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
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Peng Peng, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Yanbai Andrea Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law
Pensions and the Politics of Retirement Age Reform in China
Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research
Raising legal retirement ages, also known as retirement age reform, is politically contentious worldwide, but it should be more easily pursued in non-democratic regimes that can effectively deter opponents from…
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…
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System
Ji Li, John S. & Marilyn Long Chair of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine
Despite escalating geopolitical rivalry, the US and China continue to be economically intertwined. Numerous Chinese companies have made substantial investments in the US and are reluctant to exit this strategically…
From Empire to Nation-State: War, Emulation, and National Identity in China
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
This article examines when, why, and how national identity emerged in China. We argue that war acted as a catalyst for two distinct psychological mechanisms: enmity (humiliation and other negative emotions) and…
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Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development
Kyle Jaros, Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford
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…
Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China
Joel Andreas, Associate Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
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 CHINA Town Hall
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
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 …
Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia
Enze Han, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, this book takes a…
Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor of International Studies, City University of Hong Kong
China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system…
U.S. China Trade Dispute: Politics, Not Policy
Penn Global China Policy Dialogues
Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council
Co-sponsored by Penn Global, Penn Wharton China Center, and Center for East Asian Studies.
Why China Should Unsign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice and human rights.
Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University…
Rural E-commerce and Peasant Entrepreneurship in China
Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of New Hampshire
The phenomenal rise and rapid expansion of digital platforms following the 2008 economic crisis are reshaping the economy and reorganizing labor on a global scale. However, digital labor studies, in their emphasis on…
US-China Relations: A New Era of Bipolarity?
Yan Xuetong, Professor of International Relations, Tsinghua University
While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China is a particularly puzzling case.…
China’s War on Poverty: Winning at What Cost?
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia University
The Chinese government has set the ambitious goal of eradicating poverty by 2020. Will this goal be achieved, and at what cost? Drawing from her book,…
