Critical Issues Confronting China Series
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jianbo Huang — Can China Live Without Religion?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jianbo Huang, Professor of Anthropology, East China Normal University Jianbo Huang is Professor of anthropology at East China Normal University (ECNU), director of the Institute of Anthropology, and the Center of Ethnicity and Development. Before joining ECNU in 2014, he was a faculty member of anthropology institute, Renmin University of China since 2005. After receiving […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) — Crisis Scenario: Imagining U.S.-China Relations and War in the Pacific
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; Chair of the Board of Trustees, Rockefeller Foundation Admiral James Stavridis is Partner and Vice Chair, Global Affairs of The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, following five years as the 12th Dean […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeremy Daum — Rule of Party: How Xi Jinping Reasserted Control Over China’s Legal System
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Jeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. He is based in Beijing, and has more than a decade of experience working in China on collaborative legal reform […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Martin Whyte and Scott Rozelle — Getting Ahead in Today’s China: From Optimism to Pessimism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Martin K. Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus; Former Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 2007-2008, Harvard UniversityScott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University. Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Wang Feng — The End of the Miracle: How a Shrinking Population Impacts China’s Future
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Feng Wang, Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine China’s spectacular economic growth of the past four decades is a happy outcome of numerous historical junctures and opportunism. One pivotal factor was China’s population, particularly its healthy and literature rural population on the eve of the economic take-off. China’s hyper-growth era commenced at the same time as […]