Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
2013-2014 CSCC Annual Public Lecture
Evan Osnos New Yorker China Correspondent
Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He is the magazine’s correspondent…
Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law Reform in China:
Legalizing the Tools of Repression or Safeguarding Human Rights?
Criminal law and procedure reform is a highly sensitive issue since it implicates judicial justice and protection of human rights. China revised its Criminal Procedure Law in 2012 and it was viewed a significant step…
Preparing for the Ocean Century: China's Changing Political Institutions for Ocean Governance and Maritime Development
Tabitha Mallory, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Princeton University
Everyone has heard the 21st century referred to as the “Chinese century.” Yet the Chinese are also calling the 21st century the “ocean century.” Last year, China announced plans to consolidate four of its five…
The Political Hierarchy of Censorship: Blocking and Unblocking Party Officials on Sina Weibo Before and After the 18th CCP National Congress
Pierre Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Public Policy for a Modernizing China
The Challenge of Financing Services for a Footloose Society
Christine Wong, University of Melbourne
The hukou, the household registration system created under the planned economy, was widely adopted as a convenient and foolproof instrument for discriminating between local residents (with local hukou) and new…
2014
CSCC 2nd Annual Conference
New Media, The Internet, and a Changing China
This two-day international conference addresses the dynamic and evolving relationships among China's new media, civil society, public opinion, commerce, international relations and legal system. Twelve leading scholars present in four panels, followed by comments from expert discussants and open Q&A. No registration required, open to all.
Vance Hall is located at 37th St & Spruce. Please see campus map for directions
Thursday,…
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Prof. Nee will discuss his new book, co-authored with Sonja Opper, Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China. Studying over 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, Victor Nee and…
China's Third Plenum and the Future of Reform: Historic Change or More of the Same?
The just-concluded Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress and its decision on major reforms have outlined ambitious blueprint for China's future development.…
Film Screening Dinner - The Warriors of Qiugang
Followed by a discussion with scholars from Center of the Study of Contemporary China
Asian Law & Politics Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China invite you to Film Screening Dinner -- The Warriors of Qiugang, followed by…
Defining Democracy in China
Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
The conventional wisdom among China watchers is that political reform in China has not kept pace with the wide-ranging economic reforms of the past few decades. China remains a classic example of a one-party…
