International time: 22:00 Beijing, 15:00 Oslo, 09:00 Washington DC.
The anniversary celebration of the Special Economic Zone lauded Shenzhen’s achievements and staked out new policies. Shenzhen, with its proximity to Hong Kong and reputation as a global tech hub, spearheads the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.
Juan Du will comment on the role of architecture and urban planning under the heading: The Critical Experiment of Shenzhen‒Demystifying China's "Instant City".- Kean Fan Lim will speak about economic and social policies in the city-region of Shenzhen under the heading: Becoming more 'special' than special: Policy experimentation in and through Shenzhen.
About the presenters and organizers
Juan Du
Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, Associate Dean (International and Mainland China Affairs), and Director of the Urban Ecologies Design Lab (UEDL) of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a Doctorate of Science in Architecture from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), a degree of Master of Architecture from Princeton University and is the recipient of a US Fulbright Scholarship for her research on the transformations of the contemporary Chinese cities. Juan has previously taught architectural and urban design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Peking University.
Kean Fan Lim
Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at Newcastle University. His work on economic restructuring in East Asia examines how the economic and social policies of city-regions affect national developmental paths. Lim has published several journal articles on economic policy and regional development in China. He is the author of two monographs: An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’ (Routledge, 2017, co-authored with economic historian Niv Horesh) and On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China (John Wiley & Sons 2019).
Siv H. Oftedal
Dr Oftedal is a researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, and will chair the seminar.
Heidi Østbø Haugen
Haugen, professor of China Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, hosts the seminar series. She heads the ERC-funded project Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration (Brokex).
Other events in the Brokex Spring 2021 Seminar Series
New Type of Great Power Relations: Global Power and Chinese National Identity
新型大国关系
Date and time: 3 March 2021. 22:00 (Beijing), 15:00 (Oslo), 09:00 (EST). Sign-up.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller: Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power
国何以兴？
Lina Benabdallah: Shaping the future of power.Knowledge Production and Network Building in China-Africa Relations.
塑造明日力量
Discussant: Ilaria Carrozza
Assembling the New China: Labor Brokerage
跟着工头去打工
Date and time: 7 April 2021. 22:00 (Beijing), 15:00 (Oslo), 09:00 (EST). Sign-up.
Julia Chuang: Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
大潮之下：劳工、公民与农村土地市场
Xinrong Ma: "Entrapment by Consent": The Co-ethnic Brokerage System among Ethnic Yi Labor
“出走的娜拉”：彝族打工者的劳务中介
Discussant: Yunyun Zhou
Brokers of Aspirations: Education and Cosmopolitanism
从中国精英到世界公民
Date and time: 5 May 2021. 22:00 (Beijing), 15:00 (Oslo), 09:00 (EST). Sign-up.
Shuning Liu: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and "Elite" Education in China: Becoming International
走向国际化：中国的新自由主义、全球化与精英教育
Bingyu Wang: New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity
新西兰的中国新移民：四海为家？根源，情感与日常多样性
Discussant: Yi’En Cheng
Contact
Organizer
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
The seminar is organized as part of the project Brokering China’s Extraversion: An Ethnographic Analysis of Transnational Arbitration (Brokex). The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802070).
