THE CHINESE MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT: DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL ASPECTS

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1 INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, ACADEMIA SINICA (IPSAS) DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESENT THE CHINESE MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT: DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL ASPECTS November 4-5, 2011 PROGRAM 1ST CONFERENCE ROOM 3F, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING ACADEMIA SINICA TAIPEI, TAIWAN

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3 The Chinese Models of Development: Domestic and Global Aspects November 4-5, 2011 Taipei 1st Conference Room 3F, Humanities and Social Sciences Building Academia Sinica Organizers: Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Department of Politics, University of Virginia Sponsors: East Asia Center, University of Virginia Office of Research, University of Virginia Center for International Studies, University of Virginia CONFERENCE AGENDA Friday, November 4 8:30 A.M. Registration 9:00 A.M. Opening Remarks 9:20 A.M. Keynote Speech Professor Harry Harding (Dean, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia) 10:30 A.M. Tea Break 10:40 A.M. Panel I: The Chinese Model and Paradigms of Development Studies Moderator: Yu-Shan Wu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 1. Sources of Regime Legitimacy and the Debate over the Chinese Model Presenter: Yun-han Chu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Discussant: John Echeverri-Gent (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) 2. The Institutionalization of the Communist Party and the Party System in China Presenter: Yongnian Zheng (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore) Discussant: Szu-chien Hsu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica)

4 12:25 P.M. Lunch 3. All Roads Lead to Rome: Modern Economic Growth and the Chinese Model Presenter: Xiaoming Huang (Department of Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington) Discussant: Chu-Chia Lin (Department of Economics, National Chengchi University) 1:50 P.M. Panel II: The Chinese Model in Comparative Aspects Moderator: Brantly Womack (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) 3:35 P.M. Tea Break 1. Soviet and Chinese Reform Strategies: Deng & Gorbachev Compared Presenter: Allen C. Lynch (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Discussant: Yu-Shan Wu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 2. China s Development Model in Comparative Perspective: Hegemony, Power, and History in International Relations Presenter: David C. Kang (School of International Relations and Marshall School of Business, Southern California University) Discussant: Leonard Schoppa (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) 3. Taiwan as a Development Model for China? Reworking the Developmental State for the 21st Century Presenter: Megan Greene (Department of History, University of Kansas) Discussant: Wan-wen Chu (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica) 3:45 P.M. Panel III: Regional Models of Development of China Moderator: Yih-chyi Chuang (College of Social Sciences, National Chengchi University) 1. Wither the Local Autonomy under the China Model? The Political Economy of China s 2008 Stimulus Package Presenter: Szu-chien Hsu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Hans H. Tung (Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University) Discussant: Chung-min Tsai (Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University) 2. Legacy of Strong Administrative Capacity: Continuity and Change in Shanghai s Local Administrative System Presenter: Yousun Chung (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Discussant: John R. Shepherd (Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia)

5 3. The Politics of Regional Cooperation in the Greater Pearl River Delta Presenter: Peter T. Y. Cheung (Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Discussant: Shiuh-Shen Chien (Department of Geography, National Taiwan University) 5:30 P.M. Conference Adjourns Saturday, November 5 9:00 A.M. Registration 9:30 A.M. Panel IV: Models of Chinese External Relations Moderator: Cheng-Yi Lin (Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica) 11:40 A.M. Lunch 1. Beyond Win-win: Rethinking International Relationships in an Era of Economic Uncertainty Presenter: Brantly Womack (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Discussant: Chia-Ming Chen (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica) 2. The Rise of China and Cross-Strait Relations Presenter: Tse-Kang Leng (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Discussant: Dale Copeland (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) 3. Public Opinion, Nationalism, and China's Cooperative International Behavior Presenter: Rumi Aoyama (Research Institute of Current Chinese Affairs, School of Education, Waseda University) Discussant: Jih-wen Lin (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 4. China and the United States after the Crisis: A Zero-Sum Battle for Jobs and Growth? Presenter: Herman Schwartz (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Discussant: S. Philip Hsu (Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University) 1:30 P.M. Panel V: China and Global Governance Moderator: Chien-min Chao (Deputy Minister, Mainland Affairs Council) 1. China s Politics in Time : Chinese Political Development in Comparative Historical Perspective Presenter: John Echeverri-Gent (Department of Politics, University of Virginia)

