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
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…
Americans in Chinese Courts
Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
The U.S.‑China relationship has come to be defined by geopolitical rivalry. The siren is loud and everywhere, even engulfing civil litigation. This talk examines the U.S.-China relationship from a quieter, more…
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
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
Rural Development in China and East Asia
Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
This talk addresses the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia’s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison…
Triumphalism and the Inconvenient Truth: Correcting Inflated National Self-Images in a Rising Power
Haifeng Huang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced
Do people in a rising authoritarian power with pervasive propaganda and information control overestimate their country’s power and popularity in the world? This is an important question since inflated national self-…
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor Weber will discuss her new book : How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market…
Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban China
Lik Sam CHAN, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Will Challenge Global Regulation
Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong
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The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public
Shaohua Guo, Associate Professor of Chinese, Carleton College
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The Limits of State-Led Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Patents
Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
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Subversion or Seduction? Holding China’s Economic Statecraft Accountable
China and International Relations Series
Audrye Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School and MIT’s Security Studies Program
Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.
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