Time and Date: Wednesday 19 April, 10:00-11:30 AM BJT

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Speaker: Fengshi Wu, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

Moderator: Coraline Goron, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke Kunshan University

In this lecture, we will review and discuss a body of literature that reveals the main mechanisms via which the Chinese state has endured the revival of social autonomy in the post-reform era, Chinese citizens manage to voice their opinions and insert their collective policy influence, and, more importantly, how state agencies and citizen organisations have learned to work with each other throughout the processes.

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Bio: Fengshi Wu is a world-leading scholar in environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on China and Asia. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-2009) and a Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2004). Her academic works have appeared in China Journal, Environmental Politics, VOLUNTAS, China Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Contemporary China and International Studies Quarterly. She edited the book China’s Global Conquest for Resources (Routledge, 2017) on Chinese overseas investment in and acquisition of natural resources. Currently, A/Prof. Wu is the inaugural Series Editor of Environment and Society in Asia, Amsterdam University Press, President of AACaPS (2023-2024), and serves on the Executive Committee and the Board of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). A/Prof. Wu received her PhD in political science from the University of Maryland and BA (Hons) in international relations from Beijing University. Prior to UNSW, she held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

This event is organized by DKU Public Policy Group and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and the Environment Research Center.