Keren Wang: "Constitutional Dynamics in China-Taiwan Relations: A Historical and Comparative Analysis" Presentation at Emory International Law Review Symposium, Disputed Territories Across the Globe

 

 

I was delighted to have been able to attend Keren Wang's presentation entitled "Constitutional Dynamics in China-Taiwan Relations: A Historical and Comparative Analysis" prepared for the Emory International Law Review 2024 Symposium: Disputed Territories Across the Globe: A Future of Peace or Change?, 13 April 2024 which was held at the Emory University School of Law. 

Dr. Wang provided a refreshingly sophisticated comparative analysis of the constitution of the constitutions of the PRC and Taiwan (originally for the RoC) drawing from the run up to the consultative conference of 1946, and reaching back to its ideological origins from the end of the Qing dynasty and Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary vision. Though that vision eventually fractured in a CPC and a KMT variants, their congruence and differences  provide an important window on Chinese constitutional discourse and its ideological expressions. It was a marvelous presentation.

With Dr Wang's permission I am sharing the presentation PPT which provides a good overview of the remarks, along with a snippet video of the presentation itself. The PPT and link to the snippet follow below. Link to an English language version of the 1946 constitution here. Link to the English language version of the 1949 Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference here.

 Keren Wang (PhD Penn State) is the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Choices Fellow at Emory University's Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures.