Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Chenjian Li is currently a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Between 2013 and 2018, he served as Vice Provost of Peking University, Executive Dean of Yuanpei College, and Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Life Sciences. Li’s scientific research focuses on exploring the molecular and cellular basis of higher brain functions and neurological diseases, and therapeutic development of cancer treatment. Li is also devoted to education development and reform, ranging from high school, undergraduate, graduate and medical student education and has won numerous awards for his teaching.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Yue Qian is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Ohio State University. Her research concerns inequality at the intersection of gender, family, and work in East Asia (China in particular) and North America. Currently, this work follows two lines of inquiry: (1) how mate selection and couple dynamics in intimate relationships reflect and shape gender inequality in the broader society; and (2) how social and mental health inequalities manifest and evolve in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Qian has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2014. Her work has appeared in top journals, such as Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Gender & Society.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Hongbin Li is the Co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, and a Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). He founded the Chinese College Student Survey (CCSS) in 2009 and the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) in 2014. Hongbin’s research has been focused on the transition and development of the Chinese economy, and the evidence-based research results have been both widely covered by media outlets and well read by policy makers around the world. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Guoguang Wu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University. His research specializes in Chinese politics and comparative political economy, including, in China studies, elite politics, national political institutions and policy making mechanisms, transition from communism, the politics of development. During the late 1970s, he was among the sent-down youth in Mao's China, and a textile factory worker following the death of Mao. In the late 1980s, he worked in Beijing as an editorialist and a political commentator in The People's Daily and, concurrently, a policy adviser on political reform and a speechwriter to the Zhao Ziyang leadership.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Xueguang Zhou is the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, a professor of sociology and an FSI senior fellow. His main area of research is institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society, focusing on Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relationships. Drawing on historical research and sociological theorizing, Zhou examines different aspects of the historical evolution of the bureaucratic state, in light of personnel management, paths of state building, and the role of patrimonial authority.

Chinese Politics & Society: Public Lecture Series

This weekly lecture series provides an in-depth exploration of current issues in Chinese politics and society. Each week features an expert lecture from world-renowned China scholars. Topics covered include China's political economy, the Chinese Communist Party, reforms post-1980s, urban-rural divide, environmental challenges, media freedom, student movements, and higher education in China. This lecture series is open to the public and is run in conjunction with a course taught by Professor Yiqing Xu. 
 

About the Speaker

Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economic and Institutions, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor, Department of Finance, Imperial College London. Chenggang received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1991. He was the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association. He was a first recipient of China Economics Prize (2016) and a recipient of the Sun Yefang Economics Prize (2013). Xu's research is in political economics, institutional economics, law and economics, development economics, transition economics and the Chinese political economy.