Will China Democratize? A Lecture by Dr. Minxin Pei
Feb 11 2010 11:30 am
Feb 11 2010 2:00 pm
The Asia Society of Texas presents China specialist Minxin Pei to open the BP Lecture Series: Prospects for Democracy. Tickets are $30 for members, $40 for non-members, $300 for a table of 10. Call Asia Society Texas Center at 713-439-0051 for more information, or click here.
Over the past 30 years Communist Party leaders have transformed China
into an economic powerhouse. At the same time they have shown scant
interest in opening up the country's political system. Much hinges on
the question: Can this marriage of economic growth and authoritarian,
one-party rule work for the next three decades?
Minxin Pei, named one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals in a Foreign Policy magazine poll, will address this question in his February 11 lecture, Will China Democratize? His lecture kicks off the 2010 BP Lecture Series: "Prospects for Democracy: China, North Korea, and Afghanistan."
Pei is a professor and director of the Keck Center for
International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College and an
adjunct senior associate in the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. His research focuses on democratization in
developing countries, economic reform and governance in China, and
U.S.-China relations.
His books include From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994) and China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006). He also contributes regularly to such journals as Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs and to the op-ed pages of Financial Times, New York Times, and the Washington Post. His recent Foreign Policy
cover story, "Think Again: Asia's Rise," takes issue with the
conventional wisdom that we are entering a period of Western decline
and Asian ascendancy.
Dr. Pei was born in Shanghai and is a graduate of Shanghai
International Studies Institute. He has a doctorate from Harvard
University.
Location:
- Street:
- The Houston Club
- Additional:
- 811 Rusk Ave
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Country:
- United States
