Past Events

Past Events




Joshua Rosenzweig, Chinese University of Hong Kong - "Arguing for Justice: Public Opinion, Legal Controversy, and the 'Chinese Dream'

- | CSCC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett 345

Joshua Rosenzweig’s scholarship focuses on issues of human rights in contemporary China, including criminal justice and reaction to political dissent. He has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and served…




Panel Discussion- "The ‘Rule of Law’ Plenum?: Assessing Legal Reform after the Fourth Plenary Session of the CCP’s 18th Central Committee"

- | Silverman 240A, Law School

  •     Johannes Chan, University of Hong Kong
  •     Jacques deLisle, Penn
  •     Neysun Mahboubi, Penn
  •     Wang Xixi, Peking…




Greg Scarlatoiu, Human Rights in North Korea - "The North Korean Conundrum"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall G17

Greg Scarlatoiu will address the history, current state, and future prospects of the North Korean human rights situation as well as the oppressive apparatus employed to maintain the status quo in North Korea. The…




Johannes Chan, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong- "Some Reflection on the Democratic Movement in Hong Kong"

- | Fisher-Bennett 345, CSCC Conference Room

Johannes Chan specializes in human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and has published widely in these fields.




Modern Japanese History Workshop

- | Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania

This year's Modern Japan History Workshop is co-sponsored by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 18, 10 am to 5:45 pm…




7th Student Career & Internship Opportunities in Japan

- | Williams Hall, Room 29

Are you interested in an internship and/or a job in Japan? Join us at the Panel where we learn from our fellow students who had these experiences. The talk will include the topics such as job hunting, work, use of…




National Committee on US-China Relations, National Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections: A Special Webcast Featuring President Jimmy Carter, and on-site pre-webcast panel

- | Anneberg School of Communication, Room 111

6:00pm - Panel

7:00pm -Town Hall webcast on U.S.-China Relations

Pre-webcast Panel, featuring:




Conference: "The New Global South? Business, Politics and Culture in a Changing South-South Environment"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall, Terrace Room

This issue has gained particular relevance in recent years given the growth in African economies and increasing investment in its markets, governments, and societies especially from emerging market powers like China…




Stephanie Balme, Sciences Po (Paris) - "China’s Legal System--or Governing by Diktats"

- | CSCC Conference Room (Fisher-Bennett 345)

This talk presents some results of a study which assesses recent decades of legal reform in China. Constructing and analyzing a dataset of all laws and administrative regulations promulgated between 1978 and 2014, it…




Thomas Gold, University of California-Berkeley- "Occupy Central in Hong Kong, the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan: Popular Resistance in Greater China"

- | Foreign Policy Research Institute (Open to faculty, post-docs and graduate students. RSVP required to: events@fpri.org) , 1528 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

For many years, China has been successful at utilizing a variety of means (such as formal agreements, investments, preferential trade) to insert itself into the economies of Hong Kong and Taiwan. But 2014 has seen…