EAST ASIA WORKSHOP: POLITICS, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Winter 2016 Workshop Schedule
January 12
“Report on the State of Children in China”
Lijun Chen
Senior Researcher, Chapin Hall
The University of Chicago
January 26
“Do Colleges Breed Revolutionaries? Education and Political Engagement in China After Tiananmen”
Yuhua Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Government
Harvard University
February 9
“A Tale of Two Chinas: the Power-Capital China and the Rights-Deprived China”
George Hong
Professor of History
Purdue University Calumet
February 23
“Enumerating and Assembling the Social: Governing through Community Mental Health in Post-socialist China”
Zhiying Ma
PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
The University of Chicago
March 8
TBD
Yinxian Zhang
PhD Student, Department of Sociology
The University of Chicago
The workshop meets on alternate Tuesdays 4:30-6pm at Pick Lounge, 5828 South University Avenue, unless otherwise specified. Abstracts are available on our website: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/. Questions and comments should be addressed to the coordinator Yan Xu at xuyan@uchicago.edu
Faculty Sponsors:
Xi Song (Sociology), xisong@uchicago.edu
Dali Yang (Political Science), daliyang@uchicago.edu
Dingxin Zhao (Sociology), dzhao@uchicago.edu