On Wednesday, April 6, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation will present a discussion, entitled “The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China.” The discussion will be led by Luigi Tomba, a Senior Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University, who will  investigate how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives, providing vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang and Chengdu. Tomba focuses on the variation of state governance over neighborhoods and their local responses. The event will be moderated by Anthony Saich, the Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, and is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

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