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SCCEI awarded Alicia Chen and Matthew DeButts with competitive research fellowships for the 2025-26 academic year to pursue research on China.
Stanford Daily reporter Kayla Chan spotlights Scott Rozelle, REAP Program Director, and the research he has conducted over his 40 years studying agriculture and development in China.
The second annual SCCEI China Conference, held at Stanford University on May 14, brought together leading scholars and policy experts. Panelists offered a candid, multifaceted view of China's global economic position, exploring its technological prowess, industrial diplomacy, and the increasingly complex global responses to its expanding influence.
In a keynote address during the 2025 SCCEI China Conference, U.S.-China Business Council President Sean Stein cautioned that strategic miscalculations and trade tensions have left the U.S. economy with lasting setbacks—and few clear gains.
At the 2025 SCCEI China Conference, Elizabeth Economy, Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, outlined China’s ambitious bid to reshape the global order—and urged the U.S. to respond with vision, not just rivalry, during a Fireside Chat with Professor Hongbin Li, Senior Fellow and SCCEI Faculty Co-Director.
"Advancing Development with 'Children First' Strategy", the second International Symposium on Early Childhood Development, was held in Hangzhou, China on March 27-29, 2025. The symposium gathered over 100 experts from China and abroad to discuss cutting-edge developments, research topics, and practical approaches in early childhood development.
Professor Maggiori joined SCCEI and Stanford Libraries to discuss how the U.S. and China apply economic pressure to achieve their political and economic goals, and the economic costs and benefits that this competition is imposing on the world.
We spoke with Research Scholar Lingsheng Meng to learn more about his journey from studying economics in Beijing to conducting cutting-edge research on some of China’s most pressing policy issues.
Scott Rozelle and Dorien Emmer's research is featured in the Financial Times article, "China is suffering its own 'China Shock'"
During this SCCEI event, expert panelists Xiaonian Xu, Loren Brandt, and Mary Lovely shared insights on the historical context, current trends, and future implications of China’s economic strategy and its impact on global trade.
SCCEI's newest research program seeks to advance empirical, multidisciplinary insights into China’s political economy, including how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system influence each other and shape the allocation of resources, production, and distribution of wealth in society.
We sat down with Senior Research Scholar Huan Wang to learn more about her journey to Stanford and drive to address educational disparities and promote human development in China and globally.
With support from the Stanford Impact Labs, the Rural Education Action Program is developing an app-based integrated early childhood development program for rural China.
This quarter we welcomed our first cohort of Skyline Scholars. The new Skyline Scholars Program is designed to empower and elevate distinguished scholars and public figures whose expertise focus on China's economy and institutions.
We sat down with Professor Xu to learn more about his journey into academia, his passion for uncovering truths through data, and his advice for aspiring researchers.
Scott Rozelle participated in a panel discussion at the Civic Leadership Forum Silicon Valley focused on the challenges and solutions to the “reverse brain drain” that’s threatening the U.S.’s technological edge, its impact on innovation, the economy, and how we can combat it.
Why do authoritarian regimes charge political opponents with non-political crimes when they can levy charges directly related to opponents' political activism? Professor Pan presents her newest research during a Fall 2024 SCCEI event.
SCCEI's newest research program, China Labor, Income and Population (CLIP), focuses on key areas essential for understanding the complexities of China’s labor market and its role in the Chinese economy.
Stanford Graduate Students Advance Research on China with Aid from SCCEI 2024 Summer Research Grant
SCCEI awarded competitive research funding to six Stanford Ph.D. candidates to advance their empirical research on China. This summer's grant recipients are: Cody Abbey, Alicia Chen, Safari Fang, Qianmin Hu, Naiyu Jiang, and Victoria Liu.
Under the guidance of SCCEI’s faculty directors, 16 students traveled across urban and rural China, embarking on field visits including education, healthcare, retail technology, and manufacturing to gain a deeper understanding of China’s economy.
We sat down with Professor Loyalka to learn more about his journey to Stanford, his passion for international comparative education and his advice for aspiring young researchers.
Scott Rozelle answers questions about China's human capital dilemma in the Summer 2024 edition of INSIGHT, the journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
The latest Big Data China feature examines Martin Whyte and Scott Rozelle's new survey results demonstrating that the Chinese populace increasingly attribute inequality to the economic system rather than individual ability.
The Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions and Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis co-organized a closed-door roundtable on China's recent economic slowdown and produced summary report of the discussion.
Where is China’s economy headed and what are the implications for the rest of the world? Over 20 expert panelists weighed in over two days of discussions during the inaugural SCCEI China Conference.