中央财经大学引智项目

斯坦福大学魏昂德(Andrew G. Walder)教授讲座

The DistinctiveFeatures of China’s Economy:

And Why they Matter

Abstract

After 40 years of reform and opening, China’s economic institutions have changed infundamental ways, but they remain distinctive in ways that differ from almostall other major economies. This talk will identify these distinctive features,relate them to the past record of rapid growth, and consider their implications for the future. Among the features considered are banking and financial systems, the taxation and fiscal system, corporate ownership and governance,and the relationship between political and economic structures. These features create friction with other major economies, but they will be very difficult tochange.

About the Speaker

Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor at School of Humanities and Sciences in Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is a Professor of Sociology, and by courtesy, Political Science. He served as chair of the Department of Sociology, as director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-PacificResearch Center, and as Director of the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences.

A political sociologist, Walder has long specialized on the sources of conflict, stability, and change in communist regimes and their successor states. His publications on China have ranged from the political and economic organization of the Mao era to changing patterns of stratification, social mobility, and political conflict in the post-Mao era. Another focus of his research has been on the political economy of Soviet-type economies and their subsequent reform and restructuring. His current research focuses on popular political mobilization in late-1960s China and the subsequent collapse and rebuilding of the Chinese party-state.

His recent publications include China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (Harvard University Press, 2015); "After State Socialism: The PoliticalOrigins of Transitional Recessions" (with Andrew Isaacson and Qinglian Lu), American Sociological Review(2015); "Public Housing intoPrivate Assets: Wealth Creation in Urban China" (with Xiaobin He), SocialScience Research(2014); "Social Stratification in Transitional Economies: Property Rights and the Structure of Markets" (with Tianjue Luoand Dan Wang), Theory and Society(2013).

Walder joined the Stanford faculty the fall of 1997. He received his PhD in sociologyat the University of Michigan in 1981 and taught at Columbia University before moving to Harvard in 1987. He served as chair of Harvard's MA Program on Regional Studies-East Asia for several years. From 1995 to 1997, he headed the Division of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 1996 to 2006, as a member of the Hong Kong Government's Research Grants Council, he chaired its Panel on the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business Studies.

About the Moderator

XiuxiaoWang is an associate professor of sociology in School of Sociology and Psychology at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE). He also holds a Research Fellowship at the Center for Studies on China’s Overseas Development in CUFE. He visited the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies of Stanford University during the 2016-17 academic year.

His research interests focus mainly on organizational sociology and institutional transition in contemporary China. While emphasizing Danwei(单位)is the pillarof institutional infrastructure in urban China and the power/authority structure is the key to understand Danwei system, his dissertation and afew recent publications shed some light on the past, present and future of Danwei system (单位体制) in China, trying to comprehend the institutional causes underlying its persistence and/or transition after the opening-up and reform initiated in the late 1970s, as well as the (unintended) consequences that this organizational transformation has brought to world's largest population.

Wang's peer-reviewed journal articles appeared on 《社会》, 《经济社会体制比较》and《社会学评论》. He also contributed several chapters to some sociology textbooks. Wang is very keen to academic translation. His latest translation works include Anthony Giddens and Philip W.Sutton’s Essential Concepts in Sociology (Second Edition) (《社会学基本概念》(第二版), which becomes one of the bestsellers of its publisher-Peking University Press.

Wang holds a Ph.D. (2010) and MA (2007) in sociology from Renmin University of China, and a BA (2005) in sociology from Hunan Normal University.

撰稿：王修晓

责编：王建民