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
Political Centralization under Xi Jinping: Strategic Adaptation by Local Cadres
Jessica Teets, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
Xi Jinping has been centralizing policymaking and supervision of local cadres beginning in 2016. Using survey data of 1,500 cadres in 28 provinces, we analyze the impact of these institutional changes on local cadres…
TBD
Chen Yifeng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School
High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy
Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Co-sponsored by Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, Penn Carey Law.
Professor Zhang discusses her new book…
Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarian Rule in China
Jeremy Wallace, Professor of Government, Cornell University
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 forthcoming book titled Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State, by Columbia University Press. Her book…
Past Speaker Series
Recent Structural Change of the Chinese Economy and Japan-China Relations
Kiyoyuki Seguchi, Research Director at Canon Institute for the Global Studies
The structure of the Chinese economy changed dramatically between 2005 and 2009. It changed from an export-investment leading economy to a domestic-demand leading economy. Before 2004 China was a huge factory…
'Feeding Frenzy': China, Africa, and the 'Great Land Grab'
Deborah Brautigam, Professor and Director, International Development Program, Johns Hopkins University/SAIS
What role does China play in the recent rush for land acquisition in Africa? Conventional wisdom suggests a large role for the Chinese government and its firms and a focus on China's own food security. This talk…
Judicial Review and Constitutionalism in China: A Discussion with Wang Zhenmin (Tsinghua University)
Wang Zhenmin, Dean and Professor of Law at Tsinghua University Law School
Chinese courts do not have the power of constitutional judicial review. Courts do have limited powers of judicial review (for example, of specific administrative actions). And mechanisms…
Educational Issues for Minority Populations In Western China
Delegation visit, Dean Sude and Professor Teng Xing, Minzu University
12:00-1:00pm: "Research on Educational Policies for Ethnic Minorities with Cultural Sensitivity----Cases from Ethnic Minority Areas in Western China."
Speaker: Professor Sude, Professor and Dean of the School…
Fragmented Liberalization:
Sub-National Government Autonomy and the Auto Industry in Post-WTO Era China
Seung-Youn Oh, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Research FellowCenter for the Study of Contemporary China
How effective are international agreements and multinational corporations in promoting liberalization in emerging economies such as China? Focusing on China’s burgeoning automotive…
Politicized Challenges, De-Politicized Responses:
Political Monitoring in China’s Transitions
Professor Hualing Fu, University of Hong Kong and Bok Visiting International Professor at Penn Law
Regime strategies for maintaining political control are evolving in contemporary China. The Chinese Communist Party faces increasingly politicized challenges today. The CCP’s response has been a paradigmatic shift…
Public Opinion Barometer:
How to Aggregate and Analyze Fragmented Online Information in China
Guoming Yu, Associate Dean of School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China and the Director of the Public Opinion Research Center
Baidu (www.baidu.com), as the top Chinese web services company, covers more than 95% of internet users in China. There are more than 4 billion search requests via Baidu…
China's New Leadership: People and Priorities
Alice Miller, Stanford University, Hoover Institution
The recently closed 12th National People's Congress completes a generational transition in China's leadership that began with the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party last November. Who are China's…
China’s National Security Strategy and East Asian Security
Xia Liping, Dean and Professor of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University, China.
It was the first time when China put forward the concept of China’s national security strategy in the White Paper on China’s National Defense in 2004. China’s national security strategy and China’…
Ethnic Minority Experience in China’s Urban Labor Market and the Lessons Learned for Other Jurisdictions
Reza Hasmath, Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Oxford, and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta
This talk looks at contemporary ethnic minority experiences in China’s urban labor market by focusing on describing the ‘ethnic penalty’ that emerges when analyzing the relationship between the educational and…