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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture:\nThe 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment\nVictor Shih\, University of California San Diego\nTuesday\, 06.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 2.104\n \nCo-organizer: Department for Political Science \n \nAbstract:\nTwo important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress\, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017\, include who will take over key positions at the top of the party hierarchy and whether Party Secretary General Xi Jinping can dominate the upper echelons of the Communist Party.  Drawing from a quantitative biographical database of over 4000 Chinese political elite\, I first attempt to present some theoretical and machine learning predictions about who will enter the Politburo in the fall of 2017.  Then\, using the same data\, I assess whether Xi Jinping already dominates the Chinese Communist Party\, or whether that is still a goal he needs to achieve in the fall congress.\n\nAbout the lecturer:\nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.”\nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group.\nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.\n  \n  \nImage: neiljs\, Tiananmen Square Beijing\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/5TfkQz \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/5061/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture:\nThe 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment\nVictor Shih\, University of California San Diego\nTuesday\, 06.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 2.104 \nCo-organizer: Department for Political Science \n \nAbstract:\nTwo important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress\, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017\, include who will take over key positions at the top of the party hierarchy and whether Party Secretary General Xi Jinping can dominate the upper echelons of the Communist Party.  Drawing from a quantitative biographical database of over 4000 Chinese political elite\, I first attempt to present some theoretical and machine learning predictions about who will enter the Politburo in the fall of 2017.  Then\, using the same data\, I assess whether Xi Jinping already dominates the Chinese Communist Party\, or whether that is still a goal he needs to achieve in the fall congress.\n\nAbout the lecturer:\nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.”\nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group.\nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.\n  \n  \nImage: neiljs\, Tiananmen Square Beijing\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/5TfkQz \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/5061-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170619T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20170419T141504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170419T141504Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Behind the headlines:  reforming governance from rebuilding China’s fiscal foundations
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series: \nBehind the headlines:  reforming governance from rebuilding China’s fiscal foundations \nChristine Wong\, University of Melbourne\nMonday\, 19.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, KWZ 0.602 \n \nIn the lead up to the 19th Party Congress in November 2017\, the dominant narrative on Xi Jinping’s first term is that his ambitious reform program has stalled\, and that the anti-corruption campaign is just a ruse for power-grab and repression. This lecture argues instead that behind the headlines\, significant progress has been made towards building the foundations for a rule-based system of governance.\nThe analysis starts from reviewing the progress in fiscal reform\, a sector seen as the lynchpin of the ambitious\, comprehensive program announced at the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Party Congress in November 2013. From the outside\, it looks like the early passage of the Budget Law and other legislative changes have brought few concrete results\, and progress is far behind schedule. In fact\, the Budget Law and associated documents have set in motion some fundamental changes that will redraw the boundary between the state and market\, as well as the state and society. These changes are just starting to be implemented\, though\, and progress will unlikely be linear. \nProfile\nChristine Wong is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining Melbourne\, she was Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford\, where she was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She has also held the Henry M. Jackson Professorship in International Studies at the University of Washington\, and taught economics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz; University of California\, Berkeley; and Mount Holyoke College.\nProfessor Wong has also held senior staff positions in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank\, and worked extensively with other international agencies including the IMF\, OECD\, UNDP\, UNICEF\, and the UK Department for International Development. She is a member of the OECD Advisory Panel on Budgeting and Public Expenditures.\nProfessor Wong is a leading authority on China’s public finance. She has published widely on China’s public finance\, intergovernmental fiscal relations and their implications for governance\, economic development and welfare. Her recent research is focused on economic reform under Xi Jinping and the institutional constraints to modernising governance in China. \n  \n  \n  \nPicture: Lyn Gateley\, DSC01599\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/8iF7Ey
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-behind-the-headlines-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170627T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170627T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20170419T142143Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers\, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series:\nPaper Tigers\, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development \nDouglas B. Fuller\, Zhejiang University\nTuesday\, 27.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 3.103 \n \nChina presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system\, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms\, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? \nChina’s domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading\, even while smothering state-favored firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing\, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints\, but they are insufficiently committed to China’s development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China’s technological development. They avoid the maladies of China’s domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China’s domestic technological capabilities. \nIn sad contrast\, China’s domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development. \nThese findings upend fundamental debates about China’s political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions\, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book’s findings suggest that China’s state and domestic market institutions are ineffective\, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China’s institutional terrain impacts technological development\, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater. \nLooking beyond China\, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches. \n  \n  \n  \nPicture: Matt\, Garment factory jiaxing\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/593ruE
