Opening Ceremony Speech

Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Beijing Forum 2011&Hao Ping

Keynote Speeches

What Changes Very Fast and What Doesn't Change:Explosive Modernity and Abiding Truth&Robert Bellah

Reconciling Tradition and Modernity:the Role of Universities&Colin Lucas

Understanding the Foundations of All Political Systems:Leadership,Law and Local Government&Roger Myerson

China's Economic Development and Cultural Renaissance in the Multipolar Growth World of the 21 st Century&Justin Yifu Lin

Panel Session Papers

The Idea of Asia in Modern History&Sugata Bose

Unchangeable Features of Chinese Society as Seen by Foreigners in the Late Qing and Their Fate in the Early 21 st Century:Looking Back on a Century of Revolution,Reform and Social Change&Marianne BASTID-BRUGUIERE

War and Revolution:the Military Question in Revolutionary France&Alan Forrest

Choosing Priorities to Balance Economic Growth and Environmental Protection&Ross McKitrick

Voluntary Environmental Agreements as a Tool for Pollution Reduction in China&John W.Maxwell

Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Lesson Study&Chen Xiangming

Sustained Innovation in Classroom Practices:the Role of Educational Researchers as Meso-Level Actors&Chee-Kit Looi

The New Resource Politics:Can Australia and South Africa Accommodate China?&Mark Beeson,Mills Soko,Wang Yong

The Financial Crisis and the Developing Countries:the Search for a Progressive Global Development Agenda&Fantu Cheru

American Art and the Problem of Artistic Heritage&Cynthia Mills

The Decline of American Film Narrative:Movies,Money,and the Culture of Distraction&Daniel Gurskis

Facing Authority:Tradition and Innovation in Portraits of Leaders from the Renaissance to the Present&Erin Griffey

Cities and Services in the Knowledge Economy&Riccardo Cappellin

A Model and Empirical Study of the Symbiotic Development between the Producer-service Industry and the Manufacturing Industry of the Yangtze River Delta&Sun Jiuwen,Li Aimin

Spatial Inequalities and Urban Transformation&Dao-Zhi Zeng

Standards,Consumer Welfare,and Competition:What China Can Do with Food Standards and Cloud Standards&Eric K.Clemons

The Impact of the WTO on the Legal Systems of Its Members&Guiguo Wang

Closing Ceremony Speech

Speech at the Closing Ceremony of Beijing Forum 2011&Zhou Qifeng