Entrepreneurs, Legislatures, and Property Protection in China
Yue Hou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Why do individuals in authoritarian systems seek office in formal political institutions such as legislatures, which are often dismissed as weak and ineffective in interest representation? I argue that Chinese…
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?…
