Each year, the CSCC invites leading experts to Penn to present their research and share their knowledge about contemporary China. Typically scheduled for Wednesday afternoons 4:30-6 pm, speakers will deliver their remarks and then entertain questions from the audience. Attendance is open to the entire Penn community. Announcements about upcoming talks will be posted on the CSCC website and disseminated via the Center’s listserv. To be added to the listserv, please visit our signup page https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cscc-announce.
Past Speaker Series
Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China
Lynette Ong, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing…
China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion
Ketian Zhang, Assistant Professor of International Security, George Mason University
Professor Ketian Zhang discusses her new book, China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion (Cambridge University…
Hostage Diplomacy and U.S.-China Relations: The Legacy of The Peking Express
James Zimmerman, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Co-organized by Center for East Asian Studies
We are pleased to announce a book talk by Beijing-based author and lawyer James Zimmerman about his book, The…
‘Love Happens for a Reason in This World. So Does Hatred’: Affective Spaces as an Analytical Framework for the Study of Contemporary China
Shih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication, University of Macau
In this presentation, I will elucidate how and why emotions and affect open up new avenues for understanding contemporary Chinese society, politics, and media. This discussion focuses on the analytical foundation for…
Viewing History from the Inside: Key Episodes and Crises in US-China Relation, 1985-2020
John Culver, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow
John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading…
The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
Calvin Hui, Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, College of William & Mary
My book, titled The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China, argues that popular and media…
National Committee on US-China Relations CHINA Town Hall 2023: Onsite Panel & National Live Webcast Watch Party
Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to China (webinar) & Naima Green-Riley, Junyi Lv, & Weirong Guo (onsite at Penn)
Co-sponsored by Foreign Policy Research Institute
Current U.S. Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns will be the featured speaker for CHINA Town Hall 2023, a national conversation on how the…
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Law & Political Economy in China's New Era
Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The talk will discuss the role of formal law in governing markets during China's "Legalized Politicization Era" (2010–present), the current era of market development in China. In this present era, the authorities…
Making China Policy in Washington
Ryan Hass, Senior Fellow, Director, China Center; Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Brookings Institution
A new CSCC series presents speakers with experience in the processes that shape US policy on China who provide insider perspectives as they reflect on their work, their contribution to the understanding of…
Rule by Campaign: Do Laws on the Books Matter in China?
John Wagner Givens, Associate Professor of International Studies, Spelman College
Does rule of law govern behavior in China or do campaigns, scandals, and social media hold more sway? Drawing from a unique dataset of 15 million observations, we delve into environmental issues, suing the…
