Urban China Series
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Margaret Hillenbrand – On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in a two-story building in Xinjian urban village, just outside Beijing’s sixth ring road. At least 19 people, including 8 children, died in the flames. Using fire safety […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam – Planning Exchange: Ideas, People, and Cities in Circulation During China’s Opening and Reform Era
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Cole Roskam, Professor of Architectural History, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Beginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China initiated international scholarly exchange programs with numerous countries at a range of levels and scales within Chinese society. These interactions were intended to facilitate knowledge transfer, particularly […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng – Families, Schools, and Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhu Fangsheng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University This talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became the central device in public school admissions in China, despite their absence of fiscal or administrative foundations. I argue that cities repurposed school districts to […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Isabella Jackson – Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China’s Global City
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Isabella Jackson, Assistant Professor in Chinese History, Trinity College Dublin The Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism, […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Guanchi – Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhang Guanchi, Vermont Law and Graduate School How has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country’s rapid industrialization and urbanization, Chinese cities […]