Saturday November 16, 2002
Room 203 and Auditorium, Henry R. Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511

Please call 203-432-3426 or email eastasian.studies@yale.edu by November 11, 2002 to REGISTER for this event. In order to receive an email of available abstracts and papers, we ask that you register no later than November 4, 2002.

8:45 - 9:30 AM

Continental Breakfast and Registration (2nd Floor, Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall)

9:30 AM

Opening Remarks by Deborah Davis, Yale University

9:45-11:00 AM

Social Stratification and Rural Poverty (in Chinese) - Room 203

"The Patterns of Social Differentiation in Rural China and its Change Before and After the Communist Revolution"

Lu Huilin, Beijing University and Harvard Yenching Institute

Discussant: Lu Xiaobo, East Asia Institute, Columbia University

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Structural and Policy Constraints - Luce Auditorium

“Growth and Poverty Reduction in China”
Carl Riskin, Queens College and Columbia University

“Taxation without Representation: Peasants, the Central and the Local States in Reform China”
Thomas Bernstein and Lu Xiaobo, Columbia University

Discussants: Pierre Landry and Enrique Mayer, Yale University

1:00-2:00 PM

Lunch Break (2nd Floor Common Room)

2:00-3:30 PM

Management and Mismanagement of Resources - Luce Auditorium

“Circulation of Agricultural Land in Rural Zhejiang”
Forrest Zhang, Yale University

“Poverty and Environment in the Northwest: Case Study of a Development Project in Gansu Province”
Seth Cook, Yale University

Discussant: Eric Worby, Yale University

3:30 PM

Coffee Break

4:00-5:30 PM

Rural Migrants Facing Discrimination in Urban China - Room 203

“Maoist Landlords in Post-Deng South China”
Helen Siu, Yale University

“Escorts of Dalian: Their Bids for Social Upper Mobility through Sex Labor Regime”
Tiantian Zheng, Yale University

Discussant: Jennifer Bair, Yale University

5:30-6:30 PM

Wine and Cheese Reception
(2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall)