Speaker Series

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



2018

Productive Force, Property Rights, and Land Law in China

Susan H. Whiting, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
Stiteler Hall B26

A prominent hypothesis in the political economy of development holds that secure property rights are a prerequisite for economic growth. This claim presents a puzzle in the Chinese case, where growth has been…



2018

Mobilizing Without the Masses in China

Issues in Contemporary East Asia colloquium series
Diana Fu, Assistant Professor of Asian Politics, University of Toronto
Stiteler Hall Room B26

When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political…



2018

How the Chinese Communist Party Has Struggled with Managing Public Opinion and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the Internet Age

Ira Belkin, Executive Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute
CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345

It is common in the United States and other societies for the public to focus on how justice should be served in individual cases and, occasionally, even to take to the streets to demand or protest a particular…



2018

Anti-Discrimination Law and Social Activism in China: Gender in Employment and Other Issues

Xiaonan Liu, Professor of Law, Institute for Human Rights, China University of Political Science and Law; Yizhi Huang, Attorney, Beijing Yirenping Center
CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345

China’s laws and international treaties that China has joined prohibit or limit discrimination in employment on the basis of gender, ethnicity, disability, rural residency, or having an infectious disease.  Victims…



2017

Rotating to the Top: How Elites and Commoners Rise in the Chinese Communist Party

Yiqing Xu, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSD
Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall

This research investigates the career trajectory patterns of Central Committee members of the Chinese Communist Party in the reform era, including descendants of prominent party senior officials (elites) and those…



2017

China’s FDI in the United States

Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Daniel Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group
Stiteler Hall B26

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…



2017

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
Stiteler Hall B26



2017

What Explains Corporate Governance Regimes in China? The Same Old American Law and Economics Theories

Yun-Chien Chang, Professor of Law, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
CSCC conference room, Fisher-Bennett 345

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…



2017

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
Stiteler Hall B26

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…



2017

Art Test Fever: Art School and Evaluation Regimes in China

Lily Chumley, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
CSCC conference room, Fisher-Bennett 345

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…