CITIES IN CHINA

THE NEXT GENERATION OF URBAN RESEARCH: PART 3

December 12-14th, 2004

Urban China Research Network

 

Hosts: Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies

Department of Geography, HKBU

 

Venue:Ho Sin Hang Campus, RRS 905

Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Sunday, December 12th

 

8:30-10:00����������� Board Meeting���������

 

10:00-10:15����������� Coffee/Tea and Registration

 

10:15-10:30����������� Welcome and Introduction by Zai Liang and Steve Messner, Co-directors Urban China Research Network

 

10:30-12:50����������� PAPER SESSION 1:�� Migration Issues

����������� ����������� Chair: Si-ming Li, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

����������� ����������� Yuzhao Liu, Shanghai University, �The Transformation of Big Cities� Migration Models in a New Era�

����������� ����������� Discussant: Xueguang Zhou, Duke University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

����������� ����������� Wenfei Winnie Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, "Success or Failure: Selectivity and Reasons of Return Migration in Sichuan and Anhui"

����������� ����������� Discussant:Michael Leaf, University of British Columbia

����������� ����������� Erik Mobrand, Princeton University, �Beyond Household Registers and Floating Populations: Migration Controls and their Demise in China"

����������� ����������� Discussant:Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington

��������� ��������� Hao Zhou, Capital University of Economy and Business, �Should Migrant School Be Existent or Not?�

����������� ����������� Discussant:Zai Liang, State University of New York, Albany

 

 

12:50-2:30����������� Lunch: Renfrew Seafood Restaurant

 

 

2:30-4:15����������� PAPER SESSION 2:Labor, Unemployment, and Poverty

Chair: Deborah Davis, Yale University

 

����������� ����������� Xuejun Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, �Unemployment in Urban China"

����������� ����������� Discussant: John Logan, Brown University

 

����������� ����������� Guo Chen, Pennsylvania State University, "Urban Poverty in a Transitional Economy: Compare Native Urban Poor and Migrant Poor in Urban China"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Steve Messner, State University of New York, Albany

 

����������� ����������� William Hurst, Bowdoin College, "The Unmaking of the Chinese Proletariat: the Politics of Xiagang"

����������� ����������� Discussant: ��Alan Smart, University of Calgary

 

 

4:15-4:30����������� Coffee Break

 

 

4:30-6:15����������� PAPER SESSION 3:�� Entrepreneurship, Investments, and Business Practice

Chair:Christopher Smith, State University of New York, Albany

 

����������� ����������� Jiantao Lu, University of California, Los Angeles, �Using GIS and Spatial Modeling to Detect the Spatial Difference between Overseas Chinese and Non-Chinese Investments in China���������� �����������

����������� ����������� Discussant: Fulong Wu, University of Southampton

 

Linyan Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, �Multifaceted Guanxi in the Emerging Market Economy of China: Notes on a Pilot Study of Entrepreneurs' Guanxi Management"

Discussant: George Lin, Hong Kong University

 

����������� ����������� Yun Chen, Wuhan University, "Entrepreneurs' Social Capital and its Measurement: An Attempt at a Case Study"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Yixing Zhou, Beijing University

 

7:00���� ����������� Dinner: Riverside Seafood Restaurant

 

 

Monday, December 13th

 

8:30-10:15����� PAPER SESSION 4: Living in the City

����������� ����������� Chair: George Lin, Hong Kong University

 

����������� ����������� Zhou Yu, University of Southern California, �Major Determinants of Housing Expenditure in Urban China: Sub-district Comparisons between Beijing and Guangzhou"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Si-ming Li, Hong Kong Baptist University

 

����������� ����������� Wenhong Zhang, Shanghai University, "Class Structure and Social Networks in Urban China"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Xiaopei Yan, Zhongshan University

 

����������� ����������� Yi Zhou, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "Family Politics in the Village: Authority, Interest and Order -- Case Study of Huaxi Village"�������

����������� ����������� Discussant:Chaolin Gu, Nanjing University

 

 