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-paper-tigers-hidden-dragons-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170628T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170628T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20170608T122815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170608T122815Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The Powers of Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Lecture:\nThe Powers of Xi Jinping\nProf. Kerry Brown (King’s College London)\nVenue: VG 0.606\nDate: Wednesday\, 28.06.2017\, 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr\nOrganizers: Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department for Political Science\nAbstract:\nThis year will see the 19th Party Congress\, marking a moment of re-evaluation for the Communist Party policy and elite leadership. Under Xi since 2012 there has been what is claimed to have been a concentration of power within his hands. But how can we best understand this power\, and what sense does it make to say that Xi is the new Mao of China? What is his political programme\, and how does it relate to the organisation he is meant to be serving and leading to a sustainable future – the Communist Party of China.’ \nPresenter:\nKerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College\, London. His main interests are in the politics and society of modern China\, in its international relations and its political economy. His monographs include `Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century’ (London\, June 2007 )and `Friends and Enemies: The Past\, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China’ (London\, 2009). \n  \n  \nImage: APEC 2013\,neiljs\,Presiden China Hadiri APEC 2013\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/goJ66F
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-powers-xi-jinping-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170704T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170704T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20170419T142841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170419T142841Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Air Pollution and the Public in China:  Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series: \nAir Pollution and the Public in China:  Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas \nBryan Tilt\, Oregon State University\nTuesday\, 04.07.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 2.104 \n \nAbstract:\nChina’s air pollution crisis has recently attracted a great deal of scientific and media attention both domestically and internationally. While official statistics and government pronouncements have been widely circulated and discussed via social media\, the perceptions and reactions of people who deal with smog on a daily basis remain poorly understood. How do people in urban and rural China perceive the environmental crisis they face? How do they understand and cope with air pollution in the context of their daily lives? How do they balance the relationship between environmental quality and overall quality of life? In this presentation\, I draw upon recent research in one urban area (Tangshan\, Hebei Province) and one rural area (Panzhihua\, Sichuan Province) to address these questions. I discuss the research findings in the context of emerging literature on the rise of environmental consciousness in China\, and consider the implications for the control of air pollution in China today. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPicture: Steve Slep\,DSC01109\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/2s1DTy
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-air-pollution-public-china-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170711T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170711T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20170609T080806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170609T080806Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Liberating the "oppressed nations": Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia\, the Americas\, and Europe\, c. 1920s-1930s
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture:\nLiberating the “oppressed nations”: Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia\, the Americas\, and Europe\, c. 1920s-1930s\nAnna Belogurova\, CeMIS\, Universität Göttingen\nTuesday\, 11.07.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 1.105\n \nAbstract:\nIn the context of unprecedented circulation of people and ideas in the interwar global moment\, Chinese communists built their overseas networks in the old empires and invented new nations. As they were making revolution both in and outside China\, they aspired to liberate the world from imperialism and to save China. Their rationale was rooted both in long held ideas about China’s place in the world\, as well as in new theories of political revolution which had originated outside China.\nDifferent local contexts and transnational actors such as the Comintern\, shaped the interaction of the Chinese networks with local nationalism and local anti-colonial movements. As the result\, the historical roles of the Chinese networks in Americas\, Europe\, and the Southeast Asia were different. \n  \n  \n  \nImage: tiegeltuf\, Netzwerk\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/pN652C
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-liberating-oppressed-nations-chinese-communist-networks-comintern-southeast-asia-americas-europe-c-1920s-1930s-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171101T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171101T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20171019T090419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171107T094941Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect
DESCRIPTION:Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect\nDr. Armin Müller (University of Göttingen)\nWednesday\, 01.11.2017\, 18:00-19:30\, KWZ 0.609\n \nAbstract\nSince 1979\, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC\, the institutional change which has characterized social protection in the reform period\, and an outlook on future developments. Social protection under the planned economy was characterized by a division between urban and rural areas\, decentralization\, and companies functioning as enclosed mini-welfare states. In the course of economic reforms\, urbanization\, marketization and migration have generated substantial frictions with the institutional legacies of planned-economy social protection. The examples of health and pension insurance illustrate the pattern of institutional change that resulted from these frictions: a process of gradual functional integration. This process adapts social protection to marketization through the creation of insurance systems pooling risks between companies and households; it adapts previously separate urban and rural insurance systems to urbanization by integrating them; and it adapts insurance to migration by improving the portability of benefits from the decentralized and formally enclosed local insurance systems. Functional integration is also driving forward a dualization of social protection in China\, with relatively generous benefits for people in regular\, formal employment\, and merely basic protection for the remainder of the population. While we enter the second term of the Xi administration\, China’s social protection system keeps reproducing economic and political inequality rather than counter-balancing it. Current policy initiatives aim at attenuating inequalities related to employment status\, locality\, and the urban-rural divide. However\, the potentially contentious nature of social redistribution raises questions regarding the degree to which these reforms can achieve their envisioned outcomes. \n  \n  \nPicture: Pedro Szekely， Shanghai\, China\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/YkeqME \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-social-policy-in-china-retrospect-and-prospect/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171107T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20171019T095754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171106T101235Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Is Policy Innovation possible under the Xi Jinping Regime?
