Cornel Club Brunch on Sunday

Posted by Michael Collins | 2 December 2010 | Uncategorized

Cornell University Happy Hour 10/21

Posted by Michael Collins | 20 October 2010 | Uncategorized

Cornell Club – Hemmingway & Cuba

Posted by Michael Collins | 7 September 2010 | Uncategorized

Dear Tigers,

The Cornell Club is holding a talk at the Tree tonight.  Please see details below.

Warm regards,

Mike

University of Chicago Event

Posted by Michael Collins | 19 August 2010 | Events

Dear Tigers,

Next Friday the University of Chicago will be holding an event at the American Club with Dr. Jun Fu, Professor of Political Economy and Executive Dean of the School of Government at Peking University. Details below.

Warm regards,

Mike

The University of Chicago Alumni Club of Beijing is proud to present:

Wealth, Government and the Market

A book talk by

Dr. Jun Fu

Professor of Political Economy and Executive Dean

School of Government, Peking University

Friday, August 27, 2010

7:30-9:00p.m.

Beijing Room, American Club (29^th Floor)

China Resources Building

美洲俱乐部，华润大厦

Dinner cost is RMB280 if registered in advance and RMB331 at the door.  Please RSVP to Chicago Beijing Club at wdwang2002@yahoo.com by August 25, 2010.  If you have further questions, please contact Paul Wang 13911606842.  For your information, the book is titled “富国之道”.  The talk will be in Chinese.

MIT Book Talk

Posted by Michael Collins | 25 June 2010 | Uncategorized

Dear Tigers,

The MIT Club of Beijing will host a book talk for MIT Professor Ed Steinfeld on July 1.  Please see the details below.

Warm regards,

Mike

Dear Beijing Alumni Club Leaders

The MIT Club of Beijing would like to extend an invitation to your club members to a talk by Prof. Ed Steinfeld on July 1st. Details below.  I hope you can join us.

http://web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/E.Steinfeld.html

- Elaine Wong

The MIT MISTI-China Program & The MIT Club of Beijing
are proud to present:

China Through the MIT Lens:
Getting the Story Right through Innovative Education and Research

A book talk by
Dr. Edward Steinfeld
Associate Professor of Political Economy
in the MIT Department of Political Science
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Book Talk and Discussion: 7:30 – 8:30pm

The Bookworm Beijing
Bldg 4, Nan Sanlitun Rd.
Chaoyang District
Beijing, 100027
T: 6586 9507
北京, 朝阳区,南三里屯路4号楼
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Please RSVP to MIT Beijing Club, MITClubBeijing@gmail.com by June 28, 2010
If you have further questions, please contact Chris Tosatdo at Tel: 15810296928.

Here is an abstract for the book
Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West

China is often seen by outsiders as a place that has changed economically, but not politically. Moreover, it is often seen as a place that plays only by its own rules in the game of global competition. This book argues that the real story could not be more different. Beginning in the mid-1990s, China embarked on a radical acceleration of its reform efforts, one that involved a tight embrace of globalized production. That embrace opened up China to a variety of outside individuals and outside forces, forces that would play a key role in the restructuring of the country’s domestic economy, society, and even politics. As a result, many global companies today outsource production activities to China. Yet, China itself outsources the writing of the rules of the game to outsiders, particularly outsiders from the world advanced industrial economies. In the global division of labor that has resulted, China has grown not by supplanting the advanced industrial economies, but instead by complementing them. In the process, China has proceeded down a path of monumental social and political change. While China remains authoritarian today, its trajectory looks similar to that followed by previous Asian democratizers, namely South Korea and especially Taiwan. Not unlike what the KMT had done on Taiwan in the 1970 and 1980s, the Chinese communist party today has shifted from ideology-based to performance-based rule. Economic performance, particularly in the current era of globalization, increasingly requires the incorporation into the ruling party establishment of people who had previously been spurned intellectuals, technocrats, private entrepreneurs, and overseas trained experts. The core of the system is changing as the system scrambles to keep up with ever-expanding series of governance commitments held out to the Chinese citizenry. And throughout this process, China, for its own domestic interests, increasingly ends up playing not its own game of economic development, but rather our own.