Previous Sessions

 Year 2020

May 14, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间5月15日上午9点）
Shu Fu 付舒 (UChicago)
“Policy without Partisanship: The Direct Appeals of First Ladies.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

May 21, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间5月22日上午9点）
Chuyu Liu 刘楚域 (Penn State)
“The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative.”
Chaired by Tianyang Xi

May 28, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间5月29日上午9点)
Yu Xiao 肖宇（Pittsburgh）
“An Authoritarian Paradox of Centralized Decentralization: Theory and Evidence.”
Chaired by Tianyang Xi

June 04, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月5日上午9点)
Naijia Liu 刘乃嘉（Princeton）
“Honest Inference with Missing Data.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

June 11, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月12日上午9点)
Liqun Liu 刘立群（UChicago Harris）
“Generalized Peaceful Mechanisms.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

June 18, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月19日上午9点)
Zhenqian Huang 黄振乾（复旦大学）
“Does Agenda-Setting Matter for for Gender Equality? Evidence from World Bank Projects and Chinese Projects in Africa.”
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

June 25, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月26日上午9点)
Jiong Yao 姚炯（North Texas）
“States Influence Strategies, Militarized History, and the Durability of Border Claims.”
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

July 02, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间7月3日上午9点)
Weiwen Yin 尹伟文（Texas A&M）
“Bundling Institutions: How Institutions Influence Location of Foreign Direct Investment.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

July 09, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间7月10日上午9点)
Sier San 散斯尔（Johns Hopkins）
“Comparative Ethnic Territorially Based Autonomy in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Yakutia of Russia: an Analytical Framework.”
Chaired by Tianyang Xi

July 16, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间7月17日上午9点)
Zeyang Yu 于泽洋（UChicago）
“Beyond LATE: Identification of ATEs of Always-Takers and Never-Takers.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

July 23, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间7月24日上午9点)

Bo Yang 杨波（USC）“The Dynamics of Leadership Styles: Career Incentives and the Exploration/Exploitation Tendency of Chinese Local Politicians”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


July 30, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间7月31日上午9点)

Shuo Chen 陈硕（复旦大学）“Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody.”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


August 06, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间8月7日上午9点)

Yishuang Li 李怡爽（NYU）“The Limits of a Centralized Bureaucracy: Evidence from the Stock Market in China”

Chaired by Tianyang Xi


August 13, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间8月14日上午9点)
Zhenhuan Lei 雷镇环（UW Madison）“One-party State”
Chaired by Tianyang Xi


August 20, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间8月21日上午9点)

Zhiyuan Zhang 张志原（CUHK）“The Economic Origin of Loyal Opposition: Homeownership and Political Support in China”

Chaired by Tianyang Xi


August 27, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间8月28日上午9点)

Jian Xu 徐简（Emory）“Unsolicited Justice: the Institutional Externality of FCPA Enforcement on Corruption and Competition”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


September 03, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间9月4日上午9点)

Jianzi He 何鉴孜（Ohio State）“The Limit of Coercion: How Chinese Local Governments Get Around Inconvenient Rules”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


September 11, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间9月12日上午9点)

Jacque Gao 高昂（Rochester）“Investment with Insecure Property Rights: Capital Outflow Openness under Dictatorship”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


September 18, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间9月19日上午9点)

Bo Wang 王博（浙江工商）“Name as Incentive: Political Accountability without Re-election”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


September 25, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间9月26日上午9点)

Yan Xu 徐研（UChicago）“Tamed Tinkering, Institutional Change and the Rise of Tech Entrepreneurship in China”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


October 09, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月10日上午9点)

Youlang Zhang 张友浪（中国人民大学）“The Span of Control and Local Government Innovativeness in China”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


October 16, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月17日上午9点)

Xinrui Feng 冯昕瑞（对外经贸） “Half the Sky?: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


October 23, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月24日上午9点)

Kinman Wan 温建民（CUHK） “Democracy and Mass Skepticism of Science”

Chaired by Tianyang Xi


October 30, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月31日上午9点)

Huayu Xu 徐化愚（北京大学） “Education and the Meritocratic Recruitment of Bureaucrats”

Chaired by Tianyang Xi


November 06, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月7日上午9点)

Lizhi Liu 刘立之（Georgetown） “The Rise of Data Politics: Digital China and Evolving International Relations”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


November 13, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月14日上午9点)

Zhu Zhang 张珠（Stanford） “Winning Economic Elites in China: the Role of the United Front Work Department”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


