Events
WeChat, Diaspora, and a New Chinese Transnationalism
Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney
Co-sponsored by Center on Digital Culture and Society, Annenberg School for Communication…
Planning Healthy Cities in China
Wang Lan, Chair Professor of Healthy City Science and Planning, Tongji University
Co-sponsored by Penn Institute of Urban Research
Professor Lan Wang’s research focuses on the mechanisms of urban built environment affecting…
Do Elections Reduce Local Capture?: Evidence from Rural China
YAO Yang, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University
Professor Yao discusses electoral reform in rural China, and investigates whether elections reduce local capture. Exploring a comprehensive dataset spanning from 1986 to 2008, the period when the reform rolled out…
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Based on her book The Gilded Cage, Professor Lei will…
Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Yang Su, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Professor Su discussed his recent book Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989…
The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations
David Zweig, Professor Emeritus, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor Zweig discusses his new book The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge…
Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements
Fan Yang, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Whither the U.S. One China Policy? Perceptions, Interests, and Tensions over the Taiwan Strait
Dalei Jie, Associate Professor of International Studies, Peking University
In recent years, China has accused the U.S. of “hollowing out” its own one China policy, while the Biden administration has insisted that its one China policy has not changed. The talk establishes an analytical…
How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control: Agency, Cognition, and the Politics of Information
Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
In this book talk, Dali Yang, author of Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control(…
Examining US-China Strategic Competition: The Case of China’s Global Initiatives in the United Nations System
Courtney J. Fung, Associate Professor of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia
China’s well-reported multilateral rise is presumed to challenge US leadership a Western-dominated United Nations system. Amongst China’s many multilateral contributions are its advance of ‘Global Initiatives,’ which…
Value-Form Queer Theory
Petrus Liu, Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University
Co-sponsored by Theorizing Colloquium Series of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, with special thanks to…
Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China
Jiaqi Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University
This talk expands the study of state-society relations into the global arena by examining how migrant-sending states, particularly China, engage with their diasporas. Drawing on Migdal’s “state-in-society” theory, it…
Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in US-China Comparative Law Projects
Matthew Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, Oxford University
Theodore Roosevelt once wrote “comparison is the thief of joy.” Nowhere may this be more apparent than in the US-China relationship. Whether it’s the size of economies or navies, Olympic gold medal count, box office…
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Valerie Karplus, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
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