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
Two Years After the Umbrella Movement: The Evolving Crisis in Hong Kong
CEAS Issues in Contemporary East Asia Colloquium with Michael Davis
Michael C. Davis, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
After an "umbrella movement" and a constitutional crisis that has stolen global headlines over much of the past couple years where does Hong Kong stand today? Many question are raised about the success or failure…
Xi's China, Trump's America: How Much Risk for Asia?
Arthur Kroeber, Gavekal Dragonomics; Brookings-Tshinghua Center for Public Policy
In the past month the world's two biggest economies have undergone major political changes. The United States chose as its next president Donald Trump, who during his campaign pledged to wage a trade war against…
China’s Perception of World Order
James Zhaojie Li, Tsinghua University Law School
Lunch provided, co-sponsored by Penn Law School International Programs
China’s Green Development and the Rule of Law
Alex Wang, Assistant Professor of Law , UCLA
For many years, environmental protection seemed a mere afterthought in China. As its economy exploded, China’s skies darkened and the rivers ran black. By just about any measure, China had become quite simply the…
Information for Autocrats: Representation in Chinese Local Congresses
Melanie Manion,Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and data analysis of original probability surveys of 5,130 local congressmen and women and their constituents, Melanie Manion shows how and why the priorities and problems of ordinary…
CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
Discussion via Webcast with Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State
China’s rapid emergence as a global player and potential partner on many U.S. policy priorities has ensured that the Sino-American relationship will have a direct impact on the lives of nearly everyone in both…
(Self-)Disciplining the Corporation: FCPA Practice, Compliance, and Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China
Matt Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
An expansive literature examines the question of norm diffusion and legal transplantation, particularly in regards to democracy, transparency, and human rights, in the developing world, and, especially, China. To the…
Whither Reform in China?: An Insider's Perspective
Jingzhou Tao, Managing Partner, Dechert LLP
Jingzhou Tao is the Managing Partner responsible for developing the Asia Practice of Dechert LLP. He has advised many Fortune 500 companies on…
China's national identity discourse and foreign policy
Yinan He, Department of International Relations, Associate Professor, Lehigh University
The Presence of the Past in a Fast-Changing China
Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, UC Irvine
This talk will draw on material from the author's new edited volume, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China,…