6 3:15 P.M. Tea Break Brantly Womack (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Discussant: Chin-en Wu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 2. China s Development Model and the Exchange Rate Mechanism Presenter: Bruce Reynolds (Department of Economics, University of Virginia) Discussant: Yu-Wen Chen (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 3. Exploring China s Audience Costs: An Institutionalist Perspective Presenter: Hans H. Tung (Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University) Discussant: Fang-Yi Chiou (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 3:30 P.M. Roundtable Discussion Chair and Moderator: Yu-Shan Wu (Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) 5:00 P.M. Conference Concludes

7 Ground Rules CONFERENCE PANEL RULES AND FORMAT: A. Unless otherwise specified each presentation is allowed 15 minutes and each discussion 10 minutes. Time allotment may be subject to slight adjustment to specifics of sessions. B. In the course of presentation and discussion, bell will be rung to remind you of the time. 1 Ring: 1 more minute to go; 2 Rings: time is up; 3 Rings: exceeding 30 seconds. C. During Q & A: each person will be allowed a maximum of 1 minute for open comments or questions. A bell will ring once at 30 seconds, and twice at 1 minute. Each person should state his/her name and affiliation before speaking. TEST AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT: Please inform the conference secretariat in advance if you need to use any equipment. All invited speakers are encouraged to test their audio-visual equipment 30 minutes before their presentation. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: The official language of the Conference is English. NAME BADGES: Name badges are color-coded as follows: Moderators, Presenters, and Discussants Yellow Audience...Blue Staff.Red

8 Rumi Aoyama Chien-min Chao Chia-Ming Chen Yu-Wen Chen Peter T. Y. Cheung Shiuh-Shen Chien Fang-Yi Chiou Wan-wen Chu Yun-han Chu Yih-chyi Chuang Yousun Chung Dale Copeland John Echeverri-Gent Megan Greene Harry Harding Participant List Research Institute of Current Chinese Affairs, School of Education, Waseda University Deputy Minister, Mainland Affairs Council Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong Department of Geography, National Taiwan University Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica College of Social Sciences, National Chengchi University Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Department of Politics, University of Virginia Department of Politics, University of Virginia Department of History, University of Kansas Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia S. Philip Hsu Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University Szu-chien Hsu Xiaoming Huang David C. Kang Tse-Kang Leng Cheng-Yi Lin Chu-Chia Lin Jih-wen Lin Allen C. Lynch Bruce Reynolds Leonard Schoppa Herman Schwartz John R. Shepherd Chung-min Tsai Hans H. Tung Brantly Womack Chin-en Wu Yu-Shan Wu Yongnian Zheng Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Department of Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington School of International Relations and Marshall School of Business, Southern California University Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica Department of Economics, National Chengchi University Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Department of Politics, University of Virginia Department of Economics, University of Virginia Department of Politics, University of Virginia Department of Politics, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University Department of Politics, University of Virginia Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

9 Keynote Speaker Biography Harry Harding (Dean, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia) Harry Harding is Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Among other positions, he is also Vice Chairman of the Asia Foundation, a member of the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore), a member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations, and a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His previous positions include faculty appointments at Swarthmore College ( ) and Stanford University ( ), Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution ( ), Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University ( ), President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs ( ), member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board ( ), Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group ( ), University Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University ( ), and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Helsinki). A specialist on Asia, his major publications include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (co-edited with Francine Frankel, 2004), A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992), Sino-American Relations, : A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade (co-edited with Yuan Ming, 1989), China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987), China s Foreign Relations in the 1980s (editor, 1984), and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, (1981). Dr. Harding received his B.A. from Princeton University in Public and International Affairs, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Political Science. In addition to his deanship, Dr. Harding is also Professor of Public Policy and Politics at UVA, and, in recognition of his interest in civic architecture and the design of capital cities, is a member of the affiliated faculty of the university s School of Architecture. November 2, 2011

