The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Based on her book The Gilded Cage, Professor Lei will…
Do Elections Reduce Local Capture?: Evidence from Rural China
YAO Yang, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University
Professor Yao discusses electoral reform in rural China, and investigates whether elections reduce local capture. Exploring a comprehensive dataset spanning from 1986 to 2008, the period when the reform rolled out…
Planning Healthy Cities in China
Wang Lan, Chair Professor of Healthy City Science and Planning, Tongji University
Co-sponsored by Penn Institute of Urban Research
Professor Lan Wang’s research focuses on the mechanisms of urban built environment affecting…
WeChat, Diaspora, and a New Chinese Transnationalism
Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney
Co-sponsored by Center on Digital Culture and Society, Annenberg School for Communication…
Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State
Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Professor Wang will discuss her new book titled Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats…
High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy
Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Co-sponsored by Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, Penn Carey Law.
China has long been recognized as a powerhouse in cultivating Big Tech firms, emerging as a formidable rival to…
National Committee on US-China Relations CHINA Town Hall 2024: Onsite Panel & National Live Webcast Watch Party
Dr. Kurt Campell, Deputy Secretary of State (webcast) & Scott Moore, Junyi Lv, & Edmund Downie (onsite panel)
Deputy Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell will be the featured speaker for CHINA Town Hall 2024, a national conversation on how the U.S.-China relationship affects our communities. From trade, tech…
The Logic of Technology Transfer Policy in Rising China
John Minnich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, Columbia University
John Minnich will discuss his ongoing book project, Re-Innovation Nation: The Logic of Technology Transfer Policy in China, which examines how the Chinese state's strategic interests and its bargaining power…
The Rise of Foreign Relations Law in China: Conceiving Law and the World
Chen Yifeng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School
China’s enactment of a Foreign Relations Law in 2023 is an important move towards legalization of China’s conduct of foreign relations. The law is a milestone in its consolidating several earlier law-making endeavors…
Political Centralization under Xi Jinping: Strategic Adaptation by Local Cadres
Jessica Teets, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
Xi Jinping has been centralizing policymaking and supervision of local cadres beginning in 2016. Using survey data of 1,500 cadres in 28 provinces, we analyze the impact of these institutional changes on local cadres…
