Fewsmith Lectures in China, Singapore
Joseph Fewsmith, Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, traveled to Asia to discuss Chinese and American politics at universities in China and Singapore.
On June 6, Fewsmith gave a talk on “Fighting Corruption” at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. This event was followed by two more presentations in China; a June 18 talk on “New Challenges and Possibilities in Sino-U.S. Relations” at Shanxi University in Taiyuan, and a June 28 talk on “New Challenges and Possibilities in Sino-U.S. Relations” at the Center for Research and Cooperation on the South China Sea at Nanjing University.
On August 11, Fewsmith was invited to give East Asia Institute Distinguished Lecture on “What Xi Jinping Teaches Us about Chinese Politics” at the East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore. Fewsmith followed this engagement with a talk on “What Is a Faction” at the Conference on The Chinese Communist Party in Action, organized by the East Asia Institute of the National University of Singapore.
The East Asian Institute (EAI) was set up in April 1997 as an autonomous research organization under a statute of the National University of Singapore. The main mission of EAI is to promote both academic and policy-oriented research on East Asian development, particularly the political, economic and social development of contemporary China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), and China’s growing economic relations with the region and the world at large. The long-term vision of EAI is to develop into the region’s foremost research institution on East Asian development.
Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. Learn more about him here.