Fewsmith Speaks at Harvard Panel on China’s 19th Party Congress
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was part of an October 23, 2017 panel discussing “China’s Future Leadership: An Instant Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress,” jointly sponsored by Harvard University’s Fairbank Center and Ash Center.
The panel was moderated by Vive Provost of International Affairs Mark Elliott and consisted of Tony Saich, Director of the Ash Center, Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Edward Wong, foreign correspondent for the New York Times and currently a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University, and Yasheng Huang, of the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
The panel reflected on prospects for continuity and discontinuity in policy, on central-local leadership, governance issues, leadership politics and trends, and Sino-US relations.
Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. Learn more about him here.