{"id":3338,"date":"2026-04-08T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/?post_type=event&#038;p=3338"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:27:00","slug":"politicizing-business-how-firms-are-made-to-serve-the-party-state-in-china-lecture-by-asst-prof-ning-leng","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/event\/politicizing-business-how-firms-are-made-to-serve-the-party-state-in-china-lecture-by-asst-prof-ning-leng\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China \u2013 Lecture by Asst. Prof. Ning Leng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IDIS China Program is pleased to invite you to a lecture titled:&nbsp;<strong>Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China<\/strong>, by&nbsp;<strong>Ning Leng<\/strong>, Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the speaker: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;Ning&nbsp;Leng is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.&nbsp;Dr. Leng specializes in&nbsp;the political economy of China and Global China, and the institutional effects of authoritarianism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work on domestic China includes publications on the motivations, methods, and outcomes of state control over businesspeople, academics, and government officials.&nbsp;Her work on Global China includes public opinion of China in the Global South, the Chinese government\u2019s view of the Global South, and China\u2019s legal influence in South America.&nbsp;Her work has been published or is forthcoming in journals including&nbsp;<em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Review of International Organizations<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>China Quarterly<\/em>, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Leng&nbsp;received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and was a postdoc at Harvard University&#8217;s&nbsp;Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She is a Wilson China Fellow for the year of 2025-2026, and a Penn Project Fellow on the Future of U.S.-China Relations&nbsp;for the year of&nbsp;2026-2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idis.gr\/en\/politicizing-business-how-firms-are-made-to-serve-the-party-state-in-china-lecture-by-asst-prof-ning-leng\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/idis.gr\/en\/politicizing-business-how-firms-are-made-to-serve-the-party-state-in-china-lecture-by-asst-prof-ning-leng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><mark style=\"background-color:var(--primary)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-surface-0-color\">Register here<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3337,"template":"","event-category":[20],"class_list":["post-3338","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-category-lectures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}