Distinguished Lecture

Post-Socialist Marriage: The Experience of Shanghai

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      Overview

      Title:

      Post-Socialist Marriage: The Experience of Shanghai

      Speaker:

      Professor Deborah S. Davis (Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University)

      Date:

      January 15, 2013

      Time:

      4:00 pm (Refreshments 3:30 pm)

      Venue:

      T4, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

      Language:

      English

      Enquiry:

      (Tel) (852) 3917-5901
      (Email) ihss@hku.hk

      About the Speaker

      Deborah S. Davis (Ph.D. Boston University, 1979) is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her primary teaching interests are historical and comparative sociology, inequality and stratification, contemporary Chinese society, and methods of fieldwork.

      Davis is currently a member of the National Committee on US China Relations and in 2004 helped launch the Yale China Health Journal. At Yale she has served as Director of Academic Programs at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Chair of the Council of East Asian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies in both East Asian Studies and Sociology, Member of the Publications Committee for Yale Press, co-chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum and Member of the Tenure Appointments Committee for the Social Sciences.

      Past publications have analyzed the politics of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese family life, social welfare policy, consumer culture, property rights, social stratification and occupational mobility. In 2009 Stanford University Press published Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post-Socialist China, co-edited with Wang Feng. Currently she is completing a monograph entitled A Home of Their Own, a study of the social consequences of the privatization of real estate in urban China.

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