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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Wang Feng — The End of the Miracle: How a Shrinking Population Impacts China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Feng Wang\, Professor\, Sociology\, UC IrvineDiscussant: Xiang Zhou\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nChina’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 literate rural population on the eve of the economic take-off. China’s hyper-growth era commenced at the same time as the large migration flows is coming to an end\, and as the country embarks on an irreversible journey of population aging and decline. In this talk Professor Wang revisits the crucial role of China’s population in its economic transformation\, explore the forces shaping the country’s demographic future\, and highlights the social and political challenges as well as the opportunities\, that China faces as China enters a post hyper-growth era. \n\n\n\nWANG Feng is a professor of sociology at the University of California\, Irvine. He is a scholar with expertise in global demographic change\, social inequality\, public policy\, and comparative population and social history. Between 2010 and 2013\, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and directed the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. He is the author of several award-winning books in his research areas and has contributed to many other publications. His latest book\, China’s Age of Abundance: Origins\, Ascendance\, and Aftermath\, examines the underlying forces driving China’s four-decade-long historical transformations. He is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-wang-feng-the-end-of-the-miracle-how-a-shrinking-population-impacts-chinas-future/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Chenggang XU — How Will China's Institutional Problems Cripple its Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chenggang XU\, Senior Research Scholar\, Stanford Center on China’s Economic and Institutions; Visiting Fellow\, Hoover Institution\, Stanford University; Visiting Professor\, Department of Finance\, Imperial College London \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nChenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economic and Institutions\, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, and a Visiting Professor\, Department of Finance\, Imperial College London. \n\n\n\nChenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong as Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics\, at Tsinghua University as Special-term Professor of Economics\, at Seoul National University as World-Class University Professor of Economics\, and at LSE as Reader of Economics. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association.  He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013).  \n\n\n\nChenggang’s research is in political economics\, institutional economics\, law and economics\, development economics\, transition economics and the Chinese political economy. His research and opinions have been covered widely in the Greater China area and in the world. He is currently a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) and a research fellow of the CEPR. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-chenggang-xu-how-will-chinas-institutional-problems-cripple-its-economy/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Li Zhang — Anxious China: Rethinking Therapeutic Governing Before and After the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Zhang\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of California-Davis \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nLi Zhang (Ph.D. Cornell 1998) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Davis. She is the author of three award-winning books: Strangers in the City (Stanford 2001)\, In Search of Paradise (Cornell 2010)\, andAnxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (UC 2020). She is also a co-editor of Privatizing China\, Socialism from Afar (Cornell 2008) and Can Science and Technology Save China? (Cornell 2020). Broadly speaking\, her research concerns social\, political\, spatial and psychological repercussions of the post-Mao economic reform and postsocialist transformations in contemporary China. Currently\, she is working on a new project on aging\, care\, and the digital divide in post-COVID 19 China. She was a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and the President of the Society of East Asian Anthropology (2013-15). She also served as Interim Dean of the Division of Social Sciences (2015-17) and Chair of Anthropology Department (2011-15) at UC Davis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-li-zhang-anxious-china-rethinking-therapeutic-governing-before-and-after-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Suisheng Zhao — The Dragon Roars Back: Xi's Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Suisheng Zhao\, Suisheng Zhao\, Professor and Director\, Center for China-US Cooperation\, Josef Korbel School of International Studies\, University of Denver \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \n\n\n\nSuisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies\, University of Denver. A founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China\, he is member of the Board of Governors of the US Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific\, a member of National Committee on US-China Relations\, a Research Associate at the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research in Harvard University\, and a honorary jianzhi professor at Beijing University\, Renmin University\, China University of International Relations\, Fudan University and Shanghai foreign Studies University. A Campbell National Fellow at Hoover Institution of Stanford University\, he was Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College in Maryland\, Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine and visiting assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at University of California-San Diego. He received his Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of California-San Diego\, M.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Missouri and BA and M.A. degrees in economics from Peking University. He is the author and editor of more than ten books\, including: China and East Asian Regionalism: Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building (Routledge 2012)\, In Search of China’s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus\, (Routledge 2011)\, Village Elections in China (Routledge\, 2010)\, China and the United States\, Cooperation and Competition in Northeast Asia (Palgrave/Macmillion\, 2008)\, China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives and Strategic Interactions (Routledge\, 2008)\, Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law versus Democratization (M. E. Sharpe\, 2006)\, A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford University Press\, 2004)\, Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (M. E. Sharpe\, 2003)\, China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China (Routledge\, 2000)\, Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China\, Taiwan\, and the Crisis of 1995-96 (Routledge\, 1999). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly\, The Wilson Quarterly\, Washington Quarterly\, International Politik\, The Hague Journal of Democracy\, European Financial Review\, The China Quarterly\, World Affairs\, Asian Survey\, Asian Affairs\, Journal of Democracy\, Pacific Affairs\, Communism and Post-Communism Studies\, Problems of Post-Communism\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-suisheng-zhao-the-dragon-roars-back-xis-power-concentration-and-foreign-policy-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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