Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Siddharth Chatterjee
We are living through a "polycrisis" where the traditional levers of global governance are stalling. As the world grapples with geoeconomic fragmentation and the risk of a "New Cold War," the relationship between China and the rest of the world has become the defining axis of 21st-century stability. In this Distinguished Lecture, Siddharth Chatterjee explores how the Asia-Pacific—led by the complex interplay of China’s global rise—can move from a site of competition to a cornerstone of a revitalized international system.
From Easy to Hard Redistribution: Adaptation of China's Welfare State in the 21st Century
Join us for the Divisional Seminar, with Prof. Xian Huang as our distinguished speaker. This paper argues that China’s welfare state has transitioned from “easy” to “hard” redistribution. Drawing on a corpus of 33,205 policy documents and employing quantitative text analysis to trace patterns in Chinese welfare policy from 2000 to 2024, the study finds that since 2014, the government has increasingly emphasized integrating welfare programs across selected groups while continuing to prioritize vertical allocation of responsibilities and resources between upper- and lower-level governments.
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The Division of Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) are pleased to announce the inaugural Hong Kong Social Science RPG Poster Conference, on June 8, 2026, at HKUST.
For more details: https://ppol.hkust.edu.hk/event/hong-kong-social-science-rpg-poster-conference
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