Fw: Prof Yanjie Bian "The Increasing Significance of Guanxi in Chinese Transitional Economy"

[Hui Xie]

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Contemporary China Studies Programme &

Institute for Chinese Studies present:

 

Professor Yanjie Bian (University of Minnesota) will give a seminar on

 

The Increasing Significance of Guanxi in Chinese Transitional Economy

 

Thursday 4^th March

5:00-6:30pm

Institute for Chinese Studies Room 207 (Walton Street)

 

Yanjie Bian is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Director of the Institute for Empirical Social Science Research at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and a co-PI of the Chinese General Social Survey.  He formerly was a chair professor and the head of the social science division and the funding director of the Survey Research Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  His areas of research are social stratification and mobility, social networks, economic sociology, and contemporary Chinese society. An author and a co-editor of seven books, Dr. Bian also has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Chinese.  His most recent research is about the roles social networks play in Chinese transitional economy.  Dr. Bian is a past president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association and the current chair for the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association.

 

For further details, please contact:

anna.lora-...@ouce.ox.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

Janelle McCarty

University of Oxford China Centre, Administrator

74 Woodstock Road

Oxford, OX2 6HP

Tel. 01865-613826

 

MY LAST DAY IS FRIDAY 26TH FEBRUARY.  AFTER THAT PLEASE CONTACT VERONIQUE (mailto:veronique.c...@area.ox.ac.uk)