The 2018 CRC Annual Lecture
Dr. Deborah Davis, Yale University, presents:
“Uneven Urbanization in China: Causes and Consequences”
Time: 4-5:30 pm, Tuesday, September 25 Venue: The Clary Theatre, Bill Moore Student Success Center, Georgia Tech
Visitor Parking: Georgia Tech North Avenue Visitor Parking Lots, http://www.pts.gatech.edu/visitors
Free & Open to the Public
Forty years ago, China was “under urbanized’; less than 20% of the population lived in towns or cites and that percentage had not shifted for many decades. Today the majority of Chinese citizens live and work in urban settlements and China has more than 160 cities with a population of over one million. Market forces have fueled rapid urbanization but equally decisive has been a radical extension of city boundaries. As a result, urban “spaces” have expanded twice as fast as the urban population. Moreover, while half of the new urbanites are migrants who left their villages to seek their fortune in the cities, half are in-situ urbanites where the “city came to them.” In this lecture, Deborah Davis first summarizes the macro-level shifts between 1980 and 2015 and then draws on current research to discuss multiple dimensions of “uneven urbanization.”
Deborah Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai as well as on the faculty at the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. At Yale she served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Chair of the Council of East Asian Studies, and co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum. Her past publications have analyzed the politics of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese family life, social welfare policy, consumer culture, property rights, social stratification, occupational mobility, and impact of rapid urbanization and migration on health and happiness.
Lecture by Howard French
When China began to re-engage with Africa beginning in the mid- 1990s, its focus on economic opportunity on the continent took many outside observers, and indeed most Western countries by surprise. This talk will explain how China’s push to engage Africa flowed from a careful analysis of China’s own strategic needs as it sought to transition from being a center of elementary manufacturing to becoming a global economic power of the first rank. Unlike the United States, which traditionally sees Africa almost entirely as a zone of security risks and humanitarian crises, China paid due attention to the continent’s rapidly changing demographics, to its urbanization, to the emergence for the first time of numerically important African middle classes, and to the continent’s immense need for new infrastructure. The United States and the West generally can learn much from China’s advances in Africa, but in order to do so, they will first need to revise many of their traditional assumptions about the continent’s place in the international system.
Organized by the Institute of African Studies, with support from the Hightower Fund, East Asian Studies Program, Institute for Developing Nations, Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives, and Carter Center China Program.
Image by Paul Wanjau, used under a Creative Commons license.
Howard French
A longtime foreign correspondent and journalism professor at Columbia University, Howard French is the author of five widely discussed books, including A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (Knopf, 2004), China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Knopf, 2014), and most recently, Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power (Knopf, 2017).
US-China Peoples Friendship Association
Atlanta Chapter | Annual Fall Forum
Our speaker, John Israel, is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution. The university’s location in Kunming has made this capital city of Yunnan province a second home for Prof. Israel. His part-time residence there has led to this interest in streetside posters, a hobby as he describes it. Those who have heard Prof. Israel speak know that his presentations are both informative and entertaining.
After the forum, those who wish will move on to the Golden Buddha restaurant on Clairemont for a Dutch-treat dinner, where our discussions and visiting may continue. Welcome!
Free and open to the public. The Bullock Science Building is on Dougherty Street to the rear of the campus – Parking is available near the Bullock hall or in the parking deck on McDonough St.
Teasley Lecture Hall Bullock Science Building Agnes Scott College 141 East College Avenue, Decatur, GA 30030
The US-China People’s Friendship Association is organizing this event: http://www.uscpfa-atl.org/
A Discussion with Dr. Tong Zhao, A Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cosponsors: China Research Center & Nunn School of International Affairs
Join the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy and the China Research Center as they host Tong Zhao for a discussion China’s nuclear strategy and Chinese views of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. What is the prospect of the denuclearization of North Korea? How China views North Korea’s nuclear program and will it be possible for China and the United States to cooperate to achieve the ultimate elimination of North Korea’s nuclear capabilities? This presentation seeks to shed light on possible outcomes of the ongoing denuclearization negotiations with North Korea and their security implications for big power relations in the Asia Pacific. It will also examine China’s nuclear modernization programs and what are the driving forces behind such efforts.
Emory’s Distinguished Speaker Series:
Dr. Ching-kwan Lee, University of California, Los Angeles.
Emory’s full fall calendar of China events is available here: Emory 2018 Fall Events
Join us at the brand new State Farm Arena and enjoy a discounted ticket offer for Asian Community Night!
Package Includes:
- The first 200 people to purchase their tickets through the link below will get access to the Jeremy Lin post game Meet and Greet!
- Discounted ticket to the game that night
- $10 worth of food and beverage credit
- Atlanta Hawks T-shirt
Questions? Please contact Ryan Coller with the Atlanta Hawks at ryan.coller@hawks.com
Chinese Ideas in the Foundation of the United States
Featuring a Special Lecture by Dr. Alfred Hornung
Dr. Hornung will examine the important role the works of the Chinese philosopher and public intellectual Confucius have played for the formation of the political and poetic cultures in the United States.
Dr. Alfred Hornung is Research Professor of American Studies and Speaker of the Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. His publications are in the fields of modernism, postmodernism, life writing, intercultural, and transnational studies. He is an editor of the American Studies Monograph Series, the Journal of Transnational American Studies and on the editorial board of other several journals.
