The Domestic Sources of the Deterioration in US-China Relations
DA Wei, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Domestic conditions have changed in dramatic fashion in both the US and China over the past two decades, leading to major shifts in domestic outlook and strategies. This talk will examine these shifts, respectively,…
Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China
Lynette Ong, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing…
China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion
Ketian Zhang, Assistant Professor of International Security, George Mason University
Professor Ketian Zhang discusses her new book, China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion (Cambridge University…
Hostage Diplomacy and U.S.-China Relations: The Legacy of The Peking Express
James Zimmerman, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Co-organized by Center for East Asian Studies
We are pleased to announce a book talk by Beijing-based author and lawyer James Zimmerman about his book, The…
Foreign Law Firms in China in 2024: Opportunities and Challenges
James Zimmerman, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
James Zimmerman is a partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie LLP and has worked in China since 1998. He is the author of the ABA's China Law Deskbook, now in its fourth edition, and was elected to four…
Critical Reflections on Thirty Years of the Internet in China
Public Roundtable
Please join the public roundtable to reflect on the 30 years of Internet in China, co-organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Panelists will discuss three…
Thirty Years of the Internet in China: A Retrospective
Jointly organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania. Zoom option available for invited guests, and for the public during…
Taiwan’s New President and the Future of the Indo-Pacific
Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Susan Thornton, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School; Vincent Wang, Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University; Thomas Shattuck, Senior Program Manager, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.
Please join the Center for the Study of Contemporary China in collaboration with Perry World House for this crucial discussion on the future of Taiwan and its foreign relations in the aftermath of the 2024…
‘Love Happens for a Reason in This World. So Does Hatred’: Affective Spaces as an Analytical Framework for the Study of Contemporary China
Shih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication, University of Macau
In this presentation, I will elucidate how and why emotions and affect open up new avenues for understanding contemporary Chinese society, politics, and media. This discussion focuses on the analytical foundation for…
Viewing History from the Inside: Key Episodes and Crises in US-China Relation, 1985-2020
John Culver, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow
John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading…
