Zai Liang, Director of Urban China Research Network, UAlbany

Susan D. Phillips, Provost and VPR for Academic Affairs, UAlbany

Elga Wulfert, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UAlbany

Richard Lachmann, Chair, Department of Sociology, UAlbany

Zhou Daming, Associate Dean, School of Sociology and Anthropology, SunYat-Sen University

Session 1 – Migrant Workers and Labor Market

Chair: Youqin Huang, UAlbany

Chen Xiaojuan, SunYat-Sen University, “ Economic Deprivation, Networks and Unprotected Rights and Interests——Study of Peasant Workers’ Collective Action in Pearl River Delta”

Ji Guangxu, SunYat-Sen University, “Mobile Phone and Laid-off Workers ”

Zhen Li, UAlbany, “ First Voluntary Job Shift among Migrant Peasant Workers in Pearl River Delta, China”

Discussant: Larry Ma, University of Akron

Session 2 – Urbanization

Chair: Hayward Horton, UAlbany

Chen Fuping, SunYat-Sen University, “ The Structural Transition and Reproduction of Rural Society in Urbanization of China—A Case Research of Life, Organization and Institution in Urban Village Community”

Li Cuiling, SunYat-Sen University, “On Not Wanting to Become Urban: Ethnographic Perspectives from a Pearl River Delta Urban Community Transited from Rural Village”

Yang Xiongduan, SunYat-Sen University, “ Minority People in an Urbanized Process: The Bai People in Dali, Yunnan, as an Example”

Discussant: John Logan, Brown University

Session 3 – Institution Building

Chair: Cheng Chen, UAlbany

Jing Li, UAlbany, “ Institutional Legacies, Multiple Rights Claims and the Formation of Market Logics in Domestic Property Rights Arrangements”

Siyu Liu, UAlbany, “Capital Punishment with a Two-Year Suspension: China’s Gateway to Fewer Executions?”

Whitney Grey, UAlbany, “Diasporas and Ownership: The Overseas Chinese as Agents of Economic Institutional Reform”

Discussant: Alan Smart, University of Calgary

Session 4 – Cultural Challenges and Transformation

Chair: Angie Chung, UAlbany

Wang Jiashun, SunYat-Sen University, “ Institutional Segmentation and Psychological Repellence: Urban Residents’ Attitude toward Migrants”

Xu Tao, UAlbany, “ The Reconstruction of Social Support System for African Merchants in Guangzhou”

Jingsi Wu, UAlbany, “‘Cultural Citizenship” and Public Sphere in Modern China”

Discussant: Eric Fong, University of Toronto

Chair: Steven Messner, UAlbany

Nancy Denton, UAlbany, “Another Measure of Immigrant Success: Securing Good Neighborhoods to Raise Children”

Zhou Daming and Sun Xiaoyun, SunYat-Sen University, “Inter-generational Relations and Migrant Workers: Ten-Year Follow-up Research on a Stationery Factory in Shenzhen”

Donald J. Hernandez, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, "Children of Immigrants in the United States and other Affluent Countries"

Session 2 – Highlights of Recent Urban Research in China and the U. S., Part II

Chair: Zai Liang, UAlbany

Corianne Scally, UAlbany, “The (Re)Scaling of Community Development Advocacy through Coalition Building in the U. S.”

Wang Ning, SunYat-Sen University , “Urban Materialism in China”

Samantha Friedman, UAlbany, “Cyber segregation in Dallas and Boston: Is Neil a More Desirable Tenant than Tyrone or Jorge?”