Events
United States-China Comparative Government Organization and Operation in Science & Technology Innovation
June 19, 2012 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
The Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, and The Counsellors’ Office of the State Council (COSC), People’s Republic of China,
in collaboration with The Program on America and the Global Economy Present a Symposium on United States-China Comparative Government Organization and Operation in Science & Technology Innovation. Featuring Leaders from the Counsellors’ Office, PRC State Council and Prominent U. S. Academic and Public Sector Experts
Increasing Oil Demand in China: Rising Risks and International Consequences
April 24, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Watch the webcast, download the podcast, or read a summary of the event here!
Book Event: Eating Bitterness-Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration
April 24, 2012 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China’s urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country’s staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants,offering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty underlying China’s dramatic national transformation.
China in the World/The World in China
November 16, 2011 // 9:30am — 11:00am
How is it that the Communist Party in China remains in power more than 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and changes in Moscow triggered confident talk of an impending "Leninist Extinction"? What kind of impact on the world is China's economic boom and rising influence in global affairs having?
Religion in the Social Transition of Contemporary China (Day 2)
October 14, 2011 // 9:00am — 12:30pm
The rapid growth of religious activity in China, especially among Christians but including other religions as well, raises profound questions about the relationship of religion to government and its potential effects on the emerging social challenges facing China.
Religion in the Social Transition of Contemporary China (Day 1)
October 13, 2011 // 9:30am — 5:00pm
The rapid growth of religious activity in China, especially among Christians but including other religions as well, raises profound questions about the relationship of religion to government and its potential effects on the emerging social challenges facing China.
Book Event: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
October 05, 2011 // 9:30am — 11:00am
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist.
Chinese Culture and Peaceful Development
September 21, 2011 // 2:30pm — 3:30pm
Watch the live webcast of the Honorable Cai Wu's, Minister of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, lecture on "Chinese Culture and China’s Peaceful Development" (中国文化与中国和平发展).
China at a Crossroads: Distress Over Democratization or an Omen of Collapse?
August 04, 2011 // 10:00am — 11:30am
Through an in-depth analysis of China’s actual conditions on the ground–the “crossroads” it faces–this presentation suggested ways to make sense of China’s uncertain future.
Same Bed, Different Dreams?: The New Philanthropy and Civil Society in China
July 26, 2011 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
The support of private entrepreneurs for independent organizations has important ramifications for Chinese civil society, but is this support for real?