Guest lecture by Bo Zhiyue

Asia Research Centre is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by

Dr. Bo Zhiyue from the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore

on

China's Elite Politics: The 18th Party Congress and Beyond

At the 18th Party Congress scheduled for 2012, China is going to witness another generational transition at the zenith of political power. The fifth generation leaders will take over from their predecessors and manage domestic and foreign affairs of the most populous country in the world. In this talk, Dr. Bo Zhiyue, a leading scholar on China’s elite politics, will discuss three scenarios of the political transition, describe major characteristics of the fifth generation leaders, and project their domestic and foreign policies.

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).