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
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…
Past Speaker Series
The Specter of Global China: Is Chinese Capital a Different Kind of Capital?
Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Drawing on data collected through comparative ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese investments in Zambia in the past five years, this talk seeks to answer the questions: What is the peculiarity of Chinese capital?…
Constitutional Review on Taiwan: Review and Prospects
Dennis Te-Chung Tang, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Constitutional judicial review—the authority of a court to declare a decision by a state organ unconstitutional—has existed in Taiwan since 1949 and has developed dramatically since then. Decisions by…
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Town Hall with Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
6:00 PM - Presentation by Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7:00 PM - Live national webcast on U.S.-China Relations
China's…
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Daniel Bell, Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholars program, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Director of the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture.
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades,…
Gender and Professional Career: The Feminization of Judges in China
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily. More importantly, many female judges have risen to mid-level leadership positions, such as division chiefs, in the judicial…
I Am From Xinjiang
Kurbanjan Samat, Photographer, Central China TV
Kurbanjan Samat is of Uyghur nationality, born in Hotan, Xinjiang. He is a member of China Photographers Association, China Folklore Photographic Association(CFPA), member of China Uyghur History and Culture…
Internationalization of the Renminbi? -- Prospects and Challenges
Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School
"Internationalization" of the Renminbi has been an important economic and foreign policy goal for China. And it is a precondition to China's currency becoming a…
China’s Economic Statecraft in North Korea
Dr. James Reilly, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Since 2005, Chinese officials have successfully encouraged Chinese companies to expand trade and investment in North Korea through diplomatic support, infrastructure projects, foreign aid, and investment…
East Asian Regionalism, China, and US: is the Pacific wide enough for US and China?
Shiping Tang, Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai, China
Terrorism Challenges in China
Phil Potter, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
The Chinese government is increasingly challenged by mounting problems with militancy and terrorism emanating from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. China’s economic and political emergence has…
