Speaker Series

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



2024

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State

Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Professor Wang will discuss her new book titled Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats…

Past Speaker Series



2020

China and International Relations

China and International Relations Series
Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University
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Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.



2020

Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China

Xian Huang, Assistant of Political Science, Rutgers University
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Please register to receive Zoom login at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-protection-…



2020

Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation

Silvia Lindtner, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information 
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Please register to receive Zoom login at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prototype-nation-…



2020

How Perilous are Paper Fans? Public Diplomacy through Confucius Classrooms and Implications for Chinese Influence

China and International Relations Series
Naima Green-Riley, Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University
- Virtual Talk via Zoom

Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.

(Please respond to yuanzeng@upenn.edu to receive Zoom link)



2020

Public Assembly via Affective Technologies: Like Buttons, Sentiment Analysis, and the Transmission of Positive Energy

Angela Wu, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Please register at: …



2020

Maximizing Leverage: China’s Strategic Force Posture Choices in the Information Age

China and International Relations Series
Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics. 

(Please respond to yuanzeng@upenn.edu to receive Zoom link)



2020

The Law and Politics of Transnational War Reparations in Contemporary China

Timothy Webster, Associate Professor of Law, Western New England University  
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Please register to receive Zoom login at: https://www.…



2019

China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development

Kyle Jaros, Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford
- Room 101, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.

The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance…



2019

Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China

Joel Andreas, Associate Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
- Room 200, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.

In this book talk, Professor Andreas recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped authority relations in Chinese factories over the past seven decades. He introduces a general theoretical framework, …



2019

2019 CHINA Town Hall

National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
- Room 101, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.

Join communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive national webcast panel at 6pm moderated by George Stephanopoulos, joined by expert panelists …