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Shanghai Custom House, 2008, Courtesy of Avery Goldstein

798 District courtesy of Avery Goldstein

Flood season Yangtze, Courtesy of Anonymous

Children on train, Courtesy of Anonymous

Peking University Weiming Lake 2014, Courtesy of Neysun Mahboubi

Tiananmen Square 2014, Courtesy of Neysun Mahboubi

Zhongnanhai 2014, Courtesy of Yuanyuan Zeng

Diaoyutai Beijing 2014, Courtesy of Yuanyuan Zeng

Beijing 2014, Courtesy of Avery Goldstein

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Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Lecturer in Law at Penn Law School. He is co-chair of the international committee of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, consults for The Asia Foundation on Chinese administrative procedure reform, and moderates the Comparative Administrative Law Listserv hosted by Yale Law School.

Professor Avery Goldstein is the director of Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Jacques deLisle is the deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).

As Executive Director for Penn Global, Dr. Amy Gadsden works with Penn’s schools and centers to develop and implement strategies to increase Penn’s global engagement both on campus and overseas.

Dr. Emily Hannum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, as well as Chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology at Penn.

Marshall W. Meyer is the Tsai Wan-Tsai Professor in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology, and Associate Member of the Center for East Asian Studies.

Monroe Price is the director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School. He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law.

Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology in the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Xia Liping is Dean and Professor of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is Vice President of Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies (SIISS), Vice Chairman of Shanghai Association of International Studies, and Vice President of Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies (CPSIS).

Professor Wang Xixin is a Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Peking University Law School, and the Deputy Director of Constitutional and Administrative Law Research Center of Peking University.

Minyuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Management at Wharton. Minyuan's research examines the interactions between firm strategy and external environment in a global context: How emerging market institutions affect firms’ global strategies, and how firms’ strategic organization across borders shapes the global economic landscape.

Yue Hou is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in political science from MIT in September 2015. Her substantive interests include authoritarian institutions, ethnic politics, and business-state relations.

Maria Repnikova is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. (DPhil) in political science from University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar and a Wai Seng Senior Scholar. Her current research focuses on state-media relations in China, drawing some comparisons to Russia and the Soviet Union.

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CSCC postdoctoral fellow Junyan Jiang discusses Chinese citizens' preference falsification in sociopolitical survey: https://thechinalab.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/jiang-wallace-interview-tak...

CSCC research scholar Neysun Mahboubi discusses the current state of Chinese legal reform:
http://www.chinafile.com/viewpoint/future-of-chinas-legal-system

Professor Jacques deLisle 's musing on China, Trump and Clinton:
http://www.fpri.org/article/2016/07/red-state-china-china-sort-likes-trump/

Professor Jacques deLisle comments on the Hague Tribunal's South China Sea ruling:The South China Sea Arbitration Decision: China Fought the Law, and the Law Won….Or Did It?

CSCC 2014 conference publication is now available:

The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China

"The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China is the first book-length study of the Chinese Internet after the social media revolution that completely changed the contours and possibilities of Chinese cyberspace. The individual chapters provide a diverse range of empirical and conceptual insights, and, taken as a whole, the volume stands alongside the major publications in the field."—Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham

CSCC 2013 conference publication is now available:

China's Challenges

CSCC Blog

The Cultural Revolution did a lot of the work that Deng had to do for himself

by Zixin Lee on May 13, 2016

Andrew Walder, Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor at Stanford University and an avid researcher on the topic of change and stability in Communist regimes, posited that contrary to its initiators’ intentions, the Cultural Revolution laid political foundations for a transition to a market-oriented economy, while also creating circumstances that helped ensure the cohesion and survival of China’s Soviet-style party-state.

“Where’s the night reading for today? I can’t sleep without reading it.”le

by Zixin Lee on March 24, 2016

These are the sorts of comments editors of China’s People’s Daily get when they publish their nightly Chicken Soup stories 10 to 15 minutes later than the usual 10:15pm on WeChat.