OVERSEAS YOUNG CHINESE FORUM (8 th Annual Meeting)
CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES, UC Irvine
Social Classes in Transitional China
Costa Mesa , California
May 26-28, 2006
China has undergone a major social transformation in the past two and a half decades. New social groupings, from rural migrant labor to the urban middle class to new state technocrats, have emerged and they increasingly define the pattern of socio-economic and political change in China. Their emergence reflects changes to the existing order of stratification and it catalyzes the formation of new social classes in China. How can we theoretically approach new social formations in China? What is the historical significance of their emergence? How will the new politics of “class” shape the future of the Chinese state? Why does class consciousness matter in shaping social conflict? The 8th annual OYCF conference, co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, University of California, Irvine, intends to address these questions by convening a number of panels examining the empirical realities, as well as the historical and theoretical significance, of class formations in China.
PROGRAM
(Dated 5/26/06)
Friday, May 26, 2006
6:00 pm: Registration, Check-in (Nathan Hale Inn Lobby, soft beverage and snacks provided by OYCF)
Saturday, May 27, 2006
7:30 am: Breakfast
8:15
am: Opening Remarks
• MA Junling ( 马俊陵 ) , Board member, OYCF
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Dorothy SOLINGER , Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine & Co-Director, Center for Asian Studies, UCI
8:25 am: Panel Overview, GUANG Lei(光磊), Associate Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
8:30 am – 10:00 am:
Special Lecture One: Theoretical Overview: Class and Class Structure in Transitional China
Honored Speaker:
· ZHAO Dingxin ( 赵鼎新 ), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Chair/Discussant:
· WANG Feng ( 王丰 ), Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
10:00 am-10:15 am: Coffee Break
10:15 am-11:45 am:
Panel 1: Culture, Ethnicity and Class in China
Speakers
· YAN Yunxiang (阎云翔), Professor of Anthropology, UCLA, "Cha Xu Ge Ju' and the Notion of Hierarchy in Chinese Culture” (“差序格局与中国文化的等级观念”).
· JING Yuejin (景跃进), Professor of Political Science, Renmin University, “Changes in the Discourse on Class Consciousness.”
· HU Xiaojiang (胡晓江), Post-doctoral fellow, Sociology, UC Berkeley, “Class Divide and Ethnic Divide in Tibet.”
Chair/Discussants:
· QI Dongtao (祁冬涛), Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Stanford University
· ZHAN Mei, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UCI
12:00pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:15 pm – 3:30 pm:
Panel 2: Urban Labor Market and Labor Disputes
Speakers:
· CHEN Yiu Por, Assistant Professor of Economics, DePaul University, “When Did Peasants Become Migrant Workers? A Property Rights Analysis of China’s Urban Labor Market Deregulation in 1980s.”
· KIM Myoung-Shik, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, “Working-Class Consciousness and the Impact on Labor Disputes in China.”
Chair/Discussants:
· SHAN Wei (单伟), Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Texas A&M University
· Wai Kit CHOI, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UC Irvine
3:00 am – 3:45 am: Coffee Break
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm:
Panel 3: The Emergence of Urban Underclass
Speakers:
· SOLINGER Dorothy, Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine. Co-Director, Center for Asian Studies, UCI, "The Creation of an Urban Underclass in China ."
· CHO Mun Young , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanfo rd University, “When does poverty matter? the production of ‘urban poor' in post-Mao China .”
· FU Diana, M.Phil student in Development Studies, Oxford University (2006 Rhodes Scholar), “A Cage of Voices: Producing the Dagongmei in Contemporary China.”
Chair/Discussants:
· GUANG Lei ( 光磊), Associate Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
· Titus CHEN, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC Irvine
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: State of OYCF Report by the OYCF Board
OYCF Annual Election
Sunday, May 28, 2006
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:15 am:
Special Lecture Two: Market Transition and Stratification in China
Honored Speaker:
· CAO Yang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC at Charlotte
Chair/Discussant:
· SU Yang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
9:15 am – 10:45 am:
Panel 4. Class Structure and Politics
Speakers:
· ZHANG Jing ( 张静) , Professor of Sociology, Peking University , “Class Politics and Danwei Politics.”
