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<div>Please kindly help to forward the announcement to your respective group list. The Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus organizes a weekly China salon seminar. IF you do not wish to remain on this announcement list, please kindly let me know. Thank you very much for your help!</div>
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<div>Cheers,<br>Carol Yu</div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: SimSun">ÖйúɳÁú</span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">CHINA SALON</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Speaker Series Organized by Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Event #3</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Time:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> 6:00-7:30pm, Thursday, March 12 </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Location:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Room 275, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Topic: </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Chinese Provincial Party Secretary 1977-2007: A New Framework Based on the Theory of Situational Contingency Leadership</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">This research examined the leadership dynamics of the provincial party secretaries (PPSs) in China’s Reform era. It proposes that that the leadership of PPSs is shaped by their educational and working experience, and categorized them into three typical leadership types, i.e. political-bureaucrat, technocrat, and neo-political-bureaucrat, and mapped their dynamics in the three decades. This research implied that the rising of the neo-political-bureaucrats as PPSs in recent years will enhance China’s capacity for good governance in the new century.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Speaker:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Yizhi Xiong is an assistant professor and executive director of the China Center of Public Leadership (CCPL) at School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University, China. Currently, he is a visiting fellow of Asian Program at Ash Institute of Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Working Language:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> English </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Audience:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Public. No need to RSVP.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Contact:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> China Caucus Chair, Carol Yu, <a href="mailto:carol_yu@ksg09.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: windowtext">carol_yu@ksg09.harvard.edu</span></a> </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Sponsor:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Harvard</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Kennedy School of Government China Caucus China Salon Speaker Series<span> </span></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Upcoming Events:</span></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">March 19:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Robert Ross, Associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard (famous China Expert); “The Rise of China: Overview of Remerging Strategic Trends and of the Emerging East Asian Balance of Power”</span><span style="COLOR: black"></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Spring break</span></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">April 2:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Dwight Perkins, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard </span><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">(famous China Expert)</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">April 9:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Marty Whyte, Professor of Sociology at Harvard </span><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">(famous China Expert)</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></p>
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