List of EAI Public Lectures held in 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date & Time
Venue
4.
The East Asian Institute in
partnership with the Embassy of
France in Singapore and the AsiaEurope Foundation jointly present a
talk on
“A Literary Journey”
Mr Gao Xingjian
Winner of the Nobel Prize
in Literature, 2000
Monday,
26 November 2007
2:30pm-4:30pm
Lee Kong Chian
Auditorium,
University Hall
(Level 2), NUS, 21
Lower Kent Ridge
Road, Singapore
119077
3.
(BTC Public Lecture Series)
Organisers: Asia Research Institute,
East Asian Institute, Faculty of Law,
Institute of South Asian Studies, Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Prof Leonard Andaya
Thursday,
15 November 2007
5:00pm
NUS Bukit Timah
Campus, 469 Bukit
Timah Road, Blk B,
Level 3, Auditorium
Malay Ethnic Identity: Unravelling the
Historical from the Discursive
2.
Goh Keng Swee Lecture on Modern
China
Social Changes in China’s Urban
Community
1.
A Public Lecture in conjunction
with the Official Opening of NUS
Bukit Timah Campus
New University, Three Generations:
China, Malaya, Singapore, 1949-2007
Professor Li Qiang
Dean, School of Humanities
and Social Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China
Tuesday,
2 October 2007
4.30pm-6.00pm
The Auditorium,
Block B, Level 3,
Bukit Timah
Campus, National
University of
Singapore,
469 Bukit Timah
Road, Singapore
259756
Professor Wang Gungwu
Chairman of East Asian
Institute’s Management
Board; University Professor
in the Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences, National
University of Singapore and
Emeritus Professor of the
Australian National
University
Sunday,
8 July 2007
2:30pm-3:30pm
The Auditorium,
Block B, Level 3,
Bukit Timah
Campus, National
University of
Singapore,
469 Bukit Timah
Road, Singapore
259756
List of EAI Seminars held in 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
53.
China’s Success in Using Foreign Aid to
Diplomatically Isolate Taiwan
Professor John F. Copper
Rhodes College, USA
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, EAI
18 December 2007
52.
Economic Growth and Income Distribution in
China: Some Puzzles
Professor Zhang Weiying
Dean, Guanghua School of
Management, Peking University,
China
14 December 2007
51.
Climate Change and China’s Role in Global
Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Jeff Obbard
Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering & Tropical
Marine Science Institute, National
University of Singapore
7 December 2007
50.
FDI Technology Spillovers in China
Dr Tian Xiaowen
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
30 November 2007
49.
Chinese Military Modernization: How Fast?
How Furious?
Richard A. Bitzinger
Senior Fellow
The S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
23 November 2007
48.
Comparing the Hedging Strategies of
Malaysia and Singapore toward a Rising
China, 1990-2005
Kuik Cheng-Chwee
PhD Candidate
School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University, USA
16 November 2007
47.
Managing China’s Foreign Reserves: From
Huijin to China Investment Corporation
Mr Niu Tiehang & Mr Lye Liang Fook
East Asian Institute, NUS
9 November 2007
46.
(EAI Special Seminar)
The Korean Summit: Comparing 2000 and
2007
Professor Moon Chung-in
Ambassador for International Security
Affairs, Republic of Korea
2 November 2007
45.
Understanding Liquidity Expansion in China:
The Game between the Monetary Authority
and the Market
Dr Cao Yong
Nanyang Technological University
26 October 2007
44.
Bank Financing in China’s Private Sector:
The Payoffs of Political Capital
Dr Zhou Wubiao
Assistant Professor, School of
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
19 October 2007
43.
Energy Security, Xinjiang and the
Transformation of People’s Liberation Army
Martin Andrew
Bond University, Australia
12 October 2007
42.
Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?
Eswar S. Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade
Policy, Cornell University
10 October 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
41.
Differentiated Land Pricing and Urban
Economic Development in China
Dr Liang Ruobing
Visiting Research Fellow, East
Asian Institute, NUS
Associate Professor, School of
Economics, Xiamen University,
Xiamen, China
5 October 2007
40.
