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Northeastern Japan is rebuilding itself after last year's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. The devastation to the region is unquestionable, but so are the opportunities for energy industry reform and innovation. Masahiko Aoki and Kenji E. Kushida spoke with the Stanford News Service about developments in the region, and about possible links to Silicon Valley technologies.
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Japan's Modern Economy
In this lecture, Professor Okimoto analyzes Japan's SEID model of economic development. In addition, he explores factors behind Japan's economic success as well as its current economic problems.
Daniel I. Okimoto
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Sizing Up Taiwan's 2012 Election
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One of Taiwan's leading political scientists and most widely quoted authorities on Taiwan politics and cross-Strait relations, Professor Chu will address five issues in his talk:
First, how should we interpret the outcome of the January election and the nature and extent of President Ma's renewed mandate?
Second, to what extent has the 2012 election enhanced the overall quality of Taiwan's democracy?
Third, what can we expect in terms of President Ma's domestic agenda for the next four years?
Fourth, how much further and faster can the warming of cross-Strait relations proceed during President Ma's second term?
Fifth, what are the challenges and opportunities for the US-Taiwan relationship in the coming year?
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Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He also serves concurrently as President of Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Professor Chu joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in 1987. He was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University in 1990-1991 and has held a visiting professorship at Peking University since 2007. Professor Chu specializes in politics of Greater China, East Asian political economy, international political economy, and democratization. He is the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, a regional network of survey on democracy, governance and development covering more than seventeen Asian countries. He currently serves on the editorial board of Pacific Affairs, International Studies Perspective, China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of East Asian Studies and Journal of Democracy. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of thirteen books. Among his recent English publications are Consolidating Third-Wave Democracies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), China Under Jiang Zemin (Lynne Reinner, 2000), The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress (Cambridge University Press 2004) and How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2008).
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Yun-han Chu
Distinguished Research Fellow at Academia Sinica; Professor of Political Science
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National Taiwan University
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Attorneys and New Philanthrophy
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Will Fitzpatrick is the General Counsel of Omidyar Network. He will be sharing his perspectives on the role of philanthropy in social change, and the role that attorneys can play in philanthropy. Established by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives around the world. They invest in and help scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change, focusing on the themes of access to capital and media, markets and transparency. This talk is intended to broaden student understanding of the attorney's role in international philanthropy, and in particular the way that attorneys working at internationally-focused philanthropic organizations have to navigate international and domestic law to achieve positive social change.
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Lunch will be provided
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Critical Industry Studies in Cigarette Production Before, During, and After “Liberation”
Over the last hundred years, the cigarette has become a pillar of consumer life in China and many parts of the world. In 2010, the Chinese tobacco industry produced over two trillion cigarettes, generating over U.S. $90 billion in taxes and profits. Over 300 million Chinese citizens now use cigarettes every day, and tobacco kills 90 times more people each year than HIV/AIDS in China.
How has the cigarette become so integrated into the fabric of everyday life across the People’s Republic of China?
The importance of answering this question is unmistakable, but very little historical research and writing has examined China’s cigarette industry from the mid-20th century to the present. To get to the heart of this question, historians, health policy specialists, sociologists, anthropologists, business scholars, and other experts will meet Mar. 26 and 27 at the new Stanford Center at Peking University for a conference organized by the Asia Health Policy Program. They will examine connections intricately woven over the past 60 years between marketing and cigarette gifting, production and consumer demand, government policy and economic profit, and many other dimensions of China’s cigarette culture.
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