Perspectives on China's Democratic Political Development

Perspectives on China's Democratic Political Development
中国民主的发展方向

Li Liangdong
Department Head of the Central Party School's Politics and Law Department

李良栋
中共中央党校政法教研部主任 教授

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
7:30-9:00pm
Havana Room, Graduate Community Center
750 Escondido Road, Stanford, CA 94305

http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400

Working language: Chinese


In addition, please also try to make Professor Li's public speech at Stanford at 12:00 pm on Wed, Jan 27 in Encina Hall

hosted by CDDRL and Center for Deliberative Democracy
RSVP online - http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/democratic_reform_in_china_personal_reflections/

Professor Li Liangdong is currently the Department Head of the Central Party School's Politics and Law Department. He directly advises senior officials in the Chinese Communist Party. Professor Li received his doctorate from the Central Party School in Law. His main research areas are: democratic perspective, Western political thought, and political theory. Some of his key works include: Contemporary Chinese Studies of Public Opinion (Central Party School Press, 1996), Mao Zedong and Chinese Farmers (China Farmers Press, 1993), Contemporary Chinese Democracy Studies (Contemporary World Press, 2001 edition), and Third Wave and the Chinese Democracy (Central Party School Press, 2001 edition). He has published over 300 articles. Professor Li has hosted discussions on topics including "Public Discussion in China," "Societal Transitions", and "Study of Political Stability"

李良栋教授1989年在中共中央党校获法学博士学位。现任中共中央党校政法教研部主任，教授、博士研究生导师、博士后合作导师。中央直接联系的专家、国家哲学社会科学基金政治学学科评定组成员。中国政治学学会理事、中国高级公务员培训中心和中国青年政治学院客座教授。主要研究领域：民主政治问题、西方政治思想、政治文化理论。主要代表作有：《当代中国社会舆论问题研究》、《转型期的社会治安》、《当代中国民主问题研究》、《“第三波”与中国民主》（中共中央党校出版社2001年版）、《中国社会主义政治文明建设论》等。主编过《新编政治学原理》等教材和书籍共10多部。先后在报刊上发表过论文300多篇。曾经主持完成“中国社会舆论问题研究”、“转型期社会治安问题研究”、“政治稳定问题研究”等课题研究。现正主持国家委托重大课题“中国共产党执政方式改革问题研究”。

Movie & Discussion: The Founding of a Republic

Stanford ChinaRains presents movie screening of the recent hit Jian Guo Da Ye (The Founding of a Republic, Chinese sound, English subtitle) followed by panel discussion on November 1, 2009. We are honored to have the experts of the Hoover Institute, one of the most prestigious research centers on modern Chinese history, joining our discussion and offering their insights on the historical details covered or uncovered in the movie!

he movie screening starts at 1 pm Sunday afternoon, and the discussion will start at about 3:30 pm.
A map of the location can be found at: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-120
电影放映于本周日下午1点钟开始，专题讨论于3点半左右开始。
场地地图请点击http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-120

Biographies of the speakers:

Kuo Tai-chun

Tai-chun Kuo is Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Prior to this position, she was a Visiting Lecturer at Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003) and Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1997-2000). She served as Press Secretary to the ROC President (1990-1995), Deputy Director-General of the First Bureau of the Presidential Office (1989-1997), Director of the ROC Government Information Office in Boston (1987-1988). In addition to researches, since 2003, she has assisted the Hoover Institution Archives to develop its Modern China Archives and Special Collections. Her major publications include T. V. Soong in Modern Chinese History, China’s Quest for Unification, National Security, and Modernization, Breaking with the Past: China’s First Market Economy, Watching Communist China, 1949-79: A Methodological Review of China Studies in the United States of America and Taiwan, The Power and Personality of Mao Tse-tung, etc.


Duan Ruicong

Ruicong Duan is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the program in Political Science, Graduate School of Law, at the Keio University, and his B.A. from the Department of Foreign Language at Inner Mongolia University, China. He has also taught at Kyorin University, Japan and the Inner Mongolia University, China. He is the author of Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement (Keio University Press, 2006). He is the joint editor of The Sino-Japanese Relations at the Cross Road (Koyoshobo Press, 2007). Professor Duan is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He research area is the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.


Luo Min

Dr. Luo Min now is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS). She got her Ph.D on Chinese modern history at the Graduate School of CASS in 1999. From November 2008 to present, she is a visiting fellow of Hoover Institute, working on studying Chiang Kai-shek's Diaries and other Guomintang's archives. Her research field is the History of Chinese nationalist Party, focusing on Guomindang's Factional struggles in the 1930s.


Research on Ancient People’s Diet: Using Isotope analysis of Carbon-13 and Nitrogen-1

" Research on Ancient People’s Diet: Using Isotope analysis of Carbon-13 and Nitrogen-14”

古人类食物结构研究: 应用稳定同位素碳十三、氮十五的分析


Keywords : diet, isotope analysis, earlier prehistory


Speaker : Professor Xuelian Zhang 张雪莲 教授
Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Archaeology Center, Stanford University


Thursday, Oct. 15, 7:00-9:00pm @ Meyer Library, Room 147
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400


Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk

Analysis of stable isotope 13C and 15N from human bones is an important method for research on ancient people’s diet. Analysis of 13C can tell us about what the people have in their staple food and analysis of 15N can reflect the nutrition level of the people. In 1980s, analysis of 13C was first introduced in China by the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory of Institute of Archaeology and human or animal bones from some famous archaeological sites of China such as Yangshao and Taosi were analyzed and it revealed that people had the kind of millet as their staple food and while the pig had bran of millet as their staple food, which started the research in China. In the beginning of the century, on the basis of a lot of experiments, the analysis of 15N was established with the instrument for element analysis in the Laboratory for the first time in China, which completing the method as a whole. Recent years, by this method, many archaeological sites, especially some earlier prehistory sites have been detected on the diet of past and then it also provided the basis for the research on natural environment, development of productive forces and related social customs.



