Bordering China, Bordering Reform

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
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Event description: 

Panel 2: Bordering Reform
Wednesday, February 24, 7:00PM-9:00PM EST
Chair: Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Charlotte Ikels, Case Western Reserve University
Panelists:
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”