Each year, the CSCC invites leading experts to Penn to present their research and share their knowledge about contemporary China. Typically scheduled for Wednesday afternoons 4:30-6 pm, speakers will deliver their remarks and then entertain questions from the audience. Attendance is open to the entire Penn community. Announcements about upcoming talks will be posted on the CSCC website and disseminated via the Center’s listserv. To be added to the listserv, please visit our signup page https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cscc-announce.
Upcoming Speaker Series
The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
Shitong Qiao, Professor of Law, Duke University
Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, Qiao’s new book The…
Americans in Chinese Courts
Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
The U.S.‑China relationship has come to be defined by geopolitical rivalry. The siren is loud and everywhere, even engulfing civil litigation. This talk examines the U.S.-China relationship from a quieter, more…
David Nelson Rowe, China, and How the History of IR’s New Right Was Lost
Robert Vitalis, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
“Simply put, China was an integral part of what made the “New Right” new. –Joyce Mao
“Twenty years is about the length of time it takes a group of academics to storm the ramparts, take the…
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
A Case for Dualism in the Chinese Legal System
Hualing Fu, Professor of Law, Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong
The Chinese legal system embodies a unique duality under a constitutional trinity: the Communist Party's leadership, responsiveness to popular demand, and legality. The Party's dominance is central, and its prerogative…
Guanchang Meixue: Heart Distress and Aesthetic Attunement in China’s Bureaucracy
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
The “aesthetic turn” in both political thought and mental health care centers around Western aesthetics and Euro-American psychology. This paper attempts to indigenize both by focusing on “bureaucratic aesthetics” in…
The Future of the South China Sea Dispute: Perspectives from the Philippines
Justice Antonio Carpio, Supreme Court of the Philippines
Co-sponsored by Perry World House.
The South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea remain geopolitically fraught locations. The People’s Republic of China has successfully militarized the region…
TBA
Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
Whither the U.S. One China Policy? Perceptions, Interests, and Tensions over the Taiwan Strait
Dalei Jie, Associate Professor of International Studies, Peking University
In recent years, China has accused the U.S. of “hollowing out” its own one China policy, while the Biden administration has insisted that its one China policy has not changed. The talk establishes an analytical…
Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements
Fan Yang, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations
David Zweig, Professor Emeritus, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor Zweig discusses his new book The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge…
Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Yang Su, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Professor Su discussed his recent book Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989…
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Based on her book The Gilded Cage, Professor Lei will…
Planning Healthy Cities in China
Wang Lan, Chair Professor of Healthy City Science and Planning, Tongji University
Co-sponsored by Penn Institute of Urban Research
Professor Lan Wang’s research focuses on the mechanisms of urban built environment affecting…
WeChat, Diaspora, and a New Chinese Transnationalism
Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney
Co-sponsored by Center on Digital Culture and Society, Annenberg School for Communication…
Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State
Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Professor Wang will discuss her new book titled Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats…
High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy
Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Co-sponsored by Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, Penn Carey Law.
China has long been recognized as a powerhouse in cultivating Big Tech firms, emerging as a formidable rival to…
The Rise of Foreign Relations Law in China: Conceiving Law and the World
Chen Yifeng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School
China’s enactment of a Foreign Relations Law in 2023 is an important move towards legalization of China’s conduct of foreign relations. The law is a milestone in its consolidating several earlier law-making endeavors…
