The Chinese Communist Party – 100th Anniversary
Please join us as Professor David Bachman examines the last 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and looks ahead to what we might expect for the future of the CCP and China as a whole. The first hour of this online program will consist of a presentation by Professor Bachman, and the second hour will be dedicated to questions and comments from participants. Participants will also receive a free copy of the book The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in 10 Lives, by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn and Hans Van de Ven.
David Bachman is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington (Seattle) where he has taught since 1991. He is the author Chen Yun and the Chinese Political System, Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward, and co-editor (with Dali L. Yang) of Yan Jiaqi and China’s Struggle for Democracy. He is currently working on a book on China’s defense industrialization. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, and he has taught at Stanford and Princeton University prior to his appointment at the University of Washington.