China’s leaders have spent the last year shutting doors on non-government organizations trying to operate in the country, but China’s homegrown NGO’s are finding ways to survive and even expand their operations to far-flung places such as Africa. What are their tactics and what’s their relationship with the Chinese government? ***Registration Required; 80 RMB***

Please join Reza Hasmath, Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta as he explains the Chinese non-profit model.
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 80 RMB on the door to non-members. Only with photo ID (ideally passport)
REGISTRATION: at www.fccchina.org/events/11122015/

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Reza Hasmath (Ph.D., Cambridge) is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta. He has previously held faculty positions in management, sociology and political science at the Universities of Toronto, Melbourne and Oxford, and has worked for think-tanks, consultancies, development agencies, and NGOs in USA, Canada, UK, Australia and China. His multi-award winning research looks at state-society relationships in China, and assessing how the behaviour of emerging state/non-state actors potentially affect salient theories, practices and assumptions in international development and international affairs. His latest books are NGO Governance and Management in China, and Inclusive Growth, Development and Welfare Policy; and, his recent journal articles looking at Chinese NGOs appear in The China Quarterly, Development Policy Review, Journal of Civil Society, and Journal of Contemporary China.

ABOUT THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS’ CLUB OF CHINA:

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is the professional association of Beijing-based journalists reporting on China for audiences around the world.

Representing more than 40 nations, we are accredited journalists, diplomats, media specialists, authors, academics, public relations consultants and corporate personnel.