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We are excited to announce the upcoming Distinguished Symposium on Contemporary China’s Political Economy, which is organized by the Department of Sociology and sponsored by the Faculty of Social Science. This symposium aims to gather world-class thought leaders to discuss the political economy of China’s contemporary development.
We are honoured to have the following distinguished speakers and discussants for the symposium:
Speakers:
Professor Jean C. OI, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Professor Andrew G. WALDER, Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Department of Sociology and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Discussants:
Professor Zheng SONG, Wei Lun Professor of Economics, Department Head of Economics, CUHK
Professor Pierre LANDRY, Professor and Director of the School of Governance and Policy Science, CUHK
Event Details:
Convener: Prof. Ling ZHU, Department of Sociology, CUHK
Date: 16 September, 2024 (Monday)
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1B, Cheng Yu Tung Building (Map)
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13693649
Registration Deadline: 9:00 a.m., 9 September 2024 (Monday)
Enquiry: (852) 3943 6611 / (852) 3943 6271｜sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
We look forward to your participation in making the Symposium a success.
3-Day Summer Writing Workshop (for undergraduates who major or minor in sociology)
Date: 29-31 July 2024 (Monday-Wednesday)
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Venue: SB 239
Capacity: 15 (First-come-first-serve)
Instructor: teaching assistants – Yeuk Nam NG, Wendy XIAO, and Joanna LEE
Detail: The interactive workshop will consist of three main components:
- Knowing your literature review materials, and setting up research questions
- Sampling, collecting, and analyzing data
- Organizing your ideas and other writing tips
Please sign up on or before 15th July, 2024 here:
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=2038747
For inquiry, please email Joanna Lee (tszshunlee@cuhk.edu.hk).
• Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, Director of the Asia Pacific Center at UCLA
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, CUHK
• Academician of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S)
Topic: The Classed Ethnoracialization of Space in Los Angeles, USA
Abstract:
This lecture zooms in on the relationship between urbanization and migration to address a central question: How have urbanization and immigration dynamics intertwined to shape and reshape the built environment, creating opportunities and challenges that are consequential for immigrant integration? Using Los Angeles as a case, Professor Min Zhou will offer an analysis of the classed ethnoracialization of space—Latinization of South Los Angeles and Asianization of the San Gabriel Valley (LA’s suburb). She shows that ethnoracial spatialization is affected by historically unique urban development and contemporary immigrant selectivity, leading to evolving spatial patterns along nonlinear and non-White-centric dimensions of residential assimilation, more specifically, along Black-Latino and White-Asian axes. In South LA, Latino immigrants live alongside Black residents. Shared experiences of racism and socioeconomic deprivation widen Black-Brown linked fate to create novel platforms for place-based identity formation and political resistance. In the San Gabriel Valley, Chinese immigrants of diverse class and cultural backgrounds carve out a different path to residential assimilation by building an American ethnoburb without much contact with Whites. Despite clear inequalities across the Black-Latino and White-Asian axes, neither case converges uniformly towards Whiteness. She concludes by discussing the implications of these intersecting dynamics for research on racial segregation and structural inequality.
Bio:
Min Zhou, Ph.D. (sociology), is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications, and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). Her main research areas are in migration & development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diaspora, the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology, and She has published widely in these areas, including the award-winning book The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016), Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (ed., 2017), Forever Strangers? Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World (ed., 2021, in traditional Chinese), and Beyond Economic Migration: Historical, Social, and Political Factors in US Immigration (eds., with Mahmud, 2023). She was the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on International Migration and the 2020 Contribution to the Field Award of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America.
Website: http://mzhou.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/
周敏（Min ZHOU），社會學博士，美國洛杉磯加州大學（UCLA）社會學和亞美研究學終身講座教授（亞美研究學系首任系主任）、王文祥伉儷美中關係與傳媒基金講座教授，UCLA亞太中心主任，美國國家科學院（National Academy of Sciences of the United States）院士和美國藝術與科學院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士。她还担任《海外華人研究》（英文Journal of Chinese Overseas）、《民族與種族研究》（英文Ethnic and Racial Studies）、《華人研究國際學報》（華文）、《國際移民》（英文International Migration）等國際性中英文學術刊物的編委以及《世界華人研究學會》（ISSCO）理事。曾任新加坡南洋理工大學陳六使講座教授、社會學系主任和華裔館館長；中國中山大學長江學者講座教授；北美華人社會學學會會長、美國社會學學會理事，美國社會學學會國際移民分會會長以及美國社會學學會亞洲與亞美研究分會會長等。主要研究領域是國際移民社會學、種族與族裔關係、新移民第二代、海外華人研究、亞洲與美國亞裔研究以及城市社會學。迄今為止，她共出版了20本學術專著，在著名學術雜誌和刊物中發表了220餘篇學術論文，包括：《美國亞裔成就的悖論》（英文，合著，2015），《美國移民第二代的崛起》（英文，合著，2016），《當代海外華人社會》（英文，編著，2017），《長為異鄉客？當代華人新移民》（華文，主編，2021），《超越經濟移民》（英文，合編，2023）。她的谷歌學術引用次數至2024年5月10日止超過37,000次。她榮獲2017年美國社會學學會國際移民分會傑出職業成就獎和2020美國社會學學會亞洲與亞美研究分會傑出學術貢獻獎。
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Topic: Intrahousehold Property Ownership and Family Members’ Outcomes: Evidence from the 2011 Judicial Interpretation of the Chinese Marriage Law’
Abstract:
In this talk, Professor Emma Zang will introduce multiple studies examining the impact of the 2011 judicial interpretation of the Chinese Marriage Law, which altered intrahousehold property rights, on family members’ well-being and behaviors. Although the focus on macro-level gender inequality continues, relatively few studies have focused on intrahousehold gender inequality, especially intrahousehold property ownership, in China. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, these studies employ quasi-experimental approaches to compare the outcomes of members in households affected by the legal change with those in unaffected households. The findings show that the 2011 judicial interpretation led to diminished well-being for women in a typical Chinese household where the deed to the marital home was solely in the husband’s name. It also reduced their fertility and increased their labor force participation. In the longer term, affected couples turned to adaptive behaviors more in line with premarital agreements and traditional practices, such as transferring the family home to their children. These adaptive behaviors increased the prevalence of child homeownership, which decreased children’s undesirable behaviors such as quarreling with their parents. These studies demonstrate how a seemingly gender-neutral policy can generate gendered consequences.
Bio:
Emma Xiaolu Zang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Yale University, with secondary appointments in Biostatistics and Global Affairs. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research interests intersect at the nexus of health and aging, family demography, and inequality, employing advanced data science and statistical tools. She also develops and evaluates statistical methods to model trajectories and life transitions, aiming to understand health disparities from a life course perspective. Her research has received media coverage from over 100 outlets in the United States, China, South Korea, India, and Singapore, Her work has received multiple academic awards from organizations such as the American Sociological Association and IPUMS USA.