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
2019 CHINA Town Hall
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Join communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive national webcast panel at 6pm moderated by George Stephanopoulos, joined by expert panelists …
Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia
Enze Han, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, this book takes a…
Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor of International Studies, City University of Hong Kong
China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system…
U.S. China Trade Dispute: Politics, Not Policy
Penn Global China Policy Dialogues
Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council
Co-sponsored by Penn Global, Penn Wharton China Center, and Center for East Asian Studies.
Why China Should Unsign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice and human rights.
Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University…
Rural E-commerce and Peasant Entrepreneurship in China
Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of New Hampshire
The phenomenal rise and rapid expansion of digital platforms following the 2008 economic crisis are reshaping the economy and reorganizing labor on a global scale. However, digital labor studies, in their emphasis on…
US-China Relations: A New Era of Bipolarity?
Yan Xuetong, Professor of International Relations, Tsinghua University
While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China is a particularly puzzling case.…
China’s War on Poverty: Winning at What Cost?
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia University
The Chinese government has set the ambitious goal of eradicating poverty by 2020. Will this goal be achieved, and at what cost? Drawing from her book,…
Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
Margaret Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California San Diego
As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted…
Understanding China's Increasing Role in Global Clean Energy Innovation
Joanna Lewis, Associate Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University
China’s rapid rise to become the largest investor in and user of clean energy technologies in the world has simultaneously cast it as both an international climate leader and an unfair competitor. How is China…
