2024

The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China

Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Based on her book The Gilded Cage, Professor Lei will…



2024

Do Elections Reduce Local Capture?: Evidence from Rural China

YAO Yang, Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

Planning Healthy Cities in China

Wang Lan, Chair Professor of Healthy City Science and Planning, Tongji University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Co-sponsored by Penn Institute of Urban Research

Professor Lan Wang’s research focuses on the mechanisms of urban built environment affecting…



2024

WeChat, Diaspora, and a New Chinese Transnationalism

Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Co-sponsored by Center on Digital Culture and Society, Annenberg School for Communication



2024

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State

Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Professor Wang will discuss her new book titled Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats…



2024

High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy

Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

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

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…



2024

The Logic of Technology Transfer Policy in Rising China

John Minnich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, Columbia University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

The Rise of Foreign Relations Law in China: Conceiving Law and the World

Chen Yifeng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…



2024

Political Centralization under Xi Jinping: Strategic Adaptation by Local Cadres

Jessica Teets, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

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…