The 6th Urban China Forum was successfully held in Avery Hall on October 5, 2019. The event was organized by the Urban Planning Program and Urban China Center (GSAPP) and the China Center for Social Policy, and was cosponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the School of Social Work; and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. The event also … [Read more...]
Part II: Local Knowledge, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability
University Seminar Please join for a lecture with: Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments, Columbia University This is event is part two of a this year's Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled, "China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth … [Read more...]
Part I: The “Company” Will Save Us: Utopian Visions of the Corporation in late Qing China
University Seminar Please join for a lecture with: Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments, Columbia University This is event is part one of a this year's Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled, "China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin to deliver 2019 series of Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures
Professor Madeleine Zelin has been selected to deliver the 27th series of the prestigious Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures. This year's lecture series is titled "China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century" and is comprised of the following events: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019 I: The “Company” Will Save Us: … [Read more...]
Shang-Jin Wei quoted in NPR article on China’s economic slowdown and the trade war
Professor Shang-Jin Wei addressed the ongoing trade war and its effects on China’s economy in a recent National Public Radio news article, “Has the Trade War Taken a Bite Out of China’s Economy? Yes--But It’s Complicated.” According to Wei, China’s economic downturn had begun even before the trade war because of “structural issues like a lack of low-skilled workers to populate … [Read more...]
