China's 21st Century Socio-economic Development: Towards 'common prosperity'?
SCEN is delighted to announce that this year's SCEN Lecture speaker will be Professor Jane Duckett.
The Lecture will be held on Thursday, 20 June 2024, 5:00pm - 8:00pm at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
*Registration: 17:00 - 18:00
*Lecture: 18:00 - 19:00
*Networking Event：19:00-20:00
In 2021, the Chinese government announced it had eradicated extreme poverty and declared a new long-term national goal of achieving ‘common prosperity’. In this lecture, Professor Jane Duckett will review China’s socio-economic development trajectory over the last 25 years, with a particular focus on poverty reduction and welfare state expansion. She will then discuss the ‘common prosperity’ agenda and the challenges which China currently faces.
The talk will be followed by a networking opportunity. People who are associated with SCEN or interested in or involved with China or with language learning will be able to engage face-to-face. Refreshments will be available on arrival and during the networking portion of the evening.
School and university students are particularly welcome to attend this event.
There are a limited number of seats, so book now to guarantee
your ticket to this fascinating lecture.
Professor Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (2016), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2019), and the Academy of Social Sciences (2019). She is also a Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. From 2014–2017 she was President of the British Association for Chinese Studies.
Her most recent project, 'COVID-19: Understanding the Chinese Government's Containment Measures and their Societal Impacts,' was funded by the UK's National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council. Based on that project, she published an article (written together with Meixuan Chen and William Wang) on China's handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic, in The Conversation on 10 May, 2022.
Prof Duckett studied at Fudan University in Shanghai (1984–5 and 1987–8) and at Nankai University in Tianjin (1992–3). In the late 1980s she worked in the Shanghai office of the American law firm, Paul Weiss. She has also worked in China as a policy and social development consultant on a number of international aid projects. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research, The Leverhulme Trust, British Council, British Academy, and the European Commission.