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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…

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(…

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Courtney J. Fung, Associate Professor of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia

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