2018 Penn Symposium on Contemporary China
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Taiwan’s Politics at the Mid-point of Tsai Ing-wen’s First Term
Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Davidson College
Shelley Rigger is the author of Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011) as well as two books on Taiwan's domestic politics, …
Productive Force, Property Rights, and Land Law in China
Susan H. Whiting, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
A prominent hypothesis in the political economy of development holds that secure property rights are a prerequisite for economic growth. This claim presents a puzzle in the Chinese case, where growth has been…
Mobilizing Without the Masses in China
Issues in Contemporary East Asia colloquium series
Diana Fu, Assistant Professor of Asian Politics, University of Toronto
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political…
How the Chinese Communist Party Has Struggled with Managing Public Opinion and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the Internet Age
Ira Belkin, Executive Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute
It is common in the United States and other societies for the public to focus on how justice should be served in individual cases and, occasionally, even to take to the streets to demand or protest a particular…
Strait and Narrower?: Beijing’s Flight Paths, Taiwan’s International Space, and Regional Security
Jacques deLisle, Scott Kastner, Wojtek Wolfe, Thomas J. Shattuck
Last month, China adopted new civilian aircraft flight paths over the Taiwan Strait, near Taiwan-controlled islands, without consulting Taiwan’s government. Several months earlier, Beijing began dispatching…
The Legacy of Beijing’s Sunshine Policy with Chinese Characteristics: What are the Implications for the U.S. Policy towards North Korea?
Dr. John Park, Director, Korea Working Group, Harvard Kennedy School
The complex relationship between Beijing and Pyongyang remains largely under-examined. In the first part, this talk will explore how the Communist Party of China has been trying to rebuild its relationship with the…
China in Latin America: Origins, Strategy, and Geopolitical Implications
Iacob Koch-Weser, China Trade Enforcement Analyst, Office of the US Trade Representative; Margaret Myers, Director, Latin America & the World Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Over the past decade, China’s influence in Latin America has increased significantly. While the nature and scope of its growing political and economic clout varies considerably across the region, there…
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Commemorating the Life of Professor Luo Haocai
Professor Luo Haocai, who passed away in Beijing on the morning of February 12th, was one of the most significant and consequential figures in the development of modern Chinese law, especially in the field of…
