Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. His research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with the economics of poverty and inequality, with an emphasis on rural education, health and nutrition. Rozelle has received numerous honors and awards, including the Friendship Award in 2008, the highest award given to a non-Chinese by the Premier; and the National Science and Technology Collaboration Award in 2009 for scientific achievement in collaborative research.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in modern Chinese literature and Chinese language. Link is a Harvard University alumnus who received his B.A. in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1976. He has published in the fields of modern Chinese language, literature, popular culture, intellectual history, art and politics.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Jennifer Pan is a political scientist whose research focuses on political communication, digital media, and authoritarian politics. She is the Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) Political Science, and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute. Pan's research uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity to answer questions about the role of digital media in authoritarian and democratic politics, including how political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age and how preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Chenjian Li is currently a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Between 2013 and 2018, he served as Vice Provost of Peking University, Executive Dean of Yuanpei College, and Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Life Sciences. Li’s scientific research focuses on exploring the molecular and cellular basis of higher brain functions and neurological diseases, and therapeutic development of cancer treatment. Li is also devoted to education development and reform, ranging from high school, undergraduate, graduate and medical student education and has won numerous awards for his teaching.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Yue Qian is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Ohio State University. Her research concerns inequality at the intersection of gender, family, and work in East Asia (China in particular) and North America. Currently, this work follows two lines of inquiry: (1) how mate selection and couple dynamics in intimate relationships reflect and shape gender inequality in the broader society; and (2) how social and mental health inequalities manifest and evolve in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Qian has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2014. Her work has appeared in top journals, such as Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Gender & Society.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Hongbin Li is the Co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, and a Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He founded the Chinese College Student Survey (CCSS) in 2009 and the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) in 2014. Hongbin’s research has been focused on the transition and development of the Chinese economy, and the evidence-based research results have been both widely covered by media outlets and well read by policy makers around the world. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Guoguang Wu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University. His research specializes in Chinese politics and comparative political economy, including, in China studies, elite politics, national political institutions and policy making mechanisms, transition from communism, the politics of development. During the late 1970s, he was among the sent-down youth in Mao's China, and a textile factory worker following the death of Mao. In the late 1980s, he worked in Beijing as an editorialist and a political commentator in The People's Daily and, concurrently, a policy adviser on political reform and a speechwriter to the Zhao Ziyang leadership.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Xueguang Zhou is the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, a professor of sociology and an FSI senior fellow. His main area of research is institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society, focusing on Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relationships. Drawing on historical research and sociological theorizing, Zhou examines different aspects of the historical evolution of the bureaucratic state, in light of personnel management, paths of state building, and the role of patrimonial authority.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Chenggang 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. Chenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. 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). Xu's research is in political economics, institutional economics, law and economics, development economics, transition economics and the Chinese political economy.

Albert Park: China’s Economy and Asia’s Rise

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2023     |    4:30 - 6:00 PM PT
Location: John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA

Join us on Wednesday, November 15, as SIEPR, SCCEI, and the King Center co-host a discussion with Dr. Albert Park. Dr. Park will assess the cyclical and structural factors affecting China’s growth prospects and how China is impacting economic dynamism in the region. Topics include the implications of China’s recent property sector downturn, how geopolitical fragmentation is affecting China’s trade and investment relationships and growth prospects in the region, and the potential for China to contribute positively to the development of other countries through its Belt and Road Initiative and by leading on climate change action.

Park’s presentation begins at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, November 15th, followed by a Q&A moderated by SIEPR Director Mark Duggan. You’re invited to a welcome reception at 4:30 pm.

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About the Speaker
 

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Albert F. Park is Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Director General of its Economic Research and Development Impact Department. He is chief spokesperson on economic and development trends and leads the production of ADB’s flagship knowledge products and support for regional cooperation fora. Mr. Park has more than 2 decades of experience as a development economist. A well-known expert on the economy of the People’s Republic of China, he has directed a number of large-scale research projects in the country. He has also served as an international consultant for the World Bank and a member of the steering committee for the Asia -Pacific Research Universities’ Population Ageing Hub. Mr. Park has worked on a broad range of development issues including poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, microfinance, migration and labor markets, the future of work, and foreign investment. Mr. Park is Chair Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Policy at HKUST (on leave). Previously, he served as a founding director of HKUST’s Institute for Emerging Market Studies, professor at the University of Oxford, and associate professor at the University of Michigan. He has also held editorial positions at a number of leading economic journals. A national of the United States, he received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and his doctorate in applied economics from Stanford University.

This is an invitation-only event. 

Questions? Contact aleen@stanford.edu