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…
Roundtable Discussion on U.S. – China Relations
Chinese Consul General Huang Ping
Moderated by Professor Jacques DeLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Deputy…
2019
Security and US-China Relations: Differences, Dangers, and Dilemmas
CSCC 7th Annual Conference
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Following the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1979, US-China ties have been characterized by…
From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies
Precarious Expert: Scientists, the State, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy
Abigail Coplin, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
State legitimacy and food security have historically been deeply entwined in China. While China initially embraced genetically modified organisms (GMOs), vociferous controversy destabilized this consensus. Drawing…
