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
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
In the burgeoning field of historical studies of climate change, few studies exist that focus on Chinese policy making and US-China scientific interactions in the early years. In this talk I review Chinese public…
A Case for Dualism in the Chinese Legal System
Hualing Fu, Professor of Law, Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong
The Chinese legal system embodies a unique duality under a constitutional trinity: the Communist Party's leadership, responsiveness to popular demand, and legality. The Party's dominance is central, and its…
Guanchang Meixue: Heart Distress and Aesthetic Attunement in China’s Bureaucracy
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
The “aesthetic turn” in both political thought and mental health care centers around Western aesthetics and Euro-American psychology. This paper attempts to indigenize both by focusing on “bureaucratic aesthetics” in…
The Future of the South China Sea Dispute: Perspectives from the Philippines
Justice Antonio Carpio, Supreme Court of the Philippines
Co-sponsored by Perry World House.
The South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea remain geopolitically fraught locations. The People’s Republic of China has successfully militarized the region…
TBA
Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
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…
China’s Economic Slowdown and Spillover to the Rest of the World
David Dollar, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
China’s economic growth is slowing down and this is creating jitters throughout world markets. President Xi Jinping on his recent visit said this was a normal development now that China has reached middle…
Back to Bipolarity: Structural-Realist Theory and the Rise of China
Karen Ruth Adams, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Montana
Karen Adams argues that the unipolar international-political system dominated by the United States ended in 2014 with China’s rise to great-power status. The argument has four steps. First, she situates and…
