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Upcoming events at the Lau China Institute
Mapping and Evaluating China's Cyber Power
Speaker: Greg Austin
Date: 28 September 2016
Venue: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31) Strand Campus
Time: 17:30-19:30
In February 2014, President Xi Jinping declared his intent to do everything necessary for China to become a cyber power. In July 2016, the government clarified its ambitions in a set of new strategy documents, adding not just a timeline but also a decidedly combative tone to the aspirations. Relying on political science, Greg Austin proposes an initial and provisional template for mapping the dynamic aspect of China's exercise of cyber power.
Note: Registration is required for this event. Register here.
The Perfect Dictatorship - China in the 21st Century
Speaker: Stein Ringen
Date: 3 October 2016
Venue: K0.31 (Small Committee Room) Strand Campus
Time: 18:00-20:00
Ringen's book The Perfect Dictatorship explains how the Chinese political system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, Ringen concludes that the system of government has hardened under the leadership of Xi Jinping.
Film screening: China's 3Dreams
Date: 5 October 2016
Venue: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31) Strand Campus
Time: 18:00-20:00
From award-winning director Nick Torrens, this absorbing documentary about the changing face of China is both intriguing and confrontational. 12 years in the making and featuring rare archive and powerful personal testimony from former Red Guards, China's 3 Dreams opens the door on the past and questions its impact on the present
The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PR China: policies, positions, paradigms, power
Speaker: Andreas Fulda
Date: 26 October 2016
Venue: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31) Strand Campus
Time: 17:30-19:30
Fulda examines how foundations—foreign and domestic, public and private, operating and grant-making—are engaging with Chinese civil society organisations (CSOs) in an authoritarian political context. Based on twelve interviews that he conducted in 2014 with foundation representatives and CSO leaders, he determines how foreign and domestic foundations position themselves vis-à-vis the party-state, market, and civil society; what their understanding of philanthropy is; and how foreign and domestic philanthropic foundations deal with the power imbalance in the grant-maker–grantee relationship.
China's challenge in high technology
Speaker: Andrew Tylecote
Date: 9 November 2016
Venue: Lucas Lecture Theatre (Room S-2.18) Strand Campus
Time: 18:30-20:00
The spectacular growth of industry in China has distracted many observers from the patchy performance of Chinese firms in high-tech sectors (and to a lesser extent medium-high). Why is China, with its rapidly strengthening science base, R&D and patent portfolio, not catching up fast in high-tech? Tylecote argue that it has fundamental weaknesses on the demand and supply sides which have not been addressed and that in at least one key area, public sector purchasing, there has been a recent retreat from a promising policy development.
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