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  • Urban China Series featuring Tang Beibei – The Making of “New Citizens:” Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Tang Beibei, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University This 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 China Series featuring Eli Friedman – The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Eli Friedman, Cornell University Beginning 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

  • Urban China Series featuring Chen Jinsong

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Chen Jinsong, Shenzhen Worldunion Group (世联行) This 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. Venue

  • Urban China Series featuring Tao Ran – The China Model of Growth and Urbanization 

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Tao Ran, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) This 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,