Playoff Time in China:
Leadership Prospects for the 18th Party Congress
Professor Jeremy Paltiel, Political Science, Carleton University
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Room 156, National Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Refreshments following the presentation
Everyone is welcome.*
The past few months have seen dramatic moves that have shifted the landscape for the leadership transition scheduled for the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China scheduled for next Fall. What are the norms surrounding leadership selection and change in China today? Who are the important players in the process? What have we learned from the Bo Xilai affair? What are the prospects for the Fifth Generation of Communist Party leadership and what are the contingencies for political reform in China?
Professor Jeremy Paltiel was visiting professor at the department of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009 and has taught at several North American universities. He received a diploma in Philosophy from Beijing University, his MA and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, where his PhD dissertation was a comparative study of political succession and economic reform in the Soviet Union and China. He writes about the elite politics of the Chinese Communist including, “How the Party Markets Itself to China”; “Jiang Talks Politics--Who Listens? Institutionalization and Its Limits in Market Leninism”.
He has published widely on subjects relating to China and its foreign relations, including on the political economy of transition to market economies, and comparison of business culture in China and Canada. He recently authored two papers: “Canada in China’s Grand Strategy” and “Structure and Process in China’s Foreign Policy Making – implications for Canada.” Most recently he published “Reimagining Canada’s Present and Future in the Shadow of China’s Rise”
*Free for CCFS members. There is a charge of $5 for non-CCFS members. The CCFS-Ottawa annual membership is $20 for individuals, $30 for a family, $12 for a tudent and $17 for a student family. Membership forms are available at our website and at our events. For further information, please visit www.fccfa.ca/Ottawa or call 613-729-3660 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 613-729-3660 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Hope to see you there!
Lorraine Farkas
President
Canada-China Friendship Society of Ottawa
website: www.fccfa.ca/Ottawa/ ; www.facebook.com/ccfs.ottawa
e-mail: [FONT='courier new', monospace]ccfs.ottawa@gmail.com[/font]
Leadership Prospects for the 18th Party Congress
Professor Jeremy Paltiel, Political Science, Carleton University
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Room 156, National Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Refreshments following the presentation
Everyone is welcome.*
The past few months have seen dramatic moves that have shifted the landscape for the leadership transition scheduled for the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China scheduled for next Fall. What are the norms surrounding leadership selection and change in China today? Who are the important players in the process? What have we learned from the Bo Xilai affair? What are the prospects for the Fifth Generation of Communist Party leadership and what are the contingencies for political reform in China?
Professor Jeremy Paltiel was visiting professor at the department of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009 and has taught at several North American universities. He received a diploma in Philosophy from Beijing University, his MA and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, where his PhD dissertation was a comparative study of political succession and economic reform in the Soviet Union and China. He writes about the elite politics of the Chinese Communist including, “How the Party Markets Itself to China”; “Jiang Talks Politics--Who Listens? Institutionalization and Its Limits in Market Leninism”.
He has published widely on subjects relating to China and its foreign relations, including on the political economy of transition to market economies, and comparison of business culture in China and Canada. He recently authored two papers: “Canada in China’s Grand Strategy” and “Structure and Process in China’s Foreign Policy Making – implications for Canada.” Most recently he published “Reimagining Canada’s Present and Future in the Shadow of China’s Rise”
*Free for CCFS members. There is a charge of $5 for non-CCFS members. The CCFS-Ottawa annual membership is $20 for individuals, $30 for a family, $12 for a tudent and $17 for a student family. Membership forms are available at our website and at our events. For further information, please visit www.fccfa.ca/Ottawa or call 613-729-3660 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 613-729-3660 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Hope to see you there!
Lorraine Farkas
President
Canada-China Friendship Society of Ottawa
website: www.fccfa.ca/Ottawa/ ; www.facebook.com/ccfs.ottawa
e-mail: [FONT='courier new', monospace]ccfs.ottawa@gmail.com[/font]
