CSCC

Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System

Book Talk

Ji Li, John S. & Marilyn Long Chair of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine

Despite escalating geopolitical rivalry, the US and China continue to be economically intertwined. Numerous Chinese companies have made substantial investments in the US and are reluctant to exit this strategically…

The Judicial System of China

Xin He, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong

How to understand the operation of Chinese courts and legal systems more generally after Xi Jinping took power and thoroughly reformed its judiciary? Different from the existing theories on Chinese law, this book…

TBA

Miao Li, Professor of Sociology, Shandong University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Pensions and the Politics of Retirement Age Reform in China

Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research

Raising legal retirement ages, also known as retirement age reform, is politically contentious worldwide, but it should be more easily pursued in non-democratic regimes that can effectively deter opponents from…

The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China

Shitong Qiao, Professor of Law, Duke University

Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, Qiao’s new book The…

China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives

Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University

TBA

Hualing Fu, Professor of Law, Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong

TBA

Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

The Future of the South China Sea Dispute: Perspectives from the Philippines

Justice Antonio Carpio, Supreme Court of the Philippines

Co-sponsored by Perry World House.

The South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea remain geopolitically fraught locations. The People’s Republic of China has successfully militarized the region…

TBA

Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Organizational Histories as Sources for China Studies

TBA

David C. Logan, Assistant Professor of Security Studies,Tufts University