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
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…
Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Crackdown on China's Human Rights Lawyers
Eva Pils is an associate professor and director of the Centre for Rights and Justice at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarship focuses on human rights and China, with…
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.…