About CCUSC
PROGRAM
The programs of CCUSC can be generally divided into the following eight
categories:
Joint Research Programs
Regional Forums and Seminars
International Partnerships
Annual Conferences
Executive Training
Publications
Affiliated Associates and Visiting Scholars
Public Education
1. Joint Research
One of the primary roles of CCUSC is to facilitate cooperative scholarly
research activity between the U.S. and China. In this capacity, CCUSC
has pursued several projects. In 2000, CCUSC launched a multinational
collaborative research project on human security. The goal of this project
was twofold: 1) to clarify the sources of cooperation and conflict in
international arenas among leading states (particularly the U.S. and
China, but also Russia), and 2) to identify the kinds of compromises
and reconceptualizations of national interest that could foster cooperation
in addressing salient human security issues. The papers and recommendations
of the scholars have served as the intellectual framework of follow-up
meetings among senior United Nations officials, diplomats, leading journalists
and others who play consequential roles in shaping foreign policy in
major states. The project brought together scholars from China, Japan,
U.S., U.K., Germany, Russia and Canada (whose government is a leading
proponent of the human security perspective) at a conference in Vail
in April 2001. The project was funded by the Carnegie Corporation and
the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Germany.
In November 2003, the CCUSC launched the first of a series of four dialogues on the possibility, desirability and means for building a comprehensive partnership that would include the United States as well as China and other regional powers for the purpose of addressing effectively the great global issues of the 21st Century. The series, titled "China-U.S. Cooperation in the New Global Context," was funded by the Program in International Peace and Security, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
In addition to these projects, CCUSC hopes to encourage research on China and China-U.S. relations on the University of Denver campus. CCUSC plans to create fellowships to support China related faculty research activities. CCUSC will also host China related thesis contests at both the graduate and undergraduate level. In addition, CCUSC's growing profile in China has also increased the number of applications for graduate study from talented Chinese students. Their presence on the University of Denver campus will further promote the campus' reputation as a center for China-U.S. studies.
2. Jackson/Ho China Forum (formerly the Denver China Forum)
In January 2002, CCUSC inaugurated a monthly Denver China Forum.
The forum was renamed as the Jackson/Ho China Forum funded by the William
Sharpless Jackson, Jr. Endowment in the fall of 2003. This forum has
hosted prominent scholars, government officials, business leaders, and
other professionals addressing issues related to China and China-U.S.
relations. The forum is directed towards people in academia, government,
business, media, etc., and open to both the University of Denver community
as well as to the general public.
Some speakers of the forum have included Dr. David Lampton, SAIS, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Mr. Wei Ruixing, the Chinese Consul General in Chicago; Dr. Jacques deLisle, Univ. of Penn. Law School; Tom Farer, Dean of the Josef Korbel School; Mr. Bajin Zhang Xiaowei Chen, Producer & Anchor of China Central Television (CCTV); Michelle Sie Whitten, President of Encore International, Inc.; Ralph Peterson, President of CH2M Hill International; QingGuo Jia, Associate Dean of the School of International Studies at Beijing University in China; Ambassador Harvey J. Feldman from the Heritage Foundation; Mr. Jinkui Li, director of the China Development Institute; Elizabeth Chu, Director-General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City; Song Xinning, Professor and Associate Dean of School of International Studies at China's People's University; Pieter Bottellier, Former Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in Beijing; Ziyun He, Assistant Dean of the School of Finance at China's University of International Business and Economics; Shen Dingli, Deputy Director of Center for American Studies and Professor of International Studies at China's Fudan university; Chen Youwei, former political counselor of Chinese embassy in the US; Liu Liping, Senior fellow of China Institute of Contemporary international Studies; Victor Y. Yuan, Founder and President of China's Horizon Group; and China Institute of International Studies Vice-President, Ruan Zongze.
3. International Partnerships
CCUSC has established constructive international partnerships
with our counterparts in China. Currently, the formal Affiliates of
CCUSC are: Beijing Foreign Studies University, China Institute of Contemporary
International Relations (CICIR), China Institute of International Studies
(CIIS), Peking University School of International Studies, Renmin (People's)
University, Shanghai Institute of International Studies, Shanghai Academy
of Social Sciences, and Anhui University's School of International Education.
Our partnerships with affiliates include annual workshops and lectures in Beijing (hosted alternately by CIIS and CICIR), alternating annual visits to the U.S. by delegations from each of the think tanks, visiting professors each year from Peking University and Renmin (People's) Universities, a stream of visiting scholars from the think tanks, lectures delivered by Josef Korbel School faculty at affiliates and other educational institutions, and a quickening flow of applications from talented Chinese students to the Josef Korbel School of International Studies seeking admission for graduate study.
The following is one of our recommended study programs in China: The Beijing Program of Asian Studies.
