EAST ASIA WORKSHOP: POLITICS, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Spring 2017 Workshop Schedule
April 4
“New Wine in Old Bottles: Ideological creation of market in the People’s Daily, 1946-2003”
Shinlin Jia and Linzhuo Li
PhD Students, Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
April 11
Special China Session: “Chinese Culture: Its characteristics and historical backgrounds” (in Chinese)
Jianxiong Ge (葛剑雄)
Professor, Institute of Chinese Historical Geography
Fudan University
April 18
TBD
Li Dong
PhD student, Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
April 25
Book-Reading Session: “The Souls of China: The return of religion after Mao.”
(Co-hosted with The Seminary Co-op Bookstores)
Ian Johnson
Pulitzer-Prize winning writer
Accredited China correspondent for The New York Times
May 2
“Switching sides: Market transition and job-referring in China.”
Elena Obukhova
Assistant Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University
May 16
“Escaping the interpersonal power game: Social interaction between customers and sales agents in online shopping”
Xiaoli Tian
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Hong Kong
May 30
“Perceived Threat and Welfare Distribution in Rural China”
In Hyee Hwang
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
Unless otherwise stated, the East Asia Workshop meets on Every Tuesday 4:30-6 pm at Pick Lounge, 5828 South University Avenue. This workshop features interdisciplinary scholarship addressing topics relating to social, political, economic and cultural matters in East Asia. Our presenters come from different disciplines like sociology, political science, economics, history, and so on.
Faculty Sponsors:
Xi Song (Sociology), Dali Yang (Political Science), and Dingxin Zhao (Sociology)
The East Asia Workshop is sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences.