A Revisionist Stakeholder: China and the Post-WWII World Order
Suisheng (Sam) Zhao, Professor of International Studies, University of Denver
Taking advantage of President Trump’s isolationism, President Xi Jinping has vowed to provide “China solution” to the globalization, raising the question if China is to undermine or replace the US-led world order. I…
Anti-Discrimination Law and Social Activism in China: Gender in Employment and Other Issues
Xiaonan Liu, Professor of Law, Institute for Human Rights, China University of Political Science and Law; Yizhi Huang, Attorney, Beijing Yirenping Center
China’s laws and international treaties that China has joined prohibit or limit discrimination in employment on the basis of gender, ethnicity, disability, rural residency, or having an infectious disease. Victims…
The Political Mobility of China's Central State-owned Enterprise Leaders
Wendy Leutert, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
CSCC Post-doctoral Fellow Wendy Leutert will present her research and original data on the political mobility of China's central state-owned enterprise leaders. Under the Hu Jintao administration, these leaders…
Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Lawyer's View
Natalie Lichtenstein, Inaugural General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) opened for business in 2016, as a $100 billion multilateral development bank that finances public and private infrastructure projects for Asia. AIIB’s…
Rotating to the Top: How Elites and Commoners Rise in the Chinese Communist Party
Yiqing Xu, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSD
This research investigates the career trajectory patterns of Central Committee members of the Chinese Communist Party in the reform era, including descendants of prominent party senior officials (elites) and those…
The 19th CCP Congress and Elite Politics
Policy Roundtable
Andrew Nathan, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University; Joseph Fewsmith III, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Damien Ma, Fellow and Associate Director, Paulson Institute.
In October 2017, the Chinese Communist Party held its 19th Congress. The Congress named Xi Jinping to the Party’s top post for a second 5-year term, selected a Politburo and a seven-member Politburo Standing…
China’s FDI in the United States
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Daniel Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group
Daniel H. Rosen is a founding partner of RHG and leads the firm’s work on China. Mr. Rosen has more than two decades of experience analyzing China’s economy, corporate sector and US-China economic and commercial…
China’s Economy, Its Currency, and the State of the U.S.-China Economic Relationship
2017-2018 CSCC Annual Public Lecture
Eswar Prasad, Nandlal P. Tolani Senior Professor of Economics and Trade Policy, Cornell University.
China’s economy is now the second largest in the world and its currency, the renminbi, has been elevated to the status of an elite official reserve currency. But China is facing slower growth, rising debt levels, and…
2017 China and International Relations Graduate Research Workshop
Organizers: Brian Chao and Scott Wingo
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…
Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of “Blunt Force” Pollution Regulation in China
Denise van der Kamp, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
Amidst rising discontent over pollution, the Chinese state faces a dilemma: In the absence of strong regulatory institutions, how can they enforce environmental policies that threaten local industrial interests? In…