Bio. Of Professor Xuelian Zhang
Xuelian Zhang is Professor at Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D.in Department of Archaeology, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, her M. S. in Department of Chemistry, Fudan University and B. S. in Department of Chemistry, Shandong Normal University. She is the head of Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology and recipient of “Excellent Researcher of Science and Technology of China” as well as “Excellent Post-Doctor of China”. She has taken part in many research programs supported by National Department of Science and Technology in recently years. Professor Zhang is currently a visiting fellow at the Archaeology Center, Stanford University. Her research areas are 1. Research on Ancient people’s diet by isotope analysis and 2. Radiocarbon d ating and chronology for Neolithic and the Bronze Age in China



Tianjue Luo
ChinaRains @ Stanford University

Chiang Kai-shek's Views of Asia: An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India in 1942

"Chiang Kai-shek's Views of Asia: An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India in 1942”

蒋介石的亚洲观：1942年蒋介石访问印度之分析

Keywords : Chiang Kai-shek, diaries, India, Asia


Speaker : Professor Ruicong Duan
段瑞聪 副教授
Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan
Hoover Institution, Stanford University


Thursday, May 21, 7:00-9:00pm
Meyer Library, Room 147
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400



Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk

The Pacific War broke out on December 8, 1941. As a supreme commander of the Chinese Theater, Chiang Kai-shek visited India during February 5 to February 21, 1942. As we all know, during the Pacific War India was a British colony. Previous studies pointed out that Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India had two main purposes: first, to discuss how to strengthen military cooperation with the Government of India; second, to adjust the relationship between the Government of India and the Indian National Congress. However, I think that Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India is closely related to his views of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek’s views of Asia is also closely related to that of Sun Yat-sen's. The main purpose of the presentation is to draw upon new historical materials including diaries of Chiang Kai-shek to analyze the continuity between Chiang Kai-shek’s views of Asia and that of Sun Yat-sen’s.




Bio. Of Professor Ruicong Duan

Ruicong Duan is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the program in Political Science, Graduate School of Law, at the Keio University, and his B.A. from the Department of Foreign Language at Inner Mongolia University, China. He has also taught at Kyorin University, Japan and the Inner Mongolia University, China.
He is the author of Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement (Keio University Press, 2006). He is the joint editor of The Sino-Japanese Relations at the Cross Road (Koyoshobo Press, 2007). Professor Duan is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He research area is the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.


Tianjue Luo and Ling Yang
ChinaRains at Stanford University

The Implementation of China's Anti-Monopoly Law: A Case Study on Coca Cola’s Abortive Acquisition of Huiyuan Juice

"The Implementation of China's Anti-Monopoly Law: A Case Study on Coca Cola’s Abortive Acquisition of Huiyuan Juice”

中国反垄断法的实施：以流产的可口可乐并购汇源果汁案例为考察视角

Keywords : anti-monopoly law, abortive acquisition

Speaker : Professor Jin Sun
孙晋 教授
Law School, Wuhan University
Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, April 30, 7:00-9:00pm
Room 229, 485 LASUEN MALL, Stanford, CA 94305
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-300

Working language: Chinese

Photos courtesy of P H Yang Photography 攝影: 楊必興 (http://phyang.org)

Outline of the Talk

China’s Anti-Monopoly Law, the foundation stone of the market economy, started to be implemented since August 1st 2008. After half a year of investigation, Coca Cola’s acquisition of Huiyuan Juice was put to a stop by Ministry of Commerce on March 18th 2009. It became the first abortive case since the implementation of the Anti-Monopoly Law and caused strong repercussions home and abroad. While the nationalists applauded for the decision, overseas media generally took a skeptical attitude, considering it as a case of trade protectionism. This phenomenon requires a rational interpretation and guidance for the domestic and international media. On the one hand, acquisition by foreign capital may bring advanced technology and management experience and promote economic development; on the other hand, it may lead to the monopoly of relevant market, hamper competition and cause some domestic brands to disappear. I maintain we should look at Coca Cola’s acquisition of Huiyuan Juice from two aspects. There are both advantages and disadvantages in acquisition. Anti-monopoly law enforcement agency should not only pay attention to the damage to competition brought about by acquisition, but also to its positive role in promoting economic development. It should balance the pros and cons so that it can reach a rational conclusion and maintain the authority of law. I think the society should take a balanced attitude to acquisition by foreign capital, and prevent nationalism to go spread unchecked. I also hope that the international media should not overreact to this case, which could become the excuse for other countries to practice trade protectionism. The Chinese government simply made a misleading yet not wrong decision at a wrong place in a wrong time.




Bio. Of Professor Jin Sun

Jin Sun is a professor of law at Wuhan University. He is secretary-general of Hubei Province Economic Law Studies Association, and visiting scholar at Center of Law and Society and University of California, Berkeley. Professor Sun's specialty area is anti-monopoly law and corporate law.

Tianjue Luo and Ling Yang
ChinaRains at Stanford University