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.
Past Speaker Series
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…
US-China Relations: An Assessment
JIA Qingguo, Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University.
JIA Qingguo is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland…
China's Political Economy and Foreign Relations
Professor Chu Shulong, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Dr. Chu Shulong is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for U.S.-China Relations of New York University. He is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the…
The Ongoing Quest for Judicial Independence in Contemporary China
He Weifang
Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China is pleased to have the opportunity to host a talk by Professor He Weifang, one of China’s most prominent public…
The New China
William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School
In the past decade China has changed almost beyond recognition. China’s leadership has changed from charismatic, entrepreneurial figures to administrators. A trend toward centralized power has been reversed by the…
Chinese Law Reform: Its Recent Past and Uncertain Future
Stanley Lubman, Berkeley Law School, University of California; Senior Fellow, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Professor Lubman reviews the problems that law reform has encountered since the millennium, especially emphasizing the continuing tightness of control by the Party-State over the courts, the extensive power of…
Chinese Naval Strategy in the South China Sea: An Abundance of Noise and Smoke, but Little Fire
Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), U.S. Naval War College & Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Dr. Goldstein discusses his survey of official and quasi-official Chinese-language naval literature to provide new insights regarding Beijing’s evolving strategy in the South China Sea. Contrary to conventional…
Demystifying the Chinese Economy
Justin Lin (林毅夫), former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
Dr. Lin will discuss China’s achievements in the reform era, analyze prospects and challenges for China’s future growth, and envision China’s status in the multi-polar growth world in the coming 20 years. He will…
What’s Next for China?
The Effect of the Leadership Transition for Chinese Politics, Economics, Foreign policy, and US-China Relations
In Autumn 2012, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will hold its 18th National People’s Congress. The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, prime minister, Wen Jiabao, and the other seven…
East Asia Law Review Talk
Contending Conceptions of Ownership and Property in Urbanizing China
Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong
In the wake of China's great urbanisation process, many of the tens of millions of Chinese rural and urban citizens affected by evictions and expropriations have engaged in complaints, protest and resistance.…