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
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…
The US-China Strategic Economic Relationship: Overcoming Distrust?
Arvind SubramanianSenior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International EconomicsSenior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Facilitating China’s economic rise is one of the central issues for the world economy. Based on his recent book Eclipse, the author will argue that strategic distrust between the world’s major economies can be…
To Rise or Not to Rise? China, India, and the Search for Technology and Power
Andrew B. KennedySenior Lecturer, Policy and Governance,Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
ANDREW B. KENNEDY is Senior Lecturer in Policy and Governance at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. His research focuses on international politics in Asia, with…
China's Influence and Impact on the Future of Everybody's Internet
Rebecca MacKinnon, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation
In recent global debates over the future of Internet governance, China, Russia and a collection of authoritarian states have found themselves at odds with the U.S. and much of the democratic world. China wants the…
"He"(合) in Chinese Management
Yadong Luo, Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair of Graduate Business Studies and Professor of Management at University of Miami.
"He"(合 amalgamation) is an important addition to what we know about virtue (德), harmony (和), flexibility (柔), and credibility (诚), together constituting five Confucius philosophies used widely in Chinese…
An Arab Spring in Beijing? Islam, the Middle East, and China
Dru Gladney, Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College, President of the Pacific Basin Institute
This talk examines China’s important and changing relationship with the Middle East, especially with regard to the recent tumultuous events there following several uprisings and revolutions across North Africa and…
Judicial Risk and Assessment of Judges in China
Xingzhong Yu, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law, Cornell Law School
This talk will examine “judicial risks” Chinese judges are facing. It will discuss the judicial responsibility systems for incorrectly decided cases, decisional accountability and personal safety of judges in China.…
A Rights-based Approach to Civil Society and Public Interest Law in China
Jia Ping, Public interest lawyer Zhang Tao, Civil Society Activist
Public interest lawyer Jia Ping and civil society activist Zhang Tao will share their insiders’ perspectives on challenges facing civil society leaders and public…