Contemporary Chinese Society
Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Ethan Michelson – Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
Speaker: Ethan Michelson, Professor of Sociology, Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Bloomington; Professor of Law, IU Maurer School of Law Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Eli Friedman – The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Education in the Chinese City
Speaker: Eli Friedman, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of International and Comparative Labor, ILR School, Cornell University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
Contemporary Chinese Society featuring Bin Xu – Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
Speaker: Bin Xu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University Presented via Zoom Also streaming on YouTube Transcript: Download Transcript
Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Rachel Stern – Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court
Speaker: Rachel E. Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science, Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies, UC Berkeley School of Law Rachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science and currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Her research looks at law […]
Ya-wen Lei – The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ya-wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Using Daniel Bell’s work as a springboard, I analyze the emergent post-industrial society in China, focusing on China’s techno-development from the mid-2000s to the present day. Noting the extraordinary transformation of China’s economy and society during this time, some scholars have compared China’s post-reform period […]
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Was Hong Kong 2019 a “Revolution of Our Times”? What was “revolutionary” about the anti-extradition movement? Turning its aspirational and stirring slogan into an empirical question, this talk assesses the breakthroughs and limits of the historic uprising, against an entrenched colonial hegemony co-produced […]