The third annual meeting of the International Consortium for China Studies (ICCS) will be held at Fudan University, Shanghai, China on September 10 and 11, 2016. This is an invitation to member institutions of ICCS to submit applications for presentation/ attendance.

The academic planning of the 2016 ICCS meeting is in the hands of a planning committee comprising John Knight (Oxford University, economics), Lina Song (Nottingham University, sociology), Kellee Tsai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, politics), Miaojie Yu (Peking University, economics), Jun Zhang (Fudan University, economics) and Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University, economics). Submissions will be considered and academic decisions will be made by this committee.

The 2016 meeting will focus on topics relating to “Understanding China’s Slowing Growth: The Nexus of Political, Economic and Social Issues”. We want to ensure that the topics covered are important ones for China.a