November 20, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月21日上午9点)

Shiyao Liu 刘诗尧（MIT） “To Exclude Inattentive Respondents or Not? -- Informing Complier Average Treatment Effects with Post-treatment Variables”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


November 27, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月28日上午9点)

游五岳（中央财经大学）“地方干部结构与公共平提供：来自江苏1966-98教育发展的县级数据”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang





Year 2021


January 22, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间1月23日上午10时) Ling Zhu 朱灵 (CUHK) “Market Reform and the Preservation of Communist Political Order: the Evolution of State Rewards to Loyalty and Ability in Post-reform China”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


January 29, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间1月30日上午10时) Yiqing Xu 徐轶青 (Stanford) “A Practical Guide to Counterfactual Estimators for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data”

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


February 5, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间2月6日上午10时)

Haohan Chen 陈昊瀚 (Duke) “Self-Censorship under Social Pressure: Evidence from an Online Q&A Forum in Authoritarian China”

Chaired by Junlong Zhou


February 19, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间2月20日上午10时

Yiqing Xing 邢亦青 (Johns Hopkins) “Communication with Informal Funding”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


February 26, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间2月27日上午10时)

Congyi Zhou 周聪奕 (NYU) “To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


March 5, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月6日上午10时)

Chengyuan Ji 季程远 (上海交通大学) “Revolutionaries for Railways:

Political Legacies, Informal Lobbying, and Local Development in China”
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

March 12, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月13日上午10时)

Kaiping Zhang 张开平 (清华大学) “A Tale of Two Pandemics: Polarization in Elite Discourses of COVID-19 on Chinese Social Media”

Chaired by Yishuang Li


March 19, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月20日上午9时)

Jing Xu 徐晶 (CUHK) “New Socialist Men (and Women)? Communist Legacy and Political Engagement in China”

Chaired by Tianyang Xi


March 26, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月27日上午9时)

Handi Li 李晗迪 (Emory) “Disinformation and Censorship: Informational Strategies of Political Control”

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


April 9, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间4月10日上午9时)

Jingyuan Qian 钱静远 (UW Madison) "Repression, Loyalty Signaling, and Political Control"

Chaired by Junlong Zhou


April 16, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间4月17日上午9时) Peng Peng 彭澎 (Duke) “Discretionary Meritocracy: Evidence from Imperial China (1644-1735)”
Chaired by Yishuang Li

April 23, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间4月24日上午9时) Wei Wei 隗玮 (Tsinghua-UChicago) "Internal corporate governance of Chinese enterprises: The role of the Communist Party of China"
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

April 30, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间5月1日上午9时)
Weihong Qi 齐炜弘, Dehua Sun 孙德华 (Rochester) "Mass Resettlement and Political Attitudes: The Legacy of Maoist Sent-down Movement in Contemporary China"
Chaired by Junlong Zhou

May 7, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间5月8日上午9时) Jonghyuk Lee 李钟赫 (Nanyang Technological University) "The Anatomy of Meritocracy: Collective Career Incentives and Subnational Variations of Economic Growth in China"
Chaired by Junlong Zhou

May 15, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间5月16日上午9时)

Iza Ding 丁悦 (Pittsburgh) "The Anti-Bureaucratic Ghost in the Bureaucratic Machine"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


May 21, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间5月22日上午9时)

Erik H. Wang 王海骁 (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) “Leviathan’s Offer: State-building with Elite Compensation in Medieval China”

Chaired by Junlong Zhou


May 28, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间5月29日上午9时)

Jean HONG 洪知延 (HKUST) "The Political legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


June 4, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月5日上午9时)

Shilin Jia 贾士麟 (Chicago) “Vacancy Chains as Strategy: Inter-Administration Mobility of Political Elites in Reform China”

Chaired by Junlong Zhou


June 11, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月12日上午9时)

Siyao Li 李思遥 (UPenn) "Choosing the Institutional Gap: Protecting technology in foreign direct investment"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


June 18, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间6月19日上午9时)

Q. Albert Zhou (Maryland) "More Heat Than Light: Meritocracy and Sub-national GDP Manipulation in China"

Chaired by Junlong Zhou


September 24, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间9月25日上午9时)

Kaiping Chen 陈凯萍 (UW Madison) "How Competition for Patronage Shapes Government Responsiveness in China"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


October 8, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月9日上午9时)

Yujin Zhang 张宇津 (Columbia) "Political Trust and Government Performance in the Time of COVID-19"

