CeMEAS Lecture Series China’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism Arthur Mol, Wageningen University Tuesday, 09.05.2017,14:00 – 16:00, T0.136 (Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2)   About the lecturer: Arthur Mol was trained in environmental studies (MSc) and sociology (PhD). Besides chair and professor at Wageningen University he was also professor of environmental policy at …

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers, Market and Agricultural Policy in China Yu Xiaohua, University of Göttingen Tuesday, 30.05.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 3.103 About the lecturer: Chair of Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries, University of Göttingen Research Interests: Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics, and China Economy Picture: kevincure, Rice Farmer, Longsheng, China, , CC …

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers, Market and Agricultural Policy in China Yu Xiaohua, University of Göttingen Tuesday, 30.05.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 3.103 About the lecturer: Chair of Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries, University of Göttingen Research Interests: Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics, and China Economy Picture: kevincure, Rice Farmer, Longsheng, China, , CC …

CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment Victor Shih, University of California San Diego Tuesday, 06.06.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 2.104 Co-organizer: Department for Political Science Abstract: Two important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017, include who will …

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Behind the headlines:  reforming governance from rebuilding China’s fiscal foundations Christine Wong, University of Melbourne Monday, 19.06.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, KWZ 0.602 In 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 …

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development Douglas B. Fuller, Zhejiang University Tuesday, 27.06.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 3.103 China 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 …

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Air Pollution and the Public in China:  Perspectives from Urban and Rural Areas Bryan Tilt, Oregon State University Tuesday, 04.07.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 2.104 Abstract: China’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 …

CeMEAS Lecture: Liberating the "oppressed nations": Chinese communist networks and the Comintern in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe, c. 1920s-1930s Anna Belogurova, CeMIS, Universität Göttingen Tuesday, 11.07.2017, 18:00 - 19:30, VG 1.105 Abstract: In the context of unprecedented circulation of people and ideas in the interwar global moment, Chinese communists built their overseas networks in …