DESCRIPTION:Is Policy Innovation possible under the Xi Jinping Regime?\nProf. Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta)\nTuesday\, 07.11.2017\, 18:00-19:30\, T0.136\n \nAbstract:\nDespite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability\, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted an empirical reduction in policy innovation at the subnational level\, and question whether local officials will continue to experiment in the foreseeable future.\nThis talk suggests that although these changes at the central-level are filtering down to local officials\, a great deal of variation in policy experimentation exists. Thus\, the puzzle motivating this talk is how do local officials filter these institutional changes to the extent of observed variations in local policy innovation?\nUsing recent fieldwork evidence\, this talk presents three potential explanations: (1) the ineffectiveness of the vertical reward and punishment systems operated by the Party-state; (2) differing base preferences of local officials; and\, (3) the presence of a cohort effect\, viz. a communities of practice. While some officials are still conducting policy experimentation\, the overall reduction in innovation strongly suggests that potential solutions to governance problems remain trapped at the local level\, and that the central government will lose this “adaptable” governance mechanism that has contributed to its past economic and political successes. \n  \nIf you are interested in the paper “Beyond Special Privileges: The Discretionary Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in China’s Welfare System” written by Reza Hasmath and Andrew W. Macdonald\, please write to us to request the paper. \n  \n  \nPicture:Heather\, blue building #2\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\,htps://flic.kr/p/9hJVCA
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-is-policy-innovation-possible-under-the-xi-jinping-regime/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171130T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171130T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20171102T103348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171123T115228Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Urbanization and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China
DESCRIPTION:Urbanization and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China\nProf. Mark Frazier\n (India-China Institute\, The New School)\n Thursday\, 30.11.2017\, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00\, KWZ 0.606 \nAbstract:\nAs numerous commentators have pointed out\, China is the first country in the world to experience an ageing population without first having reached developed country status. China is indeed ‘growing old before it grows rich\,’ but the meanings and significance of this demographic event are not clear. A substantial body of scholarship\, generally public policy-oriented to measure and propose solutions to China’s demographic challenge\, has emerged since the mid-2000s\, with some observers concluding that the ageing burden will impose an insurmountable obstacle to China’s continued economic growth. Many analysts also wonder what population ageing will mean for the fiscal conditions of the Chinese government\, given the demands to be placed on a still fragmented\, and seemingly fragile\, public pension system. Yet\, will be argued in this paper\, the effects of population ageing will in large part depend on questions of citizenship. Inclusion and access to basic social protections—and\, by implication\, exclusion from them—are debated not only in China but also in most high-income countries\, many of which are ageing. In both the former and the latter\, pressures from population ageing would be lessened if those now treated in law and social policy as non-citizens were to be granted access to pension and other social welfare programs (notably\, healthcare) that rely on mandatory contributions from citizens. \n  \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center\, Earth’s City Lights 1994\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/dywxTR
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-urbanization-social-policy-prospects-social-citizenship-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171207T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20171109T114418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171206T093231Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China\nProf. Xiong Yuegen (Peking University)\n Thursday\, 07.12.2017\, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00\, KWZ 0.602 \nAbstract:\nIn the past decades\, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However\, Chinese government has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas\, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to institutional constraints and policy failure. In 2015\, the Party and central government launched a new national campaign entitled the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Programme aiming to eradicate the problem of poverty in rural areas by 2020. In this lecture\, I will mainly discuss the following issues: First\, how does this national campaign on poverty reduction in the new era differ from the previous ones? Second\, what is the main impact of the targeted poverty reduction programme on the farmers’ life and local government? Third\, what are the main limitations of the top-down model of poverty reduction programme in the centralized regime and its implications for the socio-economic development in future in China. Based on the field research conducted in Jiangxi Province\, the author will link the empirical data with theoretical interpretation on the ongoing social changes in the country. \nBio of the Speaker: \nYuegen Xiong is Professor and Director\, The Centre for Social Policy Research (CSPR) in the Department of Sociology at Peking University\, China. He is the author of Needs\, Reciprocity and Shared Function: Policy and Practice of Elderly Care in Urban China ( Shanghai Renmin Press\, 2008 )and Social Policy: Theories and Analytical Approaches ( Renmin University Press\, 2009 ) . He was the British Academy KC Wong Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford during November 2002- September 2003\, the Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK)\, Delmonhorst\, Germany during December 2003- February 2004 and the JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo in October\, 2005\, Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences & Humanities\, Jacobs University Bremen from November\, 2015 to December\, 2015\, Germany. In the past years\, he has published extensively in the field of social policy\, comparative welfare regimes\, social work\, NGOs and civil society. He is the editorial member of Asian Social Work and Policy Review (Wiley)\, Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) and the British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (UK). He was the faculty of 483rd Salzburg Global Seminar on “ Economic Growth and Social Protection in Asia ” held in Austria during 7th-12th November\, 2011. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: Samuel Vigier， Rural China\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/c3ix1b \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-poverty-alleviation-instrument-technical-governance-rural-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Who cares about inequality in China? Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care
