Asia Centre

Participants:

Stéphanie Balme is a senior research fellow at Sciences Po, Paris, based at the Law School of Tsinghua University, Beijing, where she is currently visiting professor. She has co-directed the Sciences Po Vietnam study group and has been a research associate and professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her latest publications include: co-edited with Michael Dowdle,  Constitutionalism and judicial power in China, Palgrave-Macmillan CERI, 2008. Co-edited with Daniel Sabbagh Chine/ Etats-Unis : fascination et rivalités, Autrement-CERI, 2008. She received her Ph.D in political science from Sciences Po, Paris.

Richard Baum is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and director emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. He has written and edited nine books, including Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping (1996) and Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (1991). His latest book, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom, will be published in 2009. Dr. Baum is the founder and list manager of Chinapol, an online discussion group for professional China analysts.  He has served on the editorial boards of the leading journals in Chinese and East Asian Studies, and is a frequent commentator for CNN, National Public Radio, Voice of America and BBC World Service. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is an associate researcher to Asia Centre and a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research. He currently heads the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and chief editor of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was Director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. His most recent publications include Chine-Taiwan: la guerre est-elle concevable? La sécurité extérieure de Taiwan face à la menace de la Chine populaire, Paris, Economica, 2003; (with Benoît Vermander) La Chine et ses frontières. La confrontation Chine-Taiwan, Paris, Presses des Sciences Po, 2005, translated and published in Chinese as a special issue of the journal Renlai (Taipei), January 2007. He has also published numerous articles and contributions in English on China's political system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Chien-min Chao is vice-director of the Foundation on International and Cross-strait Studies (FICS) in Taiwan, and professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei. He received his Ph.D from Southern Illinois University.

Wu-yue Chang is professor at Tamkang University Institute for Mainland China Studies, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D from National Chengchi University.

François Godement is President of Asia Centre and professor at Sciences Po, Paris. He is also the founder and former director of Centre Asie at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Paris (1985-2005). He helped found the European committee of CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific) which he chairs, and is a cofounder of CAEC (Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation). A consultant to the Policy planning staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he specialized in East Asian international relations and strategy, regional integration and Chinese contemporary affairs. François Godement is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (Paris), where he majored in history.

Karl Hallding heads Stockholm Environment Institute’s China Program and has followed and worked with China’s environment since the mid-1980s. He was the main author of UNDP’s China Human Development Report 2002, “Making Green Development a Choice” and participated in the expert team behind the 2007 OECD Environmental Performance Review of China, where he was responsible for drafting the chapter on “Environmental – Social Interface”. Mr Hallding is currently working with the China 50 Economist Forum on the China Economics of Climate Change Initiative, and is preparing a paper on China’s Climate and Energy Politics for the Swedish prime ministers office.

Heike Holbig is a senior research fellow at the German Institute of Global Studies (GIGA) Institute of Asian Studies, working in the field of China’s domestic politics. She is also the co-editor of China Aktuell – Journal of Current Chinese Affairs published by GIGA Institute of Asian Studies. She
holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Heidelberg University. Recent publications include „The Emergence of the Campaign to Open Up the West: Ideological formation, central decision-making, and the role of the provinces”, China Quarterly, no. 178, June 2004, and “Ideological Reform
and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era”, in: Heberer, Thomas and Schubert, Gunter (eds) Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability, London, Routledge, forthcoming August 2008.

Cheng Li is Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is also the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College. He received his Ph.D from Princeton University. Dr. Li’s publications include Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform (1997), China’s Leaders: The New Generation (2001), Bridging Minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges (2005), and China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (2008). He is currently completing a book manuscript on Urban Subcultures in Shanghai.

Cheng-kun Ma is an Associate Professor at the Institute of PLA Research, National Defense University, Republic of China (Taiwan). He has received his Ph.D. in China’s war behavior study at National Taiwan University, and has specialized in PLA affairs. His representative articles are “China’s security strategy and military development” and “China’s three warfares against Taiwan.” He publishes a monthly newsletter on Chinese military affairs, “PLA News Analysis, PNA”.