Understanding the Event-Transformed Social Structure of Sino-Japanese Relations
Ming Wan, Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University
The contemporary Sino-Japanese relationship can best be understood as being shaped by the social structures the two nations have constructed, which continue to be challenged by material and ideational forces. The…
Chinese Social Welfare in Demand-Side Perspectives: Redistributive Preferences and Policy Effect on Public Support of Government
Xian Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
In order to understand the social foundations of the Chinese government’s expansive welfare policy in the past decade and the effectiveness of that strategy on regime support and stability in China, I developed two…
(CANCELLED) Coercive Institutions and State Violence Under Authoritarianism
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Why do we observe widely differing patterns of repression and state violence under authoritarian rule? Drawing on evidence from East Asia, I argue that the design of authoritarian coercive…
Racing to the bottom and to the top: divergent environmental governance strategies in China's cities
Peter Lorentzen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
China’s fiscal decentralization has been praised as an important driver of its economic growth. Inter-jurisdictional competition has arguably incentivized officials to promote economic development. However,…
China Education Workshop
Organized by Professor Emily Hannum, Department of Sociology
Session 1: Disparities in Opportunity and Outcome
Session 2: Internet as Informal Education
Session 3: Teachers and Teaching
Session 4: Schools and Socialization
Current Developments in China's Elite Politics
Cheng Li, Director and Senior Fellow, The John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution; Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
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Sovereignty Costs and China’s Socialization into International Society: Evidence from China’s Approach to Hard Law
Jing Tao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP) Commentator, William W. Burke-White, Richard Perry Professor of Law , Inaugural Director, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
This study uses three types of hard law with mandatory dispute settlement mechanism, i.e. bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the Rome Statute of…
Cybersecurity and US-China Relations
James Mulvenon, Vice President, Intelligence Division, Defense Group Inc.
Cyber issues, including industrial espionage, Internet censorship, technology protectionism, and network warfare, are now at the top of the US-China strategic agenda. Dr. James Mulvenon, author of …
(CANCELLED) A New Stage of Social Science Data Collection in China
Professor Weidong Wang, Department of Sociology, Renmin University, China
In recent years, the arising of academic survey data has brought the social-economic fundamental data collection in China into a new stage. Around 2010, several Chinese Universities respectively started their…