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…
China’s Role in the World in the Year of Elections
Kishore Mahbubani, Perry World House Visiting Fellow, Former President of the United Nations Security Council
As people around the world go to the polls and elect new government officials, leaders in Beijing may need to navigate new political landscapes around the world. Candidates in elections from Taiwan to the United…
The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class
Teemu Ruskola, Professor of Law, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
This talk draws on a book project by the same title. It seeks to offer a structural account of the remarkable political and economic transformation of the Chinese working class since 1949. My title is a deliberate…
China's State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization
Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor of International Studies, Indiana University
Why do Chinese state-owned enterprises routinely respond to central-level goals and policies in different ways, and why do their reform trajectories vary across firms and over time? This talk introduces a leadership…
2024
Thirty Years of the Internet in China: A Retrospective (Part II)
Jointly organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania.
March 2, 8:00-10:15pm ET
Matt…
The 20th Party Congress: Toward Personalistic Autarky?
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
The Twentieth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in October 2022, will go down as the congress at which Xi Jinping secured a third term, perhaps opening the way for the restoration of life-long tenure.…
