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
TBA
Peng Peng, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
TBA
Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
Pensions and the Politics of Retirement Age Reform in China
Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research
Raising legal retirement ages, also known as retirement age reform, is politically contentious worldwide, but it should be more easily pursued in non-democratic regimes that can effectively deter opponents from…
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…
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System
Ji Li, John S. & Marilyn Long Chair of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine
Despite escalating geopolitical rivalry, the US and China continue to be economically intertwined. Numerous Chinese companies have made substantial investments in the US and are reluctant to exit this strategically…
From Empire to Nation-State: War, Emulation, and National Identity in China
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
This article examines when, why, and how national identity emerged in China. We argue that war acted as a catalyst for two distinct psychological mechanisms: enmity (humiliation and other negative emotions) and…
TBA
Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
China Outbound Business: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Wang Huiyao, Founder and President, Center for China & Globalization
With China’s newly launched "One Belt and one Road" strategic policy approach and the upcoming 13th Five-Year Planning period, the globalization of Chinese enterprises will have rapid growth. What types of…
U.S., China, and East Asian Regionalism: Is the Pacific Wide Enough?
Shiping Tang, Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
A gap within the existing literature on regionalism is that it has yet to bring together intra- and inter- regional bargaining. By this, we mean that regional initiatives operate in the shadow of extra-regional…
The South China Sea Dispute in the Philippines v. PRC Arbitration: Taiwan’s Concern and Response
Yann-Huei Song, Academia Sinica
The arbitration tribunal in the Philippines vs. PRC dispute over the South China Sea is likely to issue its final award later this year. The issues before the tribunal include China’s claim to historic rights, the 9…
China's Authoritarian Legality
Mary Gallagher, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Over the past decade the Chinese government has passed some of the most protective labor and employment laws in the world and begun a massive urbanization scheme allowing rural migrant workers to gain urban residency…
Income and Wealth Inequality in China
Yu Xie, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and PIIRS, Princeton University
In this presentation, Professor Xie reviews results from his research program on income and wealth inequality in contemporary China, drawing on newly available survey data collected by several Chinese university…
Post-socialist urban marriages: (Re)verticalization of family loyalties in urban Shanghai
Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Reading: Davis, Deborah S. (2014). "…
Renminbi internationalization—and regulation—and what it means for Western financial markets
Chris Brummer, Professor and Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University
Chris Brummer is a visiting professor at Penn Law this semester where he teaches a course on international financial regulation. He is also the Director of the Institute of International Economic…
Rural-urban Migration and the Cognitive and Emotional Development of Middle Schoolers in China
Lingxin Hao, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
China’s unprecedented rural-urban migration adds profound complications to the entrenched rural-urban spatial inequality in the cognitive and emotional development of middle schoolers.…
The China Challenge: Shaping The Choices of A Rising Power
Thomas Christensen, William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Princeton University
Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine…
Seeking Truth from Facts: Data-driven Environmental Policy in China
Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
When China’s environmental policy is discussed, scholars frequently point to an “implementation gap” between national environmental policy creation and execution at the local level. In particular, scholars of Western…
