Viewing History from the Inside: Key Episodes and Crises in US-China Relation, 1985-2020
John Culver, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow
John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading…
The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
Calvin Hui, Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, College of William & Mary
My book, titled The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China, argues that popular and media…
Avoiding Economic Democracy: Parallel Legal Trajectories in the United States and China
Jedidiah Kroncke, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong
Over the last forty years, the economic development of the United States and China became increasingly intertwined. Today, recriminations are made with growing vigor in the United States regarding assumptions about…
Slow Burn: Re-turn Communication in Energy Transition
Junyi Lv, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
This study digs into communities’ dependence on coal and current efforts of transition, from local perspectives with cross-cultural references. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in southeast Kentucky and my…
National Committee on US-China Relations CHINA Town Hall 2023: Onsite Panel & National Live Webcast Watch Party
Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to China (webinar) & Naima Green-Riley, Junyi Lv, & Weirong Guo (onsite at Penn)
Co-sponsored by Foreign Policy Research Institute
Current U.S. Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns will be the featured speaker for CHINA Town Hall 2023, a national conversation on how the…
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Law & Political Economy in China's New Era
Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The talk will discuss the role of formal law in governing markets during China's "Legalized Politicization Era" (2010–present), the current era of market development in China. In this present era, the authorities…
Making China Policy in Washington
Ryan Hass, Senior Fellow, Director, China Center; Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Brookings Institution
A new CSCC series presents speakers with experience in the processes that shape US policy on China who provide insider perspectives as they reflect on their work, their contribution to the understanding of…
Where is China’s Economy Headed?
Hanming Fang, Joseph M Cohen Term Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
The arc of the Chinese economy over the next ten to fifteen years will depend on three sets of forces, each of which interacts with the others: (1) Domestically, the internal political economy will determine the…
Rule by Campaign: Do Laws on the Books Matter in China?
John Wagner Givens, Associate Professor of International Studies, Spelman College
Does rule of law govern behavior in China or do campaigns, scandals, and social media hold more sway? Drawing from a unique dataset of 15 million observations, we delve into environmental issues, suing the…
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US, China, and the Global South
CSCC 10th Annual Conference
The world is moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about economic development have again become more urgent. In recent years, China has become a key player in global development as a leading source of…