Greetings!
This winter quarter has been an unusually busy season for the 21st Century China Center as we mobilized our expertise to help policymakers and the public make sense of the fast-breaking developments in China and Sino-U.S. relations.
In February, we convened a first-of-its-kind workshop in Washington, D.C. that brought together China experts, policy analysts and current regulators from the U.S., Canada, EU and Japan to examine new approaches to reviewing and regulating China’s outbound investment, especially in high-tech industries. Our report will be released this summer.
Another quarter of exciting China programming awaits us in the spring. As part of our ongoing effort to illuminate the high-tech dimension of U.S.-China economic relations, our own leading China economist Barry Naughton will join with computer science professor Henrik Christensen to discuss China’s industrial policy and its pursuit of frontier technology.
We are also busy preparing for a series of international conferences, including a research workshop on contemporary Chinese history at UC San Diego, a political economy conference in Beijing and a young scholars’ conference as part of the 2018 Shanghai Forum organized by the Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China.
Our new China Data Lab website will also go live during the spring quarter. This site will feature research projects by our scholars, data visualization and an extensive searchable list of China-related databases. Stay tuned for a special announcement.
Our scholars are
publishing new research and reaching new heights. Congratulations are due to three next-generation China scholars, our Ph.D. students, who will soon start their own academic careers. Deborah Seligsohn will be an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, Jason Wu will be an assistant professor of political science at Indiana University -Bloomington and Jack Jiakun Zhang will be the Niehaus postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Globalization and Governance. We are proud of Deborah, Jack and Jason and look forward to seeing their contributions to China research and policy.
To stay up to date on our upcoming
events, visit our website and follow us on
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Twitter and WeChat (ID: Fudan-UC-21CC). And be sure to tune in to our podcast,
China 21.
Warmest regards,
Susan Shirk, Chair, 21st Century China Center; and
Lei Guang, Director, 21st Century China Center
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Susan Shirk speaks at a Council on Foreign Relations panel about the ramifications of the return to personalistic rule under Xi Jinping. In May, Shirk will address the Committee of 100 at its 2018 annual meeting.
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21st Century China Center welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Johnson for its sixth annual Robert F. Ellsworth Memorial Lecture.
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"Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future"
Xi Jinping has worked on crafting a unified national ideology, but so far not yielded the desired result: a broad-based societal consensus on China’s future course. Research by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) shows differing views within Chinese society on China’s developmental model and its global role.
"China’s Pursuit of Next Frontier Technology"
Technological competition between the U.S. and China is heating up. The “Made in China 2025” plan will continue to enlarge China’s industrial robotics market, and China also aims to surpass America’s lead in artificial intelligence research. Henrik Christensen, director of the UC San Diego Institute of Contextual Robotics, explains how China is investing in these cutting-edge sectors. Barry Naughton, Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at GPS, discusses these trends in the context of China’s industrial policies and economic reforms in the Xi Jinping era.
"China's Crisis of Success"
In China's rise to superpower status, William Overholt, senior fellow at Harvard University, argues that continued success requires the reinvention of its economy and politics. Overholt shows in his new book that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth and explores critical social issues of economic transition, notably inequality, corruption, environmental degradation and globalization.
"How Chinese Judges Think"
Drawing from original fieldwork and interviews, this talk by UC San Diego Professor Kwai Ng offers a look at the decision-making process of judges in China. Do Chinese judges follow the law and the law only? What other factors influence the judges?
"Chinese Reformers, Western Economists and the Making of Global China"
Julian Gewirtz, a Rhodes Scholar and doctorate candidate in history at the University of Oxford, will describe how Chinese officials and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance during the transformational decade of the 1980s. This presentation is based on his book "Unlikely Partners."
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Profiles of China Scholars
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Kwai Ng, associate professor of sociology at UC San Diego, recently published
"Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision-Making in China," co-authored with Xin He. This new study will revise our understanding of the role of law in China – one that cannot be easily understood through the standard lens of judicial independence and separation of powers. Ng and his co-author make clear the struggle facing frontline judges as they bridge the gap between a rule-based application of law and an instrumentalist view that prioritizes stability maintenance.
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Henrik Christensen is the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair of Robot Systems and a professor of computer science at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also the director of the Institute for Contextual Robotics. Christensen does research on systems integration, human-robot interaction, mapping and robot vision. In 2017, he testified for the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission on China’s robotics and artificial intelligence sectors.
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William Overholt is a senior fellow at Harvard University. He recently served concurrently as president of Fung Global Institute in Hong Kong. He is the author of eight books, most notably "China’s Crisis of Success" (2018); "Renminbi Rising" (2016); "Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics" (2008); and "The Rise of China" (1993). Previously he was Asia Policy Distinguished Chair and director of the Center for Asia Pacific Policy at RAND Corp. (2002-2008).
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Julian Gewirtz is a fellow in History and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Rhodes Scholar and doctorate candidate in history at the University of Oxford. He is the author of "Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China" (2017). Previously he worked as special advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as at American and Chinese technology companies. His writing on Asia has appeared in numerous publications.
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China Focus is an online magazine dedicated to providing depth and context for understanding China and U.S.-China relations. It is run by GPS students with the support of the center.
This interdisciplinary workshop series features new academic research by UC San Diego scholars and visiting researchers. Lunch is provided to registered attendees.
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