The SAIS China Forum

Presents

Dr. Joseph Fewsmith

Professor, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Boston University

on

“What Does Fighting Corruption Teach Us about Chinese Politics”

 Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 5:00-7:00 pm

Kenney Auditorium

1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20036

Since the Eighteenth Party Congress convened in November 2012, China has undertaken a wide-ranging campaign against corruption, one that has gone on longer, cut deeper, and affected more people than anyone could have imagined. This campaign has exposed many of the ills affecting Chinese political life in considerable depth. The question is: Can this campaign, however thorough-going, change the way politics are played in contemporary China?

Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University’s Pardee School for Global Studies. He is the author or editor of seven books, including, most recently (January 2013), The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (Cambridge University Press) and Tiananmen (2^nd edition, 2008).  He is an associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University.

Reception follows the presentation