Keynote

Getting China Right Keynote Address: Getting China Right in Research and in Policy

Kenneth Lieberthal, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

Time: June 3, 2022 | 4: 00 PM EDT

Location: Room 1420 | Central Campus Classroom Building (1225 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

Keynote is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC for in-person attendance. Please note that if you choose to attend, you will be requested to follow the latest U-M COVID-19 policies. (Please check here for details.)

The Keynote Speaker for the Getting China Right 2022 Conference is Professor Kenneth Lieberthal. Professor Lieberthal is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where until 2009 he was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science and William Davidson Professor of Business Administration. He was the Director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Chinese Studies from 1986 to 1989. On May 15, 2014, the university’s Board of Regents renamed the Center as the “Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.” He taught at Swarthmore College from 1972 to 1983 before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 1983. His research focuses on the evolution of China’s political economy, the multinational corporate investment in China and India, the foreign policy decision-making in China, the U.S. foreign policy, and Asian security issues.

In addition, Professor Lieberthal was a senior fellow emeritus in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institute. From 2009 to 2016, Professor Lieberthal was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs; from 2009 to 2012, he also served as the Director of the John L. Thornton China Center. Professor Lieberthal was a special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and a Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council from 1998 through 2000.

Selected Publications:

  • “The End of Corporate Imperialism” (with C.K. Prahalad), Harvard Business Review (July-August 1998).
  • “US Policy Toward China,” Brookings Policy Brief #72 (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, March 2001).
  • Co-editor (with Shuen-fu Lin and Ernest Young), Constructing China: The Interaction of Culture and Economics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Monograph Series, vol. no. 78, 1997).
  • Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995).
  • “The Ties That Bind,” The China Business Review (May-June 1998), pp. 10-16.
  • “China’s Governing System and Its Impact on Environmental Policy Implementation,” China Environmental Series (Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center, 1997).
  • “Domestic Forces and Sino-U.S. Relations,” in Living With China: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Ezra Vogel (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), pp. 254-276.

Affiliations:

  • Distinguished Fellow at the William Davidson Institute
  • Senior Fellow and Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution