Current Developments in China's Elite Politics

Cheng Li, Director and Senior Fellow, The John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution; Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University                      

Sovereignty Costs and China’s Socialization into International Society: Evidence from China’s Approach to Hard Law

Jing Tao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP) Commentator, William W. Burke-White, Richard Perry Professor of Law , Inaugural Director, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania  

This study uses three types of hard law with mandatory dispute settlement mechanism, i.e. bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the Rome Statute of…

Cybersecurity and US-China Relations

James Mulvenon, Vice President, Intelligence Division, Defense Group Inc.

Cyber issues, including industrial espionage, Internet censorship, technology protectionism, and network warfare, are now at the top of the US-China strategic agenda. Dr. James Mulvenon, author of …

(CANCELLED) A New Stage of Social Science Data Collection in China

Professor Weidong Wang, Department of Sociology, Renmin University, China

In recent years, the arising of academic survey data has brought the social-economic fundamental data collection in China into a new stage. Around 2010, several Chinese Universities respectively started their…

Promoting Social Progress in China Through NGOs

Song Qinghua, President of Shining Stone Community Action (SSCA)

Song Qinghua is a renowned NGO leader and president of Shining Stone Community Action, the NGO she founded in 2002. Song Qinghua has been focusing on social innovation and participatory governance since 2002…

The US and China in the 21st Century

2014-2015 CSCC Annual Public Lecture

Hon. Kurt M. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2009-2013)  

Kurt M. Campbell is the Founding Partner, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group.  He also serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of the Center for a New American Security, an independent director on the…

The Quiet Disappearance of China’s Boldest Newspaper

Kecheng Fang, Doctoral Student, Annenberg School for Communication Commentator: Maria Repnikova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication Moderator: Prof. Guobin Yang, Annenberg School for Communication

This January marks the second anniversary of the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo) incident. As a former journalist at Southern Weekly who experienced the incident, Annenberg School doctoral student Kecheng Fang…

Governance & Policy Innovation in the Contemporary City

Central Party School Delegation

Please join our visiting delegation from Central Party School for a roundtable discussion on governance and policy innovation in the contemporary city.

Lunch provided.

China and International Human Rights

Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch

Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson is the…

Rights Protections Lawyers in China

Thomas Kellogg, Open Society Foundations

Thomas Kellogg is director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations. He is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. At the Open Society Foundations, Kellogg focuses most closely on…