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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Margaret Hillenbrand - On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Margaret Hillenbrand\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College\, Oxford University \n\n\n\nOn 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 as a rationale\, the city condemned the entire settlement and its inhabitants. Nearly 250\,000 were forced to evacuate. In this talk\, I suggest that such evictions provoke questions about the limits of inequality\, exclusion\, and insecure work as meaningful descriptors of social conditions in our times. In this talk\, I explore the logic of expulsion in contemporary China\, its capacity to foment both solidarity and social strife\, and its relationship with cultural forms. In particular\, I look at how people living under precarity in China today use culture as a space to vent feelings of rage\, resentment\, distrust\, and disdain that are taboo under the diktats of so-called harmonious society. \n\n\n\nMargaret Hillenbrand is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on literary and visual studies in twentieth-century China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and Japan\, especially cultures of secrecy and protest. Her books include Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, and On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia University Press\, 2023)\, from which this talk is drawn. She is now working on a new project about the cultural politics of the face in Chinese visual culture during the era of biometric surveillance. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-margaret-hillenbrand/
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CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Zhang Qinghua - From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhang Qinghua\, Peking University \n\n\n\nThis talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in China since the 1990s\, the empirical analysis reveals that district border adjustments have a significant positive effect on the TFP of manufacturing firms in the adjusted districts. The firms situated in the border towns of the districts reap the most benefits. Further investigation into the mechanism indicates that district border adjustments enhance firms’ productivity by 1) internalizing the positive externalities generated by agglomeration economies of industry clusters\, 2) removing extra administrative costs for firms situated in the border towns\, and 3) helping alleviate the spatial constraints faced by high-density core districts. These adjustments ultimately lead to enhanced industry specialization and more efficient capital allocation at the district level. The study also shows that district border adjustments have a significantly positive impact on the overall economic development of border towns\, as evidenced by the increased intensity of nightlights. \n\n\n\nDr. Qinghua Zhang holds a professorship in the Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University. She also serves as the director of Peking University’s Center for Energy Economics and Sustainable Growth. Currently\, she is a visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for Real Estate. Dr. Zhang got her Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 2003. Her research is focused on Urban Economics\, Public Finance\, Environmental Economics and Search and Matching. She has published in esteemed economic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Monetary Economics\, Journal of Public Economics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Journal of Development Economics\, Rand Journal of Economics\, and the Journal of Econometrics. Dr. Zhang currently sits on the Editorial Board of both the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Housing Economics. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-qinghua/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo - Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Shaun SK Teo\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nIs Chinese urbanization unique? What can we learn from Chinese urbanization? How might cases in urban China be integrated into global discussions on urban governance and transformation? This talk addresses these burning questions. Chinese urbanization presents rich cases for an engaged pluralism in urban studies. It has the potential to contribute to the revision of existing theoretical frameworks and to create new starting points for analysis between urban China and a wider range of contexts globally. These arguments are instantiated through two experiments to build concepts from and with a case study of a collaborative urban redevelopment project in Shenzhen. The first experiment is a comparative analysis between Shenzhen and a similar case in London. The second experiment builds elements for the re-theorization of Chinese state entrepreneurialism by conceptualizing from the ground in Shenzhen. Both experiments contribute to studies of urban governance by demonstrating the variegated logics and forms of emerging post-growth state programs and politics\, including those which allow parts of society to selectively influence policymaking. \n\n\n\nShaun SK Teo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on urban governance and its underpinning state-society politics\, theorizing from a ‘global East’ perspective. Ongoing research topics include municipal statecraft\, gentrification and informality. Shaun’s current research is a comparative analysis of the geographies of youth urban activisms  in Taipei\, and Bangkok and Singapore\, thinking specifically about how we can rethink urban activisms through the variegated practices of youth \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-shawn-sk-teo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University.  \n\n\n\nRodenbiker’s new book Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nRodenbiker’s work focuses on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. He holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California\, Berkeley.  \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-jesse-rodenbiker-ecological-states-politics-of-science-and-nature-in-urbanizing-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Fang Xu - Care to be a Shanghainese? Endangerment of the Vernacular and Flexible Resident Identity
