This semester, with the generous support of CIS, we're starting up a China Politics Working Group. The purpose of the group is to bring together faculty and graduate students from the MIT political science and CIS communities who share a common interest in understanding change in contemporary China. The group is open not just to China specialists per se, but really to any scholars (comparativists, IR specialists, security studies experts, etc.) whose work and research interests in some way involve China, the ramifications of Chinese development for the broader global commons, and the implications of the Chinese case for general social science theory. Meetings will be devoted primarily to the presentation of "research in progress" by various members of the working group. During the spring semester, the group will meet from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the 6th floor conference room of CIS (E38) on the following dates: Feb. 21, March 18, and May 20.
February 21st - Prof. Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan)
"Is Entrepreneurship Missing in Shanghai?"
March 18th - Prof. Taylor Fravel (MIT)
"Studying China's Military Doctrine"
April 30th (in E53-470) - Prof. Xue Lan (Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management)
Talk on Chinese innovation policy and the internationalization of industrial R&D.