· HE Qinglian ( 何清涟 ) , Senior Researcher, Human Rights in China , Author of Quagmire of China 's Modernization «中国现代化的陷阱» , “ China 's Social Structure and the Political Orientation of Its Middle Class.”
· LI Yi (李毅), Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Transformation of China's Class Structure since 1949.”
Chair/Discussants:
· HAN Chunping ( 韩春萍 ), Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University
· JIN Hehui ( 金河辉 ) , Ph.D., Economist, Quantifi Solutions, NJ
10:45 am – 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:30 am:
Panel 5: Land and Class in Rural Areas
Speakers:
· FENG Shizheng ( 冯仕政 ), Associate Professor of Sociology, Renmin University , “Class Structure in ‘ Communist Village ”' (Coauthored with SU Yang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine).
· ZHOU Feizhou ( 周飞舟 ), Associate Professor of Sociology, Peking University , “Who Gets What from Land Conversion? Local Government and Farmers in the Wake of State Land Seizures.”
· LOU Peimin ( 楼培敏 ), Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, “An Empirical Analysis on the Income and Employment of the Peasants Affected by Land Requisition.”
Chair/Discussants:
· ZHENG Lu ( 郑路 ), Ph.D Candidate, Sociology, Stanford University
· WANG Zhen ( 王桢 ), Ph.D Candidate, Political Science, University of Minnesota
12:30 pm – 2:15 pm: Lunch
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm:
Panel 6: The Emerging Middle Class, Professionals and Newly Rich
Speakers:
· WANG Xin, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, Baylor University , “The Newly Emerging Middle-income Stratum.”
· LIU Sida ( 刘思达 ), Ph. D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Chicago, “Constructing Boundaries of Professional Competition: Lawyers and Legal Workers in China's Market for Legal Services” (Coauthored with MICHLESON Ethan, Assistant Professor of Sociology & East Asian Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington).
· POW Choon Piew ( 鲍存彪 ), Ph.D Candidate in Geography, UCLA, “Landscapes of Privilege: ‘Gated Communities' and the New Middle-Class in Shanghai ”
Chair/Discussants:
· Li Yan ( 李艳 ), Ph.D Candidate, Sociology, Stanford University
· HOU Xiaoshuo, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Boston University
3:45-3:50 pm: Concluding Remarks
4:15-6:15 pm: Volleyball tournament (OYCF's Philadelphia Cup)
6:00 pm-12:00 am: Dinner & Celebration Party
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OYCF 2006 Annual Meeting
Organization Committee
South California
Guang Lei, San Diego State University
Li, Lingfang, UC Irvine
Ma, Junling, SEC, Los Angeles (Co-Chair)
Dorothy Solinger, UC Irvine
Su, Yang, UC Irvine
Wang, Feng, UC Irvine
North California/Stanford
Cai, Hua, Stanford
Lei, Zhen, UC Berkeley
Li, Yan, Stanford
Qi, Dongtao, Stanford
Qiu, Ben, Santa Clara University
Xu, Katherine, Pacific Growth Equities, San Francisco
Zeng, Li, UC Berkeley
Zheng Lu, Stanford
Zou, Hao, Washington Mutual, San Francisco (Co-Chair)
Boston
Han Chunping, Harvard (Co-Chair)
Li, Mingjiang, Boston University
Liu, Jundai, Harvard
Wu, Duan, Boston
Chicago
Wu Guohua, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago
Michigan
Li, Shijian, Univ. of Michigan
Li, Xu, Univ. of Michigan
Long, Yan, Univ. of Michigan
Wang, Huazhong, Univ. of Michigan
Wen, Yaoming, Univ. of Michigan
New York
Liu, Yu, Columbia University
Liu, Zack, New York
Lu, Xiaobo, Bernard College/Columbia University, New York
Ni, Peter, Ernst & Young, New York
Washington, D.C.
Sun, Su, Economists Inc., Washington DC
Hong Kong
He, Jing, Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong
Liu, Ellen, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong
Shu, Chang, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Yi, Xiaodong, Sullivan & Cromwell
Others
Cai, Yong, University of Washington, Seattle
Shan, Wei, Texas A&M (Co-Chair)
Wang, Zhengxu, National Univ. of Singapore
Zhang, Qin, Yale University
Wei, Li, Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
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