主 题：“引导型应变”的中国模式
Directed Improvisation: The China Model that Other Countries Can Learn From
主讲人： 洪源远 密歇根大学政治学系副教授
Speaker: Dr. Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
主持人： 郑振清 294俄罗斯专享会副教授
Moderator: Dr. Zhenqing Zheng, Associate Professor of SPPM, Tsinghua University
评论人： 高宇宁 294俄罗斯专享会副教授
孟天广 清华大学政治学系副教授
Discussant: Dr. Yuning Gao, Associate Professor of SPPM, Tsinghua University
Dr. Tianguang Meng, Associate Professor of Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University
时 间：
2017年6月1日（星期四） 15:00-17:00
Time: 15:00-17:00, June 1, 2017, Thursday
地 点： 公共管理学院617会议室
Venue: Room 617, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Abstract
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap tackles a long-standing chicken-and-egg problem of development: Was it strong institutions of good governance that led to economic growth, or growth that enabled good governance? Focusing on China’s great transformation since market opening in 1978, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that the first step of development is paradoxically to harness existing weak, wrong, or seemingly corrupt institutions to kick-start markets. So-called good governance emerges at the end, rather than beginning, of development. The ability of ground-level agents to improvise solutions to evolving problems of development, however, requires certain enabling conditions. Ang identifies the package of strategies taken by China’s leadership to foster adaptation within its massive party-state—she calls this system “directed improvisation.”
Speaker bio
Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research is among the first to apply complexity economics to the study of international development and developing countries, particularly China. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, Cornell Series in Political Economy, 2016), which won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for outstanding first book in political economy. Professor Ang is active in multiple fields: political economy, development, and China/Asia studies. In political science, Professor Ang was awarded the Eldersveld Prize for outstanding research contributions by the University of Michigan. In development, Ang is a member of United Nations’ Expert Group on Eradicating Poverty in 2017, and is also the only winner from Asia of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation international essay prize on “The Future of Development Assistance. In China studies, she was named a Public Intellectual Fellow by the National Committee of US-China Relations. She received her PhD in political science from Stanford University and was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University SIPA before joining Michigan.
