Pensions and the Politics of Retirement Age Reform in China
Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research
Raising legal retirement ages, also known as retirement age reform, is politically contentious worldwide, but it should be more easily pursued in non-democratic regimes that can effectively deter opponents from…
The Judicial System of China
Xin He, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong
How to understand the operation of Chinese courts and legal systems more generally after Xi Jinping took power and thoroughly reformed its judiciary? Different from the existing theories on Chinese law, this book…
Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System
Book Talk
Ji Li, John S. & Marilyn Long Chair of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine
Despite escalating geopolitical rivalry, the US and China continue to be economically intertwined. Numerous Chinese companies have made substantial investments in the US and are reluctant to exit this strategically…
From Empire to Nation-State: War, Emulation, and National Identity in China
Peng Peng, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Professor Peng examines when, why, and how national identity emerged in China. She argues that war acted as a catalyst for two distinct psychological mechanisms: enmity (humiliation and other negative emotions) and…
The developmental benefits and emerging contradictions of Chinese migration to Ghana
Joseph Awetori Yaro, Professor of Human Geography, University of Ghana
Migration has historically shaped the development of new landscapes, yet discussions on migration’s role in development often emphasize remittances to sending regions rather than the contributions migrants make to…
The Role of Industrial Firms in China’s Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change
Valerie Karplus, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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…
Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in US-China Comparative Law Projects
Matthew Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, Oxford University
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…
Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China
Jiaqi Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University
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…
Value-Form Queer Theory
Petrus Liu, Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University
Co-sponsored by Theorizing Colloquium Series of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, with special thanks to…
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
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…
