| A Tale of Two Nobels: Liu Xiaobo and Mo YanThe USC U.S.-China Institute presents a talk by Perry Link discussing China's two recent Nobel Prize winners, Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan.04/30/2013 4:00PM - 5:30PM Leavey Library, Leavey Auditorium Address:University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Cost:Free, please RSVP at uschina@usc.edu. Click here to RSVP. What is the writer's place in China today? What should it be? What responsibilities does a writer have to readers? To the state? To art? To moral principle? China's two recent Nobel Prize winners, Liu Xiaobo for peace, and Mo Yan for literature, offer some contrasting answers. | | Liu Xiaobo(刘晓波) | Mo Yan(莫言) |
Perry Link is among the top American scholars of Chinese culture. He previously taught at UCLA and Princeton and now holds the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. He publishes on Chinese language, literature, and cultural history, and also writes and speaks on human rights in China. His most recent books are Liu Xiaobo’s Empty Chair:Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most(2011), An Anatomy of Chinese:Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics (2012), and the co-edited volume Restless China(2013). He's written, edited, and translated many other works and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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NGO Development in China
Talk by Timothy Hildebrandt, King’s College London
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
4:00pm
11377 Bunche Hall
In this talk, Timothy Hildebrandt discusses his new
book, which examines the development of NGOs in China. The
book offers a cross-regional, multi-case study examination of NGOs in
three different areas:environmental protection, HIV/AIDS prevention,
and gay and lesbian rights. By carefully breaking
apart and analyzing the opportunity structure facing Chinese social
organizations, the book demonstrates how NGOs must adapt activities to
match the changing interests of local governments. Its comparative
approach also provides for important insights into
variation across locale and issue area. The book ultimately shows how
social organizations paradoxically strengthen, rather than weaken, the
authoritarian regime in China. In this talk, he will also look toward to
future of NGOs in China, discussing how new
political and economic limitations are beginning to force these
organizations to either adapt or die. The changing forms of Chinese NGOs
are looking less like traditional nonprofits and more like businesses.
Dr.
Timothy Hildebrandt is currently a lecturer
in Chinese Politics at King’s College London; in September 2013 he will
join the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics
and Political Science. His research focuses on the changing
state–society relationship in China, NGO development
in authoritarian polities, the linkages between activism and social
entrepreneurship, the political economy of social exclusion, and
emerging LGBT rights and activism in the non-Western world.
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