2019
Courts, Law, and Politics in the United States and Asia
Scholars, jurists, and policy-makers in every major jurisdiction in Asia are debating, and sometimes reforming, the selection and appointment of judges, the role of specialized courts, the autonomy and accountability…
Roundtable Discussion with Chu Shulong: China’s Foreign Relations Today
Chu Shulong, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Tsinghua University
Dr. Chu Shulong is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the School of…
The Developing World of Arbitration and Trade Dynamics in Asia
Weixia Gu, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Pasha Hsieh, Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University
Weixia Gu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Originated from Shanghai, she obtained her MCL and SJD degrees from HKU. Prior to joining the Faculty of…
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