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Fang Xu \, Continuing Lecturer\, Interdisciplinary Studies Program\, University of California Berkeley \n\n\n\nThe transformation of Shanghai into a global city has driven millions of Shanghainese away from the urban core; and turned both the historic urban Shanghai and its newly urbanized periphery into a manifestation of the “China Dream”. Shanghai has also experienced the influx of millions of internal migrants\, and state language policies mandating the usage of Mandarin Chinese instead of the vernacular in all spheres of public life. Based on field research in 2013 and 2017\, this talk focuses on how these Chinese urbanites internalize and navigate the transformed urban geographical and sociolinguistic landscape and position themselves in it. The new urban middle class anchors their identity more on social class and lifestyle than on birthplace\, the household registration status\, and regional tongues such as the Shanghai dialect. Nonetheless\, during the draconian Covid-19 lockdown in 2022\, usage of the Shanghainese vernacular became a countercultural force. \n\n\n\nA Shanghai native\, Fang Xu is an urban sociologist with expertise in language\, cultural identity\, migration\, and public policies in urban China. She holds the position of Continuing Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at University of California Berkeley. She is the author of the 2021 book\, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China. The book has received favorable reviews in journals such as The China Quarterly and Language in Society\, and mentioned in magazines and newspapers such as The Economist and The Guardian. Her current research investigates language-based discrimination experienced by first-generation immigrants in the United States and their identification with the American identity. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-fang-xu-care-to-be-a-shanghainese-endangerment-of-the-vernacular-and-flexible-resident-identity/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Rosealea Yao - China's Housing and Construction Industry - 2023 Review and Outlook
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Rosealea Yao \, Senior Analyst\, Gavekal Dragonomics \n\n\n\nChina’s property-market slump worsened in 2023. The burst of pent-up demand that followed the reopening from Covid containment evaporated by April\, and sales deteriorated until tentatively stabilizing in August. Rosealea assesses the outlook for the property sector and risks for developers going forward\, as well as the policy response and what it means for real estate as a growth driver in the years to come. \n\n\n\nRosealea Yao is a senior analyst in the Beijing office of Gavekal Dragonomics and has been with the firm since 2007. She is a specialist on the Chinese property market\, and also works on energy\, infrastructure and other issues related to the investment side of the economy. Before joining Gavekal\, she worked at the Chinese Institute of CPAs in Beijing. Rosealea studied economics at the University of Manchester and graduated from Renmin University of China in 1999. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-rosealea-yao-speaking-on-the-chinese-property-market/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T083000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Yang Yuzhen — The Production of Public Space and Collective Memory: A Chinese Inland City Across Time     杨宇振:公共空间与集体记忆的生产——一个中国内陆城市的历时样本
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yang Yuzhen\, Professor of Architecture and Urban Development\, School of Architecture and Urban Planning\, Chongqing University  \n\n\n\n***This talk will be in Mandarin.*** \n\n\n\nModern public spaces in Chinese cities have undergone significant changes over the past century. The transformation of Chongqing\, an inland city\, is an essential part of China’s modernization process from east to west. The evolution of the Chaotianmen (朝天门) area in Chongqing provides a representative case for understanding and recognizing the public spaces in modern Chinese cities. This talk first explores the historical changes\, forms\, and symbolic transformations of the Chaotianmen area in Chongqing since the 20th century. It analyzes the differences in the spatial reconstruction of Chaotianmen across different historical periods. It further explores the similar conditions of several other cities in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. While discussing the material\, social\, and conceptual dimensions of contemporary public space production\, the author argues that the constant appropriation and rewriting of public space in the historical process is a universal state of collective memory\, and how to deal with this problem has become a key issue in the process of contemporary urban development. \n\n\n\nYang Yuzhen is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Development at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Chongqing University\, China. His research focuses on the political and economic transformation of Chinese cities from the early 20th century. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China\, and a council member of the Architect’s Branch of Architectural Society of China. He was a visiting scholar at GSD\, Harvard University; a researcher of Residency Program at Bellagio Center\, Italy. His representative works include:One Kilometre City: Everyday Life\, Crisis and the Production of Space (2022)\,History and Space: Chongqing in the late Qing Dynasty and Its Transformation (2018)\,and Spatialization of Capital (2016). \n\n\n\n现代中国城市公共空间在过去一个世纪经历巨大变化。