Chair: Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University

The nature and limits of the party-state:
Borje Ljunggren, Associate, Harvard Asia Center; former Swedish Ambassador to China and Vietnam

Health equity and markets:
Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board

Civil society, dissent and repression:
Eva Hansson, Coordinator, Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm University

Coping in an era of growing great power rivalry:
Robert Ross, Political Science Department, Boston College

Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Harvard University Asia Center.