2013

US-China Relations: An Assessment

JIA Qingguo, Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University.
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall

JIA Qingguo is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland…



2013

China's Political Economy and Foreign Relations

Professor Chu Shulong, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
CSCC Conference Room, FBH 345

Dr. Chu Shulong is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for U.S.-China Relations of  New York University. He is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the…



2013

The Course of US-China Relations: Its Evolution and Prospects

2012-2013 CSCC Annual Public Lecture
Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr., former US Ambassador to China
Dhirubhai Ambani Auditorium (JMHH G06), Wharton School

Governor Jon Huntsman, former US Ambassador to China with many years of public service and experience in Asia, shares his thoughts about the course of US-China relations and the influences that are shaping its…



2012

Educational Implications of Ethnic Categorization in China, 1982-2005

Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Department of Sociology and Graduate School of Education
CSCC Conference Room

 



2012

The Ongoing Quest for Judicial Independence in Contemporary China

He Weifang
 
Silverman 240A

Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China is pleased to have the opportunity to host a talk by Professor He Weifang, one of China’s most prominent public…



2012

Interpersonal Networks in Comparative Perspective:

The Core Discussion Networks in China, Japan, and the US
Ning Hsieh, Department of Demography and Department of Sociology
CSCC Conference Room

The study compares core discussion networks in three national contexts—China, Japan, and the US, intending to show cross-national differences in the structure of interpersonal networks that are shaped by broader…



2012

The New China

William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School
ANNS 111, Annenberg Building

In the past decade China has changed almost beyond recognition. China’s leadership has changed from charismatic, entrepreneurial figures to administrators. A trend toward centralized power has been reversed by the…



2012

Town Hall: National Committee on United States-China Relations

Web Broadcast Available 8pm at http://www.ncuscr.org/cth
Gary Locke, U.S. Ambassador to China (live webcast) 8pm

On Campus Event Cancelled. Web Broadcast Still Available 8pm at http://www.ncuscr.org/cth

U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke will join audiences in 60 cities…



2012

Chinese Law Reform: Its Recent Past and Uncertain Future

Stanley Lubman, Berkeley Law School, University of California; Senior Fellow, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Silverstein Forum, first floor of Stiteler Hall

Professor Lubman reviews the problems that law reform has encountered since the millennium, especially emphasizing the continuing tightness of control by the Party-State over the courts, the extensive power of…



2012

The Future of Chinese Administrative Law

Featuring presentations by an outstanding and diverse group of Chinese administrative law scholars, specially invited to visit the United States by the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, and with commentary from distinguished U.S. scholars of administrative law and Chinese law, this symposium will take stock of the development of Chinese administrative law over the past thirty years, and explore possibilities for reform today. CLE Credit Available
Golkin 100, Michael A. Fitts Auditorium, Penn Law School

This is a particularly dynamic moment for Chinese administrative law.  The long-term reformist effort to secure passage of a comprehensive administrative procedure law – a law, roughly akin to the…