Title: What's Been Done and What's to Be Done?

Time:Thursday, November 9, 5:30 pm

Place: Paul and Nacy O'Neill Classroom (Room 1230), Weill Hall (735 S. State St.)

Speaker: Zhou Fang

The speaker will give an overall review and evaluation of the Chinese economic reform and development in the past twenty-eight years. In particular, the speaker will address the following issues: 1) How the Chinese way of economic reform is shaped? The speaker will examine the economic policies in Zhao Ziyang, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao administration, respectively, and discuss the achievement and weakness in the reform strategy of each administration. 2)What factors contribute to the impressive growth of Chinese economy? Is the high-speed economic growth sustainable? 3) What are the remaining obstacles in economic reform? Can further economic reform help to reduce social tension and achieve “harmonious society”? Is marketization right approach to education and healthcare reform?4) Can economic reform bring political reform and democratization?

Title: Post-WTO Tax Law Reform and Tax Policy Development in China

Time: Thursday, Nov. 16, 5:30PM

Place: Paul and Nacy O'Neill Classroom (Room 1230), Weill Hall (735 S. State St.)

Speaker: Tianlong Hu

The speaker will brief the historical background of China’s tax law system and the development and progress China has made since its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Dec. 2001. In particular, the following issues will be addressed and discussed: 1. The evolution of tax law system of China, and the policy orientations for the development of tax law system in terms of economic, political, social and cultural inputs, including but not limited to a brief investigation and review on deficiencies and progress of China’s post-Cultural Revolution legal construction, and a case study of SOE reform in the process of legal construction in which the tax law reform is embodied; 2. A brief review of basic principles of the rule of law proposing a China-tax-law-reform specific conception of the lean rule of law, and a discussion on the possible implication of basic principles and commitments enclosed in WTO Agreement to China’s tax law reform; 3. A few case studies on WTO’s implication to tax law system, including but not limited turnover tax, export subsidy, taxpayer rights and tax competition; and related policy justification and implication of the proposed tax reform discourse, taking consideration of the state, political regime and economy-in-transition of China.

Title: Chinese Investment Abroad

Time: October 19, 2006, 5:15-7:00pm

Place: Marx and Marjorie Fisher Classroom (Room 1220), Weill Hall (735 S. State St.)

Speaker: XU Guangjian

Guangjian Xu is Professor and Vice Dean of School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China. He is also a senior fellow of China Price Association and Beijing Public Finance Association.His areas of specialization include management of public budget and taxation, macroeconomic theory and policy, and government regulation economics. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, teaching PULPOL 751 Chinese Foreign Policy while conducting research in Macroeconomics, Price Policy, and Public Finance.

Title: The ethnicity and ethnic relations in China

Time: Friday, March.11, 2005, 4:30-6:00pm

Place: Rm.2225, School of Education

Speaker: Prof. Changjian Yu

Prof. Yu is from the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology at Peking University, and is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at UM. His research specializes in the areas of urban-rural regional. In this talk, Prof. Yu will give a brief introduction about the basic concepts, the current situation and some key issues about ethnicity in China. He will also present us some precious photos taken during his field research trip to Tibet and other minority regions.

Title: Introduction to China's Higher Education

Time: Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, 4:30-6:00pm

Place: Rm.2214, School of Education

Speaker: Dr. Wang Zhiyong

Dr. Wang Zhiyong is a visiting scholar at UM Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. He comes from Tianjin University, where he is the Director of Student Affairs Office in the School of Management. As an experienced administrator, he will touch on many issues facing higher education in China, with particular focus on student affairs. This talk will be a general and interactive conversation that fits for all those who are concerned about education in China. There will be ample time for questions and discussions afterwards.

Title: Chinese Economy: Challenges to Scholars and Policymakers

Time: Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004, 4:00-5:30pm

Place: Rm.2320, School of Education

Speaker: Dr. Xu Guangjian

Dr. Xu is a professor of economics and the associate dean of School of Public Administration at Renmin University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. His research interest includes price theories, and macroeconomic policies and management.

Title: A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Transitions in China and in Eastern Europe

Annual Lecture -- Inaugural Event

Time: Friday, Oct. 29, 2004 4:00-6:00pm.

Place: 7603 Haven Hall

(Direction: Enter through the Angel Hall¨ª?s Diag Entrance, and take the elevator on your left)

Working language: Chinese

Speaker: Hui Qin (ÇØêÍ)

Professor of History, Tsinghua University

Visiting scholar, Harvard University

Hui Qin is a distinguished scholar and professor of history at Tsinghua University, China. He is currently a visiting professor at Harvard's Fairbank Center. In the early 1980s, Professor Qin conducted research mainly on peasant history, and he shifted his focus to economic history later on. Since the 1990s, Professor Qin has been concentrating on the research that combines examinations of history and contemporary issues, through which he has established a theoretical framework for peasant studies based on empirical surveys and archival research. He has published numerous papers and books on China's agrarian history and civilization, economic reform, social evolution and modernization. These works, with their concern about the present as well as the historical, have won Professor Qin a great reputation both within and beyond China's intellectual circle.

Program

4:00-4:10pm Introduction by Zhengxu Wang and Rong Chen

4:10-5:30pm Presentation by Prof. Hui Qin, and discussion

5:30-6:00pm Reception

Note: A Chinese version of the lecture title and Prof. Qin's biography is also available upon request.