CAPI China Chair Report

CAPI China Chair Report July 2012-June 2013

By Guoguang Wu

Besides regular teaching and services, the CAPI China Chair spent major time of the academic year on the writing of a research monograph (funded by a SSHRC individual research grant), The Theatre of Power: Political Legitimacy, Institutional Manipulation, and China’s Party Congress, which nears the completion by the end of the academic year. He kept active in the profession, however, in various ways that included book/article publishing, conference organizing, conference participating, paper and lecture delivering, fund application, manuscript and grant assessing, and media interviews. Some relevant details of grant, publication, conference participation, and other activities are listed below, as teaching, graduate supervision, and many other activities and services through both Departments of Political Science and History are not included:

Grant Awarded:

A SSHRC Insight Grant of $153,672 was awarded in April 2013 to CAPI China Chair’s individual research project, 2013-17, on “Unsustainable prosperity: China, globalization, and the new political economy of development.’

Conference/Event Organization:

Convener, a CAPI workshop, “China’s Transition in Perspectives”, which will be held on September 27-28, 2013;

Convener, the Hung Lecture 2013, which will be given in September 2013 by Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA.

Publications:

Referred publications:

Guoguang Wu ed., China’s Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications (London: Routledge, 2013), xiv+336 pp.

Guoguang Wu, ‘Human Security Challenges with China: Why and How the Rise of China Makes the World Vulnerable?’ in Guoguang Wu ed., China’s Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications (London: Routledge, 2013), pp.1-27.

Guoguang Wu, “Debating Political Reform: Social Pressures and Party-State Responses,” in Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian eds., China: Development and Governance (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013 [released in October 2012]), pp.15-20.

Guoguang Wu, “Multiple Dilemmas of Chinese Nationalism: Historical Developments and Political Misplacements,” in Chen Yan and Joseph Cheng eds., Globalization and Identification: The Paradox of Contemporary Chinese Nationalism (Hong Kong: City University Press, 2012), pp.69-94.

Policy and intellectual publications:

Wu Guoguang, Hegemon Without a Moral Compass: Post-Revolutionary China (Tokyo: Sankei Shimbun Press, 2012) [in Japanese; translated by Lau Kenliong], 235 pp.

Wu Guoguang, “Sister Tang and Mister Election: The 1911 Revolution and Democratic Institution-Building in Modern China,” in Sheng Xue ed., The Century of Failures: Historical Studies of the 1911 Revolution (Hong Kong: United Press, 2012), pp.21-33 [in Chinese].

1 Wu Guoguang, “Introduction” to Yao Jianfu, Conversations with Chen Xitong [Chen was Beijing Mayor and the CCP Politburo member before 1993 who played a significant role in the 1989 Tiananmen events], Hong Kong: New Century Press, 2012, pp.1-25 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Bimonthly Reading Notes, July-August 2012,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=17494, September 8, 2012 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Bimonthly Reading Notes, September-October 2012,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=18214, October 30, 2012 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Bimonthly Reading Notes, November-December 2012,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=19129, January 2, 2013 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, a video interview by The China File of the Asia Society (New York) on Zhao Ziyang and China’s Political Future, http://www.chinafile.com/zhao-ziyang-and-china-s-political-future, February 12, 2013;

Wu Guoguang, ‘Bimonthly Reading Notes, January-February 2013,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=20243, March 15, 2013 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Bimonthly Reading Notes, March-April 2013,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=21023, May 6, 2013 [in Chinese].

Opinion Pieces:

Wu Guoguang, ‘Interview with Sankei Shimbun,’ Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo, Japan), July 18, 2012, pp.2 & 8.

Wu Guoguang, ‘Chen Guangcheng Tests Wen Jiabao,’ http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/12/4/28/n3576417.htm, April 27, 2012 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Wen Jiabao Should Inspect Yinan,’ http://www.newcenturynews.com/Article/gd/201205/20120501111551.html, May 1, 2012 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Domestic and Foreign-Relation Challenges to China,’ Trend, the August issue, 2012, pp.48-50 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘Three Challenges That Bo Xilai Has Presented,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=19101, December 30, 2012 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, ‘The Double Bankruptcy of Capitalism/State Socialism,’ China in Perspective, http://www.chinainperspective.com/ArtShow.aspx?AID=19168, January 4, 2013 [in Chinese].

Wu Guoguang, a contribution to the discussion, “How Would Facing Its Past Change China’s Future? A ChinaFile Conversation,” http://www.chinafile.com/how-would-facing-its-past-change-china-s-future, June 4, 2013.