China’s Oil Venture in Africa
Dr ZHAO Hong
Visiting Research Fellow, East
Asian Institute, NUS
Associate Professor, Research
School of Southeast Asian Studies,
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
14 September 2007
39.
Building an East Asian Economic Community:
an ASEAN Perspective
Dr. Shee Poon Kim
Visiting Professor, Department of
Global Politics and Economics,
Tamkang University, Taiwan
Research Associate, EAI, NUS
31 August 2007
38.
China’s Rising Interest Groups
Professor Yang Guangbin
Director of Institute of Comparative
Political System, Renmin
University of China
Visiting Senior Research Fellow,
East Asian Institute, NUS
30 August 2007
37.
Hong Kong’s CEPA with China – Recent
Development
ZHANG Yang
Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Business Administration,
University of Macau
Visiting Research Fellow, EAI,
NUS
24 August 2007
36.
China’s Industrial Pollution: the Good, the Bad
and the Ugly
Associate Professor Wu Yanrui
UWA Business School, University
of Western Australia
Visiting Senior Research Fellow,
EAI, NUS
17 August 2007
35.
Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Economic and
Security Perspectives
Dr Huang Kwei-Bo
Associate Professor
Department of Diplomacy, National
Chengchi University, Taipei,
Taiwan
and
Dr Lee Chyungly
Associate Research Fellow
Institute of International Relations,
National Chengchi University,
Taipei, Taiwan
16 August 2007
34.
Explaining China’s Social Stratification
Through the Policy Making Process
Dr Zhu Xufeng
Associate Professor, Zhou Enlai
School of Government, Nankai
University
Visiting Research Fellow, East
Asian Institute, NUS
10 August 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
33.
China’s Diplomacy at Geneva and Bandung,
1954-55: Constructing “Peaceful Coexistence”
Professor Zhang Shu Guang
University of Maryland/
Shanghai International Studies
University
8 August 2007
32.
Liberal Traditions Within the Chinese
Communist Party
Dr Feng Chongyi
Associate Professor in China
Studies, University of Technology,
Sydney
7 August 2007
31.
Domestic Sources of Taiwan’s Cross-Strait
Policy: The US Arms Sales Puzzle
Associate Professor Vincent Wang
Wei-cheng
University of Richmond, USA
Visiting Research Fellow, EAI,
NUS
3 August 2007
30.
Building a Democratic Institution Through
Village Elections in China
Tan Qingshan
Professor, Cleveland State
University, USA
Visiting Research Fellow, EAI,
NUS
1 August 2007
29.
China Warms Up For Battles on Climate
Change
Dr. Chen Gang
Visiting Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
27 July 2007
28.
中国 的 乡村 基 层民 主 、公 共品 供 给与 新
农村 建 设
China’s Grassroots Democracy, Rural Public
Goods Provision and Building A New
Countryside
李人 庆 副研 究 员
中国 社 会科 学 院农 村 发展 研究
所
Li Renqing
Associate Research Fellow
Rural Development Institute,
Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, Beijing
20 July 2007
27.
Property Law, Rule of Law, and Beyond
―What Matter to Foreign Investors in China?
And What Not?
Chen Weitseng
JSD, Yale Law School
Postdoctoral scholar, Center on
Democracy, Development, and the
Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies at
Stanford University
13 July 2007
26.
Can Cross-regional Cadre Transfer Help Local
Economic Development?
Dr. Chien Shiuh-shen
Visiting Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
and
Dr. Zhao Litao
Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
6 July 2007
25.
International Accommodation of the Rise of
China: The Case of Australia
Professor He Baogang
School of International and Political
Studies, Deakin University,
Australia
5 July 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
24.
How MNC R&D Labs Influence Local
Innovative Capacity: Case Analysis of Beijing
Quan Xiaohong
Visiting Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
29 June 2007
23.
Putting China In Its Place: Classifying
Contemporary Political Regimes
Tony Spanakos
Visiting Researcher, Singapore
Management University
Assistant Professor, Montclair State
University
Adjunct Professor, New York
University
22 June 2007
22.
