Are Chinese citizens increasingly angry about current inequalities? Is popular anger propelling China toward political instability? Are "losers" in the reform-era, and particularly farmers, especially angry? The results of a 2004 China national survey suggest otherwise. Chinese view most features of current inequalities as more fair than unfair. They have more positive views than citizens of other societies about current inequalities and more optimism about ordinary people getting ahead. China's farmers are in many respects quite accepting of current inequalities, while urbanites and the well educated are more critical. The sources and implications of these counter-intuitive findings will be explored.
Martin K. Whyte received his BA from Cornell University and MA and PhD degrees from Harvard. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1970 to 1994, at George Washington University from 1994 to 2000, and returned to Harvard as a faculty member in 2000. He specializes in the study of grass roots social organization and social change in the PRC and has two books forthcoming reflecting his recent work on inequality in China: One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in China (editor, Harvard University Press) and Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press).
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Over the years, Kim Jong Il has pursued four inter-related goals that together might be considered as an implicit national security strategy:
These goals are tightly linked but also involve significant trade-offs that may offer greater possibilities than ususally supposed for solving the issue of its nuclear weapons program.
Dr. John Merrill is the head of the Northeast Asia Division of U.S. State Department´s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War, 1945-50 and The Cheju-do Rebellion as well as numerous journal articles.
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About the event:
Last July, Tata Motors began selling the $2,500 Nano, the cheapest car in the world. Some argue that the impact of this automobile innovation may equal that of Ford's 1908 Model T in its creation of a new, low-income market.
However there remains a puzzle: Tata Motors has been producing imitative car models, lacking the technical prowess to develop new-to-the-world innovation. How has the company made innovative breakthroughs in spite of weak technological competence? Dr. Lim, as an expert on catching-up innovation, will explain the process and discuss the implications of the case for further understanding emerging innovation activities in developing countries.
About the speaker:
Chaisung Lim first developed his interest in technology issues as a management student, focusing on appropriate technology for developing countries. This led him to pursue issues on appropriate technology, firm level innovation and industrial competitiveness for his master and PhD theses and his career at the Korea Development Institute. His international research papers have concentrated on the management of technology for catching up at firm and national levels. He has participated in committees and project teams providing consultation on industrial and technology policies for the Korean and Turkish governments. He is currently a professor at the Miller School of MOT and Professor at the MOT/MBA program at Konkuk University, Seoul. He received the BA in Management at Sogang University, the Master's in Management at Seoul National University and the PhD in Technology Management at SPRU at the University of Sussex.
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Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E-301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Chaisung Lim has focused his research on management of technology in catching up with advanced country firms in his capacity as leader of the Research Institute for Global Management of Technology for Catching Up (GMOT). He has participated in committees and project teams providing consultation on industrial and technology policies for the Korean and Turkish Governments. He is currently a Professor at the Miller School of MOT and the MOT/MBA program at Konkuk University, Seoul. He received the PhD in Technology Management at SPRU at the University of Sussex. He previously worked for the industrial analysis division of the Korea Development Institute, a leading think tank in Korea.
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Dr. Woo, former president of Yeungnam University in Korea, is a 2009-2010 Fulbright Senior Research Schlar. He was a board member of Korean Council for University Education, and a member of Personnel and Policy Advisory Committee of the Civil Service Commisson of Korea.
He received a Ph.D. in Socio-Economic Planning from University of Tsukuba, Japan, an M.S. in Human Settlements Development from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and a B.A. in Public Administration from Yeungnam University, Korea.
Asia's generally dismal record up to 1990 as a provider of brand-name services, despite efforts by Japan and Korea in banking, retail and software, turned around in the 1990s with the rise of China and India. India, particularly, has made its name providing IT-enabled services. While the exports were initially confined to software programming and later call-centers, after 2000 the range and depth of work changed dramatically.
Under what conditions are autocratic regimes apt to break down when popular protests against them break out? Prof. Lee will showcase and explain the decisive role of armed forces in reinforcing or undermining the prolongation of authoritarian rule. He will offer a theoretical framework and illustrate it with two contrasting cases: the June 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, where the Chinese military suppressed protesters and safeguarded the regime; and the People Power revolt in Manila in February 1986, when the Philippine military swung its weight in favor of liberalization.
Terence Lee is associate editor of Armed Forces and Society. His writings have appeared in Asian Survey, Armed Forces and Society, Comparative Political Studies, and Foreign Policy. He studies civil-military relations, military organizations, and international security; other interests include Southeast Asian politics and political science theories. He was formerly an assistant professor in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and a postdoctoral fellow in the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. His PhD and MA are in political science from the University of Washington, Seattle. Other degrees include a master’s in strategic studies from NTU and a University of Wisconsin-Madison BA (with Distinction) in political science and Southeast Asian Studies.
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