Narratives of China's Economic Reform

A day-long workshop at UC Irvine

Saturday, May 22, 2004
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
5250 Social Science Plaza B
University of California, Irvine

 SPEAKERS: 

Lei Guang (Political Science, Cal State, San Diego)
Tim Oakes (Geography, University of Colorado)
Dorothy Solinger (Political Science, UCI)
Janet Sturgeon (Environmental Studies, Simon Fraser University)
Hairong Yan (Anthropology, postdoc, Princeton University)
Mei Zhan (Anthropology, UCI)

Each speaker will tell the story of how the marketization of the Chinese economy of the past two and a half decades has affected the life of one individual that the speaker has encountered in the course of his/her fieldwork in China.  The subjects' tales will illuminate the myriad sorts of positive and negative changes, opportunities, and dilemmas that China's move toward capitalism has presented to its populace.

For more information please contact

Dorothy Solinger
dorjsoli@uci.edu

Sponsor(s): Center for Asian Studies, UC Irvine