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
The Cold War’s Long Shadow: Indian Foreign Policy and the Current State of Play of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
Swagato Ganguly, Editoral Page Editor, The Times of India; CASI Spring 2022 Visiting Fellow
In partnership with the South Asia Center, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Perry World House
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Constitutionalism in Context: The Extreme Cases of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
David Law, E. James Kelly, Jr., Class of 1965 Research Professor of Law, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; Albert Hung-yee Chen, Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor and Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Hong Kong; Cora Chan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are often overlooked in the field of comparative constitutional law, but as the editor and authors behind Constitutionalism in Context show, they belong at the cutting edge of the field…
Overlapping Peripheries: How Will India and China Navigate the Asian Century?
Ambassador Shyam Saran, 26th Foreign Secretary of India
A CASI Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture in partnership with the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Perry World House
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Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest
Suzanne Scoggins, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clark University
Suzanne Scoggins will discuss her recent book, Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest. …
Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
Julia Chuang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
Professor Chuang will discuss her recent book, Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market…
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Professor Scott Rozelle discusses his most recent book Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise…
Norm Assembly in Global Value Chains
Trang (Mae) Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
This talk is based on Professor Nguyen's recent article: Norm Assembly in Global Value Chains (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?…
Has the EAST Risen, Again? Lessons and Experiences from History
Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.
This talk is based on Prof.Huang's ongoing book project Has the EAST Risen, Again? He will discuss four factors that have shaped Chinese development both historically and during the contemporary period.…
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-…
