December 12-14th,
2004
Urban China Research Network
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���������� �����������
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
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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
�����������������������
����������� ����������� 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
�����������
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
�����������
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