The debate on China’s policy shift on North Korea： Why “evidence” is not evidence
Sunny Seong-hyon Lee, Ph.D. Pantech Fellow at Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Stanford University
The speculation over China’s foreign policy shift on North Korea has been particularly feverish during this year’s Korean crisis owing to the fact that there are new leaders in Beijing and Pyongyang and many…
Revamping the China Model for the Post Global Financial Crisis Era: The Emerging Post-Washington, Post-Beijing Consensus
Randy Peerenboom, Professor of Law, La Trobe University Melbourne
The Washington Consensus (“WC”), which dominated the development world for over two decades, has been called into question on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Those…
Marketing Death: Culture and Life Insurance Markets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Cheris Shun-ching Chan, Professor of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
Based on ethnographic data, Chan presents how a commercial life insurance market is emerging in mainland China despite incompatible local…
Legal Development in China: Perspectives from Washington
Natalie Lichtenstein Professorial Lecturer in China Studies Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Natalie Lichtenstein has been observing China's development since the 1970s. Recently retired after 30 years as a World Bank lawyer, she teaches Chinese law in Washington, DC. Her…
Rights Litigation, Law and Political Reform in China
Top Chinese and American scholars and rights activists discuss the accomplishments, challenges and potential ways forward for the rights protection (weiquan) movement in China.
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/2851-rights-litigation-law-and-political-reform-in
China’s “rights…
Recent Structural Change of the Chinese Economy and Japan-China Relations
Kiyoyuki Seguchi, Research Director at Canon Institute for the Global Studies
The structure of the Chinese economy changed dramatically between 2005 and 2009. It changed from an export-investment leading economy to a domestic-demand leading economy. Before 2004 China was a huge factory…
'Feeding Frenzy': China, Africa, and the 'Great Land Grab'
Deborah Brautigam, Professor and Director, International Development Program, Johns Hopkins University/SAIS
What role does China play in the recent rush for land acquisition in Africa? Conventional wisdom suggests a large role for the Chinese government and its firms and a focus on China's own food security. This talk…
Judicial Review and Constitutionalism in China: A Discussion with Wang Zhenmin (Tsinghua University)
Wang Zhenmin, Dean and Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School
Chinese courts do not have the power of constitutional judicial review. Courts do have limited powers of judicial review (for example, of specific administrative actions). And mechanisms…
Educational Issues for Minority Populations In Western China
Delegation visit, Dean Sude and Professor Teng Xing, Minzu University
12:00-1:00pm: "Research on Educational Policies for Ethnic Minorities with Cultural Sensitivity----Cases from Ethnic Minority Areas in Western China."
Speaker: Professor Sude, Professor and Dean of the School…
2013
CSCC 1st Annual Conference
“China’s Challenges: The Road Ahead”
Four panels, papers presented by twelve leading scholars followed by comments from expert discussants and open Q&A
Twelve experts on political, social, economic, and legal developments in contemporary China and its role in the world present papers examining key issues for China in…