10 Rumi Aoyama (Research Institute of Current Chinese Affairs, School of Education, Waseda University) Rumi Aoyama is Professor, the Research Institute of Current Chinese Affairs, School of Education, Waseda University. She earned a Ph.D. from Keio University. Her specialty is Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy. Her book Contemporary China s Foreign Policy was honored with the 24 th Masayoshi Ohira Foundation Memorial Prize. Her other most recent publications include Chinese Diplomacy in the Multimedia Age, in Kazuko Mori & Kenichiro Hirano eds., A New East Asia: Toward a Regional Community (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2007); Changing Japanese Perceptions and China-Japan Relations, in Gerald Curtis, Ryosei Kokubun, and Wang Jisi ed., Getting The Triangle Straight: Managing China-Japan-US Relations (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2010). Chien-min Chao (Deputy Minister, Mainland Affairs Council, the Executive Yuan) Chien-min Chao has been a Deputy Minister of the MAC since November, Before that, Dr. Chao had been a Distinguished Professor at Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute for Development Studies at National Chengchi University since He has been a visiting distinguished professor at George Washington University and visiting teaching professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has won a variety of research and publication awards. He has written and edited eight books, including Lee Teng-hui s Legacy: Democratic Consolidation and Foreign Relations (M.E. Sharpe, 2002); Rethinking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security (Routledge, 2001); The ROC on the Threshold of the 21 st Century: A Paradigm Reexamined (University of Maryland, 1999); Cross-strait Relations and Taiwan's Foreign Policies (Taipei, 2000); An Analysis to Contemporary Chinese Politics (Wunan, 1997); Taiwan and Mainland China: Relations and Foreign Competition (Yeh-yeh, 1992); and Authoritarian Politics (Youshi, 1994). Dr. Chao has also produced over 100 articles in academic journals such as Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Affairs, Issues & Studies, Chinese Law and Government, Zhongguo dalu yanjiu (Mainland China Studies), etc., and book chapters.

11 Chia-Ming Chen (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica) Chia-Ming Chen is Assistant Research Fellow of Center for Political Thought (RCHSS) at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago in His dissertation theorizes an idea of transnational political solidarity that makes possible transnational political activities in relation to distributive conflicts. His major research interests include global justice, international political theory, theories of democracy and history of political thoughts. He has published journal articles on criticisms of cosmopolitanism and transnational radical democracy. He is now working on the intricate relations between democracy and political realism. Yu-Wen Chen (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Dr. Yu-Wen Chen is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Dr. Chen specializes mainly in research on ethnic politics, transnational advocacy networks, and interest group politics. She has researched and published papers on Uyghur diasporic activism through the sponsorship of the Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia (Singapore) and the Sumitomo Foundation (Japan). Dr. Chen is currently writing a book, The Uyghur Lobby, which explores the crucial roles of the Uyghur diaspora and transnational actors in fashioning a collective Uyghur aspiration to advance their brethren s rights in China.

12 Peter T. Y. Cheung (Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Peter T.Y. Cheung holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, Seattle. He received a Universitas 21 Fellowship and served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in He was a former Consultant, Part-time Member and Research and Planning Director of the Central Policy Unit, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government. A former Head of Department, he is currently a Fellow of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance and Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning at the University of Hong Kong. His current research interests focus on the relations between the central government and the HKSAR, the management of cross-boundary cooperation in south China and the politics of policy making in Hong Kong. Shiuh-Shen Chien (Department of Geography, National Taiwan University) Dr. Shiuh-shen CHIEN obtained his Ph.D. in London School of Economics and Political Science and now is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at National Taiwan University. Piror to that he was visiting research fellow of East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore. His research interests cover human geography, development studies, geography of globalization, comparative institutional analysis, transnational innovation, and political economy of urban and regional development with empirical focuses on transitional and developing countries. His articles in print or in progress are able to be seen in Environment and Policy C: Government and Policy, Urban Studies, Regional Studies; Build Environment; Asian Journal of Political Science; Asian Survey; Pacific Economic Review; Global Networks: An Journal of Transnational Affairs and so on.

