The innovation, use and experience, and exchange of new and emerging technologies today are influenced by the role that China plays in global politics and economy. This panel brings together experts of the Chinese political economy and law and society in a conversation to discuss the political, economic, security, and social dimensions and complexities of technology in China’s internationalization during times of global tensions. Topics covered will include the institutional foundations of China’s technological development, technology governance and industrial policy, global technology competition, and legal technology and societal impacts in today’s China.
This panel will feature Mark Dallas, Professor of Political Science and Science, Technology, and Society at Union College; Roselyn Hsueh, Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative; and Rachel E. Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science at U.C. Berkeley. AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor in the School of Information, will chair and moderate.
Matrix On Point is a discussion series promoting focused, cross-disciplinary conversations on today’s most pressing issues. Offering opportunities for scholarly exchange and interaction, each Matrix On Point features the perspectives of leading scholars and specialists from different disciplines, followed by an open conversation. These thought-provoking events are free and open to the public.
The panel is co-presented by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI), and co-sponsored by the Institute of International Studies (IIS), the UC Berkeley School of Information, and the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science. This public panel is a part of the two-day Bringing the Sector Back In conference, also co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
This panel will be presented in-person and will also be livestreamed via Zoom. A link to the webinar will be sent to registrants in advance.
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Roselyn Hsueh is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. She is the author of Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge, 2022) and China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell, 2011), and scholarship on states and markets and industrial policy. Her current research examines the technological intensity of trade and Chinese outward foreign direct investment, and the economic and security nexus in technology governance. She held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California. She conducted international fieldwork as a Fulbright Global Scholar, served as a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University, and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (China). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mark Dallas is temporarily on leave as Professor in the departments of Political Science, Asian Studies and Science, Technology & Society at Union College in New York to serve in the U.S. government. His research focuses on industrial organization, global value chains, China, industrial and technology policy and their economic and security implications. His publications cross multiple disciplines, including in leading journals in business management and technology innovation, geography and development studies. He has also worked with the World Bank in the Trade and International Integration Development Research Group, as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and at the Wilson Center. He also was the Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. All comments made are purely his own as a private citizen, and do not necessarily represent the opinions or positions of the U.S. government.
Rachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science (by courtesy) in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law, where she also currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. She is the author of Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence, as well as numerous articles on legal mobilization, courts, political space and professionalization in contemporary China. Stern is currently working on a comparative project on the politics of access to legal information and the emergent market for court data in China, France and the United States, which explores how different political systems responded to the rise of big data, machine learning and natural language processing in the 2010s. She was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
AnnaLee Saxenian is professor of information and economic development at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as dean of the School of Information from 2004-19. Her scholarship focuses on regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. She is author of Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994) and The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard, 2006) and has published widely on the geography and dynamics of industrial change. She chaired the Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation from 2010-15. She holds degrees from MIT, UC Berkeley, and Williams College.
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