Lunchtime Discussion on Zhu Xiaoyang’s Video Documentary on China’s Collective Resistance to To-Down Urbanization


DATE
Wednesday April 1, 2015
TIME
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Professor Zhu Xiaoyang has carried out ethnographic work in Yunnan, China and published several books on developments in China’s villages as well as documentary films. Dr. David Kelly will discuss China’s housing crisis on some of Zhu’s work.

About the speaker

Concurrently a Visiting Professor at Peking University, Dr. David Kelly leads the governance and law, and geopolitics teams at China Policy, a Beijing based research and advisory company. His interests encompass a sweep of issues affecting China’s domestic reforms and its strategic positioning, with a particular interest in the external impact of China’s governance model. His more than thirty years research on China combined with his early IT training, created the ChinaBase, a bilingual research tool specialized for tracking China’s policy realm. Dr. Kelly holds an honours degree in anthropology and philosophy and a PhD in Chinese studies from the University of Sydney. A sought-after international media commentator, he frequently appears on the BBC, Voice of America, Australian ABC, Al Jazeera and in leading print media.

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A light lunch will be provided for resgistered participants

Sponsor: Centre for Chinese Research
By: Dr. David Kelly, Research Director, China Policy
Type: Discussion