EAST ASIA WORKSHOP: POLITICS, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Winter 2015 Workshop Schedule
January 13
“Toward an Integrated Theory of New Organizational Form: the Crystallization of Mass Teaching in New Oriental before its Diffusion in China’s Education and Training Industry, 1980-2000”
Le Lin
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
January 27
“A Protest Society and Workers’ Strikes in China”
Chih-Jou Chen
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology
Academia Sinica
February 10
“Global Religious Change, Local Politics, and Civil Life in China and Taiwan”
Robert Weller
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Boston University
February 24
“Evolution of the Industrial Wage structure in China Since 1980”
Belton Fleisher
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
Ohio State University
March 10
“Criminalizing the Muslim Violence as seen in the Legal Cases of Qing China, 1760 to 1830”
Geng Tian
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
The workshop meets on alternate Tuesdays 4:30-6pm 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 Wen Xie: wxie@uchicago.edu
Faculty Sponsors:
Dali Yang (Political Science), daliyang@uchicago.edu
Dingxin Zhao (Sociology), dzhao@uchicago.edu
Zheng Michael Song (Booth School of Business), Zheng.Song@chicagobooth.edu