On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Grand Picture of China's Capitalist Revolution
Join Michigan professor Yuen Yuen Ang in discussing China's recent growth and development.
When:
September 26, 2017 11:30am to 12:30pm
Where
Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.
Attempts to explain China's development all suffer from a “blind men and elephant" problem: depending on when and where one looks within China, every theory of development is correct, yet none is complete. What then is the grand picture of China's great economic and institutional transformation? The answer lies in the sequence of strategies, rather than in any particular factor. In China, the first step of development was paradoxically to kick-start markets using "weak/wrong/backward" institutions.
Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and a Faculty Associate at the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, Series in Political Economy, 2016), which won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy.”
An op-ed on her talk is available at this link: https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-harnessing-weak-institutions-to-build-markets-90920
Cost:
Free
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