DESCRIPTION:Who cares about inequality in China?\nPublic attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care\n  \n  \nProf. Jane Duckett(University of Glasgow)\n Tuesday\, 12.12.2017\, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00\, T0.136 \nWe are very sorry to announce that the lecture is cancelled!  \n  \nAbout the letuerer:\nJane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics\, International Dean (East Asia)\, and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is also Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin\, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. In 2014 she was elected President of the British Association for Chinese Studies. In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. \nProf Duckett’s early research on the Chinese state under market reform included a book-length study\, The Entrepreneurial State in China (Routledge\, 1998). It explained state business activities as the outcome of fiscal and staffing constraints on officials in an institutional context of poorly defined property rights. Jane also (with colleague Bill Miller) made a comparative study of public attitudes to openness in East Asia and Eastern Europe\, published as The Open Economy and its Enemies (CUP\, 2006). Her current research is concerned with the politics of China’s social policy making and implementation. She argues through studies across a range of social policies (on local social welfare financing\, health insurance\, poverty and unemployment)\, that the politics behind them and their enormous redistributive consequences make them central to the Chinese state’s marketising project. Her monograph\, The Chinese State’s Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment (Routledge\, hdbk 2011; pbk 2013) draws on comparative political theory to explain the Chinese state’s retrenchment in health care provision. She has also co-edited (with Beatriz Carrillo)\, China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (Routledge\, 2011)\, a book that takes a local perspective on China’s evolving social welfare provision. She has recently published papers in Health Policy and Planning and Health Expectations that draw on a project to survey Chinese public opinion on health care. \n(Information from The University of Glasgow\, School of Social & Political Sciences) \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: ReSurge International， doctor checking in patient，CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/3nrMwy
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-who-cares-about-inequality-in-china/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180123T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders: The Openness and Closedness of the Chinese Social Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders:\nThe Openness and Closedness of the Chinese Social Policy\n\n  \nProf. Liu Tao\n (University of Duisburg-Essen)\n Tuesday\, 23.01.2018\, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00\, T0.136 \nAbstract:\nThe functional operation of conventional Chinese welfare regime was closely linked to institutionally created forms of discrepancies and borders entrenching the status differences between different social classes as well as among welfare clients from different social spaces (e.g. rural or urban areas). Since the Millennium an unprecedented and fast expanding social policy in the Chinese history has softened the welfare boundaries of classes\, regions and functionally segregated welfare spaces substantially even the welfare class ‘borders’ won’t entirely disappear in the short term. A conceptual notion of ‘incomplete universalism’ contributes to outlining the main trends of social policy development in contemporary China: on the one hand\, residents from different origins are increasingly considered as national social citizens; on the other hand\, the notion of a national social citizenship and its concrete implementation are heavily constrained by the uneven institutional welfare arrangements created in the past. \n  \n  \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: Matthias Ripp\, The colors of the street\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/TjfNZv \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-welfare-regime-within-beyond-borders-openness-closedness-chinese-social-policy/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180424T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180612T170000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20180131T093951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190301T145003Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series 2018: What Makes a Superpower? New Perspectives on China's Rise
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series Summer Term 2018:\nChina in a Global World\nConveners: Sarah Eaton & Katja Pessl\n  \nTitle: What Makes a Superpower? New Perspectives on China’s Rise\n\nTime & Place: 18:00-20:00\, VG 3.103\nLiu Kang (Duke University)\nTuesday\, April 24\nChinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda \nIain Johnston (Harvard University)\nTuesday\, May 15\nChina and International Order: What Order? Which Order?  \nQin Yaqing (China Foreign Affairs University)\nTuesday\, May 29\nChinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策) \nTodd Hall (Oxford University)\nTuesday\, 5 June\nThe Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin? \nSaori Katada (University of Southern California)\nTuesday\, 12 June\nThe BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft \n  \nPrimary Organizer: CeMEAS\nCo-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Global and Transregional Studies Platform\nSponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang)\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, CeMEAS \n  \n  \nDesign: CeMEAS \nImage: VR_Man\, CommScope\, 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/V6mWt7
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/upcoming-lecture-series/
LOCATION:KWZ\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180424T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series 2018: Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series 2018:\nChinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda\nLiu Kang (Duke University)\nTuesday\, April 24\, 6pm (c.t.)\, VG 3.103 \nAbstract: \nThis lecture explores the emergent Chinese exceptionalism in order to search for a possible research agenda from interdisciplinary approaches. It will focus on modern times from Mao to the present\, especially the ideological formations of Sinicization of Marxism (Chinese Marxism or Mao Zedong Thought)\,and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” (from Deng to Xi). To begin the research\, we need to address 1) Chinese exceptionalism under the rubrics of international politics; 2) Chinese exceptionalism as an ideology\, or value system; 3) cultural and historical roots of Chinese exceptionalism\, and 4) implications for Xi Jinping’s global strategy. \nShort bio: \nLiu Kang is Professor of Chinese Studies\, and Director of Duke Program of Research on China at Duke University. Professor Liu is Elected Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) since 2015. He is the author of twelve books\, and written widely in scholarly journals in both English and Chinese. In addition\, He frequently contributes in the forms of op-eds\, interviews\, reviews\, to American and Chinese print media and the internet media\, on issues ranging from contemporary Chinese media and culture\, globalization\, to Marxism and aesthetics. \n  \nPrimary Organizer: CeMEAS\nCo-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Global and Transregional Studies Platform\nSponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang)\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, CeMEAS \n  \nImage: theo phontes\, Opening in Great Wall\, CC BY-SA 2.0.\, https://flic.kr/p/bBDWRT
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-2018-chinese-exceptionalism-research-agenda/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180515T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series 2018: China and International Order: What Order? Which Order?