Conferences and Talks:

Conference Papers and Public Talks:

Guoguang Wu, ‘Nanjing, Beijing, and Tokyo: Positioning the Memory of Nanjing in Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations,’ a paper delivered at a symposium ‘The Nanjing Massacre: 75 Years On,’ University of Victoria, November 16-17, 2012.

Guoguang Wu, ‘The New Leadership of China: Transitions and Challenges,’ a talk to Canadian International Council the Victoria Branch, Victoria, April 12, 2013.

2 Guoguang Wu, ‘Societal Capacity, Environmental Governance, and Political Reform: An Incremental Proposal,’ a paper presented at the conference “China’s Reform and Development in the Context of Globalization,” the China Development Research Foundation, Beijing, May 25, 2013.

Guoguang Wu, ‘Power, Governance, and UN Reform: China's Concept of Security,’ a paper delivered at the symposium “The Globalization of Insecurity: Challenges for Global Security Governance,” University of New South Wales Canberra, Canberra, Australia, June 28, 2013.

Guoguang Wu, ‘Crisis, Strategies, and Democratic Transition: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Bringing Political Change to China,’ a paper delivered at the conference “Transformation in Contemporary China: Practice and Theories,” University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, June 29, 2013.

Other Conference Participations:

Panelist, the concluding roundtable, the workshop “De-Parochializing Political Theory: Theoretical and Methodological Issues,” University of Victoria, August 2-4, 2012.

Panelist, the symposium ‘Rewrite the History of Modern China since 1911,’ Shanghai, China, November 23-24, 2012.

Panel chair and discussant, “Session C12 (b): China-Canadian Foreign Relations,” Canadian Political Science Association 2013 Annual Conference, Victoria, June 6, 2013.

Panel discussant, the conference “Transformation in Contemporary China: Practice and Theories,” University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, June 30, 2013.

Panel chair, the conference “Transformation in Contemporary China: Practice and Theories,” University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, June 30, 2013.

Services and Outreaches:

Service to CAPI:

Member, CAPI Executive Committee, 2012-13; Member, CAPI Director Search Committee, 2012-13; Member, CAPI Committee on Faculty Research Grant, 2013; Participation in activities concerning CAPI Law Chair search, Spring 2013; Participation in other CAPI sponsored activities and other China/Asia-related campus activities; Video interviews with CAPI; Featured in the research newsletter of the Faculty of Social Sciences, April 2013; Host of various visitors from China, Asia, and on China/Asia-related affairs. (Services to and through Departments are not listed here)

In the Profession:

Member, Standing Review Board, Humanities and Social Sciences Panel of the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong;

Member, the editorial board, China in Perspective (Washington DC, USA); Member, the editorial board, China Perspectives/ Perspectives Chinoises (Hong Kong, and Paris, France); Member, the editorial board, China: An International Journal (Singapore); Member, the editorial board, East Asia: An International Quarterly (Durham, UK); Member, the editorial board, East Asian Policy (Singapore); Member, the editorial board, International Journal of Politics and Good Governance (Agra, India); Member, the editorial board, Journal of Contemporary China Studies (Tokyo, Japan);

3 Member, the Executive Committee of Editorial Board, Pacific Affairs (Vancouver, Canada); Member, the Academic Advisory Committee, Public Intellectuals (Taipei, Taiwan).

Reviewer of 3 research articles for refereed journals, Modern China Studies (2 articles), and Asian Survey;

Reviewer of 7 research proposals, for The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (Taipei, Taiwan); the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong SAR (6 proposals);

Reviewer of a book proposal for the Imperial College Press, London, UK.

Media Interviews:

A specially invited regular contributor, to The China File, a webpage run by the Asia Society (New York) -- see http://www.chinafile.com/contributor/Wu%20Guoguang.

Jul 5, 2012, by Sankei Shimbun, a leading newspaper in Japan (known as “Japan’s Wall Street Journal”), on my new book and Chinese politics; Aug 28, 2012, by Floris-Jan van Luyn, a Netherland documentary filmmaker and director, on China’s leadership transition; then as a major interviewee appearing in his documentary film; Sep 3, 2012, by the Reuters, on China’s forthcoming Party Congress; Sep 7, 2012, by Bloomberg, on China’s forthcoming Party Congress; Sep 19, 2012, by RFA, on press freedom in China; Nov 28, 2012, by New York Times, on Chinese politics; Jan 17, 2013, by Asia Society (New York), on my book Zhao Ziyang and China’s Political Future; Feb 23, 2013, by South China Morning Post, on Chinese politics; Apr 17, 2013, by KAZN (a radio based in LA, California), on Chia’s political reform; May 29, 2013, by South China Morning Post, on anniversary of Tiananmen; Jun 30, 2013, by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), on Chinese politics.