Agenda
Conference
on Civil Society and Nonprofits in China
January 21-23, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Location:
Tsai Auditorium,
Fairbank
Center
(S
010, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge
Street, Cambridge, MA
02138)
9:00
am-9:30 am
Check in and Breakfast
9:30
am-10:00 am
Welcome and Conference Introduction:
Anthony Saich and Christopher Stone
(text,
recording,
speech)
10:00
am -12:00 pm
Current Status of Civil Society and
Nonprofits in China
(text,
recording)
Chair: Anthony Saich (Harvard
University)
Guests from China:
• Wang Zhenyao (One Foundation Philanthropy
Research Institute at Beijing Normal
University) The Future of Philanthropy in
China (presentation
PPT)
• Zhuang Ailing (China Foundation Center
Founder and NPO Support Center Shanghai)
Support Organization: A New Constructive
Force in Promoting Philanthropy in China
(presentation
PPT)
• Gao Bingzhong (Peking University) The
Rising Associational Cooperation and the
New Landscape of Civil Society in China
(presentation
PPT)
12:00
pm-1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00
pm-3:00 pm
Historical Antecedents: Ming, Qing and the
Republican Era
(text,
recording)
Chair: Peter Bol (Harvard
University)
• Joanna Handlin Smith (Harvard University)
Charity in Late Ming China
• Michael Szonyi (Harvard University)
Traditional Lineage Corporate Trusts as
Charitable Nonprofits
• Elisabeth Kőll (Harvard University)
Nonprofit development in the context of
business growth and new entrepreneurial
agendas during the Republic era
• Peter Bol (Harvard University) A case
study on the funding of education from
1050-1850 in one locale
Coffee
Break
3:15
pm-5:15 pm
Civil Society Groups in Contemporary
China
(text,
recording)
Chair: Deborah Davis (Yale
University)
• Guobin Yang (Columbia- Barnard) Virtual
groups (presentation
PPT)
• Merle Goldman: The Establishment of the
China Democracy Party
• Bruce Dickson (George Washington
University) Private entrepreneurs
(presentation
PPT)
5:15
pm Reception
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Location: Tsai Auditorium,
Fairbank
Center
8:30
am Breakfast
8:45 am-10:15 am
Regulation of Nonprofits and Policy
Evolution
(text,
recording)
Chair: Marion Fremont Smith (Harvard
University)
• Karla Simon (Catholic University of
America) The legal and policy environment
for civil society in today's China–with an
emphasis on philanthropy
• Nara Dillon (Harvard University) Managing
Uncertainty: The Politics of Governing
China's Civic Sector inn Comparative
Perspective (presentation
PPT)
• Mark Sidel (University of Iowa) Efforts
toward self-regulation, transparency, and
greater self-governance in the Chinese
philanthropic sector
10:30
am-12:00 pm
Professional Organizations
(text,
recording)
Chair: TBD
• Zhang Qi Peking University) The
Transformation of Lawyers Association of
PRC--From Dependence to Autonomy
• Ken Winston (Harvard University) The
Problem of the Two Masters
(presentation
PPT)
• Peter Rowe(Harvard University) The
Architecture Profession: Unique
Arrangements Undergoing Change
12:00
pm-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00
pm-3:00 pm Grassroots Organizing
(text,
recording)
Chair: L. David Brown (Harvard
University)
• Rob Weller (Boston University) Religion
• Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University)
Mental health support groups
• Lily Tsai (MIT) Village solidary groups.
(presentation
PPT)
• Cui Fengming (Harvard University)
Organizations of Persons with Disabilities
Coffee
Break
3:15
pm-5:15 pm Transnational Movements and
Foreign Influence
(text,
recording)
Chair: Anthony Saich (Harvard
University)
• Peter Geithner: Foreign Foundations and
Development of the Nonprofit Sector in
China
• Joan Kaufman (Harvard University) China's
evolving AIDS policy: The Influence of
Global Norms and Transnational NGOs
(presentation
PPT)
• Mary Brown Bullock: Case of China Medical
Board and Rockefeller Foundation.
• Chris Marquis (Harvard University)
Introduction of the CSR concept to China
(presentation
PPT)
6:00
pm-8:00 pm Dinner
at Charles Hotel (By invitation only)
Keynote
Speaker: John Fitzgerald,
Representative for China, The Ford
Foundation
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Location: Inn at Harvard
10:00
am- 12:00 pm
Challenges
and Opportunities for Nonprofits in China:
Defining a research and teaching agenda
(All speakers, moderators and invited
scholars only)
Chair:
Anthony Saich
12:15
pm Lunch
(By invitation only)
