In addition to the regular speaker series and other co-sponsored events, CSCC convenes an informal “Weekly Forum,” noon on weekdays in the CSCC conference room. These sessions are envisioned as “brown-bag lunches” at which graduate students or faculty can informally introduce or present work in progress. This will be a great way for all of us to get to know one another and learn more about the kinds of work on contemporary China being done across Penn’s campus. Please email us your thoughts and suggestions on how to best organize the Friday Forum and to let us know when you would like to volunteer to discuss some of your work. Even on days when no discussion is scheduled, people are welcome to bring their lunch to eat with others in the CSCC conference room.
Past Weekly Forums
From the Great Wall to Many City Walls: China's hukou system and its reform
Professor Fei-Ling Wang, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Created in the 1950s, the hukou (户口 household registration) system has been a foundational…
The Political Process of Chinese Land: Partial Reform, Vested Interests and Small Properties
Shitong Qiao, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School; Research Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law
This article investigates the history of land use reform in China and proves that the so-called rural land problem is the consequence of China’s partial land use…
“Good" Censor vs. “Bad" Censor---The Effects of Perceived Censorship Attempt Initiated by Different Sources on Censorship acceptance, Rumor Processing, and Evaluation of Government among Chinese Netizens
Sijia Yang, Ph.D. Student, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
China’s virtual public sphere is susceptible to negative consequences of low-quality information and online censorship. The censorship policy as currently adopted and constantly reinforced by the Chinese…
Preparing for the Ocean Century: China's Changing Political Institutions for Ocean Governance and Maritime Development
Tabitha Mallory, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Princeton University
Everyone has heard the 21st century referred to as the “Chinese century.” Yet the Chinese are also calling the 21st century the “ocean century.” Last year, China announced plans to consolidate four of its five…
Qadi Justice in Chinese Courts: The Bureaucratization of Islamic Procedural Justice in the People’s Republic of China
Matthew S. Erie, Ph.D., J.D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Princeton University
Fueled by charges of orientalism, current trends in sociolegal studies have denigrated Weber’s insights on Islamic and Chinese law. While factually Weber mis-characterized these legal systems, concepts he developed…
China's Economic Reforms in the 21st Century: Assessment and Outlook (2002-2022)
Prof. Hu Angang, School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University; Dean of Institute of Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University
* Lunch Provided
Educational Implications of Ethnic Categorization in China, 1982-2005
Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Department of Sociology and Graduate School of Education
Interpersonal Networks in Comparative Perspective:
The Core Discussion Networks in China, Japan, and the US
Ning Hsieh, Department of Demography and Department of Sociology
The study compares core discussion networks in three national contexts—China, Japan, and the US, intending to show cross-national differences in the structure of interpersonal networks that are shaped by broader…
The Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on the Human Capital Accumulation of Children in Village Economies
Fan Wang, Department of Economics
Using four waves of household panel data collected over ten years from rural China, I estimate the importance of parental health in the accumulation of the human capital of children in the context of small village…