Where is China Headed?

Project Coordinator: Prof. Joseph Fewsmith

This project began with a conference in December 2008 which will lead to an edited book based on the papers presented in the conference.

Conference reports available here and here. Videos of conference panels and keynote address available here.

An international group of distinguished China scholars gathered at Boston University in early December for a conference titled "Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where is China Headed?"

The conference was organized by Professor Joseph Fewsmith, a Pardee Center Faculty Fellow and a Professor at BU’s Departments of International Relations and Political Science. Fewsmith is an expert on China and the author of four books about the country, including most recently China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (Cambridge University Press).

The conference included sessions on China’s economy, social order and politics as well as its health care, energy and environmental systems. A keynote address by Ambassador Stapleton Roy was presented during the luncheon plenary.

Papers presented at the conference will be available in advance and will be later edited into a book.