Center for the Study of Contemporary China

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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CSCC Spotlight

Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. 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).

Dr. Amy Gadsden is Associate Dean and Executive Director for International Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and an Advisory Council member of the Women’s Democracy Network (WDN).

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.

Yuhua Wang is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching focus on political economy of development, East Asian political economy, authoritarian politics, Chinese domestic politics, and American political institutions.

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.

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Announcements

CSCC 2015-2016 academic year postdoctoral fellowship application has opened.

CSCC research scholar Neysun Mahboubi was interviewed by CCTV America on China's anti-corruption campaign and pursuit of corrupt officials abroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYq-DzW8Xg8

CSCC 2013 conference publicaiton is now available:

China's Challenges

CSCC research scholar Neysun Mahboubi was interviewed by CCTV America on the CPC 4th plenary and it’s blueprint for legal reforms.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_pA6-BDE4v0

Professor Avery Goldstein was interviewed by CNPolitics in September, 2014. 金骏远：中国只有五到七年的时间解决问题

CSCC postdoctoral fellow John Yasuda was interviewed by NY Times on the recent food scandal in China:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/opinion/anything-goes-in-chinas-food-system.html?ref=opinion

CSCC Blog

Revising the Law-Growth Hypothesis: a case study of reform-era China

by Joanna Xue on March 07, 2014

From Deng Xiaoping’s inception of the Open Door Policy and his Four Modernizations in 1978 to his southern tour in 1992, the world has marveled at China’s explosive economic growth, despite its shaky legal system.

Social Volcano

by Elaine Song on November 26, 2013

Many analysts consider China’s inequality as the major obstacle to China’s continued economic growth and geopolitical rise. Martin K. Whyte set out to address this concern in his analysis of what he called the Social Volcano Scenario through a survey analysis.

Events

Speaker Series

(CANCELLED) Coercive Institutions and State Violence Under Authoritarianism

Sheena Chestnut Greitens,
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Thursday, March 5, 2015

12 Noon

Browne Center Conference Room, Second Floor, Stiteler Hall

Weekly Forums

Chinese Social Welfare in Demand-Side Perspectives: Redistributive Preferences and Policy Effect on Public Support of Government

Xian Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China

Monday, March 16, 2015

12 Noon

CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345

Speaker Series