Conferences

THE JOB MARKET FOR PH.D. STUDENTS IN CHINESE POLITICS: 2020 AND AFTER, 2020

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Mindful of the shock to the 2020 academic job market as well as secular changes in employment opportunities, we invited Ph.D. students studying Chinese politics in North America to hear and ask questions of a dozen outstanding scholars and practitioners. 587 registered! 

This special Zoom Webinar was co-organized by Yue Hou (Pennsylvania), Zhenhuan (Reed) Lei (Wisconsin, Madison), Melanie Manion (Duke), Daniel Mattingly (Yale), and Yuhua Wang (Harvard).  

GETTING CHINA RIGHT2019 

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As China has grown in power and stature as the second largest economy in the world, a dominant trading partner, and a world power, its interests have also grown global. Many issues of Chinese domestic politics are now also truly issues of global politics. In December 2019, professors of Chinese domestic politics and international relations from nearly 40 institutions convened at Duke University to consider what GETTING CHINA RIGHT means in today’s politically charged atmosphere and how to connect scholarly knowledge with the public discourse and public policy. 

 The conference was co-organized by Mary Gallagher at the University of Michigan, Melanie Manion at Duke University, Jean Oi at Stanford University, Elizabeth Perry at Harvard University, and Lily Tsai at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and, at Duke University, the Office of the Provost, Dean’s Office at Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Asia Pacific Studies Institute, Center for International and Global Studies, Global Asia Initiative, and Department of Political Science. 

INNOVATIONS IN CHINESE LOCAL GOVERNANCE, 2019 

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 For some 15 years, Chinese local governments have competed for awards recognizing their innovations in governance. In January 2019, 10 Chinese scholars convened at Duke University to present findings from their investigations on award-winning projects, in particular, their sustainability and diffusion. Nine political scientists from Duke University and universities across the United States joined them to discuss the implications of their findings for local governance. 

 The conference was co-organized with Yu Keping, Dean of Peking University’s School of Government and generously funded by the Ford Foundation. 

 NEW FACES IN CHINA STUDIES2018 

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In December 2018, the third iteration of the NEW FACES IN CHINA STUDIES CONFERENCE at Duke University welcomed 10 advanced graduate students to join graduate students and faculty members in political science at Duke University in presenting and discussing original, rigorous research that advances our knowledge about important questions in Chinese politics. Graduate student presenters were selected from a competitive pool of applicants from universities across the United States and in Canada. Each was paired up with a discussant from Duke University’s political science faculty. 

The conference was generously supported by Duke University’s Department of Political Science and the Asian Pacific Studies Institute. 

Vor Broker Family Distinguished Professor