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.
Past Speaker Series
China’s FDI in the United States
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Daniel Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group
Daniel H. Rosen is a founding partner of RHG and leads the firm’s work on China. Mr. Rosen has more than two decades of experience analyzing China’s economy, corporate sector and US-China economic and commercial…
China's Economy: Fiscal Stimulus, Innovation and Productivity
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
What Explains Corporate Governance Regimes in China? The Same Old American Law and Economics Theories
Yun-Chien Chang, Professor of Law, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
The corporate literature has examined what factors affect corporate governance regimes and the effect of the choice of such regimes in the U.S. and other developed economies. Very few empirical works have been done…
Rethinking the impact of US-China Trade on US Employment: A Value-Chain Perspective
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Shang-Jin Wei, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University
Political rhetoric and recent research have emphasized the effect of US-China trade on displacement of US manufacturing jobs. However, the United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US…
Art Test Fever: Art School and Evaluation Regimes in China
Lily Chumley, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
Over the course of the 1990s and early 2000s, the Chinese art and design secondary education system expanded dramatically, along with the private test-prep schools that prepared students for standardized examinations…
It Takes Two to Tango: Autocratic Underbalancing, Regime Legitimacy, and China’s Responses to India’s Rise
Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Why has China yet to respond strongly to improving and expanding Indian military capabilities, in particular along the disputed border? This article posits a new mechanism that discourages appropriate balancing…
Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium and Social Mobility: The Truth and Illusion of China's College Entrance Exam
Ruixue Jia, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego
This study examines the returns to elite education and the implications of elite education on mobility, exploiting an open elite education recruitment system – China’s College Entrance Exam. We conduct annual…
Who Governs Multiethnic China?
Sara Newland, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
While China’s provincial-level minority autonomous regions—and in particular Tibet and Xinjiang—receive substantial media attention, the sensitivity of ethnic politics in China makes these regions difficult to study…
The Origins and Dynamics of Crony Capitalism in China: Insights from 260 Cases of Collusive Corruption
Minxin Pei, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
Corruption in the post-Tiananmen era exhibits distinct characteristics not found in the 1980s, such as astronomical sums of money looted by officials, their family members, and their cronies in the private sector,…
A Conversation with the Honorable Kevin Rudd:
U.S. Policy under Xi and Trump
Featuring the Honorable Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia; President, Asia Society Policy Institute. Moderated by Wharton School Dean Geoff Garrett.
Presented in partnership by the Penn Wharton China Center, Perry World House, Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Wharton China Business Society.
