Economy

November 9, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism

Speaker: Lingling Wei, Senior China Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Lingling Wei is a senior China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She covers China’s political economy, focusing on Beijing’s …

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism

November 2, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race

Blockchain,  Digital Currency,  and the   Post-20th  Party Congress  US-China  Tech Race Speaker: Winston Ma, Author of The Hunt for Unicorns, The Digital War, andBlockchain and Web3;Adjunct Professor, NYU Law …

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race

Nahm book
November 15, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy

Speaker: Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Nahm’s new book examines the development of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, …

China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy

October 13, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China

Speaker: Zhang Changdong, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Taxation is regarded as an important …

Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China

October 27, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan

Speakers:Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Peking UniversityHui Shan, Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Goldman Sachs Concluding Remarks:William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Moderators:Richard Yarrow …

Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan

September 26, 2022 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China

Speaker: Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Developers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers, or “little bees,” to promote sales. Most developers …

Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China