Policy Roundtables
As appropriate, the CSCC hosts roundtables of Penn faculty and invited outside experts to address pressing policy issues that increasingly confront contemporary China or US-China relations.
Past Policy Roundtables
2024
Thirty Years of the Internet in China: A Retrospective (Part II)
Jointly organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania.
March 2, 8:00-10:15pm ET
Matt…
Critical Reflections on Thirty Years of the Internet in China
Public Roundtable
Please join the public roundtable to reflect on the 30 years of Internet in China, co-organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Panelists will discuss three…
Taiwan’s New President and the Future of the Indo-Pacific
Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Susan Thornton, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School; Vincent Wang, Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University; Thomas Shattuck, Senior Program Manager, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.
Please join the Center for the Study of Contemporary China in collaboration with Perry World House for this crucial discussion on the future of Taiwan and its foreign relations in the aftermath of the 2024…
Roundtable on Population Aging in China
This roundtable will feature a moderated discussion of the implications of population aging for China’s future, from the perspectives of economics, social policy and practice, public health, and sociology. The…
The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Security, Economics, Environment, Society, and More
The U.S.-China relationship is multifaceted, singularly important, and recently troubled. The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together leading scholars specializing in key areas to examine…
The “Zero COVID” Protests in China
China is witnessing the largest-scale public protests targeting the party-state and its policies since the Tiananmen movement of 1989 and related demonstrations around the country. Primarily focused on socially…
Current Issues in Children’s Development, Education, and Welfare in China
Policy Roundtable
This roundtable will feature an open discussion of pressing issues facing children in China today in the domains of physical and psychosocial development, education, and welfare.
Chair:…
China’s 20th Party Congress: What Did We Learn?
Please join us for a CSCC community round table to discuss the CCP’s 20th Party Congress. Several of our colleagues will offer “pump-priming” remarks on implications for the economy (including the state’s role),…
Constitutionalism in Context: The Extreme Cases of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
David Law, E. James Kelly, Jr., Class of 1965 Research Professor of Law, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; Albert Hung-yee Chen, Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor and Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Hong Kong; Cora Chan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are often overlooked in the field of comparative constitutional law, but as the editor and authors behind Constitutionalism in Context show, they belong at the cutting edge of the field…
The World Today presents: Civil Liberties in China: The Uyghur Crisis
Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, are facing increasingly severe human rights abuses by President Xi Jinping’s government. They are subjected to intense surveillance, arbitrary…
