2019

Corporate Concentration and Air Pollution Governance in China

Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
- CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

Overall air quality in China has improved steadily since 2011. A little-studied aspect of pollution control in China is that…



2019

Technology Tensions in the U.S.-China Relationship

Kaiser Kuo, Host of the Sinica Podcast
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

One of China's top tech company executives is dramatically detained in Canada at the request of the Trump Administration. Hackers traced to China compromise the customer database of one of the U.S.'s largest hotel…



2018

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading

Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Jie Bai, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics, Rm 100, 133 S. 36th St.

Are quid pro quo policies effective in facilitating knowledge transfers to developing countries? We study this question in the context of the Chinese automobile industry where foreign firms are…



2018

Escaping Import Competition and Downstream Tariffs in China

Ann Harrison, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics, Rm 100, 133 S. 36th St.

This research proposes and provides evidence for a new source of gains from trade: Firms invest in product differentiation to escape import competition. In the data and in the model, these investments are associated…



2018

Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience

Rongbin Han, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

The talk will be focusing on the struggles over online expression in China in order to answering the following question: Why has the rise of Internet thus far failed to disrupt the Chinese party-state, as many have…



2018

China and the 'Responsibility to Protect' in International Law

Professor James Li, Tsinghua University Law School
- CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

Professor Li Zhaojie (James Li) received his LL.B. from Peking University, both his LL.M. and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his S.J.D.…



2018

Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins

Scott Moore, Ph.D., Director, Penn Global China Program, University of Pennsylvania
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

Scott Moore offers the first book-length treatment of the distinctive problem of subnational…



2018

Preservation and Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Modern China

Dr. Guolong Lai, University of Floria & Getty Research Institute
- Penn Museum, Widener Hall

Center for Ancient Studies 2018-2019 Lunchtime Seminar Series "The Usage of Antiquity in Modern Times" 



2018

Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia

ICEA Colloquium
Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University
- CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

The crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental…



2018

2018 China and International Relations Graduate Research Workshop

- 133 South 36th St, Suite 416 | Philadelphia, PA

This workshop brings together advanced graduate students from around the country conducting research on China and international relations. The objective is to create a forum of mutual exchange for developing cutting…