10:15-10:30����������� Coffee/tea break

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10:30-12:15����������� PAPER SESSION 5: ��The Historical City

����������� ����������� Chair: Alan Smart, University of Calgary

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����������� ����������� Angelina Chin, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Molding Women's Urban Citizenship: Management of 'deviant' women in Guangzhou and Hong Kong in the 1920s and 1930s"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Jennifer Rudolph, State University of New York, Albany

 

Weimin Zhong, Tsinghua University, �The Housing System and Transaction of Peking in the Qing Dynasty: Changes of living standard of Peking people in the light of housing transaction�

��������� ��������� Discussant:Youqin Huang, State University of New York, Albany

 

Jinghao Sun, University of Toronto,Urbanization in the Absence of Rural-based Commercialization: The Pivotal Role of Transportation in Late Imperial Jining and Its Modern Transformation�

Discussant: Laurence Ma, University of Akron

 

 

12:15-1:45����� Lunch: Shing Hin Dining Room

 

1:45-3:30����������� PAPER SESSION 6:Land Use and (Re-)Development

����������� ����������� Chair: Weiping Wu, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Shenjing He, �The Changing Rational and Interest Distribution of Urban Redevelopment in Shanghai�

����������� ����������� Discussant: Christopher Smith, State University of New York, Albany

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Yiping Fang, University of Colorado, "Residential Satisfaction Conceptual Framework Revisited: A Study on Redeveloped Neighborhoods in Inner City"

Discussant: Andrew Marton, University of Nottingham

 

����������� ����������� Dong Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, �Property Right Reform in China�a Case Study of Hutang Town, Jiangsu Province�

��������� ��������� Discussant: Wolfgang Taubmann, University of Bremen

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3:30-3:45����������� Coffee/tea break

 

3:45-6:05����������� PAPER SESSION 7:Urban Society

Chair: Xiaopei Yan, Zhongshan University

 

����������� ����������� Dror Kochan, Hebrew University, �Moving Images: Internal Migration in Contemporary Chinese Cinema"

Discussant: Carolyn Cartier, University of Southern California

 

����������� ����������� Anna Boermel, Oxford University, "Experience and Discourse: An Anthropological Study of �Old Age� in Beijing -- A Preliminary Report of Research Findings"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Deborah Davis, Yale University

 

����������� ����������� Min Ren, Beijing University, "The Citizens' Consumption Stratification Study: A Case Study of Wuhan"

����������� ����������� Discussant: Hanlong Lu, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

 

����������� ����������� Bo Peng, Fudan University, �The space of community building: current urban community reform in Shanghai�

����������� ����������� Discussant: Weiping Wu, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

 

6:30���� ����������� Dinner: Togenor Japanese Restaurant

 

 

Tuesday, December 14th

 

8:30-10:30 ����������� Board Meeting

 

10:30-10:45����������� Coffee/Tea Break

 

10:45-12:45����������� Concurrent Roundtables

 

Roundtable 1:Migration

Yuan Ren, Fudan University, �Internal Migration and Prospects of Population and Urban Development in the Yangtze River Delta Area�

Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, �Registration Status, Labor Migration, and Socioeconomic Attainment in China�s Segmented Labor Markets�

Li Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, �Migrant Settlements in Urban China�

 

Roundtable 2:Poverty, Wartime, and Spatial analysis

Yuan Cheng, Fudan University

Fengzhi Ma, Beijing University

Zhigang Li, University of Southampton, �Study of Sociospatial Differentiation in Shanghai�

Jin Zhang, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, �Research on Foreign Relations During Wartime Chongqing�

 

Lunch 12:45-2:00:Shing Hin Dining Room

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2:00������� �� Short Film: �� Changdi, Guangzhou, PRC, June 2002

A Report on an Urban Environmental Design Charrette in the Pearl River Delta

 

3:00���� ����������� Bus to Universities Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

3:30-5:00����������� Tour of Universities Service Centre for China Studies

 

5:30-7:00����������� Reception

 

7:00���� ����������� Bus returns to HKBU

 

Dinner�on your own