List of EAI Public Lectures held in 2015
No.
Topic
3.
EAI Distinguished Public Lecture
(organised by East Asian Institute,
NUS)
Chinese Political Culture and
Regime Sustainability
2.
EAI Distinguished Public Lecture
(organised by East Asian Institute,
NUS)
What Does Xi Jinping Teach Us
about Chinese Politics?
1.
EAI Distinguished Public Lecture
(organised by East Asian Institute,
NUS)
China's Growth and Productivity
Performance Debate Revisited
Speaker
Date & Time
Venue
Professor Tang Wenfang
Stanley Hua Hsia Professor of
Political Science and
International Studies,
University of Iowa, USA
Tuesday,
18 August 2015,
4:30pm-6:00pm
Block B, Level 4, Seminar
Room 4-4, Faculty of Law,
NUS Bukit Timah Campus,
469 Bukit Timah Road,
Singapore 259770
Professor Joseph Fewsmith
Professor of International
Relations and Political Science,
Pardee School for Global
Studies, Boston University,
USA
Tuesday,
11 August 2015,
4:30pm-6:00pm
Block B, Level 4, Seminar
Room 4-4, Faculty of Law,
NUS Bukit Timah Campus,
469 Bukit Timah Road,
Singapore 259770
Professor Wu Xiaoying, Harry
Professor of Economics,
Institute of Economic Research,
Hitotsubashi University, Japan;
Senior Fellow, The Conference
Board (TCB), New York and
Research Director of TCB
China Center, Beijing
Friday,
27 March 2015,
4:30pm-6:00pm
Block B, Level 4, Seminar
Room 4-1, Faculty of Law,
NUS Bukit Timah Campus,
469 Bukit Timah Road,
Singapore 259770
List of EAI Seminars held in 2015
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
45.
China’s Regional Strategy and the
Assertiveness Syndrome
Dr Hoo Tiang Boon
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the
MSc (Asian Studies) Programme,
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
(RSIS), Nanyang Technological University
29 December 2015
44.
China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative and
Unrest in China’s West
Dr Ben Hillman
Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public
Policy, Australian National University,
Australia
21 December 2015
43.
New Energy Vehicles Industry in China:
Developments and Challenges
Dr Kong Tuan Yuen
Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
18 December 2015
42.
“Positive Energy”: Hegemony and Online
Public Opinion Guidance in the Xi Jinping
era
Dr Yang Peidong
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Humanities
and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological
University
11 December 2015
41.
China Restructures its National Security
Decision-Making System
Dr Hu Weixing
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Professor of Political Science, Department of
Politics and Public Administration, The
University of Hong Kong
1 December 2015
40.
Structural Inequalities and China’s Health
Policy Reforms: Evidence from China
Health Nutrition Surveys 1991-2011
Dr Wu Xun
Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of
Public Policy, NUS
and
Ms Yan Yifei
PhD Candidate, Lee Kuan Yew School of
Public Policy, NUS
27 November 2015
39.
Transcending Ethnoreligious Boundaries
(Or Not): Mate Selection of Hui Muslims in
Contemporary China
Dr Mu Zheng
Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research
Institute and the Centre for Family and
Population Research, National University of
Singapore
20 November 2015
38.
Is China Shifting from Being the “World’s
Factory” to a Global R&D Hub?
Dr Lu Ding
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Professor, the University of the Fraser Valley,
Canada
13 November 2015
37.
China’s Rise and the Abe Administration:
Continuity and Change in Japan’s Foreign
Policy towards East Asia
Dr Kei Koga
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological
University
6 November 2015
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
36.
State-Owned Enterprises in South Korea
Dr Kilkon Ko
Associate Professor, Graduate School of
Public Administration, Seoul National
University, South Korea
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of
Political Science, NUS
30 October 2015
35.
Silk Road or Gas Pipelines: The Imperatives
of China’s Energy Security
Mr Nazir Shah
Blueflame Renewable Solutions, Singapore
23 October 2015
34.
The City for Intermediaries: Compradors in
Hong Kong, 1830s to 1880s
Dr Kaori Abe
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological
University
16 October 2015
33.
东亚研究所华语讲座
方兴东 博士
博客中国创始人和总编辑、全球网创始
人和董事长、中国互联网协会研究中心
常务副主任
Dr Fang Xingdong
Founder and Chief Editor, blogchina.com
Founder and Chairman, qqw.com
Executive Deputy Director, Research
Centre of Internet Society of China
14 October 2015
“中美网络空间关系现状分析与倡议”
EAI Seminar (in Mandarin)
Cyberspace Issue in China-US Relations:
Analyses and Recommendations
32.
The Emerging Discursive Regime of
Religion in the People's Republic of
China
Dr Liang Yongjia
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Professor of Anthropology, Chinese
Agriculture University, China
9 October 2015
31.
Imperial Mediations: Chinese-Arabic
Connections at the Turn of the 20th
Century
Dr Wen Shuang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Middle East Institute,
NUS
2 October 2015
30.
Rising Wages, Yuan’s Appreciation and
China’s Processing Exports
Professor Xing Yuqing
Visiting Research Professor, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Professor of Economics, National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
25 September 2015
29.
A Tale of Two Rivers: China’s policy
towards Kazakhstan’s Ili and Irtysh
rivers in comparative perspective
Dr Selina Ho
Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and
Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of
Public Policy, NUS
18 September 2015
28.
Agriculture in Abenomics: the changing
political dynamics of Japanese
agriculture
Dr Yoshihisa Godo
Professor of Economics, Meiji Gakuin
University, Japan
4 September 2015
27.
Social Protection for Workers in the
Urban Informal Sector in China
Dr Qian Jiwei
Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, NUS
28 August 2015
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
26.
