From Poverty Eradication to Common Prosperity, with Bill Bikales
Speaker: Bill Bikales, Principal and Lead Economist, Kunlun Associates Bill is a Harvard-trained economist and Asia specialist and has worked at the most senior level of government in Mongolia on com...
10 Nov 20211h 14min
Pandemics and Politics in Mao's China, with Fang Xiaoping
Speaker: Fang Xiaoping, Assistant Professor of History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During the 1961-1965 period, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coa...
10 Nov 20211h 1min
Evolutionary Governance under Authoritarianism, with Kellee Tsai
Speaker: Kellee Tsai, Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The structural transformation of China over the p...
9 Nov 20211h 14min
How Great is the Risk of War over Taiwan? With Bonnie Glaser
There is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next ...
15 Okt 20211h 16min
What does US Business really want from China? With Jeffrey Lehman
Speaker: Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Law, NYU Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman...
15 Okt 20211h 9min
Economic Sovereignty in Contemporary China, with Pang Laikwan
Speaker: Pang Laikwan, Professor of Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong This paper focuses on the wide popularity of the meme and buzzword jiucai, garlic chives, on China’s internet to ...
15 Okt 20211h 21min
How China Escaped Shock Therapy, with Isabella Weber
Speaker: Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated th...
15 Okt 20211h 24min
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History, with Ruth Mostern
Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh This talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The Yellow River explain...
15 Okt 20211h 32min
