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Scope and Limits of Private Entrepreneurs’ Political Agency in Contemporary China

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Date:

30 Sep 2015

Time:

12:00-13:30

Venue:

USC, 8/F, Tin Ka Ping Building, CUHK

Speaker(s):

Professor Gunter SchubertInstitute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of TübingenDirector of the Tübingen-based European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan

Biography of Speaker:

Gunter Schubert is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen. He is also the Director of the Tübingen-based European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT). Professor Schubert specializes in the politics and society of the Greater China region, cross-strait relations and integration, and local governance reform and policy implementation in the PRC. He has also published on human rights development in East Asia and Chinese nationalism. His most recent book publications are Proactive Local Politics: County and Township Cadres as Strategic Group (《主动的地方政治-作为战略群体的县乡干部》) (in Chinese, Central Compilation & Translation Press 2013, co-edited by Thomas Heberer and He Zengke); Taiwanese Identity in the Twenty-first Century. Domestic, regional and global perspectives (Routledge 2011, co-edited with Jens Damm); Political Participation and Regime Legitimacy in the PRC: Rural China (Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China: Der ländliche Raum) (VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2009, co-written with Thomas Heberer; in Germ.) and Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability.

Admission:

Please email or call the USC office before 10:00am on every seminar day. Thank you.

Enquiries:

Tel.: (852) 3943-8763/8765
Email: event@usc.cuhk.edu.hk

Event Details:

Language: English
Lunch Fee: Free Admission, HK$20.00 for Lunch

Remarks:

Please note that the order for lunch box cannot be cancelled once it has been made. You have to pay for the lunch box you ordered even though you cannot attend the seminar. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.