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
China in Xi’s Third Term: Personnel, Priorities, and Policy
Cheng Li, Director and Senior Fellow, The John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Cheng Li is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.…
Is there an European way when dealing with China?
Philippe Le Corre, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute
While US-China relations have reached yet another low point in 2023 thus far, Chinese leaders have been trying to engage with the EU. Still, war in Ukraine is making a rapprochement very unlikely within the…
China's Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order
Isaac Kardon, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In his new book China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order, Isaac Kardon examines China’s laws and policies to…
Due Diligence and Corporate Transparency in China
David Barboza, Co-founder, The Wire Digital Inc.
David Barboza is the co-founder of The Wire Digital Inc., a New York-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains. The startup consists of a digital weekly news magazine, called The Wire,…
Japan’s Strategic Review and a Taiwan Crisis
Sheila Smith, John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
2022 is expected to be a watershed year in Japanese strategy. North Korean missile launches and China’s expanding military power have intensified Japanese concerns about their security. But it is tension across the…
The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise
Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson College
Professor Rigger discusses her new book "The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise". How did…
Clash of the Titans? Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies in the U.S. and China
Nan Jia, Associate Professor of Management and Organization, USC Marshall School of Business
As one of the most important technology advancements in our era, Artificial intelligence (AI) stands to fundamentally…
Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University
Professor Roselyn Hsueh discusses her new book, Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral…
Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping
Bates Gill, Professor of Asia-Pacific Security Studies, Macquarie University; Executive Director, Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Policy Institute
Professor Bates Gill discusses his new book Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping(Oxford…
China's Two-Child Policy and the Gender Implication
Yuying Tong, Professor of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The universal two-child policy since 2016 in China did not lead to a significant increase in fertility, and the new three-child policy in 2021 has also become a hard sell. Many public debates have discussed the…
