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
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Peng Peng, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
Pensions and the Politics of Retirement Age Reform in China
Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research
Raising legal retirement ages, also known as retirement age reform, is politically contentious worldwide, but it should be more easily pursued in non-democratic regimes that can effectively deter opponents from…
The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
Shitong Qiao, Professor of Law, Duke University
Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, Qiao’s new book The…
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System
Ji Li, John S. & Marilyn Long Chair of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine
Despite escalating geopolitical rivalry, the US and China continue to be economically intertwined. Numerous Chinese companies have made substantial investments in the US and are reluctant to exit this strategically…
From Empire to Nation-State: War, Emulation, and National Identity in China
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
This article examines when, why, and how national identity emerged in China. We argue that war acted as a catalyst for two distinct psychological mechanisms: enmity (humiliation and other negative emotions) and…
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Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
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…
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…