Motivations of China’s Foreign Oil Quest
Chen Shaofeng
PhD Candidate
Department of Political Science,
NUS
15 June 2007
21.
Is China’s Stock Market Heading for a Bubble
Dr. Yang Mu
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
and
Miss Zheng Yi
Research Officer
East Asian Institute, NUS
8 June 2007
20.
(ISAS-EAI Seminar)
(Jointly organised by Institute of South Asian
Studies and East Asian Institute)
Southeast Asia and India - A Journey into the
Future
Major General (Retd) Dipankar
Banerjee
Director and Head
Institute of Peace and Conflict
Studies
New Delhi, India
5 June 2007
19.
China’s Elite Politics: Political Transition and
Power Balancing
Professor Bo Zhiyue
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
1 June 2007
18.
(EAI Roundtable)
US Perceptions of China Today
Professor David Lampton
George and Sadie Hyman Professor
of China Studies, Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International
Studies;
Director of Chinese Studies, the
Nixon Center, USA
28 May 2007
2:30pm - 4:30pm
17.
Rethinking Shanghai’s Urban Development
Model
Professor Tu Qiyu
Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences, China and
Visiting Research Fellow, East
Asian Institute, NUS
25 May 2007
16.
Development of Guizhou and Yunnan:
Confounding Expectations and Economists
Dr. John A. Donaldson
Singapore Management University
18 May 2007
15.
(ISAS-EAI Seminar)
(Jointly organised by Institute of South Asian
Studies and East Asian Institute)
India-China Trade Relations
Professor Aditya Bhattacharjea
Professor of Economics
Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi
India
17 May 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
14.
Industrial Clustering and Agglomeration
Economy in China’s Pearl River Delta
Dr. Liu Yunhua
School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Nanyang Technological
University
4 May 2007
13.
中国行政改革与公民权利扩展
Government Reforms and Expansion of Civil
Rights in China
任剑涛教授
中山大学政府管理学院院长
与
肖滨教授
中山大学政府管理学院副院长
20 April 2007
Professor Ren Jiantao
Dean, School of Government
Management, Zhongshan
University, China
and
Professor Xiao Bin
Associate Dean, School of
Government Management,
Zhongshan University, China
12.
Nationalism in Mainland China and Taiwan
Dr. Hao Zhidong
Department of Sociology
University of Macau
4 April 2007
11.
Recent Developments in Taiwan-Mainland
Relations
Dr. Chien Shiuh-shen
Visiting Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
30 March 2007
10.
Social Justice: Emerging Focus of Ideology and
Policy in China
Dr. David Kelly
Senior Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
23 March 2007
9.
Can Hongkong’s Donald Tsang Get the Job
Done?
Professor Lee Ngok
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
20 March 2007
8.
The Politics of Interest Groups in Macao
Dr. Chou Kwok Ping
Visiting Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
16 March 2007
7.
Haigui’s （海归）Prominent Roles in China’s
Modernization
Dr. Yang Mu
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
and
Mr. Tan Soon Heng
Research Officer
East Asian Institute, NUS
9 March 2007
6.
The Development of Heritage Tourism: The
Case of Lijiang, Yunnan
Mr. Su Xiaobo
Department of Geography, NUS
2 March 2007
5.
Malaysia’s Chinese Business Community’s
Response to the Economic Rise of China
Dr. Chin Yee Whah
Visiting Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
23 February 2007
4.
Japan’s China Policy under Prime Minister Abe
Professor Purnendra Jain
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
East Asian Institute, NUS
13 February 2007
No.
Topic
Speaker
Date
3.
Industrial Policies in China’s Automobile
Industry
FANG Zhou
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of
Political Science, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
6 February 2007
2.
Who Will Drive the East Asia Summit: China,
Japan or ASEAN?
Dr. Shee Poon Kim
Visiting Professor, Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies,
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
2 February 2007
1.
Restoration and “Soft Power”: Images of
Confucius
Professor Wang Gungwu
Director of East Asian Institute,
NUS
26 January 2007