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…
Two Years After the Foreign NGO Law:
Implications for Foreign NGOs, Foundations, and Thinktanks in China
Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
We are now into the third year of implementation of a new law and framework for Chinese security governance of overseas NGOs, foundations and thinktanks in China — which already has one of the largest and most…
Rural E-commerce and Peasant Entrepreneurship in China
Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of New Hampshire
The phenomenal rise and rapid expansion of digital platforms following the 2008 economic crisis are reshaping the economy and reorganizing labor on a global scale. However, digital labor studies, in their emphasis on…
U.S.-China Trade War: Causes and Consequences
The Trump administration has taken U.S. foreign economic policy in directions not seen since the…