The Chinese Politics and Economy Research Seminar (CPERS) brings scholars to Georgetown to share their latest research on China. Convened in 2021, the seminar series is sponsored by the Department of Government and the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues.
This seminar is academic in nature and jointly organized by professors Ning Leng and Lizhi Liu. If you are interested in giving an academic presentation, or being a discussant at the seminar, please contact one of the organizers.
Anti-China sentiment is on the rise around the world. Weiyi Shi and Sichen Li explored the dynamics of interpersonal expression of anti-foreign sentiment by leveraging a parallel survey conducted…
In this seminar, Yiqing Xu of Stanford University presented a paper contending that social capital played a measurable role in disaster relief during China’s Great Famine of 1958 to 1961. Using a…
A distinctive aspect of Chinese governance and development is the frequent reconfiguration of subnational units—particularly county-level units—through “administrative division adjustment” (ADA). As…
In this seminar, Yue Hou discussed her paper, co-authored by Xinrui Feng and Mingxing Liu, that presents one of the first studies of the political behavior of female legislators in China's national…
For the first few decades of China’s economic reforms, scholars described Chinese capitalists as co-opted by the state, unlikely to pose a political threat and partner to the regime in development…
In recent years, the U.S.-China competition has shifted into the realm of values. China is often accused of being an immoral power, out to spread authoritarianism and build an illiberal world order…
