In addition to the regular speaker series and other co-sponsored events, CSCC convenes an informal “Weekly Forum,” noon on weekdays in the CSCC conference room. These sessions are envisioned as “brown-bag lunches” at which graduate students or faculty can informally introduce or present work in progress. This will be a great way for all of us to get to know one another and learn more about the kinds of work on contemporary China being done across Penn’s campus. Please email us your thoughts and suggestions on how to best organize the Friday Forum and to let us know when you would like to volunteer to discuss some of your work. Even on days when no discussion is scheduled, people are welcome to bring their lunch to eat with others in the CSCC conference room.
Past Weekly Forums
Roundtable Discussion with Chu Shulong: China’s Foreign Relations Today
Chu Shulong, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Tsinghua University
Dr. Chu Shulong is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the School of…
Is 'New Malaysia' real or sustainable?
A critical assessment on Malaysia’s social divide and political system
Dr. Chin-Huat Wong, Penang Institute
When democracy went wrong in so many countries, Malaysia's peaceful regime change in May 2019 that ended the world's…
Technology Tensions in the U.S.-China Relationship
Kaiser Kuo, Host of the Sinica Podcast
One of China's top tech company executives is dramatically detained in Canada at the request of the Trump Administration. Hackers traced to China compromise the customer database of one of the U.S.'s largest hotel…
Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins
Scott Moore, Ph.D., Director, Penn Global China Program, University of Pennsylvania
Scott Moore offers the first book-length treatment of the distinctive problem of subnational…
Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace? Trade Interdependence and Chinese Uses of Military Force
Jack Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University
Contrary to commercial peace theories, which predicted that economic engagement would make possible China's peaceful rise, China seems to be engaging in more militarized disputes with its neighbors and trade partners…
Moving the Masses and the Officials’ Resistance in China
Yanhua Deng, Professor of Sociology, Nanjing University
This talk examines an episode of resistance initiated by Chinese officials against their higher-level government by way of mobilizing the masses. In 2005, Huangshi municipal government in Hubei province…
Recent Trends in Media and Communication in China
Chen Hong, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Communication, East China Normal University, Visiting scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication;Zhang Junfang, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai International Studies University, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School;Fang Hui, Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Visiting scholar at the Annenberg School;Zhou Ying, Ph.D. candidate, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Visiting scholar at the Annenberg School
The Political Logic of Land Reform in Post-Mao China
Richard Zeng, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
Why do politicians create institutions that threaten to eliminate their own rent-seeking opportunities? This question is puzzling in a wide range of contexts, where citizens cannot hold policymakers accountable or…
In Pursuit of Monetary Sovereignty: China’s Financial Overhaul in the Global Realm
Mianzhi Francis Cao, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, Frankfurt Goethe University, Visiting Scholar, Penn Law
In an age when China openly declares global ambitions, what is the legal contemplation behind China’s financial overhaul？…
The State of Rights Protection Lawyers in China
Teng Biao
Human rights lawyering in China played an important role in the human rights movement since 2003, but it is facing harsh crackdown since Xi Jinping took power. The rising of human rights lawyering reflected the…
