Professor Wei Cui: (Mis-)Understanding Ourselves, (Mis-)Understanding China: The Parable of Taxation

Wei Cui

Professor Wei Cui: (Mis-)Understanding Ourselves, (Mis-)Understanding China: The Parable of Taxation

Wei Cui (Other)

Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia

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Abstract

On February 25, 2021, Professor Wei Cui presented his Inaugural Lecture on Zoom. This talk offers a precis of Professor Wei Cui’s forthcoming book, The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State.

About the presentation:
On subjects ranging from trade to human rights to democratization, there has been a crescendo of laments in Canada and other liberal democracies that China’s recent path of development contradicts earlier Western expectations. Yet these disappointments often originate in incomplete understandings of the Western institutions that China was expected to introduce. The path taken by China’s tax system effectively illustrates this idea, as it displays a pattern seen in other policy areas: initially, China heavily relied on models from advanced economies; unpredicted political processes then subverted these models in implementation; and the resulting “problematic” model turned out to be remarkably successful and resilient in critical respects. To articulate China’s subversion of Western models, we need better vocabularies to describe our own institutions and their conditions of success.

Original language	English
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - Feb 25 2021

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