Urban Studies and Demography of China

 

April 30, 2003, Minneapolis, MN

 

8:30-9:00         Coffee/tea and Registration

 

9:00-9:10         Welcome and Introduction

 

                        John R. Logan, University at Albany

 

9:10-10:40       Session I: Spatial Inequality and Urban Restructuring

 

                        Chair:             Alan Smart, University of Calgary

 

Presenters:    Larry Ma, Professor Emeritus, University of Akron

         Fulong Wu, University of Southampton

 

Discussants: Michael J. White, Brown University

         Helga Leitner, University of Minnesota

         Yu Xie, University of Michigan

 

10:40-10:55     Coffee/tea break

 

10:55-12:25     Session II: Globalization and Transformations in Chinese Cities

                       

                        Chair:            Andrew Marton, University of Nottingham

 

Presenters:    Carolyn Cartier, University of Southern California

         George Lin, Hong Kong University

 

Discussants: Shahid Yusuf, The World Bank

         Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota

         Victor Nee, Cornell University

 

12:25-1:30       Lunch Break 

 

1:30-3:00         Session III: Social and Health Consequences of Migration in China

 

                        Chair:           Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington

 

Presenters:   Chris Smith, University at Albany

        Weiping Wu, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Discussant:   Daniel Goodkind, U.S. Bureau of the Census

                                                         Min Zhou, University of California at Los Angeles

                                             Ken Roberts, Southwestern University

 

3:00-3:20         Coffee/tea Break

 

3:20-4:50         Session IV: Social Inequality in China

 

Chair:           Jeff Wasserstrom, Indiana University

 

Presenters:   Yanjie Bian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

                     Deborah Davis, Yale University

 

                        Discussants: Setha Low, CUNY Graduate Center

                                             Donald Treiman, University of California at Los Angeles

                                             Hy Van Luong, University of Toronto

 

4:50-5:00         Concluding Remarks

 

                        Zai Liang, University at Albany 

 

6:00-?              Group dinner in a local restaurant.


Participants of the PAA workshop, April 30, 2003

 

 

I.                    Invitees

 

Daniel Goodkind

International Programs Center

Population Division

US Bureau of the Census

Washington Plaza II, RM 117

Washington, DC 20233-8860

Daniel.M.Goodkind@census.gov

 

Pierre-Francois Landry

Department of political science

Yale University

pierre.landry@yale.edu

 

Helga Leitner, geography, U of Minnesota

414 Social Sciences
267 - 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
helga.leitner-1@umn.edu

 

Setha Low

Department of Anthropology.

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

slow@gc.cuny.edu

 

Hy Van Luong

Department of Anthropology

University of Toronto

vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca

 

Victor Nee

Department of Sociology

312 / 330 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

vgn1@cornell.edu

 

Ken Roberts

Department of Economics

Southwestern University

Box 6216

Georgetown, TX 78626

robertsk@southwestern.edu

 

Eric Sheppard

 Department of Geography

 U. Of Minnesota

414 Social Sciences
267 - 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

shepp001@umn.edu

 

Donald Treiman,

Department of Sociology

UCLA
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551

TREIMAN@DUDLEY.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU

 

Michael J. White, Sociology, Brown University

Box 1916

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island 02912 - 1916

Michael_White@brown.edu

 

Yu Xie

University of Michigan

Department of Sociology
500 South State Street
Room 3507 LSA Bldg.
Ann Arbor, MI 
48109-1382

yuxie@umich.edu

 

Shahid Yusuf
Research Manager
Development Economics
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
syusuf@worldbank.org

 

Min Zhou

Department of Sociology

UCLA

264 Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza

Box 951551

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551

mzhou@soc.ucla.edu

 

 

II.  UCRN Board Members

 

Yanjie Bian

Division of Social Sciences

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

sobian@usthk.ust.hk

 

Carolyn Cartier

Department of Geography

University of Southern California

cartier@usc.edu

 

Kam Wing Chan

Department of Geography

University of Washington

kwchan@u.washington.edu

 

Deborah Davis

Department of Sociology

Yale University

dedavis@pantheon.yale.edu

 

Youqin Huang

Department of Geography and Planning

University at Albany

yhuang@albany.edu

 

George Lin

Department of Geography

Hong Kong University

gcslin@hkucc.hku.hk

 

Zai Liang

Department of Sociology

University at Albany

zliang@albany.edu

 

John Logan

Department of Sociology

University at Albany

jrl40@uamail.albany.edu

 

Hanlong Lu

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China

luhl@sh163.net

 

Larry Ma

Department of Geography and Planning

University of Akron

laurencejcma@yahoo.com

 

Andrew Marton

University of Nottingham, UK

andrew.marton@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Jennifer Rudolph

Department of History

University at Albany

 jrudolph@csc.albany.edu

 

Alan Smart

Department of Anthropology

University of Calgary

asmart@ucalgary.ca


Chris Smith

Department of Geography and Planning

University at Albany

cjsmith@albany.edu

 

Xiaopei Yan

Department of Geography

Zhongshan University, China

eesyxp@zsu.edu.cn

 

Jeff Wasserstrom

Department of Sociology

Indiana University

 jwassers@indiana.edu

 

Fulong Wu

Department of Geography

University of Southampton

f.wu@soton.ac.uk

 

Weiping Wu

Department of Geography and Urban Planning

Virginia Commonwealth University

 wwu@vcu.edu