Corporate Concentration and Air Pollution Governance in China
Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
Overall air quality in China has improved steadily since 2011. A little-studied aspect of pollution control in China is that…
Technology Tensions in the U.S.-China Relationship
Kaiser Kuo, Host of the Sinica Podcast
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…
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
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…
Escaping Import Competition and Downstream Tariffs in China
Ann Harrison, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
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…
Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
Rongbin Han, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
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…
China and the 'Responsibility to Protect' in International Law
Professor James Li, Tsinghua University Law School
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.…
Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins
Scott Moore, Ph.D., Director, Penn Global China Program, University of Pennsylvania
Scott Moore offers the first book-length treatment of the distinctive problem of subnational…
Preservation and Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Modern China
Dr. Guolong Lai, University of Floria & Getty Research Institute
Center for Ancient Studies 2018-2019 Lunchtime Seminar Series "The Usage of Antiquity in Modern Times"
Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
ICEA Colloquium
Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University
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 China and International Relations Graduate Research Workshop
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…