Speaker: Mark Baker, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of East Asian History at the University of Manchester, UK.
Moderator: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University 

Pivot of China (Harvard Asia Center, 2024) examines spatial inequality across China’s twentieth century and beyond. It argues that by focusing on certain kinds of places, people and infrastructures, the development strategies of successive Chinese states exacerbated inequality in multiple dimensions: rural-urban, inter-city, and inter-regional. Pivot of China explores this story through the city of Zhengzhou – an unheralded inland regional center, ‘pivot’ not just of China’s railroad network but also between the winners and losers of modern China’s spatial politics. 

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