Speaker:

Professor Jessica Chen Weiss
Michael J Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies
Department of Government
Cornell University, USA

Date & Time:

Friday, 26 January 2024
9:30 am – 11:00 am (Singapore Time)
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Video recording:

Please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rsUSUZvThI for the video recording in YouTube. 

Abstract:

Beneath Xi Jinping’s grand slogans of a “Chinese dream” and a “shared future for humankind” are internal tensions, debates and interests that compete to shape China’s approach to the world. Through the lens of domestic politics, nationalism and regime insecurity in China, Weiss will examine the evolving and contested landscape of what “China” wants. The talk will conclude with reflections on policy, prospects for peaceful coexistence and the future of the international order.

About the Speaker:

Jessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University and a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Centre for China Analysis. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior adviser to the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research appears in International Organization, China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China and Review of International Political Economy. With commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times and the Ezra Klein show, Weiss was profiled by the New Yorker and named one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Thinkers for 2024. Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego.

About the Lecture:

The John CH Wong Distinguished Public Lecture series is in honour of the late Professor John Wong, former research director of the East Asian Institute, who was also a teacher and mentor to EAI staff, and an intellectual leader on China’s and East Asia’s development. EAI gratefully acknowledges the support of the John CH Wong Endowment Fund and the Wong family for this series.