13 Fang-Yi Chiou (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Fang-Yi Chiou is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in His research concentrates on American and Taiwanese political institutions and positive political economy with an emphasis on legislative politics and legislative-executive relationship. His articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, as well as Journal of Theoretical Politics. Yun-han Chu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He serves concurrently as president of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Professor Chu received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in He was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University in He served as Director of Programs of the Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan s leading independent think tank, from 1989 to Professor Chu specializes in politics of Greater China, East Asian political economy and democratization. He is a three-time recipient of Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council. He currently serves on the editorial board of China Perspective, China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of East Asian Studies and Journal of Democracy. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of eleven books. Among his recent English publications are Crafting Democracy in Taiwan (Institute for National Policy Research, 1992), Consolidating Third-Wave Democracies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), and China Under Jiang Zemin (Lynne Reinner, 2000).

14 Wan-wen Chu (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica) Wan-wen Chu is Research Fellow at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. She has published studies on East Asian economic development, and is the co-author of Beyond Late Development: Taiwan s Upgrading Policies (MIT Press 2003). Yih-chyi Chuang (College of Social Sciences, National Chengchi University) Dr. Chuang is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Economics and the Dean of College of Social Sciences at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.A. in Economics from National Taiwan University, M.S. in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing-hua University, Diploma in Economics from London School of Economics, and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. He was assistant research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, from 1993 to 1994 and since August 1994 has taught at National Chengchi University, where he served as an associate professor at the Department of Economics from 1994 to Dr. Chuang has done research on many issues related to human capital and economic growth, including trade, the role of human capital, R&D and direct foreign investment. In the past few years, he has contributed on evaluation of returns to education, compulsory education policy, and intergenerational social mobility in Taiwan. He has published many articles in international journals including the International Economic Review, Journal of International and Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Applied Economics, Small Business Economics, Review of World Economics, Asian Economic Journal, Review of International Economics, Economic Modelling, and Economics of Education Review. He also actively participates and presents papers in several international conferences including AEA Annual Meeting, WEA International Annual Conference, International Atlantic Economic Conference, etc.

15 Yousun Chung (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Yousun Chung is currently an assistant research fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica. She conducts research in Comparative Politics and International Relations with a focus on Chinese politics and East Asian politics. Prior to joining Academia Sinica, she received a broad training in Comparative politics, International Relations, and East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison (Ph.D. in August 2009), Seoul National University in South Korea, and Kyoto University in Japan. Dr. Chung currently focuses her research on welfare state reform in urban China and the relationship between local governance, state-society relations, social policy, and transitional political economy. Dale Copeland (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Dale Copeland is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of The Origins of Major War (Cornell University Press) and numerous articles on international security and great power conflict. His forthcoming book, Economic Interdependence and War, examines the impact of leaders' expectations of future trade on their willingness to initiate conflict or to find a peaceful solution to an enduring rivalry. His other research interests include the importance of reputation in coercion settings, the causes of economic decline, and the role of future uncertainty in great power politics.

16 John Echeverri-Gent (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) John Echeverri-Gent is associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is author of The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States (University of California Press, 1993) and co-editor of Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China, and India (Transaction, 1990). He is completing a book-length manuscript entitled Politics of Markets: Political Economy of India s Capital Markets. He has written many articles in comparative public policy and the political economy of development. He is treasurer of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Megan Greene (Department of History, University of Kansas) Megan Greene is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. A historian of Republican China, her publications include, The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for Modernization (Harvard University Press, 2008) and Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model (Routledge, 2007). Her current project is on scientific research and development in inland China during the Sino-Japanese war.

17 S. Philip Hsu (Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University) S. Philip Hsu is Associate Professor of Political Science and the executive director of Center for China Studies, National Taiwan University. His research interests include comparative politics (with particular emphasis on the People s Republic of China), political economy, and international relations (with particular emphasis on Asia-Pacific international security and economic cooperation). His articles have been published in The Pacific Review, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Contemporary China, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Issues & Studies, etc. He is also a co-editor of nine edited volumes published in Taiwan, China, and the Englishspeaking world, such as In Search of China s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus (New York: Routledge, 2011), and Minzhu, Minzhuhua, and Zhili Jixiao (Democracy, Democratization and Governance Performance) (Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press, 2011). Szu-chien Hsu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Dr. Szu-chien Hsu is an Assistant Researcher Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica. His research interests include Mainland China s political reform, China s developmental state in high-tech economic sectors, and cross-strait relations. On China s political reform, Dr. Hsu works on how party-state structure constrains the legal rationality of China s political reform, and how various types of social participation in the process of governance reshape the statesociety relationships. On cross-strait relations, Dr. Hsu is interested in how the domestic politics on each side affects the cross-strait interaction. Mr. Szu-chien Hsu earned his B.A. in political science from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and his M.A. and Ph.D. also in political science from Columbia University in the City of New York.

