Council on East Asian Studies: “Bordering China, Bordering Reform”

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Zoom Session See map
Event description: 

The Council on East Asian Studies presents a Panel Discussion & Roundtable: 

“Bordering China, Bordering Reform.”

Register here.

Panelists will include

  • Michelle Chang, Stanford University, “The Business of Living: Transforming the Command Economy and the Making of Markets in Guangzhou, 1978-1985”
  • Andrew Liu, Villanova University, “The Factories Behind the Storefront: The Four Guangdong Tigers and Diasporic Chinese Capital during China’s Early Reform Period”
  • Cole Roskam, University of Hong Kong, “The Architecture of Reform: Buildings and Finance on the Hong Kong-China Border, 1978-1984”
  • Yu Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “The Socialist/Neoliberal Labor Hero in the Risky World of Finance: Leung Fung-Yee Fever, the Financialization of Everyday Life, and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity” 

Discussant Charlotte Ikels, Case Western Reserve University.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
General Public