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China Studies
In-depth conversations on Chinese politics, economics, law, and society. Sponsored by the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations, and hosted by Neysun Mahboubi. For more information, visit: https://global.upenn.edu/future-of-us-china-relations/podcast/
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China’s Response to COVID-19 – Yanzhong Huang
Perhaps the historic event of our time, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare every country’s particular health care vulnerabilities and regulatory deficien...
Reporting From a Rising China – Edward Wong
Western media presence in China has been vastly reduced since February 2020, the consequence both of political tensions and the Covid-19 pandemic. As...
U.S. Human Rights Policy Towards China – Amy Gadsden
While the Chinese government’s actions in Xinjiang and Hong Kong lately have been the subject of particular scrutiny from U.S. policymakers, systemati...
China's Overseas NGO Law – Mark Sidel
In recent years, and especially under the administration of Xi Jinping, the Chinese government has “securitized” all manner of relationships between i...
China's Rise and IR Theory – Yan Xuetong
No foreign policy topic currently garners more attention in the United States than its relationship with China, especially in light of China’s rise ov...
China’s Domestic Security Under Xi Jinping – Sheena Chestnut Greitens
One of the hallmarks of Xi Jinping’s tenure as China’s leader, since 2012, has been the notable strengthening of the state’s coercive architecture, th...
Unpacking the Present Crisis in US-China Relations – Ryan Hass
Whatever the likelihood or implications of a potential truce in the US-China trade war, it seems clear that the overall relationship between the two c...
The Rule of Law in Hong Kong (Part Two) – Johannes Chan
Dramatic protests in Hong Kong over the past four months, initially over a now-withdrawn draft law that would permit extraditions to mainland China, h...
The Rule of Law in Hong Kong (Part One) – Johannes Chan
Dramatic protests in Hong Kong this month, over a draft law that would permit extraditions to mainland China, underscore broader fears amongst Hong Ko...
How to Be a Sensitive China Watcher – Kaiser Kuo
Today, the reality and consequences of China’s rise have come to dominate news headlines the world over. Along with China’s growing wealth and power...
Chinese Governance Under Xi Jinping – Victor Shih
Despite little foreshadowing before he took office, President Xi Jinping has emerged as perhaps the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Th...
Diagnosing China's State-led Capitalism – Yasheng Huang
As Chinese economic growth slows to its lowest rate in 30 years, there is rising concern (including among some Chinese scholars and officials) about t...
Local Governance and Accountability in China – Dan Mattingly
How do autocratic regimes secure political obedience, and implement unpopular policies, without always resorting to outright coercive tactics? In a p...
Property Rights and Economic Development in China – Susan Whiting
At least since China’s 1994 fiscal and tax reforms, land-backed development has served as the greatest source of revenue for Chinese local governments...
The Evolution of Workers’ Rights in China – Mary Gallagher
Economic reform since the late 1970s, as well as the dynamics of globalization unleashed in full by China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in...
Rights Lawyering in China – Teng Biao
Over the past 16 years, there has emerged in China a community of self-identified "rights defense" (weiquan) lawyers, akin to "cause lawyers" in the U...
Gender Inequality in China – Yun Zhou
Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that “women hold up half the sky,” and there are many ways in which women’s status, rights, and opportunities have im...
China’s One-Child Policy – Wang Feng
The Chinese government is currently in the process of dismantling the family planning policies which it introduced in the 1970s, and developed alongsi...
Taiwan and the Global Order – Shelley Rigger
What explains Taiwan’s outsized presence in our news headlines, especially over the first two years of the Trump administration? What can be learned...
Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in US-China Relations – Susan Shirk
The following is a live recording of the 2019 Annual Public Lecture at Penn’s CSCC delivered by Susan Shirk, and introduced by the Center’s Director,...
Civil Society and Civic Engagement in China – Bin Xu
Amidst various commentaries on the 10th anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake, this past summer, a prominent theme has been the sense of possibility f...
Internet Culture and Politics in China – Guobin Yang
Current headlines about how authoritarian regimes have come to harness and even weaponize the internet may obscure how this technology, at one time, w...
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Natalie Lichtenstein
Launched by China in June 2015, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB") currently has eighty-six members and, with $100 billion in capital,...
China & North Korea Relations – John Park
As the nuclear standoff between North Korea and the United States dominates global headlines, the relationship between North Korea and China, though l...
China's Economy & The 19th Party Congress – Damien Ma
China's economy is currently the world's second largest, by GDP, and is generally expected to overtake the U.S. economy within the next decade. In thi...
Chinese Politics & The 19th Party Congress – Joseph Fewsmith
China’s 19th Party Congress, held in October 2017, drew significant anticipation and attention, not only among professional China watchers, for its do...
Trump's Visit to China – Avery Goldstein, Jacques deLisle, Amy Gadsden
President Trump's November 2017 visit to China, and four other Asian countries, comes at a charged time in US-China relations, when its perennial chal...
China & India Relations – Oriana Skylar Mastro
China and India share many historical similarities, as well as a complicated relationship shaped by political differences, growing economic ties, ongo...