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series 2018:\nChina and International Order: What Order? Which Order?\nAlastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University)\n Tuesday\, May 15\, 6pm (c.t.)\, VG 3.103 \nAbstract:\nThe discourse about China’s challenge to the liberal world order assumes that such an order exists. This talk argues that there are instead multiple orders in different arenas (military\, trade\, finance\, information\, environment\, among others)\, and that there are tensions within and between these orders. China supports some of these orders\, wants to reform others\, and opposes elements of others. We need new and more sophisticated ways of measuring order and describing the relationship of states to these orders. \nShort Bio:\nAlastair Iain Johnston (PhD University of Michigan\, 1993) is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on socialization theory\, identity and political behavior\, and strategic culture\, mostly with application to the study of East Asian international relations and Chinese foreign policy. Johnston is the author of Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton 1995) and Social States: China in International Institutions\, 1980-2000 (Princeton University Press\, 2008)\, and is co-editor of Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (Routledge 1999)\, New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy (Stanford 2006)\, Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007)\, Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists (Cambridge 2009)\, and Perception and Misperception in American and Chinese Views of the Other (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2015). \nInformation from Harvard University. \nPrimary Organizer: CeMEAS\nCo-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Global and Transregional Studies Platform\nSponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang)\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, CeMEAS \n  \nDesign & Poster: CeMEAS\nImage: U.S. Pacific Fleet\, 170305-N-BL637-053\, CC BY-SA 2.0.\,https://flic.kr/p/Rv9DKa
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-2018-china-international-order-order-order/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180529T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series 2018: Chinese culture and foreign policy decision
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series 2018:\nChinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策)\nQin Yaqing 秦亚青(China Foreign Affairs University)\n Tuesday\, May 29\, 6pm (c.t.)\, VG 3.103 \n  \nShort Bio of the lecturer:\nQIN Yaqing is President and Professor of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy\, Executive Vice-president of China National Association for International Studies (CNAIS) and editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs Review\, the academic journal of CFAU and CNAIS. He was on the resource team for the UN High Panel for Challenges\, Threats and Changes (2003-04) and worked as Special Assistant to the Chinese Eminent Person\, China-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group (2005). \nQin’s main academic interest is International Relations (IR) theory and has recently focused on the exploration of Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions for developing IR theory. He has also done research on global and regional governance and China’s foreign policy. As a leading scholar and professor in the field of international relations in China\, Qin has published extensively\, including Hegemonic System and International Conflicts; Power\, Institutions and Culture; Relations and Process\, etc. \nInformation from PRIO \n  \nPrimary Organizer: CeMEAS\nCo-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Global and Transregional Studies Platform\nSponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang)\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, CeMEAS \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-2018-chinese-culture-foreign-policy-decision/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180605T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180605T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series 2018: The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series 2018:\nThe Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?\nTodd Hall (Oxford University)\n Tuesday\, June 5\, 6pm (c.t.)\, Waldweg 9.102\n \n\nShort Bio of the lecturer:\nProf Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard\, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin\, Tsinghua University in Beijing\, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford\, Prof Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013). Research interests extend to the areas of international relations theory; the intersection of emotion\, affect\, and foreign policy; and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include articles in Asian Security\, International Organization\, International Security\, International Studies Quarterly\, International Studies Review\, Political Science Quarterly\, and Security Studies. Prof Hall has also published a book with Cornell University Press\, titled Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage\, which was recently named co-recipient of the International Studies Association’s 2016 Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award.\nProf Hall’s research fields include:\nTheorizing the role of emotions and affect in international politics.\nThe international relations of East Asia\, with a specific focus on the foreign policy of China. \nInformation from Oxford University \n  \nPrimary Organizer: CeMEAS\nCo-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Global and Transregional Studies Platform\nSponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang)\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, CeMEAS \n  \nDesign & Poster: CeMEAS\n Image: Location of Senkaku Islands. Blue : Uotsuri-shima (魚釣島) / Diaoyu Dao (釣魚島) Yellow : Kuba-shima (久場島) / Huangwei Yu (黃尾嶼) Red : Taishō-tō (大正島) / Chiwei Yu (赤尾嶼).\nWikimedia Commons\, Senkaku Diaoyu Tiaoyu Islands.png\, CC BY-SA 3.0.\n \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-2018-senkaku-islands-dispute-macgruffin/
LOCATION:waldweg\, waldweg 26\, Gӧttingen\, 37073
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180612T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series 2018: The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series 2018:\nThe BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft\n  \nSaori Katada (University of Southern California)\n Tuesday\, June 12\, 6pm (c.t.)\, VG 3.103 \nAbstract:\nIn the first decade of the 21st century\, five rising powers (Brazil\, Russia\, India\, China\, and South Africa) formed an exclusive and informal international club\, the BRICS.  Although neither revolutionaries nor extreme revisionists\, the BRICS perceive an ongoing global power shift and contest the West’s pretensions to permanent stewardship of the existing economic order. Together they have exercised collective financial statecraft\, employing their expanding financial and monetary capabilities for the purpose of achieving larger foreign policy goals. This volume examines the forms and strategies of such collective financial statecraft\, and the motivations of each individual government for collaborating through the BRICS club. Their cooperative financial statecraft takes various forms\, ranging from pressure for “inside reforms” of either multilateral institutions or global markets\, to “outside options” exercised through creating new multilateral institutions or jointly pushing for new realities in international financial markets. To the surprise of many observers\, the joint actions of the BRICS are largely successful.  Although each member has its unique rationale for collaboration\, the largest member\, China\, controls resources that permit it the greatest influence in intra-club decision-making. The BRICS cooperate due to both common aversions (for example\, resentment over being perennial junior partners in global economic and financial governance and resistance to infringements on their autonomy due to U.S. dollar dominance and financial power) and common interests (such as obtaining greater voice in international institutions\, as the IMF). The group seeks reforms\, influence\, and enhanced leadership roles within the liberal capitalist global system. Where blocked\, they experiment with parallel multilateral institutions in which they are the dominant rule-makers. The future of the BRICS depends not only on their bargaining power and adjustment to market players\, but also on their ability to overcome domestic impediments to sustainable economic growth\, the basis for their international influence. \n  \n  \nPrimary Organizer: CeMEAS\nCo-Hosts: Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Global and Transregional Studies Platform\nSponsors: Academic Confucius Institute (Qin Yaqing & Liu Kang)\, Department of East Asian Studies\, Department of Political Science\, CeMEAS \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-2018-brics-collective-financial-statecraft/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190506T180000
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Transforming China’s Agriculture and Food Sector – On path to sustainability?
DESCRIPTION:China’s Green Transformation – CeMEAS Lecture Series:\nTransforming China’s Agriculture and Food Sector – On path to sustainability?\n  \nEva Sternfeld (Sino-German Agricultural Centre)\nTime: Monday\, 06.05.2019\, 4pm (c.t.) – 6 pm\nVenue: KWZ 0.603\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\n \n  \nAbstract: \nChina needs to feed about one fifth of the world population but has only 7 percent of world’s arable land. Ensuring food security has been always a challenge and agricultural intensification has been the program for decades. Since the 1970s technological developments such as mechanization\, biotechnology and agrochemicals helped to achieve enormous increases in agricultural productivity. \nHowever\, the so called “green revolution” is reaching its limits. In recent years the sector has been in the spot light for food safety scandals and ecosystem degradation. China’s government tries tackle these problems with a series of new policies and action plans. The presentation looks at the challenges China’s agricultural and food sector is confronted with and introduces recent strategies for sustainable agriculture. \nShort CV: \nEva Sternfeld is science advisor at Sino-German agricultural Center (DCZ) in Beijing\, a joint initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA).\nPrior to working with DCZ\, Eva Sternfeld was a visiting professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and head of the Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China of TU Berlin. Between 2000 and 2008 she has been working as a foreign advisor for the Center of Environmental Education and Communication of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection in Beijing. She has widely published on issues related to urban/rural development and water management in China. Recent publications include the edition of the Routledge Handbook on Environmental Policy in China (2017). \n  \nCeMEAS Lecture Series 2019: China’s Green Transformation\nOrganizer: CeMEAS\nSponsor: Akademischen Konfuzius-Instituts Göttingen\nPartner: Alter Botanischer Garten der Universität Göttingen\n \n  \nImage: Eric\, Train journey from Guiyang to Zhenyuan 37\, CC BY-SA 2.0.\, https://flic.kr/p/bq2CNn
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-transforming-chinas-agriculture-and-food-sector-on-path-to-sustainability/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190514T200000
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Defining a Green APP: Civic Tech\, Digital Activism and Visions of Public Participation
DESCRIPTION:China’s Green Transformation – CeMEAS Lecture Series:\nDefining a Green APP: Civic Tech\, Digital Activism and Visions of Public Participation\n  \n  \n  \nLi Hongtao 李红涛 (Zhegjiang University)\nTime: Tuesday\, 14.05.2019\, 6 pm-8 pm\nVenue: VG 3.104\, University of Göttingen \nAbstract  \nWith smog now constituting part of the daily health threats for Chinese people\, many pollution tracking APPs have come into the market to meet the demand for smog related information. Taking one particular APP- “BlueSky Map”\, which is originally known as Pollution Map\, as the focal case\, this talk will explore how grassroots activists define\, legitimize and employ such APPs as useful tools\, which enable the general public to get informed\, make their voices heard\, and take necessary actions. The empirical analysis will focus on how environmental APPs empower Chinese public\, how do citizens\, NGOs\, government and polluters interact on the interface\, and what is the effect and implication of such participation for China’s environmental governance. \nShort CV \nDr. Hongtao Li (李红涛) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication and a Distinguished Young Scholar at Zhejiang University. He also serves as an Associate Professor (20%) in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at University of Oslo. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from City University of Hong Kong in February 2010. Before joining Zhejiang University in May 2010\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and later a visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Communication Research at City U of Hong Kong. His research interests include air pollution and environmental politics\, global communication\, sociology of news\, media and cultural memory. He has published a book on the mediated memory of Nanjing Massacre (Renmin University Press\, 2017) and his work appears regularly on major English and Chinese journals\, including The China Quarterly\, Communication and the Public\, Media\, Culture & Society\, International Journal of Press/Politics\, Asian Journal of Communication\, Chinese Journal of Communication\, and Communication & Society (in Chinese)\, etc.\n(Source: Personal Homepage\, Zhejiang University) \n  \n  \n  \nCeMEAS Lecture Series 2019: China’s Green Transformation\nOrganizer: CeMEAS\nSponsor: Akademischen Konfuzius-Instituts Göttingen\nPartner: Alter Botanischer Garten der Universität Göttingen \n  \nImage: CC BY-SA 2.0.\, michael davis-burchat\, mobile moment of worship\, https://flic.kr/p/cacewm
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-defining-a-green-app-digital-activism-and-visions-of-public-participation/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190522T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190522T180000
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CREATED:20190430T082443Z
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SUMMARY:Sonderführung: China - Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
DESCRIPTION:China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte\nSonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen\n  \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Schwerdtfeger (Universität Göttingen)\n\n\n\nMittwoch\, 22.05.2019\, 17:00 – ca.18:00\, Alter Botanischer Garten\, Untere Karspüle 2\, 37073 Göttingen\n\n\n\n \n\nAls im Jahr 1737 der Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen angelegt wurde\, war China noch „unerreichbar“ weit weg\, und die meisten Europäer hatten von Natur und Kultur Chinas nur vage und abenteuerliche Vorstellungen. In der Folge fanden durch Naturforscher\, Abenteurer\, Gärtner\, Missionare und Handelsreisende mehr und mehr Pflanzenarten aus dem Reich der Mitte in unsere Gärten. Unser Gartenrundgang stellt bekannte und außergewöhnliche pflanzliche Gäste und Botschafter aus diesem großen und vielfältigen Land vor. \n  \nDie Führungen werden von Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten.  Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de \n  \nDie Führungen sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig. \n  \n\n\nImage: michael_china China_2014_Beijing_YuanMingYuan_Lotus_140712_7455 + (Copy) https://flic.kr/p/o32zQo\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/flora-of-china-guided-tour-through-the-old-botanical-garden/
LOCATION: Alter Botanischer Garten\, Untere Karspüle 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190528T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190528T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20190507T092453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190516T090358Z
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SUMMARY:Film screening: Under the Dome 穹顶之下
DESCRIPTION:Film screening: \nUnder the Dome:Air pollution in China\n柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 同呼吸 共命运\n  \n  \nLecturer: Katja Pessl (University of Göttingen)\nTuesday\, 28.05.2019\, 6pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, VG 3.104\, Göttingen \n  \nIntroduction: \nUnder the Dome  is a 2015 self-financed\, Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing\, a former China Central Television journalist\, concerning air pollution in China.\nChai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb\, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film\, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits\, has been compared with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies\, steel producers and coal factories\, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters. \n《穹顶之下》是由媒体人柴静于2015年2月底推出关于中国空气污染的一部调查片，由柴静作为主讲人对现状进行介绍，并插入采访拍摄的片段，呼吁人们关注中国的空气污染问题。\n主讲人柴静从2013年冬季，中国大陆东北以及华北地区的大面积雾霾说起，讨论中国大陆的空气污染、相关治理以及存在的行政不作为情况。亦提及了洛杉矶（曾经发生的光化学烟雾事件）和伦敦（曾发生伦敦烟雾事件）及两地现状。人民网版本将影片分作八节，介绍雾霾定义、危害及成因和我们怎么办、提出了公民能做的七点环保措施。 \nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(film) \n  \n  \n  \nHosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen. \n  \nImage: public poster\, https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/穹顶之下_(纪录片)
