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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xuefei Ren - Governing the Urban in China and India
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xuefei Ren\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Michigan State University \nXuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development\, governance\, architecture\, and the built environment in global perspective.She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs\, Slum Clearance\, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, Urban China (Polity\, 2013)\, and Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (University of Chicago Press\, 2011). She is currently working on two new projects. The first project examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban governance in six countries\, including China\, the United States\, Canada\, Germany\, Brazil and South Africa. The second project compares culture-led revitalization in post-industrial cities\, with Detroit\, Harbin\, and Turin as case studies. Her research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, Andrew Mellon Foundation\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has been selected as a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2021-2023). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Cheng Li - Forecasting Personnel Changes at the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng Li\, Director\, John L. Thornton China Center\, Brookings InstitutionModerator/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Harvard University \nCheng Li is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Li focuses on the transformation of political leaders\, generational change\, the Chinese middle class\, and technological development in China. \nLi grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In 1985\, he came to the United States\, where he received a master’s in Asian studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and a doctorate in political science from Princeton University. From 1993 to 1995\, he worked in China as a fellow sponsored by the Institute of Current World Affairs in the U.S.\, observing grassroots changes in his native country. Based on this experience\, he published a nationally acclaimed book\, “Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform” (1997). \nLi is also the author or the editor of numerous books\, including “China’s Leaders: The New Generation” (2001)\, “Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003” (2005)\, “China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy” (2008)\, “China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation” (2010)\, “The Road to Zhongnanhai: High-Level Leadership Groups on the Eve of the 18th Party Congress” (in Chinese\, 2012)\, “The Political Mapping of China’s Tobacco Industry and Anti-Smoking Campaign” (2012)\, “China’s Political Development: Chinese and American Perspectives” (2014)\, “Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership” (2016)\, “The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China” (2017)\, and “Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement” (Spring 2021). He is currently completing a book manuscript with the working title “Xi Jinping’s Protégés: Rising Elite Groups in the Chinese Leadership”. He is the principal editor of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series published by the Brookings Institution Press. \nPresented via Zoom WebinarRegistration Required \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-cheng-li/
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