China's Elite Politics

Asia Research Centre invites to a guest lecture by

Dr. Bo Zhiyue

Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

on

China's Elite Politics

Despite of the high profile of China as a rising power in the international arena, China's elite politics remains a black box. Academic efforts have been made to open this box, yet with limited success. In this talk, Dr. Bo Zhiyue, a leading scholar on China's political elites and elite politics, will explain political transition that occurred at the Sixteenth Party Congress with a new theoretical framework, discuss recent development on elite politics in China, and project the future development of another major transition in 2012.

Dr. Bo Zhiyue is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He obtained his Bachelor of Law and Master of Law from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Peking University, Roosevelt University, the University of Chicago, American University, St. John Fisher College, Tarleton State University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a recipient of the Trustees' Distinguished Scholar Award at St. John Fisher College and the inaugural holder of the Joe and Theresa Long Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at Tarleton State University.

His research interests include China's elite politics, Chinese provincial leaders, central-local relations, cross-strait relations, and Sino-American relations. He is the author of a trilogy on Chinese political elites and elite politics: Chinese Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and Political Mobility since 1949 (M. E. Sharpe, 2002); China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing (World Scientific, 2007); and China's Elite Politics: Governance and Democratization (World Scientific, 2010).