Chaired by Junlong Zhou

October 15 9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月16日上午9时)

Yang Xie 谢阳 (UC-Riverside) "A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility: China vs. Europe Revisited"

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


October 22,9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月23日上午9时)

Tongtong Zhang 张曈曈 (Stanford) "Authoritarian Responsiveness as Signaling"

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


October 29,9:00 PM EST (北京时间10月30日上午9时)

Hongshen Zhu 朱洪申 (Duke) "Authoritarian Delegation to Single-minded Agents: Limitations of Political Control in Managing Policy Tradeoffs"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


November 5, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月6日上午9时)

Yuan Wang 王媛 (Oxford & Columbia) "Executive Agency and State Capacity in Development: Comparing Sino-African Railways in Kenya and Ethiopia"

Chaired by Tianyang Xi


November 12, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月13日上午10时)

Meicen Sun 孙梅岑 (MIT) "Information Control As A Winning Strategy: How Internet Control Consolidates Autocratic Rule"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

November 19, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月20日上午10时)

Junlong Zhou 周俊龙 (NYU) "Generalizing Covariate-tightened Trimming Bounds for Sample Selection Using Adaptive Kernels"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

November 26, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间11月27日上午10时)

Shiyang Xiao 肖诗阳 (Syracuse) "Why Do Chinese Provincial Governments Begin to Adopt Highly Similar Industrial Policies among Each Other?"
Chaired by Junlong Zhou

December 3, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间12月4日上午10时)

Austin Strange (HKU) "Diplomacy for Domestic Authority: Ming and Qing Tribute Exchanges, 1369–1900"
Chaired by Tianyang Xi

December 10, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间12月11日上午10时)

Han Zhang 张涵 (HKUST) "Preventing Protests Through Surveillance: The Changing Landscape of Protests in China"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

December 17, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间12月18日上午10时)

Zhuo Nie 聂卓 (北京大学) "Privatization Shock and Political Attitudes of State Employees in China"
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo




Year 2022

February 18, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间2月19日上午10时)

Emerson Niou 牛铭实 (Duke) "Entente Versus Alliance: When Should States Be Friends but not Allies?"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

February 25, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间2月26日上午10时)

Jia Li 李嘉  (Penn State) "Mark Dictators' Calendars: The Manipulation of Election Schedules in Autocracies"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

March 4, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月5日上午10时)

Kai Ou 欧恺 (Florida State) "Preference Change in Competitive Environments: Theory and Experimental Evidence"
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

March 11, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月12日上午10时)

Wenhui Yang 杨文辉 (北京大学) "Power Concentration and Information Collecting: Evidence from Chinese Municipal Congresses"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang


March 18, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月19日上午9时)

Luwei Ying 英璐薇 (WUSTL) "The Unified Strategy of Religious Extremists: Military Power and Ideological Appeals"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

March 25, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间3月26日上午9时)

Shengqiao Lin 林声巧 (UT-Austin) "Keep Calm and Do Business: Economic (Non)Responses in Political Tensions"
Chaired by Junlong Zhou

April 1, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间4月2日上午9时)

Lianjiang Li 李连江 (CUHK) "Understanding Political Trust in China"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

April 15, 9:00 PM EST (北京时间4月16日上午9时)

Jing Qian 钱璟 (Princeton) "The Impact of China's AIIB on the World Bank"
Chaired by Yishuang Li


April 22, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间4月23日上午9时)

Shu Fu 付舒 (UChicago) "Ambassadorial Bacon: Home-state Effect of U.S. Ambassadors on Trade"

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


April 29, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间4月30日上午9时)

Shaoda Wang 王绍达 (UChicago) "Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Prosperity"
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

May 6, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间5月7日上午9时)

Ziwen Zu 祖梓文 (UCSD) "Leviathan’s Follower: Leadership Turnovers and Allocative Favoritism in China"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


May 13, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间5月14日上午9时)

Weijia Li 李维嘉 (Monash) "Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers"

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


May 20, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间5月21日上午9时)

Xiangyu Shi 石襄禺 (Yale) "How Are Anti-corruption Shocks Transmitted in Politicians’ Social Networks: the Role of Factional Balance and Intra-factional Competition"

Chaired by Shuyi Yu


May 27, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间5月28日上午9时)

Jongyoon Baik 白宗润 (UChicago) "Putting Litigants on Notice: How China Manages Regime Challengers through Media"

Chaired by Junyan Jiang


June 3, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间6月4日上午9时)

