Critical Issues Confronting China
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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. Moderator: Ya-Wen
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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 IrvineDiscussant: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University 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 literate rural population on the eve of the economic take-off. China’s hyper-growth
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Chenggang XU — How Will China’s Institutional Problems Cripple its Economy?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Li Zhang — Anxious China: Rethinking Therapeutic Governing Before and After the Pandemic
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Davis Discussant: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Li 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
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Suisheng Zhao — The Dragon Roars Back: Xi’s Power Concentration and Foreign Policy Implications
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Suisheng Zhao, Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Director, Center for China-US Cooperation, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Distinguished Professor of History, UC IrvineDiscussant: Moira Weigel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In 2015, a group of Hong Kong filmmakers made an anthology film called "Ten Years," made up of dystopian vignettes set in a dramatically transformed city one decade in the future. Now that 2025 has arrived, while everyone
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zenobia Chan — The Influence Game: What Does China Really Want?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Zenobia T. Chan, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown UniversityMore information coming soon! Professor Chan is a researcher in international relations, focusing on economic statecraft, as well as influence and information operations. I also develop machine learning methods for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in experimental and observational data. Her book project Alms and Influence examines when
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Yang — Laboratories of Autocracy: How China’s Re-centralization Impacted Economic Growth
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School David Y. Yang is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard. David is
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dan Wang — Breakneck: Can China Outcompete the U.S. on Innovation?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dan Wang, Hoover InstitutionDiscussants: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Harvard UniversityMark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University***PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT START TIME FOR THIS CRITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING CHINA SERIES TALK *** Dan Wang
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanmei Lin — The Fire Alarm and the Iron Hand: Civil Society’s Place in China’s Environmental Rule of Law
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yanmei Lin, Professor of Law, Vermont Law and Graduate SchoolDiscussant: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies; Director of East Asian Legal Studies; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School Over the past decade, Chinese NGOs gained formal roles in environmental governance through
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anthony Saich — Through the Past Darkly: Culture and Practice of the Chinese Communist Party
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Little could the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have known that they were setting in motion one of history’s greatest revolutionary movements. While much has
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yi Lu — Garbage Time of History? Chinese Archives in the Era of Xi Jinping
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yi Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth CollegeDiscussant: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The Chinese internet has recently been captivated by a meme: “the garbage time of history.” The phrase evokes the Soviet Union’s final, suffocating decades to suggest that China, too, has entered an era