China's Rise and the Emerging World Order of the 21 Century | |
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Speaker : Professor Yun-Han CHU, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Date : 13 January 2016 (Wednesday) Time : 4:30 pm - 5 pm Venue : B7603 Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Language : English Download presentation slides | ![]() |
Abstract
Many mainstream IR (international relations) theorists are trying to take on the implications of
China’s rise for international system and existing international regimes. Most of them try to address
this question within the existing theoretical framework with a high degree of unduly confidence.
Only a few followers of social constructivism are willing to entertain the possibility that China’s
rise might unravel the highly Americanized IR field. Among mainstream IR scholars, the way the question
is framed remains very much U.S.-centric or West-centric. Bio-sketch
Professor Yun-Han CHU is Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Political Science at
Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He serves
concurrently as president of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly
Exchange. He specializes in politics of Greater China, East Asian political economy and
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China's Democratic Future: Why a Transition Could Happen by 2030 | |
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Speaker : Minxin PEI, Claremont McKenna College Date : 23 February 2016 (Tuesday) Time : 4:30 pm - 6 pm Venue : G7619 Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Language : English | ![]() |
Abstract Theories of democratic transition suggest that the survival of one-party rule in China will face increasing challenges in the coming decade. But a large number of observers also insist that China is exceptional. What is the prospect of a regime transition in China despite its poor odds at the moment? We will rely on insights from recent cases of transitions and empirical data from China to conduct a systematic analysis on the likelihood and possible scenarios of a democratic transition in China in the coming 10-15 years. Bio-sketchMinxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a think tank based in Washington. He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace between 1999 and 2009, and taught at Princeton University from 1992 to 1998. He is the author of China's Crony Capitalism: Dynamics of Regime Decay (Harvard, 2016), China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard, 2006), and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard, 1994). He received his PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1991. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Authoritarian Parochialism: Representation in Chinese Local Congresses | |
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Speaker : Melanie Frances Manion, Duke University Date : 9 March 2016 (Wednesday) Time : 4:30 pm - 6 pm Venue : G7619 Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Language : English | ![]() |
Abstract How do Chinese township and county congresses represent their constituents when congress meetings are brief and infrequent and policymaking is dominated by the congress standing committee, higher levels of authority, and communist party committees? Based on scores of qualitative interviews and an original survey of 5,130 local congress delegates, Melanie Manion shows that the amateur local congresses deliver representation in the form of targeted public goods to the geographic constituency. Moreover, congress delegates and ordinary Chinese share an understanding of this notion of representation. Unlike liberal democratic versions, however, this Chinese “pork barrel politics” mainly works extra-legislatively, through delegate advocacy to local governments. Bio-sketchMelanie Manion is a professor of political science at Duke University. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking University in the late 1970s, was trained in Far Eastern studies at McGill University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and earned her doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on contemporary authoritarianism, with work on bureaucracy, corruption, information, and representation in China. She is the recipient of numerous research awards, including awards from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies. Her current research project, a collaboration with Charles Chang, examines regime management of various forms of social media in China. Her newest book, Information for Autocrats (Cambridge University Press, 2015), analyzes representation in Chinese local congresses. Other publications include Retirement of Revolutionaries in China (Princeton University Press, 1993), Corruption by Design (Harvard University Press, 2004), and Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (edited with Allen Carlson, Mary Gallagher, and Kenneth Lieberthal, Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her articles have appeared in journals including American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and China Quarterly. She is an award-winning teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Transnational Higher Education in China: Paradoxes and possibilities |
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Speaker: Professor David S G Goodman, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou Date : 16 May 2016 (Monday) Time : 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Venue : G7619 Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Language : English | ![]() |
