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End of China’s Reform Era

AmCham Special Luncheon

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China’s reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it — political stability, ideological openness and rapid economic growth — are unraveling.

Since the 1990s, Beijing’s leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, even as a decades-long boom has reshaped China’s economy and society. On the surface, their efforts have been a success. Political turmoil has toppled former Communist East bloc regimes, internal unrest has overtaken Middle East nations, and populist movements have risen to challenge established Western democracies. China, in contrast, has appeared a relative haven of stability and growth.

But Professor Carl Minzner argues that a closer look at China’s reform era reveals a different truth. Economic cleavages have widened. Ideological polarization has deepened. And China’s leaders are now progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime’s stability since 1978. Technocratic rule is giving way to black-box purges. Collective governance is sliding back toward single-man rule. The post-1978 era of “reform and opening up” is ending. China is closing down. Uncertainty hangs in the air as a new future slouches towards Beijing to be born. Professor Minzner will explain how China arrived at this dangerous turning point, and he will outline the potential outcomes that could result.

About the speaker

Carl Minzner 
Professor of law at Fordham University in New York; Author of End of an Era

Carl Minzner is a professor of law at Fordham University in New York and author of End of an Era (Oxford University Press, 2018). He has written extensively on Chinese law and governance in both academic journals and the popular press, including op-eds appearing in the New York TimesWall Street JournalLos Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.  Prior to joining Fordham, he was an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, he has served as Senior Counsel for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, International Affairs Fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations, and Yale-China Legal Education Fellow at the Xibei Institute of Politics and Law in Xi’an, China.

Contact Person: Mia Shih (02) 2718-8226 ext. 311 / [email protected]

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Date:
November 13, 2019 (Wednesday)
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
 (Taiwan time, UTC+8)
Cost:
NT$1,400 – NT$2,000

Venue

Mandarin Oriental Taipei, B2 Oriental 2&3 / 台北文華東方酒店 B2 東方廳貳和叁
敦化北路158號 No. 158, DunHua N Rd
台北市 Taipei City, Taiwan
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