内陆城市重庆的转变是中国由东而西现代化进程的重要构成。重庆朝天门地段的演变提供了一个理解和认识现代中国城市公共空间的典型案例。首先探讨近代以来重庆朝天门地段的历史变迁、形态和象征变化，分析各个特定历史时期朝天门的问题差异与空间再造状况，并进一步探析长江上游多个城市的“类朝天门”公共空间状况；最后讨论当代公共空间生产的物质、社会和观念维度，作者认为历史过程中城市公共空间不断地被挪用和再书写是集体记忆的普遍状态，如何应对这一问题成为当代城市发展过程中的关键性议题。 \n\n\n\n杨宇振，重庆大学建筑城规学院教授。主要研究领域在近代以来中国城市空间的政治与经济转变。兼任中国城市规划学会学术工作委员会委员、中国建筑学会建筑师分会理事等。曾是哈佛大学设计研究生院访问学者（2008）、意大利Bellagio中心访住项目研究员（2016）。他的著作包括：《一公里城市：日常生活、危机与空间生产》（2022）；《历史与空间：晚期重庆城及其转变》（2018）；《资本空间化：资本积累、城市化与空间生产》（2016）等。 \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-yang-yuzhen-the-production-of-public-space-and-collective-memory-a-chinese-inland-city-across-time-%e6%9d%a8%e5%ae%87%e6%8c%af%e5%85%ac%e5%85%b1%e7%a9%ba/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Leonardo Ramondetti: The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Leonardo Ramondetti\, Post-doctoral Researcher\, Politecnico di Torino  \n\n\n\nSince the early 2000s\, China has seen unprecedented urban growth\, spreading to every corner of the country. Driven by the urban entrepreneurialism of major municipalities until the mid-2000s\, the reins have since passed to the central and regional administrations which plan development in a more comprehensive and coordinated fashion. This turning point in urban policies has redirected planning activities: from the centripetal development of major cities through new towns to centrifugal urbanization fostering regional integration via wide-area projects and small-scale interventions. Drawing upon the urbanization in Central Plains\, Henan Province\, this talk discusses the socio-spatial implications of such urban policies and planning activities. It examines the emerging infrastructure\, housing\, and production spaces to provide an interpretation of this urbanization as an enriched field: a space characterized by great performativity in infrastructure\, environment\, and welfare\, as well as imbued with narratives\, stories\, and meanings. \n\n\n\nLeonardo Ramondetti\, Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development\, is a post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Torino\, and an Adjunct Professor at Università di Bologna. His field of research is contemporary urban design and planning\, with attention to infrastructure-led development. He was part of the research ‘Chinese New Towns: Negotiating Citizenship and Physical Form’ (2016-2019)\, spending a five-month visiting period at Tsinghua University to study the urbanization processes underway in central China. He is currently working on the research ‘Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative: Urbanisation processes\, innovation patterns and global investments’ (2020-2023)\, including a five-month visiting period at Laboratoire Techniques\, Territoires et Sociétés to further develop the knowledge in infrastructural projects. He is the coordinator of the China Room research group at Politecnico di Torino\, and the author of The Enriched Field: Urbanising the Central Plains of China (Birkhäuser\, 2022). \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-leonardo-ramondetti-the-enriched-field-urbanizing-the-central-plains-of-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Andrew Grant\, University of Tampa \n\n\n\nExamining Xining\, the capital of Qinghai Province\, this talk argues that urban redevelopment and greenfield expansion have devalued the older urban areas in which Tibetans live.  Through over twenty months of fieldwork between 2012 and 2017\, I found that un-redeveloped urban places were becoming increasingly associated with crime\, grime\, and minoritized ethnic populations. These associations were driven by a complex combination of personal desires for modern urban amenities\, pre-existing social tensions\, and state-driven programs that drove and exacerbated new forms of social evaluation. \n\n\n\nAndrew Grant is an Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Tampa. His research contributes to discussions about the role of urbanization\, borders\, and other materials in global geopolitics and the politics of marginalized groups. His studies have included the urban geopolitics of rural-to-urban migration amid state-led urbanization drives on the Tibetan Plateau\, complications between soft power and security at China’s Inner Asian borders\, and the geopolitics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative cartography. His research is grounded in qualitative methods including ethnography\, interviews\, and textual analysis. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-andrew-grant-abject-space-in-redevelopment-urban-tibetans-in-xinings-old-city-center/
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Li Zhigang\, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning\, School of Urban Design\, Wuhan University\, China \n\n\n\n***This talk will be in Mandarin*** \n\n\n\nChina faces significant challenges in neighborhood governance\, particularly in old and dilapidated neighborhoods (老旧社区). In this context\, some new and experimental approaches to neighborhood governance have emerged. This talk focuses on three representative cases: Jinsong in Beijing\, and Huajin and Xima in Wuhan. I argue that the governance restructuring in these communities has been experimental and has been driven primarily by grassroots governments. Their objectives include addressing the service and resource deficiencies faced by residents and bolstering the influence of the CCP at the grassroots level. By using a variety of approaches to integrate both market and social forces\, the state has articulated the new concept of a ‘complete community’. In essence\, these experiments epitomize ‘state entrepreneurism’\, which on one hand stresses the capitalization of space and on the other\, advocates