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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
DTSTAMP:20260522T075841
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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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