Songrui Liu 刘松瑞 (北京大学) "The Effect of Anti-corruption Campaign on Public Procurement Allocation"

Chaired by Zhaotian Luo


June 10, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间6月11日上午9时)

Xiaonan Wang 汪笑男 (CUNY Baruch) "The Politics of Appointing Insiders and Outsiders: Appointing Provincial Government Agency Heads in China"

Chaired by Junyan Jiang

June 17, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间6月18日上午9时)

Siyun Jiang 蒋思韵 (UT Austin) "Collective Action and Citizen Participation in Authoritarian Courts: Evidence from China"

Chaired by Shuyi Yu


June 24, 9:00 PM EDT (北京时间6月25日上午9时）

Xiaoxiao Shen 沈潇笑 (Princeton) "The Effects of Forced Versus Selective Propaganda Exposure in China"

Chaired by Yishuang Li


September 23, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间9月24日上午9点）
Yan Xu 徐研 (UChicago)
"The Political Economy of China's Limited Advance in the Global Semiconductor Industry"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

September 30, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间10月1日上午9点）
Harunobu Saijo (Duke)
"Appeal to a Higher Power: How Settlement and Inter-Ethnic Conflict Over Property Rights State Capacity"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

October 7, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间10月8日上午9点）
Xinyu Fan 范昕宇 (长江商学院)
"Noble No More: Keju, Institutional Commitment, and Political Purges"
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

October 14, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间10月15日上午9点）
Xu Xu 徐旭 (Princeton)
“State Building and Civil Servant Fever in Contemporary China”
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

October 21, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间10月22日上午9点）
Yue Hu 胡悦（清华大学）
"Active Audience of Memory: How Past Collective Wins Change Present Political Judgements"
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

October 28, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间10月29日上午9点）
Chong Chen 陈冲（清华大学）
"The Contagion of Foreign Policy Convergence: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Chinese Leadership"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

November 4, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间11月5日上午9点）
Menglin Liu 刘梦琳 (UC Davis)
"How Direct Democracy Influences Land Use Policies in American Cities"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

November 11, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间11月12日上午10点）
Xiangyu Shi 石襄禺 (Yale)
"Fly Own Colors: Local Leaders’ Hometown Connections and Regional Policy Divergence" + "Reciprocity in Political Network: Hometown Ties and Intercity Investment in China"
Chaired by Shuyi Yu

November 18, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间11月26日上午10点）
Dakeng Chen 陈达铿（The Chinese University of Hong Kong）
"Living under Cameras: Digital Surveillance and Citizen Compliance in China"
Chaired by Yishuang Li

November 25, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间11月19日上午10点）
Hanzhi Yu 俞晗之（浙江大学）
"How Do Market Conditions Affect the Effectivenss of Global Public-Private Partnerships in Health Services?"
Chaired by Junyan Jiang

December 2, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间12月3日上午10点）
Hao Chen 陈昊（清华大学）
"Dethroning the Mao-Era Elite: Using Organizational Histories to Illuminate Cadre Management.”
Chaired by Shuyi Yu

December 9, 9:00 PM EST（北京时间12月10日上午10点）
Zihui Zhao 赵紫慧 (Cornell）
"Broken 'Iron rice bowls' and shattered Communist fairy tales: SOE reform and political trust in China."
Chaired by Yishuang Li




 Year 2023

Feb 10, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间2月11日上午10点）
Xingchen Lan 兰星辰 (NYU)
“From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China.”
Chaired by Yishuang Li

Feb 17, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间2月18日上午10点)
Chen Cheng 程琛 (JHU)
“Democratization of Information: Degree-Weighted Social Learning and Convergence Speed."
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

Feb 24, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间2月25日上午10点)
Zanhui Liu 刘赞辉 (清华大学)、Yuchen Qiu 邱昱辰 (北京大学)
“Adaptive Diarchy: Authority in a Changing World.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

March 3, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间3月4日上午10点)
Xing Chen 陈醒 (复旦大学)
“Living with COVID versus Zero-COVID: Counterfactual Thinking in Times of Crisis.”
Chaired by Tianyang Xi

March 10, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间3月11日上午10点)
Beixi Zhou 周贝西 (Boston University)
“Optimal Disclosure Windows.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

April 7, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间4月8日上午9点）
Yu Hao 郝煜 (北京大学)
“Recruiting the new state agents: Land reform, party building, and state capacity in China, 1949-1957.”
Chaired by Tianyang Xi