4. Annual Conferences
In May, 2000, the Center organized and hosted the first of
our inteneded yearly symposiums, called the Annual CCUSC Conference
on Change in Contemporary China. Each conference focuses on a single
critical issue in China's international relations or its internal development
(to the extent the two can be disaggregated). In the first conference,
called "Options for Political Change in China: Democracy or Rule
of Law?" CCUSC assembled Sinologists from various western universities,
a senior World Bank expert, and academic authorities on democratic transitions,
together with persons from the private sector who have strong interests
in China. The topic was political reform in China. Our focal point was
a paper published in China by Professor Pan Wei of Peking University,
written while he was a visiting professor at GSIS in the fall of 1999.
While rejecting Western-style democracy as inappropriate to China's
history and present conditions, the paper called for major change in
the present way of governing China in order to achieve what the author
calls a "Consultative Rule-Of-Law" System. Discussion of the
paper had an unusual degree of intellectual frisson and, in the judgment
of participants, coherence. CCUSC published a volume consisting of
an elaboration of Pan Wei's paper, the case for alternative models of
political reform, and detailed comments on the deep historical background
of Pan Wei's model and its chances of achieving the goal of a more participatory
rule-of-law society.
Later Conference topics included in 2001: "China's Entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO): Winners, Losers, Implications"; in 2003:"The United States, China and Taiwan in a Changing World: Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century"; in 2004: "US-China Relations Under the Bush and Hu Administrations"; in 2005: “US-China-Taiwan Relations in the Second Bush and Chen Shui-bian Administrations”; in 2006: "United-States China Relations: New Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation"; in 2007: "The Challenge of a Rising China and US-China Competition/Cooperation in Asia Pacific"; in 2008: “Washington Consensus” versus “Beijing Consensus”: Sustainability of China's Development Model"; and "China, US and Regional Cooperation and Institution-building in the Asia-Pacific" in 2009.
5. Executive Training
The Center draws on the expertise of its faculty Associates
and Council members and all units of the University of Denver to develop
in conjunction with relevant Chinese institutions training programs
for U.S. and Chinese officials and for employees of business and non-profit
associations of all kinds. In October 2001, CCUSC signed an international
agreement with the China International Economic Relations Society (CIERS)
to help the Chinese government train its economic and financial officials
and state-owned enterprises executives in Denver. The first group arrived
in Denver in November 2003.
6. Publications
As the founder and editor the Journal of Contemporary China
(JCC), Professor Suisheng (Sam) Zhao has moved the editorial office
of the JCC with him to CCUSC. The journal is recognized as one of the
three top China journals in Europe, Australia, and North America. The
JCC is the only English language journal edited in North America that
provides exclusive information about contemporary Chinese affairs for
scholars, businessmen and government policy-makers. The JCC publishes
articles of theoretical and policy research and research notes, as well
as book reviews of Chinese language works published in mainland China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States and other parts of the world. The
journal's fields of interest include economics, political science, law,
culture, history, international relations, sociology and other social
sciences and humanities. JCC was moved from three issues per year to
a full-fledged quarterly in 2001.
7. Affiliated Associates and Visiting Scholars Program
To institutionalize DU faculty involvement in the CCUSC activities,
a Board of Faculty Associates has been established. Currently 12 faculty
members have accepted the invitation to join the board. They are as
follows: Peter Golas, Professor, Dept. of History; Peter Ho, Professor
and Chair, Dept. of Economics; Barry Hughes, Professor, Josef Korbel School
of International Studies; Micheline Ishay, Professor, Josef Korbel School
of International Studies; Sarah Nelson, Interim Vice Provost, Graduate
Studies & Professor, Dept. of Anthropology; Richard Scudder, Professor,
Daniels College of Business; Michael Wirth, Professor and Chair, Dept.
of Mass Communications and Journalism Studies & Director, School
of Communications; Ved Nanda, Prof. of Law;
Micheal Thompson, Professor of Communication; Douglas Allen, Professor,
Daniels College of Business; David Hopkins, Director, International
Program, Daniel College of Business.
To foster intellectual exchanges among scholars internationally, CCUSC has established a Visiting Scholars Program and brought a number of rising Chinese scholars, officials, and business and professional figures to stay in Denver for periods varying from three months to a year. These rising Chinese scholars and officials, as well as emerging private sector leaders, have participated in our research projects and interacted with our graduate students. Along with the unfolding of this program, CCUSC has enhanced its profile with the new generation of Chinese intellectuals, emerging business and professional leaders, and rising government officials.
In the future, when funding is permitted, CCUSC will maintain a number of Ph.D. dissertation and post-doc fellowships as well. Fellows may conduct China-related research that leads to major publications. They will present their research at the CCUSC China Center Seminar.
8. Public Education and Collaboration
CCUSC has been working to inaugurate a program that would allow
a cohort of University of Denver graduate students to go to Peking University
for a period of three to six months to study China's language, history,
culture, economics and politics. CCUSC has received generous funding
from some of its business advisory council members to support the studies
of one to four Chinese master's degree students at the Josef Korbel School every second
year.
The CCUSC has entered an agreement with the School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China to launch China's first English-taught MA program of international studies in China. The first group of Josef Korbel School faculty arrived in China for the 2003-2004 academic year.