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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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.

Junyan Jiang received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago in August 2016. He is broadly interested in informal institutions, public opinion, and elite-mass interactions in authoritarian regimes, with a special focus on China.

Jackson Woods received his Ph.D. from the George Washington University in 2016. His dissertation research, Online Foreign Policy Discourse in Contemporary China, examines both the emergence of online dissent concerning foreign policy issues and variation in the state's response to such events.

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CSCC research scholar Neysun Mahboubi discusses the North Korea crisis: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcCqN8qvjW0

Professor Minyuan Zhao and Professor Avery Goldstein discuss US-China relations at G20 on Knowledge@Wharton:

https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/bestof/knowledge-@wharton/?h=ezWpy

Professor Hanming Fang has announced the official launch of VoxChina.org, an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit platform on economic issues between China and the rest of the world.

CSCC Blog

How Social Media Exposure to Health Information Influence Chinese People’s Health Protective Behavior during Air Pollution? A Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective

by Qinghua Yang on August 16, 2017

“Under the Dome” (穹顶之下), a self-financed documentary made by Jing Chai in 2015, a famous Chinese journalist and host, attracted 1.3 million views on Youku after being published for 19 hours. That the video went viral indicates not only the severity of the haze (a term used to describe the air pollution problem in China), but also the public’s concern about its health risks.

Shocks in Authoritarian Regimes: An Analysis of Peng Dehuai

by Joshua Bramble on March 17, 2017

Fear of instability in authoritarian regimes has led leaders to make calculated decisions in their attempts to consolidate and protect their own power. The relationship between a dictator and an appointed lieutenant has in many cases allowed the dictator to manage issues more effectively, but when a leader considers the lieutenant’s growth in power to be overly threatening, this may lead to his/her forced removal.