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/film-screening-under-the-dome/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190618T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190618T180000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20190307T094830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190617T120357Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Greening for urban wellbeing: A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China
DESCRIPTION:Lecture:\nGreening for urban wellbeing: A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China\n  \n  \nProf. Dr. Martin Welp (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development)\nTime: Tuesday\, 18.06.2019\, 4 pm-6 pm\nVenue: VG 4.103\, University of Göttingen \nAbstract \nChina has made remarkable achievements in increasing forest and vegetation cover in large parts of the country. The Three-North Shelter Forest Program (also known as the great green wall) is one the famous national initiatives to hold back desertification. On the local level\, the city of Aksu\, located at the fringe of the Taklimakan desert in NW China\, started already in the 1980s preparing and planting the so called Kökyar protection forest. It is an ecological engineering project with the intent of protecting the city from frequent dust and sand storms. The forest is well-known in China\, has been awarded by the UN and is highlighted as an achievement of the so called “Kökyar-spirit”. We examined the shelterbelt from a broader perspective\, embedding Kökyar to the wider context of social and environmental problems in South Xinjiang. Results affirm the economic sustainability of the shelterbelt\, but see a mixed record for the social sphere as well as negative trade-offs when looking at the ecological dimensions — especially due high water consumption of the protection forest (a combination of poplar shelterbelts and orchards) and its impacts down-stream. There is a trade-off between artificial shelterbelt plantations for urban ecosystem services on the one hand side\, and natural riparian forests and their biodiversity on the other hand side. In such agroforestry schemes systemic interactions need to be considered and locally adapted species favored. \nShort CV \nMartin Welp holds a professorship in Socioeconomics and Communication at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Faculty of Forest and Environment). He is head of the International Master Study Programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.). He earned his Doctoral degree at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany and his Master’s degree in Forestry at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Before his current position he worked as senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)\, Department Global Change and Social Systems. He is engaged in stakeholder dialogues in science-policy-platforms as well as in management\, researching positions and agreements among actors\, dialogue methods and the theoretical framing of such dialogues. Research projects have focused on global (environmental) change with special attention to socio-economic dimensions and human well-being. Past projects include among others SuMaRiO – Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River / China funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The full list of projects and publications in the field of climate mitigation and adaptation as well natural resources management (integrated coastal zone management\, integrated river basin management\, forest management\, and arid land management can be found at URL:  www.hnee.de/welp. \n  \n  \nHosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen.\n \n  \nImage: CC BY-SA 2.0.\, Louis Dallara\, Dead Cedar Trees\, https://flic.kr/p/4Xh7cn
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-greening-for-urban-wellbeing-a-sustainability-assessment-of-the-kokyar-protection-forest-in-nw-china/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190708T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190708T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20190416T101521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T101347Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Governance of Green Space: Management Structure\, Planning and Policies in China
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: \nGovernance of Green Space: Management Structure\, Planning and Policies in China\n  \n  \n  \nWu Jian (Renmin University of China) \nTime: Monday\, July 8\, 6 pm (c.t.)–8 pm\nVenue: VG 3.108\, 37073 Göttingen \nAbstract \nThis lecture will introduce the theoretical basis and national strategy of China’s green space governance\, describe the achievements and problems regarding the construction of China’s ecological space pattern\, and share the recent progress in management structure reform\, spatial planning and major policy practices toward an effective green space governance to promote the ecological civilization. \n  \nHosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen \n  \nPicture: Green Isolated Trees inside Sai Wan Estate © Shutterstocck
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-governance-of-green-space-management-structure-planning-and-policies-in-china/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190709T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190709T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20190416T101847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190704T103800Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Managing Municipal Solid Waste in China: A Community-based Decentralized Approach
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: \nManaging Municipal Solid Waste in China: A Community-based Decentralized Approach \n\nZhang Xuehua (Nanjing University)  Time: Tuesday\, July 9\, 12 am (c.t.) – 2 pm  Venue: VG 1.104\, 37073 Göttingen \nHosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen \nImage: Peter Parkes\, Other waste / Recyclable\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/9CeNr7
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-managing-municipal-solid-waste-in-china-a-community-based-decentralized-approach/
LOCATION:VG\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190710T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190710T180000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20190430T103322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190704T104023Z
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SUMMARY:Sonderführung: China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
DESCRIPTION:China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte\nSonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen\n  \n\nDr. Michael Schwerdtfeger (Universität Göttingen)\n\n\n\nMittwoch\, 10.07.2019\, 17:00 – ca. 18:00\, Alter Botanischer Garten\, Untere Karspüle 2\, 37073 Göttingen\n\nAls im Jahr 1737 der Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen angelegt wurde\, war China noch „unerreichbar“ weit weg\, und die meisten Europäer hatten von Natur und Kultur Chinas nur vage und abenteuerliche Vorstellungen. In der Folge fanden durch Naturforscher\, Abenteurer\, Gärtner\, Missionare und Handelsreisende mehr und mehr Pflanzenarten aus dem Reich der Mitte in unsere Gärten. Unser Gartenrundgang stellt bekannte und außergewöhnliche pflanzliche Gäste und Botschafter aus diesem großen und vielfältigen Land vor. \n  \nDie Führungen werden von Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten.  Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de \n  \nDie Führungen sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig. \n  \nFoto: michael_china China_2014_Beijing_YuanMingYuan_Lotus_140712_7455 + (Copy) https://flic.kr/p/o32zQo\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/sonderfuhrung-china-pflanzen-aus-dem-reich-der-mitte-2/
