UPCOMING EVENT: Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China
Monday, October 12, 2015
When: 12:00pm
Where: Orozco Room (712), 66 West 12th Street, New York, 10011
The India China Institute at The New School will be hosting Professor Fubing Su who will present his paper "The China Model Withering? Institutional Roots of China's Local Developmentalism" for the Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China (CESIC).
Professor David Ludden of New York University will serve as a discussant.
Abstract: China’s new development wave since the mid-1990s is distinguishable by its strong urbanism. Urban governments, particularly at municipal and county levels, rushed to build industrial parks. Urban landscape was also fundamentally transformed by their massive investments in infrastructures – both residential and commercial properties. How to explain local governments’ continuing drive for development? Why has this particular policy combination gained traction among local officials? We approach these questions by making a simple assumption about local governments as revenue maximisers. Their desires for more revenues are constrained by two institutional changes. Vertically, the central government recentralised the fiscal system, leaving local governments in fiscal shortages. Liberalisation and regional competition in the late 1990s further exacerbated their revenue imperative. The land regime provided the final institutional link that enabled local officials to leverage urban infrastructure and real estate for industrial expansion. This study can shed some light on the ongoing debate about China’s development model in the urban literature.
Fubing Su is a Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. His teaching interests include comparative politics, political economy, East Asian security, and Chinese politics. His research concerns contemporary Chinese political and economic developments, including electoral politics, village governance, local public finance, urbanization, land management, transition, and China’s growth model. Professor Su received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. Before joining Vassar College, he taught at Brown University for two years. He is also a member of the Asian Studies program.
David Ludden is Professor of History at New York University. In 1968, he spent a year as a public health intern in a village near Chennai. He then studied Tamil literature and published translations of Tamil poetry, before shifting to studies of economic and social history, focusing first on the Indian peninsula and then on Bangladesh and northeast India. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978, and he served on the Penn faculty from 1981 until 2007, before moving to NYU. He has chaired the Penn Department of South Asian Studies, the NYU Department of History, and South Asia programs at the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Senior Scholars program. In 2002, he served as President of the Association for Asian Studies. His publications include four edited volumes, three monographs, and dozens of academic articles and chapters. His current work is slowly adding up to a set of books and internet resources covering very long-term histories of empire, capitalism, globalization, and the urbanization of agrarian environments in Asia.
Attendance requires an RSVP through Eventbrite, as space is limited.
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