China Today: Viewed by a New Wave of Scholars
2019 Penn Symposium on Contemporary China
The Penn Symposium on Contemporary China (PSCC) is an annual event organized by undergraduate students from the University of Pennsylvania. The 2019 Symposium will take place…
Economic Impacts of the US-China Trade Conflict on Developing Asia and the US
Bart Édes, Asian Development Bank Representative for North America
The 2018 trade conflict between the United States and the People’s Republic of China has affected not only bilateral…
Is 'New Malaysia' real or sustainable?
A critical assessment on Malaysia’s social divide and political system
Dr. Chin-Huat Wong, Penang Institute
When democracy went wrong in so many countries, Malaysia's peaceful regime change in May 2019 that ended the world's…
Film Event - Hao Wu "People's Republic of Desire"
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies
Ethnic Bias in Criminal Sentencing in China
Yue Hou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Are ethnic minorities treated differently by the Chinese legal system? Using newly and publicly available data on more than 120,000 drug offense cases in four ethnically diverse provinces from 2010 to 2018, Yue Hou…
Authoritarian Media Bias in International Context: How the Chinese State Portrays Foreign Countries and Why
Hanzhang Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, CSCC
How does the Chinese state media portray foreign countries and what drives the news coverage? In this project, we examine potential bias in international news reporting in China. Employing machine-learning methods,…
End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise
Carl Minzner, Professor of Law, Fordham University
In conversation with Neysun A. Mahboubi, Research Associate, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Cosponsored by the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Human Rights and China
As we mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 25th anniversary of the Bangkok…
China’s Response to the US-China Trade War and Its Spillover Effects
Heng Wang, Associate Professor of Law, University of New South Wales
China’s response to current US trade policy will have significant ramifications within China and may have spillover effects beyond China. This talk will assess how China is responding to the US trade approach, and…
Testing Legislator Responsiveness in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in Vietnam with Possible Lessons for China
Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
This research aims to establish whether targeted provision of constituent preferences increases the responsiveness of delegates to the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA). Utilizing a randomized control trial (RCT),…
