The New China
William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School
In the past decade China has changed almost beyond recognition. China’s leadership has changed from charismatic, entrepreneurial figures to administrators. A trend toward centralized power has been reversed by the…
Town Hall: National Committee on United States-China Relations
Web Broadcast Available 8pm at http://www.ncuscr.org/cth
Gary Locke, U.S. Ambassador to China (live webcast) 8pm
On Campus Event Cancelled. Web Broadcast Still Available 8pm at http://www.ncuscr.org/cth
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke will join audiences in 60 cities…
Chinese Law Reform: Its Recent Past and Uncertain Future
Stanley Lubman, Berkeley Law School, University of California; Senior Fellow, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Professor Lubman reviews the problems that law reform has encountered since the millennium, especially emphasizing the continuing tightness of control by the Party-State over the courts, the extensive power of…
The Future of Chinese Administrative Law
Featuring presentations by an outstanding and diverse group of Chinese administrative law scholars, specially invited to visit the United States by the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, and with commentary from distinguished U.S. scholars of administrative law and Chinese law, this symposium will take stock of the development of Chinese administrative law over the past thirty years, and explore possibilities for reform today. CLE Credit Available
This is a particularly dynamic moment for Chinese administrative law. The long-term reformist effort to secure passage of a comprehensive administrative procedure law – a law, roughly akin to the…
The Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on the Human Capital Accumulation of Children in Village Economies
Fan Wang, Department of Economics
Using four waves of household panel data collected over ten years from rural China, I estimate the importance of parental health in the accumulation of the human capital of children in the context of small village…
Chinese Naval Strategy in the South China Sea: An Abundance of Noise and Smoke, but Little Fire
Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), U.S. Naval War College & Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Dr. Goldstein discusses his survey of official and quasi-official Chinese-language naval literature to provide new insights regarding Beijing’s evolving strategy in the South China Sea. Contrary to conventional…
Demystifying the Chinese Economy
Justin Lin (林毅夫), former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
Dr. Lin will discuss China’s achievements in the reform era, analyze prospects and challenges for China’s future growth, and envision China’s status in the multi-polar growth world in the coming 20 years. He will…
What’s Next for China?
The Effect of the Leadership Transition for Chinese Politics, Economics, Foreign policy, and US-China Relations
In Autumn 2012, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will hold its 18th National People’s Congress. The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, prime minister, Wen Jiabao, and the other seven…
East Asia Law Review Talk
Contending Conceptions of Ownership and Property in Urbanizing China
Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong
In the wake of China's great urbanisation process, many of the tens of millions of Chinese rural and urban citizens affected by evictions and expropriations have engaged in complaints, protest and resistance.…
Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Crackdown on China's Human Rights Lawyers
Eva Pils is an associate professor and director of the Centre for Rights and Justice at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarship focuses on human rights and China, with…