Making Sense of a Fast-Changing China

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History (and Professor of Law, by courtesy), University of California at Irvine Editor, Journal of Asian Studies

Professor Wassersrtom will address some of the key claims he makes in his book China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2010, with an updated edition last summer…

Is No Place Safe from the Long-arm of Chinese Law?

China’s Attempt to Pierce Corporate Veils and Capture Revenue Abroad

Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School

The talk examines how Chinese tax authorities apply the corporate law doctrine of veil-piercing in an extraterritorial manner in the context of cross-border transactions. The analysis considers, from both…

From Domestic to International: The Evolution of Chinese NGO

Jennifer Hsu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Interest in China’s role as an international development actor has surged due to China’s growing presence across the developing world. While much of the media and scholarly…

Is Xi Jinping Changing China's Course? Reforms Under the New Leadership in Beijing

In November 2013 China's ruling Communist Party, headed by Xi Jinping, held a widely anticipated meeting of its central committee.  This plenary session approved a sixty…

The Political Process of Chinese Land: Partial Reform, Vested Interests and Small Properties

Shitong Qiao, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School; Research Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law

This article investigates the history of land use reform in China and proves that the so-called rural land problem is the consequence of China’s partial land use…

The Trail From Xinjiang

Documentary Screening & Meet with the Director

Chen Dongnan, Film Director

Musa and his friends, all men, all young, all from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on China's northwestern border, now wander great cities in the East talking, shooting up, remembering home and practicing the one…

East Asia Island Wars

Penn Faculty

PANELISTS:
Prof. Jacque deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
Prof. Avery Goldstein, David M.…

“Good" Censor vs. “Bad" Censor---The Effects of Perceived Censorship Attempt Initiated by Different Sources on Censorship acceptance, Rumor Processing, and Evaluation of Government among Chinese Netizens

Sijia Yang, Ph.D. Student, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania 

China’s virtual public sphere is susceptible to negative consequences of low-quality information and online censorship. The censorship policy as currently adopted and constantly reinforced by the Chinese…

Revising the Law-Growth Hypothesis: a case study of reform-era China

Alice Xie, College of Arts and Sciences '14

The law-growth hypothesis, which holds that the rule of law is essential to economic growth, has been a cornerstone of development and political thought for decades. China, which has broken historic records in GDP…

China in Multilateral Governance: Invest, Hold-up, or Accept?

Margaret Pearson, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Margaret M. Pearson is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is a specialist in Chinese domestic political economy and Chinese foreign economic policy.  She…