Daniel Koss

Associate Senior Lecturer & Research Scholar, Harvard Dep of EALC . East Asia. Author, “Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China's Communist State”

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@lingli_vienna @CambridgeUP Congratulations! I very much look forward to reading, I have been watching out for this since our conversation in Vienna.

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What am I doing wrong? In Japan’s LDP primaries on October 4, based on LDP members’ support, @takaichi_sanae should have been awarded 132 delegate votes instead of just 119, as officially announced. I apply d’Hondt by prefecture 都道府県ごと, as per LDP rules (p.48). Help please!

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For the first time, the Chinese Communist Party reports >100 mio members (end of 2024), according to data released today https://t.co/2MTzKfDqZw. Contrasting with party building efforts of previous years, the number of party cells in companies 企业基层党组织 stagnated at 1.6 mio.

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Published: My book review of A. Walder analyzing big aberrations during China’s Cultural Revolution. A militarily well-connected faction, inflammatory rhetoric, and an escalation-prone hierarchy, plus crimes of opportunity, resulted in infamous atrocities: https://t.co/JIozyaqfXd

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China’s Cultural Revolution was most violent in Guangxi. How could things go so wrong? Andrew Walder’s masterly analysis illuminates the ostensibly enigmatic events, with broad implications for CR research. My book review @PacificAffairsis now accessible: https://t.co/JIozyaqfXd

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@AngelaZhangHK Luckily, I was still able to get a hard copy on the US site. Then upgraded my syllabus for the ongoing semester, assigning chapter 9 to my undergraduate students in the "Economic Governance of East Asia" course. I am sure they will all love it, too.

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@edenhofer_jacob Thanks, Jacob, a good overview! One might also classify on the parties' origins (as I do tentatively early on in my book on the CCP), in part because the main function of the CCP has been under debate, with changing answers of the years.

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Harvard's Fairbank Center now invites applications for two post-doc fellowships. Exciting theme: “Global Firms and Rival States: Business, Transnational Commerce, and China’s Rise." Postdocs will join a research group led by Meg Rithmire and @david_yang:
https://t.co/lTzXG6A0Se

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Harvard offers a new summer program in Shanghai, for 2024, with two courses: My course “East Asian Development Models” places transformations of China's economy into the context of other experiences in East Asia.
https://t.co/Rsa080vpg7
Thanks to inspiration from @BillKirbyHBS.

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What a pleasure to visit @UMich! I shared findings on how the CCP penetrates firms, how party cells/cttees influence business decisions - with implications for China's future economic governance. https://t.co/tXQkB5roi6 Thanks for their hospitality to @MaryGao and @MichiganChina

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What's It Like To Study China-Africa Relations At Harvard? @KossDaniel @ChinaGSProject https://t.co/3uwcCmX2Dd @MazzucatoM @BethanyAllenEbr @nglinsman @Halsrethink @Brad_Setser @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein @davidpilling @rainerkattel @zeithistoriker @EliDFriedman @ChinaBeigeBook

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@lnachman32 @jwassers @BonnieGlaser Congratulations! Can't wait to have this book on my desk, especially for teaching.

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Is China the largest investor in Africa? Not by UNCTAD reporting standards, where China is "only" the fifth largest investor economy in Africa by FDI stock in 2021: https://t.co/TFEqJ7rCCo

(Does this include Hong Kong? Two years ago, Hong Kong was reported separately.)

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@jcmittelstaedt @PM_Thornton Thank you for the compliment!

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@ihutch92 Great! Zambia, including the debt deal, will be an important case for this class. Going back all the way to the TanZam railway, reading Ching Kwan Lee's important book "Specter of Global China" and then discussing the debt deal. Thanks!

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Courses at Harvard start next week, and I am thrilled to offer another iteration of "China and the African Continent" - hoping for many contrasting perspectives in the classroom, and good insights through the creative assignments.

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@shen_shiwei Not that precise flag, but the dragon metaphor, mostly but not exclusively in the West. So isn't it a good idea to discuss this imagery in class?

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@ReadingThaWorld You would need to compare the number of applications over time (these data are public). I thought about your hypothesis, but the timing does not work out: There is a major time gap between deciding to apply to becoming a member, usually several years.

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@DeepShort7 Thanks for your interest, you can download the syllabus here: https://t.co/waNyGo7piX

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@shen_shiwei Good eye - now the big question is what we should associate with that dragon? What are the highly positive connotations that lands this dragon on a flag? Will discuss in class...