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DESCRIPTION:Sinan Chu on&nbsp\;Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom…Or Not: Elite Di
 vision and Intellectual Debate over China’s Ethnic PolicySinan Chu\, Polit
 ical Science Doctoral Candidate\, Syracuse UniversityAfter the Chinese Com
 munist Party took power in 1949\, China’s new leaders granted nominal regi
 onal autonomy and a number of preferential policies to its minority popula
 tion\, which numbers over 100 million. The past decade\, however\, has see
 n an unprecedented nationwide debate over the possible abolition of China’
 s ethnic policies. Mr. Chu’s talk will examine the debate’s evolution and 
 situate it in the context of China’s recent social\, economic\, and politi
 cal development. The sharp differences over ethnic policy reform among hig
 h-level political elites are rooted in social scientific scholarship of th
 e post-Mao period.Sinan Chu is a political science doctoral candidate at S
 yracuse University. His dissertation examines the changing intellectual-st
 ate relations in contemporary China\, with a particular interest in the un
 folding debate over ethnic policy reform. His fieldwork has been supported
  by a East Asia Program Summer Grant.&nbsp\;Open to the PublicSponsored by
  the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
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SUMMARY:EA presents: Sinan Chu
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><b>Sinan Chu on&nbsp\;Let a Hundred Flowers
  Bloom…Or Not: Elite Division and Intellectual Debate over China’s Ethnic 
 Policy</b></p><p><b>Sinan Chu\,</b> <i>Political Science Doctoral Candidat
 e\, Syracuse University</i></p><p>After the Chinese Communist Party took p
 ower in 1949\, China’s new leaders granted nominal regional autonomy and a
  number of preferential policies to its minority population\, which number
 s over 100 million. The past decade\, however\, has seen an unprecedented 
 nationwide debate over the possible abolition of China’s ethnic policies. 
 Mr. Chu’s talk will examine the debate’s evolution and situate it in the c
 ontext of China’s recent social\, economic\, and political development. Th
 e sharp differences over ethnic policy reform among high-level political e
 lites are rooted in social scientific scholarship of the post-Mao period.<
 br>Sinan Chu is a political science doctoral candidate at Syracuse Univers
 ity. His dissertation examines the changing intellectual-state relations i
 n contemporary China\, with a particular interest in the unfolding debate 
 over ethnic policy reform. His fieldwork has been supported by a East Asia
  Program Summer Grant.&nbsp\;<br>Open to the Public</p><p><i>Sponsored by 
 the East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs</i><br><
 br></p>
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