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Cui Zhiyuan 崔之元 | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) |
| Alma mater | National University of Defense Technology[1] Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University of Chicago[2] |
| Organization(s) | MIT National University of Singapore Harvard University Law School Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Cornell Law School Tsinghua University[2] |
| Notable work | Second Liberation of Thought,Liberal Socialism and the Future of China |
| Movement | Chinese New Left |
| Website | www.cui-zy.com |
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Cui Zhiyuan (Chinese:崔之元;pinyin:Cuī Zhīyuán), born in Beijing in 1963, is a professor at theSchool of Public Policy and Management inTsinghua University,Beijing,[2] and a leading member of theChinese New Left through his work on alternatives toneo-liberal capitalism.
Cui first gained fame as a post-graduate student in 1994 when he published an article namedInstitutional Innovation and the Second Thought Liberation.[3] He then went on to publish the bookNanjie Village,[4] which along with his previous publications earned him the reputation as one of the founding members ofChina's New Left movement. Cui was also one of the first scholars to introducegame theory to China.[5] Cui is an admirer ofJames Meade's work onliberal socialism,[6] reflected in his articleXiaokang Socialism: A Petty-Bourgeois Manifesto.[7][8] Following Meade's theory, Cui was the first scholar to propose a systematic social dividend program in China, including a "Chinese People's Permanent Trust Fund".[9][10]
Cui editedPolitics: The Central Texts,[11] the selection of key texts fromRoberto Mangabeira Unger's three-volumePolitics. His selective writings includeThe Dilemma of the Paradigm of the Invisible Hand: Soft-Budget-Constraint in the Capitalist Economy;[12]Sustainable Democracy[13] andChina: Human Development Report 1999,[14] both co-authored withAdam Przeworski for theUNDP; and contributions toWhither China?: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China.[15] He also co-editedChina and Globalization: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or What?[16] and was considered the first person to introduce theBeijing Consensus into the Chinese policy debate.
In 2011, Cui published an article onZhang Pengchun's role in drafting the United Nations'Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.[17] The article discusses the implications of this discovery in the UN archive concerning Zhang's key role for the current Chinese political and cultural debates—transcending the dichotomy of "western centralism" and "cultural particularism".[18][jargon]
Cui's works have also been translated into Korean, includingXiaokang Socialism: A Petty-Bourgeois Manifesto (Korean:프티부르주아 사회주의 선언)[19] andIs China Going Where? (중국은 어디로 가고 있는가).[20] The latter embodied Cui's articleInstitutional Innovation and the Second Thought. In addition,Politics: The Central Texts was translated into Korean and published in South Korea.[21] In 2015, Cui was invited to the International Conference on Basic Income[22] held in Seoul to give a keynote speech[23] concerning social dividend.
In 2003, Cui was invited to theLondon School of Economics to give the Ralph Miliband Lecture titled "The Bush Doctrine andNeoconservatism: A Chinese Perspective".[24] In 2014, Cui was invited to give the Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture "Chinese Reform in light of James Meade's Liberal Socialism" atOxford University.[25]
More recently,[as of?] Cui has become known for his work on and as a proponent of theChongqing model as a model for development. He argues that this model could end China's dependence on exports and savings, reduce the growing economic divide between rural and urban areas, and stimulate private business by way of public ownership and state planning. Cui is close toChongqing's mayorHuang Qifan and served as the associate director of the State Asset Management Committee of the Chongqing government from 2010 to 2011.[6] His views are discussed in the essay collectionsOne China, Many Paths andConditional Democracy: The Contemporary Debate on Political Reform in Chinese Universities. He has also been critical of recent privatizations of state assets,[26] and has called for more democracy within the party.[27]
In 2015, Cui started a research project called "Experimental Governance: Its Promise and Limits in China"[28][29] in collaboration withCharles Sabel of Columbia University Law School, a leading scholar on experimental governance.[30] He gave a public lecture at the India–China Institute ofNew School for Social Research[31] in April 2014 on "Understanding Xi Jinping's Grand Reform Strategy"[32] in light of experimental governance, with Charles Sabel as a discussant. With his current and former students, Cui also runs a free weeklyWeChat publication titled "Experimental Governance", with over 80 published issues[33] and more than 2,000 subscribers from academic, policy-research think tanks.
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According to sinologist Flora Sapio, Cui "has made tacit use ofSchmitt in their theorising about governance and politics in China".[34]
Cui's father was a nuclear engineer inSichuan province.[35]
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