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
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Professor Scott Rozelle discusses his most recent book Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise…
Norm Assembly in Global Value Chains
Trang (Mae) Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
This talk is based on Professor Nguyen's recent article: Norm Assembly in Global Value Chains (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?…
Has the EAST Risen, Again? Lessons and Experiences from History
Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.
This talk is based on Prof.Huang's ongoing book project Has the EAST Risen, Again? He will discuss four factors that have shaped Chinese development both historically and during the contemporary period.…
Rural Development in China and East Asia
Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
This talk addresses the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia’s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison…
Triumphalism and the Inconvenient Truth: Correcting Inflated National Self-Images in a Rising Power
Haifeng Huang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced
Do people in a rising authoritarian power with pervasive propaganda and information control overestimate their country’s power and popularity in the world? This is an important question since inflated national self-…
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor Weber will discuss her new book : How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market…
Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban China
Lik Sam CHAN, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Will Challenge Global Regulation
Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong
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The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public
Shaohua Guo, Associate Professor of Chinese, Carleton College
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