New Generation China Scholars 2013-14 Capstone Colloquium

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

20th floor, Culture Plaza

No. 59A Zhong Guan Cun Street

Haidian District Beijing 100872

Thirteen fellows who were awarded scholarships by the New Generation China Scholars Program 2013-2014 will gather in Beijing to report their research findings from the past half year. Their research covers a broad range of topics related to the provision and governance of public goods in China. The fellows were selected from a pool of applicants from both the U.S. and China.

The New Generation China Scholars Program is a three-year program generously supported by the Ford Foundation.

The 2014-2015 program will start accepting applications in late summer. If you are interested in applying to be a New Generation China Scholar, please keep an eye on the “Latest News” section of our website for an upcoming call for proposals.

Thursday, May 29th

9:00  Arrive at the Center

9:10 – 9:20  Opening: Professors William Parish and Dali Yang outline rules for presentation and discussion

   Professor Xuedong Yang joins as a guest commentator

09:20 – 09:40  Amir Hampel: The Governance of Dreams: Self-actualization and Civil Society in Contemporary Beijing

09:40 – 10:00  Q & A

   

10:00 – 10:20  Wenhui Yang: R&D Subsidies and Firm’s Private R&D Expenditure: Evidence from China

10:20 – 10:40  Q & A

   

10:40 – 10:50  Coffee break

   

10:50 – 11:10  Jean Hong: How Natural Resources Incentivize Authoritarian Leaders to Neglect Public Good and Service Provision: Evidence from China

11:10 – 11:30  Q & A

   

11:30 – 11:50  Leizhen Zang: Does Internet Promote Political Participation in Transformational China?

11:50 -12:10  Q & A

   

12:10 – 12:30  Wenjun Liu: China’s National Innovation System as a Public Good

12:30 – 12:50  Q & A

   

12:50 – 14:00  Lunch at the Center

   

14:00 – 14:20  Xiaojing Sun: Rise and Fall of the Solar Photovoltaics Industry in China: A Technological Innovation Systems’ Perspective

14:20 – 14:40  Q & A

   

14:40 – 15:00  Xue Tan: Environmental Efficiency Measurement with SFA: Perspective of Water and Wastewater

15:00 – 15:20  Q & A

   

15:20 – 15:40  Coffee break

   

15:40 – 16:00  Xiangliang Li: Agglomeration, Specialization and Highway Transportation

16:00 – 16:20  Q & A

   

16:20 – 16:40  Jinjing Wu: Determinants of Health Expenditure among the Rural Families Living with Physical Disabled Elders in China

16:40 – 17:00  Q & A

   

Friday, May 30th

9:00  Arrive at the Center

09:10 – 09:30  Xiangdong Peng: Compensation Policy of Adverse Events Following Immunization: An Empirical Study on the Management of the Inherent Risk of a Public Good in China

09:30 – 09:50  Q & A

   

09:50 – 10:10  Zhiying Ma:

10:10 – 10:30  Q & A

   

10:30 – 10:50  Coffee break

   

10:50 – 11:10  Chengpang Lee: Always on Your Side: Transnational Humanitarian Works of Tzu-Chi in the MH370 Incident

11:10 – 11:30  Q & A

   

11:30 – 11:50  Christina Jenq: The Relationship Between Cohort Sex Ratios and Relative Female Education Attainment in Post-1949 China

11:50 – 12:10  Q & A

   

12:10 – 13:00  Lunch at the Center

   

13:00  Depart for CCTV New Complex with the University of Chicago Center in Beijing Social Science Program students

   

14:00 – 15:30  Visit CCTV

15:30 – 16:30  Return to the Center

17:00  Program closing dinner and social hour

2012-2013 scholarship recipients join UChicago program leaders Prof. Dali Yang (Department of Political Science) and Prof. William Parish (Emeritus, Department of Sociology) at their capstone colloqui