时 间：2015年7月7日（周二）10点
地 点：美国研究中心105室
主持人：沈丁立 教授
报告人：AllenCarlson
Associate Professor
Government Department , Cornell University, USA
题 目：China Transnationalized?
The talk draws directly on an ongoing research project about contemporary China’s relationship with the rest of the world, and between its government and people. In it Professor Allen Carlson of Cornell University contends that China has become, in a substantial, but as of yet poorly understood, sense, a transnational polity. Such a change is not yet pervasive, or irreversible, but rather it is meaningful, and constitutes one of the most important developments within China, and its relationship with the outside world, in recent times. Carlson substantiates this claim via a consideration of the country’s recent past and a focus upon the prominent role within China of elites who have deep intellectual bonds outside its boundaries, but whom have attaineda level of prominence within it. Such actors stand in a nebulous, but crucial, space between China and the world, but also between the country’s top leaders and its vast population.
Allen Carlson’s work mainly focuses on issues related to Chinese politics and foreign policy and Asian security. In 2005 his Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Erawas published by Stanford University Press. He has also written in the Journal of Contemporary China, Pacific Affairs, Asia Policy, Nations and Nationalismand The China Quarterly (forthcoming). His most recent books are the co-edited Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods and Field Strategies (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and New Frontiers in China’s Foreign Relations (Lexington, 2011). In 2014 Carlson was the Class of 1955 Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College, and he was named a recipient of an East Asia Institute Fellowship. Professor Carlson is currently developing a research project that examines the emerging role of transnational public intellectuals in shaping debates within China about the country’s rise and its implications for the international system.
