Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia
Enze Han, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, this book takes a…
Roundtable on US-China Relations and Taiwan Issues
Xiamen University Delegation
Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor of International Studies, City University of Hong Kong
China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system…
U.S. China Trade Dispute: Politics, Not Policy
Penn Global China Policy Dialogues
Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council
Co-sponsored by Penn Global, Penn Wharton China Center, and Center for East Asian Studies.
The Hong Kong Protests: A Roundtable Discussion
Michael Davis, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University; Victoria Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Norte Dame; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Avery Goldstein, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations.
Why China Should Unsign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice and human rights.
Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University…
Hong Kong's Summer of Discontent: The Latest Skirmish in the Long Conflict over Autonomy, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by The Philomathean Society. Please join us for a lecture by Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Study of Contemporary China, on…
Elite Kinship Network and State Strengthening: Theory and Evidence from Imperial China
Yuhua Wang, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Existing theories of state strengthening focus on macro-level factors and assume away individual-level differences among politicians. But state strengthening has distributive consequences that impose more costs on…
Protesting for Democracy, Locally and Globally
The World Today Series
Sarah Bush, Lightning Scholar at Perry World House, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Jocelyn Perry, Global Shifts Program Manager, Perry World House.
This edition of The World Today will speak to the global pro-democracy protests taking place…
Landscape for Urban Growth: Suzhou Industrial Park as Case Study of China's Urbanization Movement
Zhongjie Lin, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign
This presentation is part of Dr. Lin's ongoing book project on China’s urbanization movement and…
