Six Princeton seniors awarded Schwarzman Scholarships for study in Beijing
Jan. 24, 2017

Princeton seniors Jacob Cannon, Preston Lim, Samuel Maron, Emery Real Bird, Molly Reiner and Kevin Wong have been named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. 

For its second class, 129 scholars were selected…

A New Publication by Enze Han and Christopher Paik on Ethnic Politics and Economic Development in China
Jan. 17, 2017
Highlights •  Ethnic concentration negatively correlates with development in Western China. •  Counties in non-autonomous provinces have a positive and systematic correlation. •  Need to probe specific economic development and political control logics in China. Summary

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Yi Huang Lecture on Public Debt and Private Investment in China on February 6
Jan. 10, 2017

On February 6, Professor Yi Huang will give a talk on Public debt and private investment in China at 3:30 pm.

High levels of public debt are correlated with lower economic growth across countries, but questions remain about whether this relationship is causal. Using Chinese data, this column explores whether increasing public debt…

China Up Close: A Global Seminar Immerses Students in a Changing Society
Jan. 3, 2017

Recently, Princeton University's Office of Development interviewed students from the 2016 Global Seminar in China.  15 Princeton undergraduates, on a six-week Global Seminar, explored contemporary Chinese society, including its burgeoning diversity, rapid change, growing rural-urban divide, and increasing wealth and social disparities. …

Orient Express: Chinese Infrastructure Engagement in Africa
Oct. 6, 2016

The 3rd Annual China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI) Conference will be held in two weeks, on October 13 & 14, 2016 at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC. This year’s theme is “Orient Express: Chinese Infrastructure Engagement in Africa,” and we are pleased to have Dr. Jamie…

How Provinces Influence Chinese Foreign Security Policy
Oct. 6, 2016

On Nov. 21, 4:30 pm, Audrye Wong of the Politics Department of Princeton University will give a talk entitled More than Peripheral: How Provinces Influence Chinese Foreign Security Policy.  

Most analyses of Chinese foreign and security policies treat China as a unitary actor, assuming a cohesive grand strategy articulated by Beijing…

Erie's Talk on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Effect Upon China
Oct. 6, 2016

On September 27, Matthew Erie of the University of Oxford gave a talk on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and its effect upon China.  He first summarized the key points about the FCPA and that China has adopted its own FCPA.  His research shows that FCPA became a major practice area for law firms in China after the financial crisis of 2008. …

Matthew Erie to Give Talk on Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China
Sept. 13, 2016

On September 27, 4:30 pm, in 219 Aaron Burr Hall, Matthew Erie from the University of Oxford will give a talk entitled "(Self-)Disciplining the Corporation: FCPA Practice, Compliance, and Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China."

An expansive literature examines the question of norm diffusion and legal transplantation, particularly in…

Making China: Cultivating Entrepreneurial Living
April 15, 2016

Silvia Lindtner, University of Michigan
April 19, 2016 | 4:30 PM | Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor

The national government announced a new policy, entitled “mass makerspace” 众创空间, followed by a series of initiatives such as “mass innovation” 大众创业 and “mass entrepreneurship” 万众创新. The underlying vision was that “making” would help…
The Illiberal Regulatory State: Chinese Regulatory State Building in Comparative Perspective
April 12, 2016

Dali Yang, University of Chicago
April 25, 2016 | 4:30 PM | 300 Wallace Hall
Professor Dali Yang *93 is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on the politics and political economy of China. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press…