Chinas 5th Generation Leadership and Beijing’s Human Rights Policy
The China Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a presentation by Dr. Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, on the coming leadership change in China and human rights developments.
Time: 28 November 2011, 10:00-12:00 pm
Venue: Seminarrommet, 2nd Floor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Cort Adelers gate 30.
The Communist Party’s Central Committee held its annual plenum this October in Beijing. The formal agenda involved promoting Chinese culture to bolster China’s soft power, but another topic discussed behind closed doors was who will rise to join the new leadership group?
The fifth generation leaders will come to power at the 18th Party Congress in 2012. What profile do the new leaders have? How will concerns for political stability affect prospects of political reforms? In his lecture Dr. Brown will comment on the recent meeting in Beijing, the coming leadership change and the present and future politics concerning human rights issues.
Dr. Kerry Brown first visited China in 1990, before studying Chinese in London and Inner Mongolia. He completed his Ph D at Leeds University in Modern Chinese Language and Politics in 2004. He worked for the British Foreign Office from 1998, before taking up a position at Chatham House, as Head of the Asia Programme leading the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN).
Brown is the author of amongst others, “Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China” published in July 2009, “Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One Party State” published in April 2011, and a study of Hu Jintao, to be published in March 2012.
The seminar is open for all.
For registration please send an email with name and affiliation to a.k.b.johansen@nchr.uio.no
Welcome!