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
The Crisis in US-China Relations: The View from Washington, DC
Jeff Prescott, Senior Fellow, Penn Biden Center
Jeffrey Prescott is a senior fellow of the Penn Biden Center. He served as Vice President Biden's Deputy National Security Advisor and senior Asia advisor, and as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior…
China's Pragmatic Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Confucius Institutes
Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor of Global Communication, Georgia State University
Maria Repnikova is the Director of the Center for Global Information Studies and an Assistant Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. She is a scholar of…
The United States vs. China: Reporting on a New Era of Great Power Competition
Edward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, New York Times
Edward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad, reporting for 13…
Elite Kinship Network and State Strengthening: Theory and Evidence from Imperial China
Yuhua Wang, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Existing theories of state strengthening focus on macro-level factors and assume away individual-level differences among politicians. But state strengthening has distributive consequences that impose more costs on…
Landscape for Urban Growth: Suzhou Industrial Park as Case Study of China's Urbanization Movement
Zhongjie Lin, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign
This presentation is part of Dr. Lin's ongoing book project on China’s urbanization movement and…
Roundtable Discussion on U.S. – China Relations
Chinese Consul General Huang Ping
Moderated by Professor Jacques DeLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Deputy…
Precarious Expert: Scientists, the State, and Credibility Crises During China’s GMO Controversy
Abigail Coplin, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
State legitimacy and food security have historically been deeply entwined in China. While China initially embraced genetically modified organisms (GMOs), vociferous controversy destabilized this consensus. Drawing…
Two Years After the Foreign NGO Law:
Implications for Foreign NGOs, Foundations, and Thinktanks in China
Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
We are now into the third year of implementation of a new law and framework for Chinese security governance of overseas NGOs, foundations and thinktanks in China — which already has one of the largest and most…
Migration and Popular Resistance in Rural China
Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Massive rural-urban migration and growing collective resistance are two profound transformations in China. This study examines how migration shapes collective resistance in sending areas. Drawing on…
Roundtable Discussion on Judicial Reform in China
Fu Yulin, Professor of Civil Law, Peking University
Since 2013, China's Supreme People's Court under Chief Justice Zhou Qiang has pushed forward a number of judicial…