Moving the Masses and the Officials’ Resistance in China
Yanhua Deng, Professor of Sociology, Nanjing University
This talk examines an episode of resistance initiated by Chinese officials against their higher-level government by way of mobilizing the masses. In 2005, Huangshi municipal government in Hubei province…
China and the Environment: Challenges at Home and Agendas Abroad
FPRI Panel Discussion
Terry Cooke, Founder and Executive Director, China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, and Senior Fellow, FPRI; author of Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy.
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2018
Reform and Opening: 40 years and Counting
CSCC 6th Annual Conference
Penn China Center's sixth annual conference, scheduled for April 26-27, 2018 will have as its theme “Reform and Opening: 40 years and Counting.” The conference will address China’s 40 years of reform and opening to…
Recent Trends in Media and Communication in China
Chen Hong, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Communication, East China Normal University, Visiting scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication;Zhang Junfang, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai International Studies University, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School;Fang Hui, Ph.D. candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Visiting scholar at the Annenberg School;Zhou Ying, Ph.D. candidate, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Visiting scholar at the Annenberg School
Politics and Policy of East Asia’s Economic Future
A Foreign Policy Research Institute and Woodrow Wilson Center Symposium
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most recent, and a highly ambitious, step along a familiar road of international economic liberalization and integration through multilateral trade-plus pacts. It promised…
The Political Logic of Land Reform in Post-Mao China
Richard Zeng, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
Why do politicians create institutions that threaten to eliminate their own rent-seeking opportunities? This question is puzzling in a wide range of contexts, where citizens cannot hold policymakers accountable or…
In Pursuit of Monetary Sovereignty: China’s Financial Overhaul in the Global Realm
Mianzhi Francis Cao, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, Frankfurt Goethe University, Visiting Scholar, Penn Law
In an age when China openly declares global ambitions, what is the legal contemplation behind China’s financial overhaul？…
The Art of Political Repression in China
Dan Mattingly, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
This talk examines several remarkable, far-reaching efforts undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party to reshape Chinese society: state-led development projects that have displaced millions; the One Child Policy,…
The State of Rights Protection Lawyers in China
Teng Biao
Human rights lawyering in China played an important role in the human rights movement since 2003, but it is facing harsh crackdown since Xi Jinping took power. The rising of human rights lawyering reflected the…
A “Race to the Bottom” or Variegated Labor Regimes? Capital Mobility and Labor Politics in China’s Electronics Industry
Issues in Contemporary East Asia Colloquium Series
Lu Zhang, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Temple University
A key debate over globalization concerns capital mobility, labor rights, and development prospects. A popular theme in the literature is that the hyper-mobility of capital from high-wage to low-wage areas in…