Abstract China’s advent to the WTO promised an opening up of the educational system to international cooperation, especially for tertiary education. There certainly has been a growth and regularisation of Chinese-international activities in higher education with the emergence of Joint-Venture (Chinese-Foreign Cooperation) universities, and the greater development of both faculty-level operations and individual degree programs. On the other hand, at first sight the extent of state regulation seems to suggest that there has been little of the promised opening up. This conclusion though has to be counter-balanced by the emergence of a substantial grey and somewhat unregulated sector of cooperation between Chinese universities and their international partners, especially in the United Kingdom. Formal joint ventures are highly regulated, though constantly changing; the informal market for higher education, while considerably more costly to the consumer, has grown exponentially. Bio-sketchDavid S G Goodman is Professor and Head of the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China’s largest joint venture university. Educated at the University of Manchester, the London School of Oriental and African Studies, and Peking University, he has conducted research on social and political change at the local level in China. In a previous life he was the Deputy Vice Chancellor International at the University of Technology, Sydney. His most recent publications are Class in Contemporary China (Polity, 2014) and the Handbook of the Politics of China (Elgar, 2015). Prof Goodman is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, and a PRC Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Academic. ![]() ![]() |
Public Seminar on Social Governance in China |
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Speakers: Prof Yang Zhong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Prof Yijia Jing, Fudan University Date : 13 June 2016 (Monday) Time : 4:00 pm -5:30 pm Venue : Y7302, Academic 1, City University of Hong Kong Language : English and Chinese | |
Pollution, Institutions and Street Protest in Urban ChinaYang Zhong School of International and Public Affairs Shanghai Jiao Tong University Abstract Street protests have become commonplaces in China. Utilizing extensive survey data, this study attempts to shed light on the nature of environmental street protests in China. The key question to be answered in the paper is: why, facing the same issue, some people choose the option of participating in street protest while others do not? Our multivariate analytical findings indicate that urban residents’ willingness in participating in street protest over a hypothetical pollution issue in China is significantly related to their attitudes toward institution in China. What motivate people to participate in street protest have a lot to do with their trust and support of the political system in China and their perceived government transparency. In other words, these protests are not just what Lewis Coser calls “realistic conflicts” which primarily involve specific issues and solutions. One implication from our study is that street protests in China may not be as benign and non-regime threatening as some scholars think. Bio-sketchProf Yang Zhong is a Distinguished Changjiang Chair Professor, Dean of School of International and Public Affairs, and Director of Public Opinion Research Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research and teaching interests include Chinese political culture and participation and Chinese local government. He has published over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters and authored and co-edited several books. His latest book is Political Culture and Participation in Rural China (Routledge, 2012). Internet +: The Private Roles in Forging MLG for Innovation EconomyYijia Jing and Danyao Li School of International Relations and Public Affairs Fudan University Abstract Multi-Level Governance (MLG) refers to intergovernmental and intersectoral collaboration in response to complex issues. Much is to be learned about the roles of private actors to facilitate the communication and collaboration of multilevel governments which may be fragmented and slow in building intergovernmental policy consensus and implementation framework. This paper argues that private actors may strategically manipulate their political, technical, professional, economic and other capital to create political legitimacy and technical feasibility for consistent intergovernmental actions. We will use the "internet +" policy process in China as a case. Bio-sketchYijia Jing is a professor in Public Administration at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He is editor-in-chief of Fudan Public Administration Review, associate editor of Public Administration Review, and co-editor of International Public Management Journal. He is the founding co-editor of Palgrave book series, Governing China in the 21 Century. He serves as a vice president of International Research Society for Public Management. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
昳麗道場·昆曲精神系列講座—湯顯祖的夢中情人 |
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講者 : 中國昆曲表演藝術家、國家一級演員 沈昳麗 日期 : 2016年7月10日(星期日) 時間 : 下午 4:00至5:30 地點 : 香港城市大學學術樓(一)7樓G7619 語言 : 普通話 報名 : 毋須登記 歡迎參加 |
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演講摘要 適逢湯顯祖逝世四百周年。 講座圍繞其主要作品臨川四夢展開,重點介紹剖析其中三夢的女性角色及其所代表的愛情觀: 《紫釵記》霍小玉之現世愛情,《牡丹亭》杜麗娘之出生入死,《南柯記》瑤芳公主之幻境仙遊。三部著作,三位女性,三種命運,皆以一夢貫之,從各個方位構建了湯顯祖的理想人生和世界。 講者簡介 沈昳麗,中國昆曲表演藝術家,國家一級演員,MFA藝術碩士,上海昆劇團當家閨門旦。曾主演《牡丹亭》《玉簪記》《長生殿》等多部大戲,以及《尋夢》《說親》《題曲》等多出傳統折子戲。曾榮獲聯合國教科文組織和文化部聯合頒發的“促進昆劇藝術獎”、首屆中國昆劇藝術節優秀表演獎、上海白玉蘭戲劇表演藝術主角獎等多項榮譽。2009年與英國BBC交響樂團合作演出原創交響樂作品《牡丹園之夢》。長期以來堅持進入各大院校、圖書館、人文講壇開展各類文化昆曲系列講座。 |