Events
Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Loren Brandt, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
The non-state manufacturing sector has been the engine of China's economic transformation. Up through the mid-1990s, the sector exhibited large regional differences; subsequently we observe rapid convergence in…
2018 China Town Hall
U.S.-China Relations: Can We Avoid Calamity?
The Honorable Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. Secretary of State and Former National Security Advisor; Douglas Spelman, Senior Advisor, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Join communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive national webcast at 6pm with former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor…
Migration, Social Institutions, and Popular Resistance in Rural China
Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
How does migration shape collective resistance in migrant-sending communities (rural China)? This study integrates perspectives from social movements and migration to develop a framework in which migration…
Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China
Ling Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Although China is a global manufacturing titan, the "made in China" model has begun to wane. Starting in the 2000s, China shifted from attracting foreign investment to promoting domestic firms. This shift led…
News and Announcements
Postdoctoral Fellow Wendy Leutert publishes an article in The China...
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
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Spotlight
Jacques deLisle
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.
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Abigail Coplin
Wendy Leutert received her Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University in 2018. Her research is situated in political sociology, economic sociology, and science and technology studies. It examines the entanglement—and coproduction of—science, politics, and nationalism in contemporary China, and exposes mechanisms by which non-democratic states contend with experts and incorporate expertise into their governance schemes and legitimacy claims.
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Marshall W. Meyer
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.
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Minyuan Zhao
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.
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Emily Hannum
Dr. Emily Hannum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, as well as Chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology at Penn.
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Xinyin Chen
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).
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Denise van der Kamp
Denise van der Kamp received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. Her research focuses on comparative political economy, with an emphasis on environmental politics, regulation, and market governance in China.
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Regina Abrami
Regina Abrami holds appointments in the Departments of Political Science and Management as Senior Lecturer and Senior Fellow, respectively. With primary expertise in political economy, her research focuses on the political economy of national industrial strategy, doing business in emerging markets, and China and Vietnam.
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Amy Gadsden
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.
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Yue Hou
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.
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Blog
China’s Creativity Classes: Lessons in Artistic Self-Discovery and Personality
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
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