LOCATION: Alter Botanischer Garten\, Untere Karspüle 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210114T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210114T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20210104T083435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T145101Z
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese Communist Party’s International Networks\nJulia Bader (University of Amsterdam)\nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, January 14\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98494002315 \n  \nAbstract: Under President Xi Jinping China has become a more assertive force of transformation. It is more openly promoting its vision of global order and more aggressively trying to popularize the Chinese political model. Instruments outside of traditional state-to-state diplomacy play a key role in this endeavor. The lecture focuses on the role of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP-ID). Building on an intense travel diplomacy\, the CCP-ID maintains a widely stretched network to political elites across the globe. The CCP-ID’s engagement is not new; but since Xi Jinping took office\, it has bolstered its efforts to reach out to other parties. Yet\, little is known about the CCP-ID’s role in China’s foreign relations: Who are the CCP-ID’s partners? And what are the CCP-ID’s networking efforts about? \nThe lecture tries to find answers to these questions. It provides insights into the patterns of the CCP-ID’s external relations since the early 2000s and discusses the underlying motives. Party relations not only serve as an additional channel to advance China’s foreign policy interests. Since President Xi has come to power\, party relations also emerged as a key instrument to promote China’s vision for reforming the global order. Moreover\, China increasingly uses the party channel as a vehicle of authoritarian learning by sharing experiences of its economic modernization and authoritarian one-party regime. The CCP-ID may well be an instrument of global political transformation. \nJulia Bader\nJulia Bader is Assistant Professor for International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She joined the Department of Political Science and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research in July 2012. Before joining UvA\, Julia Bader worked as a research fellow at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn (Germany) for five years. Julia Bader holds a MA in Politics and Management from Konstanz University and a PhD in Political Science from Heidelberg University. \n\n\nJulia’s work focuses on China´s foreign relations; regime transition and autocratic stability\, international relations and foreign policy\, development assistance and human rights. She is a member of the International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes – IDCAR-Network and an external partner of the project Undermining Hegemony. The US\, China\, Russia\, and International Public Goods.\nSource: https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/a/j.bader2/j.bader2.html \n\n\n  \nThis lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \n  \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-the-chinese-communist-partys-international-networks/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210128T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20210104T083911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T110853Z
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: China’s Overseas Lending
DESCRIPTION:China’s Overseas Lending\nSebastian Horn (IfW Kiel)\nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, January 28\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92000859579 \n  \nAbstract: Compared with China’s pre-eminent status in world trade\, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper studies the size\, characteristics\, and determinants of China’s capital exports building a new database of 5000 loans and grants to 152 countries\, 1949-2017. We find that 50% of China’s lending to developing countries is not reported to the IMF or World Bank. These “hidden debts” distort policy surveillance\, risk pricing\, and debt sustainability analyses. Since China’s overseas lending is almost entirely official (state-controlled)\, the standard “push” and “pull” drivers of private cross-border flows do not apply in the same way. \n  \nThe lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-chinas-overseas-lending/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210211T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210211T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T233139
CREATED:20210104T084224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T152144Z
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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: Gaining Ground\, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
DESCRIPTION:Gaining Ground\, Gaining Influence? Vote Shares and Power in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)\nSoo Yeon Kim (National University of Singapore) \nThis lecture is part of our new lecture series China’s Economic Rise – Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond \nThursday\, February 11\, 2021\, 1:00-2:00pm CET \nZOOM Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92410917518 \n  \nAbstract: Why do countries join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and what do countries that have joined gain from membership? This paper examines the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB relative to that of existing international financial institutions (IFIs). Our analysis of the distribution of vote shares across the AIIB\, the World Bank\, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)\, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports the hypotheses: countries with lower vote shares in the existing IFIs are more likely to join the AIIB and member states have higher vote shares in the AIIB than in each of the other IFIs. The results of the OLS regressions suggest that the size of vote shares in existing IFIs is a strong deter-minant of countries’ decision to accede to the AIIB and that the distribution in vote shares in the AIIB are strongly correlated with the distribution of vote shares in these other IFIs. Countries systematically gain more vote shares in the AIIB than in the other IFIs and this gain in vote shares in the AIIB is most pronounced vis-a-vis the IMF\, followed by the World Bank and the ADB. Developing countries also experience higher gains in vote shares than developed countries. The results also present no evidence that the distribution of vote shares in the AIIB privilege countries with greater political or economic proximity to China\, which challenges the dominant explanation that the AIIB serves as an instrument that reflects or furthers Chinese interests. This paper contributes to the scholarship on the implications of international institutions created by rising powers on global governance\, as well as whether Chinese-led international institutions conform to or deviate from existing rules and norms of international institutions. \nSoo Yeon Kim joined the Department of Political Science in July 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Yonsei University. Professor Kim’s research and teaching areas are International Political Economy\, International Political Economy of Asia\, and Research Methods\, with a specialization in trade politics. She is the author of Power and the Governance of Global Trade (2011\, Series in Political Economy\, Cornell University Press). Her current research focuses on free trade agreements in Asia and on rising powers in the global economy.\nSource: https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/polsk/ \nThe lecture series is co-organized and co-sponsored by Göttingen’s Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as well the Kiel Institute China Initiative. \nPicture: iStock.com/Maxiphoto
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/online-lecture-gaining-ground-gaining-influence-vote-shares-and-power-in-the-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-aiib/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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