Peace or War Journalism? An Analysis
of Chinese News Media’s Coverage of
the Libyan Crisis in 2011
Dr Zhang Shixin
Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, National University of Singapore
Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies,
School of International Communications, the
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
21 August 2015
25.
Global Value Chains and China’s
Exports to High Income Countries
Professor Xing Yuqing
Visiting Research Professor, East Asian
Institute, National University of Singapore
Professor of Economics, National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
31 July 2015
24.
Rethinking the Chinese Communist
Party Elite Politics: An Alternative
Analytical Approach
Dr Guo Xuezhi
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Professor of Political Science and East Asian
Studies and Director of Intercultural Studies at
Guilford College, United States
24 July 2015
23.
Shaping China’s Energy Diplomacy:
Wealth, Status and Asymmetrical
Interdependence
Dr Wu Fuzuo
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre on
Asia and Globalization, Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy, NUS
10 July 2015
22.
Web 2.0, Political Engagement and Mass
Mobilisation in China
Dr Wu Fengshi
Associate Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies, Nanyang Technological
University
3 July 2015
21.
Forced Displacement and the Deficit of
Social Welfare in the People’s Republic of
China
Dr Shao Qin
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Professor of History, The College of New
Jersey, USA
26 June 2015
20.
Rethinking Democracy in Post-Fukushima
Japan: A Case of Nuclear Damage
Compensation
Dr Hiro Saito
Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Singapore Management University
8 June 2015
19.
China-Russia Strategic Partnership in the
Context of Russia's "Pivot to Asia": Myths
and Reality
Dr Alexander Korolev
Research Fellow, Centre for Asia and
Globalisation, LKY School of Public
Policy, NUS
5 June 2015
18.
The Problem of the Chinese Press
Dr Emily Chua Hui Ching
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department
of Sociology, NUS
29 May 2015
17.
Globalisation, Consumption and the Popular
Cultural Industries: A Study of J-Pop, K-Pop
and Chinese Popular Culture in East Asia
Dr Lim Tai Wei
Adjunct Research Fellow, East Asian Institute,
NUS
22 May 2015
16.
China’s B2C E-Commerce
Mr Richard Li
Vice President, Global E-Commerce Service
Business Unit, SF Express
15 May 2015
(10am-11:30am)
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
15.
Implications of Retirement Age Extension
on Human Capital in China, 2010-2040
Dr Feng Qiushi
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,
National University of Singapore
8 May 2015
14.
China’s Efforts to Curb Shadow Banking
Dr Wan Jing
Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, National University of Singapore
24 April 2015
13.
Does Public Consultation Matter? An
Empirical Finding on the Politics of
Authoritarian Deliberation in China
Professor He Baogang
Head of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Programme, Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore
13 April 2015
Mr Wu Jinjin
Visiting Scholar, NTU, Singapore
12.
东亚研究所华语讲座
“海外科技人才与中国的学术相关性研
究”
EAI Seminar (in Mandarin)
Foreign Scientists and Chinese
Scholarship: A Correlational Analysis
高子平 博士
新加坡国立大学东亚研究所访问学者
中国上海社会科学院人力资源研究中心副
主任
Dr Gao Ziping
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute,
NUS; Deputy Director, Research Centre
for Human Resources, Shanghai
Academy of Social Sciences, China
10 April 2015
11.
Confucianism in Chinese Foreign Policy:
Historical Traditions and Contemporary
Relevance
Dr Zhang Feng
Fellow, Department of International
Relations, Australian National University,
Australia
24 March 2015
10.
Paradoxes of Multicultural Korea
Dr Joowon Yuk
Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Geography and Asia Research Institute,
NUS
20 March 2015
9.
The Global Energy System: Changes and
their Implications for China
Dr Zhang Chi
Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
Assistant Professor, Institute for Strategic
Studies, National Defence University of
China
13 March 2015
8.
Social Media in China: the possibilities of
building a dialogue mechanism
Dr Tian Zhihui
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS;
Professor of Communication, Communication
University of China
6 March 2015
7.
东亚研究所华语讲座
朱光磊 教授
中国南开大学副校长
Professor Zhu Guanglei
Professor and Vice-President, Nankai
University, China
27 February 2015
“中国社会阶层分化的历史过程与发展
趋势”
EAI Seminar (in Mandarin)
The History and Development Trend of
Social Stratification in China
No.
6.
Topic
东亚研究所华语讲座
“中国超大城市新型多民族社区及其治
理——北京的案例研究”
EAI Seminar (in Mandarin)
The ‘New’ Multi-Ethnic Communities of
Chinese Megacities and their Governance:
A Case Study of Beijing
Speaker
Date
良警宇 教授
中国中央民族大学社会学系副主任
Professor Liang Jingyu
Professor and Vice-Director, Department of
Sociology, Minzu University of China
13 February 2015
5.
Earnings, Income and Wealth Distributions
in China: Facts from the 2011 China
Household Finance Survey
Dr Zhu Shenghao
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics, National
University of Singapore
4 February 2015
4.
The Political Economy of Rural Finance in
China
Dr Feng Hui
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS;
Research Fellow, Griffith University,
Australia
30 January 2015
3.
Measuring Domestic Value Added in
China's Exports: A Direct Approach
Professor Xing Yuqing
Professor of Economics, National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies, Japan;
Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Chinese
Economy, Fudan University, China
28 January 2015
2.
Social Impact and Risk Assessment: New
Requirements for Policy Making and Project
Planning in China
Dr Yan Hao
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian
Institute, NUS
23 January 2015
1.
Pernicious Gaming in China’s Target-Based
Performance Measurement System
Dr Gao Jie
Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science, National University of Singapore
16 January 2015