Sponsored by
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University
Saturday November 10, 2018
Opening Ceremony:CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
8:30 – 9:00 am
- Kerwin Swint, Interim Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University
- Vincent Jing-Yen Liu, Director General, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Atlanta
Panel I:9:00 – 10:20 am CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Democracy and Political Governance
Chair: John Hsieh, University of South Carolina
- “Taiwan’s Civil-Military Relations and the DPP Government after 2016”
Wei-Chin Lee, Wake Forest University
- “Monuments and Mandates: Transitional Justice, Regime Legitimacy and the Fate of National Memorials in Taiwan and China”
Karl Fields, University of Puget Sound
- “Diversionary Behavior for Weak State Leaders”
Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
Charles Kuan-Sheng Wu, Purdue University
Discussant: Jessica Liao, North Carolina State University
Panel II: 10:30 – 11:50 am CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Political Attitudes and Behaviors
Chair: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
- “Understanding the Sources and Patterns of Attitudes Toward Minorities in Taiwan”
Pei-Te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amanda Brush, University of California, Santa Barbara
- “How Do Candidate Selection and Symmetry of Single-Member District and Proportional Representation Affect Parliamentary Party Behavior in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and South Korea”
Mi-Son Kim, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- “Personality Traits and Political Participation in Taiwan”
Chia-Hung Tsai, National Chengchi University
Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, Sam Houston State University
Ching-Hsing Wang, University of Houston
Discussant: Chien-Kai Chen, Rhodes College
Lunch: CL 1009 (Kennesaw Campus)
12:00 – 1:15 pm
Panel III: 1:30 – 2:50 pm CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Taiwan’s Foreign Relations and Diplomatic Initiatives
Chair: Yuan-Kang Wang, Western Michigan University
- “Sino-Vatican Negotiations: Implications for Taiwan”
Tun-Jen Cheng, College of William and Mary
- “Taiwan’s Quest for International Space: Continuity and Adaptation in the Tsai Era”
Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania
- “Establishing Bilateral Trade Agreement Without Mutual Diplomatic Relations: The Case of the Republic of China on Taiwan”
Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
Discussant: Yuan-Kang Wang, Western Michigan University
Panel IV: 3:00 – 4:20 pm CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Cross-Strait Relations and Issues
Chair: T. Y. Wang, Illinois State University
- “Cross-Strait Relations in Era of Xi’s China Dream”
John Garver, Georgia Tech
- “Who Do Taiwanese Trust to Engage in Political Negotiation with Beijing?”
Shi-Huei Yang, Columbia University & National Taiwan University
- “China-Taiwan Relations: the Rule of Law and the Rule of ‘Carrots and Sticks’”
Yu-Jie Chen, Academia Sinica
Jerome A. Cohen, New York University
- “How Chinese Legal Advice Websites Imagine a Unified China”
John Wagner Givens, Kennesaw State University
Discussants: T.Y. Wang, Illinois State University
Dalton Lin, Georgia Tech
Roundtable:4:30 – 5:50 pm CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Promoting Taiwan Studies in the U.S.
Chair: Emerson Niou, Duke University
Panelists:
- Brett Benson, Vanderbilt University
- Tsung Chi, Occidental College
- Thomas Gold, University of California, Berkeley
- Vincent Wang, Ithaca College
Sunday November 11, 2018
Panel V: 8:30 – 9:50 am CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Taiwan’s Political Economy in Regional and Global Contexts
Chair: Penny Prime, Georgia State University
- “China Factor in Taiwan’s New South-bound Policy: A Comparative Study of Malaysia and the Philippines”
Karl Ho, University of Texas, Dallas
Tim Chen, Soochow University
Kuan-Chen Lee, Academia Sinica
- “The Polarization of Cross-Strait Relations since 2016”
- Philip Hsu, National Taiwan University
- “Taiwan’s Energy (In) Security: Challenges to Growth and Development”
Prachi Aggarwal, Sanchi University
Discussant: Dina Moulioukova, University of Miami
Panel VI: 10:00 – 11:20 am CL 1010 (Kennesaw Campus)
Young Scholars Panel
Chair: Tse-min Lin, University of Texas, Austin
- “Does Income Inequality Hurt Democracy? Evidence From East Asian Democracies”
Yi-Tzu Lin, University of South Carolina
- “Critical Citizens, Democratic Satisfaction, and Support in Asian Democracies”
Yu-Ceng Liao, University of Houston
- “Smart Diplomacy: The Case for Taiwan’s Southbound Strategy”
Adnan Rasool, Georgia State University
Discussant: Dennis Lu-Chung Weng, Sam Houston State University
Lunch: CL 1009 (Kennesaw Campus)
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Chinese Woodblock Art
3:30 – 4:30pm
Student Success Center
Clary Theater
Exhibition, hands-on printing workshops, and interaction with the Chinese artists
Taste of China
4:30 – 5:30pm
Swann Building 106
Featuring dumplings, sesame chicken, spicy tofu, yangzhou fried rice, chowmien with BBQ pork and more!
RSVP by Nov. 10 at: https://goo.gl/forms/hvJsAT2SSHHlTx2G2
Contact Dr. Jin Liu | jin.liu@modlangs.gatech.edu
Join us for updates on the business environment, with insights into the current social, economic and political situations on the ground.
This event is free; registration is respectfully requested.
Continental Breakfast: 7:15-8:00 a.m.
Program: 8-9:30 a.m.
Moderator: Jacobus Boers, Assistant Dean for International Engagement, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Panelists:
Thomas Cunningham, Sr. VP and Chief Economist, Metro Atlanta Chamber
Scott Ellyson, CEO and Founder, East-West Manufacturing
Bianca Hollander, Tradelane Development Manager, M+R Spedag Group
Yawei Liu, Director, China Program at The Carter Center and Associate Director, China Research Center
Stella Xu, Director for Greater China Region Initiatives, Georgia Department of Economic Development
Hosted by the Atlanta Metro Chamber; sponsored by the China Research Center, the Confucius Institute at Georgia State, and Georia2CN.
Flier: 2018 Chinese Briefing