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
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Peng Peng, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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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…
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Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
Arguing for Justice: Public Opinion, Legal Controversy, and the 'Chinese Dream'
Joshua Rosenzweig, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joshua Rosenzweig’s scholarship focuses on issues of human rights in contemporary China, including criminal justice and reaction to political dissent. He has taught at the Chinese University of Hong…
Some Reflection on the Democratic Movement in Hong Kong
Johannes Chan, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Johannes Chan specializes in human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and has published widely in these fields. His recent books include Law of the Hong Kong Constitution (…
China’s Legal System--or Governing by Diktats
Stéphanie Balme, Columbia University Law School Alliance Program Visiting Professor
This talk presents some results of a study which assesses recent decades of legal reform in China. Constructing and analyzing a dataset of all laws and administrative regulations promulgated between 1978 and 2014, it…
Understanding China's Booming Relations with Africa: A Historical Perspective
Howard French, Associate Professor, Columbia University Journalism School
Howard French received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. He worked as a French-English translator in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in the early 1980s, and taught English literature at the University…
Occupy Central in Hong Kong, the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan: Popular Resistance in Greater China
Thomas B. Gold, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley
For many years, China has been successful at utilizing a variety of means (such as formal agreements, investments, preferential trade) to insert itself into the economies of Hong Kong and Taiwan. But 2014 has seen…
Chinese Rights Advocates: Plight and Prospects
China and Human Rights Series
LU Jun, Beijing Yirenping Center, Visiting Scholar, US- Asia Law Institute, New York University School of LawZHOU Dan, LGBT Lawyer, Visiting Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law
LU Jun has been active in China’s public interest sector since 2003, focusing primarily on anti-discrimination and other civil rights issues in the fields of public health, mental health, and food and drug safety…
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Campaign Rhetoric and the Surprising Stability of Leadership Transitions in the Asia-Pacific
Jessica Weiss, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Conventional wisdom holds that leadership transitions are periods of heightened uncertainty as foreign actors seek to probe the resolve of new and untested leaders. However, a careful examination of…
Culture and Trade
Wang Heng, Professor of Law, School of International Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China; Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales.
China and the World Trade Regime: A Multilateral and Regional Perspective
Wang Heng, Professor of Law, School of International Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China; Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales.
Asian Designs: Risen Powers and the Struggle for International Governance
Saadia M. Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Associate Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington
* Open to all, lunch provided.