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