for the socialization of capital. \n\n\n\nLi Zhigang is a professor of urban studies and planning at the School of Urban Design\, Wuhan University\, China. He also serves as the dean of this school. Before 2015\, Prof Li worked at the School of Geography and Planning\, Sun Yat-sen University\, Guangzhou\, China. As an urban scholar\, geographer\, and planner\, Professor Li works on the socio-spatial transformation of urban China\, with a focus on such topics as neighbourhoods\, migration\, health\, and related planning issues. His recent work concentrates on the effects of China’s neighbourhood transformation and related planning as well as governance issues. Professor Li is serving as the editor of some top journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, Urban Studies\, etc.. He has been the principal investigator of five research projects funded by China’s NFC\, including one Excellent Youth Foundation. Prof Li has been awarded China’s ‘National Award for Young Geographers’ and ‘National Award for Young Planners’. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-li-zhigang-chinas-new-experiments-of-urban-neighborhood-governance/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Yuan Qifeng: Cross-Border Competition and Governance in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong\, Hong Kong\, and Macau
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yuan Qifeng\, Professor\, School of Architecture\, South China University of Technology \n\n\n\nThis talk will be conducted in Mandarin. \n\n\n\nThe concept of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong\, Hong Kong\, and Macau signifies a national strategic focus on the governance of one country with two systems\, three customs zones\, and across eleven urban regions. However\, within this geographic scope\, cooperation and competition among cities have been ongoing. Since 2008\, the provincial government has been working on the integration of infrastructure among nine mainland cities in the Pearl River Delta. Inter-city competition has posed challenges to regional integration\, particularly due to the unique “administrative economics” in China. This talk primarily discusses the impact on regional structure of several Shenzhen initiatives and Guangzhou’s responses thereto: namely\, Shenzhen’s innovative city building and the development of the Qianhai CBD\, as well as Guangzhou’s designation of Nansha as a “significant strategic platform” of the Greater Bay Area in 2022. \n\n\n\nPresented viz Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n袁奇峰：粤港澳大湾区的跨界竞争与治理 \n\n\n\n波士顿时间9月19日上午8点半 \n\n\n\n北京时间9月19日晚上8点半 \n\n\n\n伦敦时间9月19日下午1点半 \n\n\n\n新德里时间9月19日下午6点 \n\n\n\n粤港澳大湾区概念的提出标志着一国两制、三个关税区、11个城市区域的治理成为国家战略，但这一地理范畴内的一体化合作与竞争一直在持续。自2008年以来，珠江三角洲由省级政府推动了9市基础设施的一体化，城市间的竞争十分激烈，中国特色的行政区经济成为区域一体化的障碍。本讲重点讨论深圳的创新城市建设和前海开发对区域结构的改变，以及广州通过2022年建立南沙为“深化粤港澳全面合作，立足湾区、协同港澳、面向世界的重大战略性平台”的一系列应对策略。 \n\n\n\n袁奇峰，华南理工大学建筑学院教授。兼任中国城市规划学会学术工作委员会委员、广东省城乡建设工作专家咨询委员会委员，以及广州市、佛山市、湛江市人民政府城市规划委员会委员等。擅长决策型和研究型的城市发展战略规划、大尺度的城市设计。代表作有《改革开放的空间响应:广东城市发展30年》、《广州城市总体发展概念规划研究》等，其中《城市化与土地资本化:珠江三角洲“二次”城市化中的南海模式》一书获得第十二届钱学森城市学“金奖提名奖”。 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-yuan-qifeng-cross-border-competition-and-governance-in-the-greater-bay-area-of-guangdong-hong-kong-and-macau/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230424T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson - Building infrastructure\, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Leif Johnson\, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \n\n\n\nWhile scholars have long tracked China’s rapid infrastructural development\, the everyday labor of migrant workers in infrastructural construction has often been rendered as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of rural-urban migration. In response\, I trace the development of a long-term telecommunications infrastructure reconstruction project in Shanghai from the perspective of the workers who implement it at ground level. Like other infrastructure projects across China\, this reconstruction of the city’s fiber-optic network relies on labor drawn from a low-wage\, precarious\, and largely informal migrant workforce that is not expected to be incorporated into the city as urban residents. Through participant observation of the everyday experience of migrant men on construction sites and in dormitories\, I emphasize the gendered and classed geographies of migrant construction labor as key elements the production of high-tech infrastructure that is paradoxically central to imaginations of the city’s position as a modern world city. In the process\, I theorize the production of both technical knowledge about infrastructure and physical infrastructures themselves through ostensibly low-skilled migrant labor\, providing a novel understanding of migration policy and the spatialities of construction as key factors in Chinese urban infrastructure. \n\n\n\nLeif Johnson is assistant professor of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Trained as a geographer at the University of Kentucky\, his research centers on rural-urban migration in China\, with an emphasis on the ways that boundaries of the urban are constructed through everyday gendered practice. His current research and writing focuses on the experiences of men who migrate into the construction industry in the Yangtze river delta\, using participant-observation on infrastructure construction teams to better understand how cities are built and maintained\, and how the construction industry reinscribes borders between rural and urban space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-leif-johnson/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng - Hukou Reform\, Return Migration\,and Implications for Urban Development in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Jipeng\, Shandong University \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, China has made remarkable progress