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
CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
Discussion via Webcast with Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State
China’s rapid emergence as a global player and potential partner on many U.S. policy priorities has ensured that the Sino-American relationship will have a direct impact on the lives of nearly everyone in both…
(Self-)Disciplining the Corporation: FCPA Practice, Compliance, and Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China
Matt Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
An expansive literature examines the question of norm diffusion and legal transplantation, particularly in regards to democracy, transparency, and human rights, in the developing world, and, especially, China. To the…
Whither Reform in China?: An Insider's Perspective
Jingzhou Tao, Managing Partner, Dechert LLP
Jingzhou Tao is the Managing Partner responsible for developing the Asia Practice of Dechert LLP. He has advised many Fortune 500 companies on…
China's national identity discourse and foreign policy
Yinan He, Department of International Relations, Associate Professor, Lehigh University
The Presence of the Past in a Fast-Changing China
Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, UC Irvine
This talk will draw on material from the author's new edited volume, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China,…
What happens in the wombs under the dome? Air pollution in China and fetal development and birth outcomes
Dr. Zhao Qingguo, Guangdong Women and Children Hospital and Guangzhou Medical University
Qingguo Zhao is the Vice President of Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, in Guangdong Province, South China, and Professor in Guangzhou Medical University. His general research interest is in women's and children…
Anti-Corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations: Event Study Evidence from China
Bernie Yeung, Stephen Raidy Distinguished Professor of Finance and Strategic Management, National University of Singapore Business School
Chinese share prices rose sharply on the Politburo’s Dec. 4th 2012 announcement of its Eight-point Regulation, an uncharacteristically detailed and concrete Party policy, initiating an extensive anti-corruption…
Is China trying to push the U.S. out of East Asia?
Wang Dong, Associate Professor of International Relations, Peking University
Is China trying to push the United States out of East Asia and build a China-dominated regional order? The answer to this question will to a great extent determine whether or not the future trajectory of the…
China Outbound Business: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Wang Huiyao, Founder and President, Center for China & Globalization
With China’s newly launched "One Belt and one Road" strategic policy approach and the upcoming 13th Five-Year Planning period, the globalization of Chinese enterprises will have rapid growth. What types of…
U.S., China, and East Asian Regionalism: Is the Pacific Wide Enough?
Shiping Tang, Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
A gap within the existing literature on regionalism is that it has yet to bring together intra- and inter- regional bargaining. By this, we mean that regional initiatives operate in the shadow of extra-regional…