Welcome from Marty Whyte
Acting Director of the Fairbank Center
 Welcome one and all to the start of a new academic year of activities at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies! This opening statement conveys two new developments at the Fairbank Center.
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The Fairbank Center Welcomes Professor Liu Xiaoyuan
 This academic year the Fairbank Center is pleased to host Dr. Liu Xiaoyuan. He is a visiting professor in the History Department, replacing Bill Kirby who is on sabbatical this year, and he will have an office in the Center.
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Shum Fellowship Winners Announced
The two Shum Fellows selected for the 2007–2008 academic year were recently announced: Holly Ming is a PhD candidate at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and Wu Hsinchao is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard.
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Latest Publication from the Fairbank Center
The most recent title funded in part by Center funds is a study
by Patricia Thornton, Associate Professor of Political Science at
Trinity College in Hartford, CT, who is currently teaching
international studies at Portland State University. The book is
Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China.
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16th Annual Neuhauser Lecture presents Alan Romberg
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Alan Romberg has enjoyed a distinguished career working on Asian issues in and out of government, including 20 years as a US foreign service officer. He is currently Director of the East Asia Program at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC. He has been Principal Deputy Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and a staff member of the National Security Council for China. He spent almost ten years as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The US ‘One China” Policy: Time for a Change? is the provocative title of this year’s talk. Drawing on his many years of government service and policy analysis, and his experiences living in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Romberg gave an analysis that is straightforward and in the best interest of all the parties concerned with this issue.
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Workshop, 12 – 13 October 2007
"Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Post-Reform China"
In recent years the Chinese state has implemented a wide array of competing legal mechanisms ranging from courts to mediation to arbitration to administrative review. This workshop attempted an evaluation and critical review of the various legal options that are theoretically open to Chinese citizens. full article >>
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Conference, 28–29 November 2007
Autonomy in Tibet Conference
The main purpose of the conference is to allow Tibetan and
Chinese scholars to exchange views on the contemporary situation
and visions for future improvement on the concept of autonomy.
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Conference, 30 November–1 December
"Rule and Reform in the Giants:
China and India Compared"
China and India will be the focus of a two-day comparative conference entitled “Rule and
Reform in the Giants: China and India Compared” on 30 November and 1 December 2007.
The conference
will explore, in six separate panels, issues of national integration, center-local relations,
separatist tensions, democracy and authoritarianism, and the political processes and
developmental outcomes of economic reform.
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Conference in Kerala, 21–23 January 2008
"The India-China-US Triangle"
The conference intends to pose serious questions for debate: In
the coming decades, will India and China continue to grow
economically or are there obstacles to such growth? As candidates
for developed country status, will India and China be an economic
opportunity or a threat to the US economic situation?...
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