in Hukou reform. Based on government policy documents and our fieldwork\, we construct a quantitative measure of Hukou registration barriers in Chinese cities. First-tier and some second-tier cities set high criteria for local Hukou registration that have become more stringent over time\, while other cities have much lower requirements. Drawing on household survey data\, we show that stricter Hukou restrictions lead to a significant increase in return migration\, especially among those with rural Hukou\, low education level\, and poor health status. Finally\, we estimate the effects of further loosening Hukou restrictions\, finding that granting Hukou to migrants in lower-tier cities would increase educational attainment\, but impose fiscal strains on top-tier cities. \n\n\n\nJipeng Zhang is a Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Institute of State Governance at the Shandong University. His research interests are public economics\, migration and urban development\, with a focus on China’s public finance\, Hukou reform\, and poverty alleviation resettlement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-zhang-jipeng/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Su Xiaobo: Urbanization and the Political Economy of Border Control in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by 瑞丽江的河水 – Own work\, CC BY-SA 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70263825 (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Su Xiaobo\, University of Oregon \n\n\n\nBorder cities in hinterland China have been reshaped as hotbeds of investment ever since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They have become new economic centers to facilitate cross-border flows between China and neighboring countries. Meanwhile\, border security remains a key political task to state authorities in these cities. Using Ruili in southern Yunnan as a case study\, this paper examines urbanization at the edge of China’s national territory and how border control\, transnational migrant management\, and industrialization are integrated into this process. On the one hand\, Ruili uses its geoeconomic advantages—proximity to Myanmar\, and attractiveness to Myanmar migrant workers—to attract domestic investment from other Chinese cities for industrial production and cross-border trade. On the other hand\, the Ruili municipal government is assigned responsibility for managing cross-border migrant flows and maintaining social stability. Economic development and border politics are intertwined to shape Ruili’s urbanization trajectory in which cross-border trade and border security play a significant role in shaping land use\, development policies\, and population management in border cities. Thus\, an analysis of the political economy of border control can shed new light on China’s urbanization at the border. \n\n\n\n ​Xiaobo Su is Professor and Head in the Department of Geography\, University of Oregon. His research interest is in border politics\, urban entrepreneurialism\, and transnational regionalization in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-su-xiaobo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Cai Meina - Legal Discrimination\, Contention Pyramid\, and Land Takings in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Cai Meina\, University of Connecticut \n\n\n\nHow do land-dispossessed villagers protect their interests in a context where the legal framework discriminates against them? Contrary to the existing research that focuses on protests\, this research identifies negotiations as a strategy of the dispossessed to engage with local governments and improve their compensation arrangement. Negotiations are more frequent than petitions\, which are in turn more frequent than protests and violence. These negotiations focus on tailored local arrangements that are not specified in formal compensation policy – what I term “non-programmatic compensation.” Negotiations over non-programmatic compensation create a fragmented compensation policy regime that combines low\, stagnant\, and less locally diversified formal compensation standards with dynamic\, locality-specific\, and negotiated informal non-programmatic compensation. These findings draw on extensive fieldwork in 5 provinces (Chongqing\, Guangdong\, Jiangsu\, Zhejiang\, and Hebei)\, an original dataset of local land compensation policies\, and surveys of rural households and elites.  \n\n\n\nMeina Cai is Associate Professor of Political Science with a joint appointment of Asian/Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests are political economy\, institution and development\, and land politics and urbanization with an area focus on China. Her recent articles appear in World Development\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Land Use Policy. Her urbanization projects have been funded by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation among others.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-cai-meina/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Adam Liu: Small Banks\, Big Politics: The Cause and Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adam Liu\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nThe Henan bank protest\, the Evergrande crisis\, and the perennial local government debt issue in China all point to one thing: there’s something wrong with the country’s banking system and Beijing needs to fix it. In particular\, it needs to better regulate the numerous small banks that are now so intimately intertwined with much of China’s economic challenges. Beijing is working on it but it’s hard to do. This talk explains why. First\, the exponential proliferation of small banks in the past three decades is hardly a natural phenomenon of economic/financial development; it is the outcome of a grand historical central-local bargain that’s difficult for current central leaders to upend. Second\, and relatedly\, many small banks have become the dominant players in local banking markets and are thus a crucial pillar of local economic development. Tight regulation and excessive punishment will therefore hurt local growth further in this difficult time. Beijing will have to juggle. \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-adam-liu/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Tao Ran - The China Model of Growth and Urbanization 
