Except for May 28, the workshop meets on alternate Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm at Pick Lounge

April 9 (starts at 4:30pm)

“A Theory of Protest Leadership: Elites and the Mass in Workers’ Resistance in China”

 Xi Chen

 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

April 23

“The Politics of ‘Compliant Defiance’ in China”

 Marie-Eve Reny

 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science

 University of Chicago

May 7

“US-China Business Relations in an Era of New Leadership”

Doug Guthrie

Dean, Professor of Management and International Business

George Washington University School of Business

May 21

“What Make a Judicial Decision Convincing: Experimental Evidence of Authority, Bias and Reasoning from China”

Zhuang Liu

LLM Candidate, University of Chicago Law School

PhD Candidate, Peking University Law School

May 28

“From Revolutionary Secrete Society to State:

An Analytical Framework to Explain the Dynamics in Chinese Communist Revolution”

Jin Xu

PhD Student, Department of Sociology

University of Chicago

    The workshop meets on alternate Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm at Pick Lounge, 5828 South University Avenue. Abstracts are available on our website: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/. Questions and comments should be addressed to the coordinator Le Lin: lelin2010@uchicago.edu

    Faculty Sponsors:

    Dali Yang (Political Science), daliyang@uchicago.edu

Dingxin Zhao (Sociology), dzhao@uchicago.edu

Zheng Michael Song (BoothSchool of Business), Zheng.Song@chicagobooth.edu