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…

China's Economy: Fiscal Stimulus, Innovation and Productivity

Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

What Explains Corporate Governance Regimes in China? The Same Old American Law and Economics Theories

Yun-Chien Chang, Professor of Law, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

The corporate literature has examined what factors affect corporate governance regimes and the effect of the choice of such regimes in the U.S. and other developed economies. Very few empirical works have been done…

Rethinking the impact of US-China Trade on US Employment: A Value-Chain Perspective

Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy

Shang-Jin Wei, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University

Political rhetoric and recent research have emphasized the effect of US-China trade on displacement of US manufacturing jobs. However, the United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US…

Penn China Education Summit:

Educational Reform and Innovation in Globalized Era

https://pennchinaeducactionsummit.com/

Globalization and Technological Innovation have been transforming the world dramatically. During the past three…