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 improved under CCP rule. That said, patriarchal ide...
26 Feb 201953min
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 alongside its program of reform & opening over the past 4...
19 Feb 20191h 28min
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 from its raucous process of democratization over t...
13 Feb 20191h 53min
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, Avery Goldstein. The event took place on January 3...
7 Feb 20191h 20min
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 for civil society in China that was initially gener...
5 Nov 20181h 35min
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, was more typically understood to be a democratizing...
9 Okt 20181h 19min
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, has lent around $4 billion to infrastructure proje...
2 Jul 20181h 33min
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 little understood, has attracted ever greater inter...
8 Mai 201859min
