Speaker Series

Is No Place Safe from the Long-arm of Chinese Law?

China’s Attempt to Pierce Corporate Veils and Capture Revenue Abroad

Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School

The talk examines how Chinese tax authorities apply the corporate law doctrine of veil-piercing in an extraterritorial manner in the context of cross-border transactions. The analysis considers, from both…

From Domestic to International: The Evolution of Chinese NGO

Jennifer Hsu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Interest in China’s role as an international development actor has surged due to China’s growing presence across the developing world. While much of the media and scholarly…

China in Multilateral Governance: Invest, Hold-up, or Accept?

Margaret Pearson, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Margaret M. Pearson is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is a specialist in Chinese domestic political economy and Chinese foreign economic policy.  She…

The Political Hierarchy of Censorship: Blocking and Unblocking Party Officials on Sina Weibo Before and After the 18th CCP National Congress

Pierre Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Public Policy for a Modernizing China

The Challenge of Financing Services for a Footloose Society

Christine Wong, University of Melbourne

The hukou, the household registration system created under the planned economy, was widely adopted as a convenient and foolproof instrument for discriminating between local residents (with local hukou) and new…

Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China

Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University

Prof. Nee will discuss his new book, co-authored with Sonja Opper, Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China. Studying over 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, Victor Nee and…

Defining Democracy in China

Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

The conventional wisdom among China watchers is that political reform in China has not kept pace with the wide-ranging economic reforms of the past few decades. China remains a classic example of a one-party…

How Important is Internet Satire in China?

2013 Distinguished East Asia Lecturer

Perry Link, Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching, Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages, UC Riverside; Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University 

Beginning in the late 1950s,the harshness of late Maoism brought to Chinese society a bifurcation of language--clearer and sharper than it is in most other societies--between official and unofficial language.…

Is the Social Volcano Still Dormant?

Trends in Chinese Attitudes toward Inequality

Martin King Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Data from two China national surveys, in 2004 and 2009, focusing on popular attitudes toward current inequalities and mobility opportunities, are compared to examine two key questions: (1) Did the continued rise in…

The debate on China’s policy shift on North Korea： Why “evidence” is not evidence

Sunny Seong-hyon Lee, Ph.D. Pantech Fellow at Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Stanford University

The speculation over China’s foreign policy shift on North Korea has been particularly feverish during this year’s Korean crisis owing to the fact that there are new leaders in Beijing and Pyongyang and many…