(Cancelled) Globalization of China’s Social Media Apps: The Cases of WeChat and TikTok
Eric Harwit, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
The Chinese social media mobile apps WeChat and TikTok each have global subscriber numbers of one billion or more. However, the vast…
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Power Projects: Insights into Environmental and Debt Sustainability
Erica Downs, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Why are China and Pakistan building so many coal-fired power plants as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (…
From Partner to Bully: Shifting Employment Conditions in Walmart, China
Eileen Otis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of the…
Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China
Sida Liu, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Toronto
In authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and legal mobilization is constrained…
Spatial Control and State Power in Disaster-stricken Cities: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China
Huan Gao, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
How does the shape of our cities influence our political behavior and relations? This question is particularly important…
Symbolic Power and Subnational Identity in China and the USA
Jonathan Hassid, Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
Although studies of national patriotism are common, few scholars have examined how subnational (state, province,…
U.S.-China Competition in a Dynamic Indo-Pacific
2019-2020 CSCC Annual Public Lecture
Randall Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs (2018-2019)
What does the future of U.S.-China competition hold? How has the Trump…
Penn China Research Symposium
Please join us for this year’s Penn China Research Symposium on Friday, January 31, 2020. The Symposium highlights China-related research from across the University, and this year will address topics including the…
30 Years After: A Retrospection on the Spatial Evolution of a Super Mega-City, Shanghai.
Tong Ming, Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University
As an exceptional city in China, Shanghai has been experiencing continuous changes throughout its 180 years of developing…
Roundtable on Taiwan Elections and Implications for Cross-Strait and U.S.-Taiwan Relations
Vincent Wang, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University; Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; David Rank, Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson Institute of Global Affairs; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania.
On January 11, the incumbent Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party won the presidential election by a landslide, and the DPP retained its legislative majority. Tsai and the DPP won in a…