2024

The Role of Industrial Firms in China’s Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change

Valerie Karplus, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

China’s climate change pledge targets carbon neutrality by 2060. Policies and plans have begun to support decarbonization domestically while at the same time the country is becoming an increasingly important supplier…



2024

Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in US-China Comparative Law Projects

Matthew Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, Oxford University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China

Jiaqi Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

Value-Form Queer Theory

Petrus Liu, Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University
- 2nd Floor, Robert S. Blank Forum, PCPSE Building, 133 S. 36th St

Co-sponsored by Theorizing Colloquium Series of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, with special thanks to…



2024

Examining US-China Strategic Competition: The Case of China’s Global Initiatives in the United Nations System

Courtney J. Fung, Associate Professor of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

China’s well-reported multilateral rise is presumed to challenge US leadership a Western-dominated United Nations system. Amongst China’s many multilateral contributions are its advance of ‘Global Initiatives,’ which…



2024

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
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

In this book talk, Dali Yang, author of Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control(…



2024

Whither the U.S. One China Policy? Perceptions, Interests, and Tensions over the Taiwan Strait

Dalei Jie, Associate Professor of International Studies, Peking University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

Fan Yang, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500, 3620 Walnut Street

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2024

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
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Professor Zweig discusses his new book The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge…



2024

Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

Yang Su, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Professor Su discussed his recent book Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989…