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International Conference on Local Governance in India and China Just Completed
Richard Baum (right), Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, addressing the conference on the opening night

International Conference on Local Governance in India and China Just Completed

The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies co-sponsored a major international conference on Local Governance in India and China: Rural Development and Social Change, held in Calcutta

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From January 5-8, 2003, the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies co-sponsored a major international conference on "Local Governance in India and China: Rural Development and Social Change." The conference was held in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, and was attended by 24 scholars from India, China, and North America. Other co-sponsors were the Delhi Institute of Social Sciences, the Peking University Sociology Institute, and the Delhi Institute for Chinese Studies. Travel funding for the North America-based participants was provided under a grant from the UC Pacific Rim Research Program. UCLA's Richard Baum served as co-host and co-convener of the conference.

For three days the participants discussed various aspects of socio-political development and reform in China and India. Individual sessions dealt with such topics as: local democracy and de-centralized governance; economic dimensions of rural development; rural self-governance in minority nationality areas; gender, class, and social change; rural politics, elections, and village democracy; and reconceptualizing local democracy, inter alia. At each session scholars from the US, China, and India presented papers and exchanged comparative insights based on their own research.

Participants presenting papers were:

India
Dr. George Mathew, India Institute of Social Sciences
Prof. Monoranjan Mohanty, Delhi University
Dr. Shri. BD Ghosh, Institute of Social Sciences
Dr. Buddhadeb Ghosh, Institute of Social Sciences
Prof. M. Vanamala, Government Women's College
Prof. Apurva Barooah, Northeastern Hill University, Shillong
Dr. Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Chinese Studies
Dr. Bidyut Mohanty, Institute of Social Sciences
Ms. Ritu Agarwal, Delhi University
Prof. Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ms. Anurag Mohanty, Delhi University
Dr. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Mr. Thomas Isaac, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
Prof. G. Haragopal, University of Hyderabad

China
 Prof. Ma Rong, Peking University
Prof. Zhou Xiaohong, Nanjing University
Prof. Yu Changjiang, Peking University
Prof Yang Shengmin, Central University of Ethnic Minorities, Beijing
Dr. Tanzen Lundup, China Center for Tibetan Studies
Prof. He Shaoying, Yunnan College of Ethnic Minorities

North America
 Prof. Richard Baum, UCLA
Prof. Mark Selden, SUNY Binghamton
Prof. Tony Saich, Harvard University
Prof. David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Prof. Kellee Tsai, Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Fei-ling Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Published: Friday, January 24, 2003

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