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
David Nelson Rowe, China, and How the History of IR’s New Right Was Lost
Robert Vitalis, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
“Simply put, China was an integral part of what made the “New Right” new. –Joyce Mao
“Twenty years is about the length of time it takes a group of academics to storm the ramparts, take the…
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
In the burgeoning field of historical studies of climate change, few studies exist that focus on Chinese policy making and US-China scientific interactions in the early years. In this talk I review Chinese public…
A Case for Dualism in the Chinese Legal System
Hualing Fu, Professor of Law, Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong
The Chinese legal system embodies a unique duality under a constitutional trinity: the Communist Party's leadership, responsiveness to popular demand, and legality. The Party's dominance is central, and its prerogative…
Guanchang Meixue: Heart Distress and Aesthetic Attunement in China’s Bureaucracy
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
The “aesthetic turn” in both political thought and mental health care centers around Western aesthetics and Euro-American psychology. This paper attempts to indigenize both by focusing on “bureaucratic aesthetics” in…
The Future of the South China Sea Dispute: Perspectives from the Philippines
Justice Antonio Carpio, Supreme Court of the Philippines
Co-sponsored by Perry World House.
The South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea remain geopolitically fraught locations. The People’s Republic of China has successfully militarized the region…
TBA
Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
Marketing Death: Culture and Life Insurance Markets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Cheris Shun-ching Chan, Professor of Sociology, University of Hong Kong
Based on ethnographic data, Chan presents how a commercial life insurance market is emerging in mainland China despite incompatible local…
Revamping the China Model for the Post Global Financial Crisis Era: The Emerging Post-Washington, Post-Beijing Consensus
Randy Peerenboom, Professor of Law, La Trobe University Melbourne
The Washington Consensus (“WC”), which dominated the development world for over two decades, has been called into question on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Those…
Legal Development in China: Perspectives from Washington
Natalie Lichtenstein Professorial Lecturer in China Studies Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Natalie Lichtenstein has been observing China's development since the 1970s. Recently retired after 30 years as a World Bank lawyer, she teaches Chinese law in Washington, DC. Her…
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…
