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
Calculating Bully: Explaining China’s Coercion
China and International Relations Series
Ketian Zhang, Assistant Professor of International Security, George Mason University
Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.
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Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis
Please register to receive Zoom info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anxious-china-inner-…
Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Michael Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Governing the Interface of U.S.-China Trade Relations
Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Distinguished East Asia Lecture "A Lifetime of Adventures in East Asia"
Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University
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China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Daniel Markey, Senior Research Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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Localized Citizenship: Economic Development, Migration and Inclusion in China
Samantha Vortherms, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
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Translation and the Virus: COVID-19, Cyber Politics and Wuhan Diary
Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA
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China and International Relations
China and International Relations Series
Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.
Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China
Xian Huang, Assistant of Political Science, Rutgers University
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