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NGOs and Political Change in China: The Problems of Social Capital and the State

Seminar Series

Date and Time
February 3, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required

Speaker
Robert Weller - Professor of Anthropology at Boston University

Based on recent work in Guangzhou, Xiamen, Taipei, and Hong Kong, this talk will address the relationship of NGO's to political transformation. It will focus in particular on three problems: the relation between state and society under various Chinese regimes, the relation between official and unoffical organizations, and problems of scaling up civil society organizations.

Taiwan/China Seminar Series

Topics: Organizations | China | Taiwan

Location
Philippines Conference Room
Encina Hall
616 Serra St., 3rd floor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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FSI Contact
Debbie Warren

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