Autumn 2012 Workshop Schedule

October 9

“Land Requisition and Trust in Rural China”

Travis Warner

Doctoral Student of Political Science,University of Chicago

October 23

“Sharing High Growth across Generations:

Pensions and Demographic Transition in China”

Zheng Michael Song

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

November 6

“The Inter-generational Attributes of State-based Categories of Inequality:

A Case Study in Urban China”

Fangsheng Zhu

Master of Arts in the Social Sciences,University of Chicago

November 20

“Performance Legitimacy, State Autonomy andChina’s Economic Development”

Dingxin Zhao

Professor of Sociology,University of Chicago

December 4

“Organizational Clientelism:

An Analysis of Private Entrepreneur Delegates in Chinese Local Legislatures”

Xin Sun

Doctoral Student of Political Science, Northwestern University

    The workshop meets on alternate Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm at Pick Lounge, 5828 South University   Avenue. Abstracts are available on our website: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/. Questions and comments should be addressed to the coordinator Le Lin: lelin2010@uchicago.edu

Faculty Sponsors:

Dali Yang (Political Science), daliyang@uchicago.edu

Dingxin Zhao (Sociology), dzhao@uchicago.edu

Zheng Michael Song (BoothSchoolof Business), Zheng.Song@chicagobooth.edu