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…

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…

China's Economic Reforms in the 21st Century: Assessment and Outlook (2002-2022)

Prof. Hu Angang, School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University;  Dean of Institute of Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University

 * Lunch Provided

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…