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tao Ran\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) \n\n\n\nThis talk outlines a holistic analytical framework for China’s current growth and urbanization model\, as well as its political and economic background and consequences. Tao Ran argues that China has developed an investment-driven and export-oriented growth and urbanization model since the mid-1990s. Under this model\, state-owned banks\, upstream state-owned enterprises\, and local governments have maintained administrative monopolies in the financial sector\, the upstream manufacturing and non-financial high-end service sector\, and urban commercial & residential land development respectively. At the same time\, the Chinese central and local governments have engaged in a two-tier international and domestic race to the bottom to support market competition in consumer goods production by private firms. This has significant implications for China’s further growth and development.    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-tao-ran/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Chen Jinsong
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chen Jinsong\, Shenzhen Worldunion Group (世联行) \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-chen-jinsong/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Eli Friedman - The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development\, Labor Markets\, and Schooling in the Chinese City
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Eli Friedman\, Cornell University \n\n\n\nBeginning in 2014 China’s central government began pushing for more people to move to cities\, as they believe that increased urbanization will be necessary in advancing a new phase of economic development. But despite cities’ heavy reliance on the labor of rural migrants\, major institutional obstacles remain for those wishing to settle permanently. Perhaps the most important form of social exclusion for migrant workers is in education. Using the school system as a lens on the urbanization process\, I ask how local governments are managing flows of people into the city\, which groups are included in which places and why\, and what the socio-economic consequences of this approach are for Chinese society. My key empirical argument is that urban governments are providing access to public education precisely to those that need it least\, i.e. families with already high levels of economic\, cultural\, and social capital. The only option for excluded migrants is to enroll their children in resource-starved private schools\, which are sometimes subjected to closure and even coercive demolition. Elite cities have developed evaluative frameworks that allow them to fully incorporate those migrants judged to be of high quality\, while the “low-end populations” are shunted away to smaller\, less well-resourced locales with inferior public services. These conditions appear likely to reinforce existing social and spatial forms of inequality. \n\n\n\nEli Friedman is associate professor and chair of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University. In addition to The Urbanization of People\, he is also the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China. \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-eli-friedman/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T220000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei - The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tang Beibei\, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines landless farmers who have entered Chinese urban life as urban residents in an organized and managed way as cities expand and spread. It explores in what ways and to what extent the central government’s initiatives on the integration of landless farmers into the urban economy and urban society have been carried out at local levels and how the local state has responded to the emergence of landless farmers in the cities. Through qualitative research into landless farmers in the city of Suzhou\, this study explores urban development not only as incorporation through the market\, but also as economic and social integration through local governance. Governance of landless famers has become a local state-building process through developing local urbanization trajectories\, local fiscal strategies\, and inter-city competition. As a result\, the making of new citizens goes hand in hand with local state-building during China’s urbanization.  \n\n\n\n​Beibei Tang is Professor of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has undertaken extensive ethnographic research across different localities in China\, with particular focuses on local govern­ance\, social stratification\, and state-society relations in urban China. Her research is published in high-impact journals such as The China Quarterly\, The China Journal\, and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China (Cornell University Press 2023) and China’s Housing Middle Class (Routledge 2018)\, the co-author of Class and the Communist Party of China\, 1978-2021 (Routledge 2022)\, the co-editor of Suzhou in Transition (Routledge 2021)\, and the winner of the 2015 Gordon White Prize (The China Quarterly). She is a member of the editorial board of The China Journal and The China Quarterly. \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-tang-beibei/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Urban China Series
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