Dates: 28-29 April 2006.

Keynotes: Christopher R. Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Peter W. Rodman, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and Wang Guangya, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations.

Panels: Politics and Society in China; China, the United States, and the World; U.S. Business and Government – Responding to the China Challenge; and China’s Future in the Age of Globalization.

This page documents the “China and the Future of the World” conference I organized at the University of Chicago in 2006 with tremendous help from an organizing committee of eleven students and the conference’s vice-chair, Alexander Graham. Alex and I wrote summaries of each event of the conference and lightly edited the transcripts provided by a transcription service.

To read more, you can download the conference book or view summaries and transcripts individually. Note that the conference book and the conference web site do not include the PowerPoint slide presentations and several of the transcripts listed here. Download the 167-page conference book, China and the Future of the World: Conference Summaries and Transcripts (Daniel Michaeli and Alexander Graham, 2006/2007), excluding slide presentations and conference opening remarks, here.

Note that each transcript also includes questions and answers from the conference audience.

Introductions (Daniel Michaeli, Alexander Graham, Prof. Prasenjit Duara)

• Introduction from printed conference book (PDF)
• Speaker biographies (PDF)
• Transcript (PDF) of conference introduction and faculty opening remarks (also available: video or audio)

Conference Keynotes

• Summary (PDF) of keynote on U.S.-China relations by Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (also available: transcript, video, or audio)
• Summary (PDF) of keynote on the future of Chinese foreign policy by Ambassador Wang Guangya, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations (also available: transcript, video, or audio)
• Summary (PDF) of keynote on the military dimensions of China’s future by Peter W. Rodman, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (also available: transcript, video, or audio)

Conference Panels

• Summary (PDF) of “Opening Remarks on Politics and Society in China” (Prof. Merle Goldman; also available: transcript, video, or audio)
• Summary (PDF) of “Politics and Society in China” (Prof. Cheng Li, Dr. Lei Guang, Dr. Wang Ping, Prof. Dali Yang; download Prof. Guang’s PowerPoint presentation and Dr. Wang’s presentation and photo slides; also available: transcript, video, or audio)
• Summary (PDF) of “China, the United States, and the World” (Amb. James R. Lilley, Amb. Wu Jianmin, Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, Prof. Bruce Cumings; also available: transcript, video, or audio)
• Summary (PDF) of “U.S. Business and Government: Responding to the China Challenge” (Rep. Mark S. Kirk, Tony Lorusso, Theodore W. Schaffner, Prof. Anil Kashyap; also available: transcript, video, or audio)
• Summary (PDF) of “China’s Future in the Age of Globalization” (Prof. Zhang Jun, Ted C. Fishman, Prof. Wang Hui, Prof. Prasenjit Duara; download Prof. Zhang’s PowerPoint presentation; also available: transcript, video, or audio)

Selected links:

• Conference web site
• Preview article in the University of Chicago Chronicle
• Cover story of the University of Chicago Magazine
• Article in the People’s Daily
• Article in the South China Morning Post (ProQuest subscription required)
• Xinhua article on Wang Guangya’s remarks on Iran

Tags: Alexander Graham, Anil Kashyap, Bruce Cumings, Cheng Li, China, Chinese Foreign Policy, Chinese Politics, Chinese Society, Christopher R. Hill, Dali Yang, Daniel Michaeli, James R. Lilley, John J. Mearsheimer, Lei Guang, Mark S. Kirk, Merle Goldman, Peter W. Rodman, Prasenjit Duara, Ted Fishman, Theodore W. Schaffner, Tony Lorusso, U.S. China Policy, United States, Wang Guangya, Wang Hui, Wang Ping, Wu Jianmin, Zhang Jun