Vertical Control and Horizontal Networks in China with Professor Jae Ho Chung

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University will host Professor Jae Ho Chung for a public talk.

This talk is a presentation of Ch. 7 of the forthcoming volume, Centrifugal Empire: The Anatomy of Central-Local Relations in China (Columbia University Press, edp: 2016). The talk examines the evolving role and importance of Beijing's vertical support and inter-local horizontal networks in mitigating regional disparities in China. It is suggested that whereas Beijing's policy support and centrally-induced horizontal networks were important in the early phases of the reform, the center's resource support and voluntarily-formed lateral linkages have become increasingly crucial in recent years.

RSVP at   http://go.gwu.edu/chung

Jae Ho Chung is a professor of political science and international relations and Director of the Program on US-China Relations at Seoul National University, Korea. A graduate of Seoul National University, Brown University, and the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D. in 1993, Professor Chung taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993-96) and was the Brookings Institution's CNAPS Fellow (2002-3). Dr. Chung is the author or editor of seventeen books, including Central Control and Local Discretion in China (Oxford University Press, 2000), Between Ally and Partner: Korea-China Relations and the United States(Columbia University Press, 2007), China's Crisis Management (Routledge, 2011), Assessing China's Power (PagraveMacMillan, 2015), and Centrifugal Empire: The Anatomy of Central-Local Relations in China (Columbia University Press, forthcoming). Professor Chung is the founding coordinator of the Asian Network for the Study of Local China (ANSLoC: http://www.ansloc.net). He is a recipient of Seoul National University's Best Researcher Award in 2009 and of Korean Association for International Studies' Best Book Award in 2012.