Recap of China and the Great Recession: The Global Financial Crisis and China’s Development

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

20th floor, Culture Plaza

No. 59A Zhong Guan Cun Street

Haidian District Beijing 100872

Faculty Organizer: Dali L. YANG, University of Chicago

Chinese Collaborating Institution: School of Economics, Renmin University of China

This conference, which featured discussion and presentations by China scholars from the U.S., China and throughout the Asia Pacific region, provided an opportunity for participants to examine how China might have been implicated in the current financial and economic crisis, how it has coped with it, and how China’s future domestic development and global profile might be impacted. Topics included:

• The Economy: The political economy of China’s rebalancing; trade and industrial adjustment; economic lessons from the Great Recession
• Society: Labor, employment and unemployment
• Governance: The expanding role of SOE’s; the real estate boom; legal institutions
• Beijing and the Regions
• Comparative and Global Perspectives: A historic perspective on China’s development model; China’s international strategy in the wake of the crisis; the shift of Japan’s China Policy

List of participants:

Joseph CHENG, Professor and Chair of Political Science, City University of Hong Kong

Donald CLARKE, Professor, George Washington University Law School

Jacques DE LISLE, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

William HURST, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

JIN Canrong, Deputy Dean and Professor, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China

Ethan MICHELSON, Assistant Professor, Departments of Sociology and East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University

Barry NAUGHTON, Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs, University of California San Diego

SHAN Wei, Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

Fubing SU, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vassar College

TAO Ran, Professor, School of Economics, Renmin University of China

Sarah TONG, Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

Ming WAN, Director of Global Affairs Program and Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University

WANG Dong, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

Andrew WEDEMAN, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska

XIONG Yuegen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Peking University

LIU Yuanchun, Associate Dean and Professor, School of Economics, Renmin University

Dali YANG, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; Director, University of Chicago Center in Beijing

Albert S. YEE, Visiting Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Xianchu ZHANG, Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Law, University of Hong Kong

ZHANG Yansheng, Director of Foreign Economic Institute, NDRC

Quansheng ZHAO, Professor and Division Director of Comparative and Regional Studies; Director of Center for Asian Studies, American University

ZHENG Chaoyu, Professor, School of Economics, Renmin University of China

ZHENG Xinye, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Renmin University of China