April 21, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间4月22日上午9点）
Peiyuan Li 李佩源 (杜克昆山)
““Who Lost (or Won) China?” Land Reform and War Mobilization.”
Chaired by Hanying Wei

May 5, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间5月6日上午9点）
Wenbiao Sha 沙文彪 (中山大学)
“The Political Economy of Trade Deliberalization: An Empirical Analysis of the US-China Trade War.”
Chaired by Zhencen Liu

May 19, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间5月20日上午9点）
Haonan Dong 董浩南 (Vanderbilt University)
“The Politics of Delay in Crisis Negotiations.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

June 2, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间6月3日上午9点）
Jiawei Fu 傅佳尉 (NYU)
“Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Causal Mechanisms.”
Chaired by Hanying Wei

Oct 6, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间10月7日上午9点）
Hongyi She 佘弘怡 (Rochester)
“Learning About Trade.”
Chaired by Hanying Wei

Oct 20, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间10月21日上午9点）
Yuxin Chen 陈雨新 (长江商学院)
“Loyalty-Competence Tradeoff in the Military: the Effects of Institutional Counterbalancing and Military Control in Medieval China.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

Nov 3, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间11月4日上午9点）
Yu Mei 梅钰 (Rochester)
“When Do Military Coalitions Deter?”
Chaired by Shuyi Yu

Nov 17, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间11月18日上午10点）
Charles Chang (杜克昆山)
"Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Do Expressions of Chinese Nationalist Sentiments Signal Genuine Nationalist Feelings?"
Chaired by Hanying Wei

Dec 1, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间12月2日上午10点）
Jingyuan Qian 钱静远 (UChicago)
“The Anxiety of Embedded Officials: Local Connections and Bureaucratic Responsiveness during China’s Campaign Against Organized Crimes (2018-20).”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

Dec 15, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间12月16日上午10点）
Hao Wang 王豪 (香港城市大学)
“Responsiveness without Contention: How did the Government Enhance Citizen Claim-Making Efficacy in China?”
Chaired by Zhencen Liu

Dec 29, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间12月30日上午10点)
Songpo Yang 杨松坡 (清华大学)
“The Faces of Power: Physiognomic Styles and Political Selection in China.”
Chaired by Zhaotian Luo

Sessions Forthcoming

Year 2024

Sep 13, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间9月14日上午9点)
Erik Haixiao Wang 王海骁 (NYU)
“Rebellion Rhymes: Intergroup Cleavage and the Early Chinese Communist Revolution”

Sep 27, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间9月28日上午9点)
Xingchen Lan and Bokai Qi 兰星辰、齐泊恺 (NYU)
"The Logic of Military Purge in Rebellions: Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Red Army"

Oct 11, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间10月12日上午9点)
Zanhui Liu and Yucheng Qiu 刘赞辉 (清华大学)、邱昱程 (北京大学)
“Governing Local Bureaucracy in a Centralized State”

Oct 25, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间10月26日上午9点)
Zhiyuan Zhang 张志原 (上海交通大学)
"Adversary or Partner? Political Mobility and Anti-Crime Campaign in China"

Nov 8, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间11月9日上午10点)
Yingdan Lu 卢樱丹 (Northwestern University)
“Decentralized Propaganda in the Era of Digital Media: The Massive Presence of the Chinese State on Douyin”

Nov 22, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间11月23日上午10点)
Andong Yan 严安冬 (HKU)
“Crisis Control in Top-down Bureaucracy: Evidence from China's Zero-Covid Policy”

Dec 6, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间12月7日上午10点)
Shuo Chen 陈硕 (复旦大学)
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Dec 20, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间12月21日上午10点)

Jongyoon Baik 白宗润 (CUHK)

“Authoritarian Courts as an Institution of Control: Political Action and Trial Result”

Year 2025

Jan 17, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间1月18日上午9点)
Menglin Liu 刘梦琳 (UC Davis)
“PoliPrompt: A High-Performance Cost-Effective LLM-Based Text Classification Framework for Political Science”

Jan 31, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间2月1日上午9点)
Tongtong Zhang 张瞳瞳 (American University)
“Is Rights Consciousness Rising in China? Evidence from Ten Years of Citizen Complaints”

Feb 14, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间2月15日上午9点)
TBA

Feb 28, 9:00 PM EST （北京时间3月1日上午9点)
Fred Gui 桂鹏 (Louisiana State University)
“Getting Support from your Colleagues: Bill Reintroduction in the U.S. House”