18 Xiaoming Huang (Department of Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington) Xiaoming Huang is Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre. Professor Huang received his Ph.D. in international relations from University of Southern California, and B.A. and M.A. in international relations from Peking University. Professor Huang teaches East Asian politics, international relations of East Asia, and China s politics and international relations at Victoria University. Dr Huang researches and publishes on East Asia s political economy, modern development of China, and international relations of East Asia. His publications appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth (Rutledge 2005); Politics in Pacific Asia (Palgrave 2009); and The Institutional Dynamics of China's Great Transformation (Routledge 2010). David C. Kang (School of International Relations and Marshall School of Business, Southern California University) David C. Kang is Professor of International Relations and Business at the University of Southern California, with appointments in both the School of International Relations and the Marshall School of Business. At USC he is also director of the Korean Studies Institute. Kang s latest book is East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (Columbia University Press, 2010). Kang has published numerous scholarly articles in journals such as International Organization and International Security, and his co-authored article Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History was awarded Best article, , by the European Journal of International Relations. He received an A.B. with honors from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Berkeley.

19 Tse-kang Leng (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Prof. Leng is Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica (IPSAS). He also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Political Science at National Chengchi University. Professor Leng received his Ph.D. in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in He was the Chairperson of Department of Political Science of National Chengchi University, Visiting Scholar at University of Tuebingen, Leiden University, and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His research interests include theories of international relations and cross-straits relations, political economy of globalization, and political economy of urban development in China. Dr. Leng has published books and book chapters in English and Chinese, and articles in leading journals such as The China Journal, Asian Survey, Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Focus, and Issues and Studies. Cheng-Yi Lin (Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica) Cheng-yi Lin is a research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies and executive director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, both at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in He has conducted extensive studies on Sino-American relations and Taiwan s national security policy. His papers have appeared in American Foreign Policy Interests, Asian Affairs; Asian Survey, China Brief, China Quarterly, Issues & Studies, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, among others. He co-edited with Michael Hsiao the book Rise of China: Beijing s Strategies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific (London: Routledge, 2009), and with Denny Roy the book The Future of United States, China, and Taiwan Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He is former director of the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica ( ) and director of Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University ( ).

20 Chu-Chia Lin (Department of Economics, National Chengchi University) Professor Chu-Chia Lin got his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Economics, UCLA at the year of 1988, and since then he is teaching at the Department of Economics in National Chengchi University, Taiwan, till now. Professor Lin served as the department head at the Department of Economics, NCCU, from 1993 to 1996, and he also served as the president of the Chinese Society of Housing Studies from 1998 to Now Professor Lin is the director of Center of Economic Policy Studies at NCCU, and he also serves as a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Board in Taiwan. Professor Lin s major research fields include housing economics, economic relation between Taiwan and China, and applied microeconomics. Jih-wen Lin (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Jih-wen Lin is research fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and teaches at National Chengchi University and National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles (1996) and his Bachelor's degree from the National Taiwan University (1986). He is interested in how and why institution works, and has modeled comparative institutional design by game theory and conducted empirical analyses of East Asian democracies. He has had articles published in Party Politics, Journal of Democracy, Electoral Studies, China Quarterly, Journal of East Asian Studies, Issues & Studies, among others. He can be reached at <ljw@sinica.edu.tw>.

21 Allen C. Lynch (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Allen Lynch is Director of Research, Center of International Studies and Professor at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Mr. Lynch has just completed (2011) an interpretive biography of Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft (Potomac Books). His other major works include: How Russia is Not Ruled (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Does Russia Have a Democratic Future? (Foreign Policy Association, 1997); Europe from the Balkans to the Urals (Oxford University Press, 1996) co-authored with Reneo Lukic; The Cold War Is Over Again (Westview Press, 1992); The Soviet Study of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1987). Bruce Reynolds (Department of Economics, University of Virginia) Prof. Bruce Reynolds studied at Yale University (B.A.) and Michigan (Ph.D.). He has worked on the Chinese textile and finance sectors and on the reform/trade/growth interaction. His current research focuses on the political economy of China s participation in global governance of the international financial system. He has published three books and dozens of articles. He taught for two years at Tunghai College in Taichung, and was a visiting exchange scholar at the Economic Research Institute (CASS). He joined the Virginia Economics Department in 2001, and since 2009 has been a Visiting Scholar at GWU s Elliott School in Washington.

22 Leonard Schoppa (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Leonard Schoppa is Professor Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan s System of Social Protection (Cornell, 2006); Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (Columbia, 1997); and Education Reform in Japan (Routledge, 1991). In addition, he has edited two books, including The Evolution of Japanese Party Politics (Toronto, 2011). He earned his DPhil in Politics from Oxford in 1989 and has been employed at the University of Virginia since 1990, with stints at Keio University ( ) and the University of Tokyo ( ) as a visiting researcher. Herman Schwartz (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Herman Schwartz is a Professor in the Politics Department, University of Virginia, USA. His research focuses on economic development, change in the welfare state, and global capital flows. Publications include Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital Flows and the Housing Bubble, States versus Markets, and In the Dominions of Debt, three co-edited volumes, The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts with Leonard Seabrooke, Crisis, Miracles and Beyond with Erik Albæk, Leslie Eliason and Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard, and Employment Miracles with Uwe Becker, and over 40 articles and chapters.

23 John R. Shepherd (Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia) John R. Shepherd is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia. He is the author of Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, (Stanford, 1993), Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th century Siraya (American Ethnological Society, 1995), and co-editor of Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent, Mortality Trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands, (Aksant, Amsterdam University Press, 2011). Chung-min Tsai (Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University) Chung-min Tsai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. He recieved a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in His research interests include comparative politics, political economy, and China studies. Professor Tsai's research has been published in the Asian Survey.

24 Hans H. Tung (Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University) Hans H. Tung is an assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in His broader research interests include domestic sources of China's foreign economic policymaking, regional and global repercussions of China's rise, and, more generally, political economic models for understanding economic policymaking in authoritarian regimes. Brantly Womack (Department of Politics, University of Virginia) Brantly Womack is the Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia and an honorary professor at Jilin University and East China Normal University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the author most recently of China Among Unequals: Asymmetric International Relationships in Asia (World Scientific Press 2010), and of China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (Cambridge 2006), translated as 中国与越南 : 政治的非对称性 (2010). Other translated books include 中国政治 (1994, 2003), and 毛泽东政治思想的基础, (2006). He edited China s Rise in Historical Perspective (Rowman and Littlefield 2010), and has authored more than a hundred articles and chapters on Asian politics. Current research concentrates on a general theory of asymmetric international relationships, China s external relations, and modern citizenship.

25 Chin-en Wu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Chin-en Wu is an assistant research fellow. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and joined the IPSAS in His current projects include income inequality and regime legitimacy, vote-buying, and the logic of civil society: contentious politics in new democracies. Yu-Shan Wu (Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica) Yu-Shan Wu is distinguished research fellow and director of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC, and jointly appointed professor at the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University. He was convener of political science at the National Science Council (NSC) in Taiwan and Secretary General of the Chinese Political Science Association (Taipei). His major interests are in political and economic transitions in formerly socialist countries, democratic consolidation and constitutional engineering in nascent democracies, and theories of cross Taiwan Strait relations. He has authored and edited thirteen books and published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. His most recent works include Semi- Presidentialism and Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and In Search of China s Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus (Routledge, 2011).

26 Yongnian Zheng (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore) Professor Zheng received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Beijing University, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He was a recipient of Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ( ) and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship ( ). He was Professor and founding Research Director of the China Policy Institute, the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has studied both China's transformation and its external relations. His papers have appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Quarterly, Third World Quarterly and China Quarterly. He is the author of 13 books, including Technological Empowerment, De Facto Federalism in China, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Globalization and State Transformation in China, and co-editor of 11 books on China's politics and society including the latest volume China and the New International Order (2008).

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