Saturday, November 21 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM • Room 224 (2nd Floor)

Session 166
The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (II): Temporality and Contingency

Chair: Yige Dong, University at Buffalo
Discussant: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago

1. State-Building, Graduate Institutional Change, and Extractive Capacity in Vietnam and China • Zhihang Ruan, Hunter College, CUNY.

2. Beyond SOEs: Undertakings and the Political Economy of China’s Reform • Angela Xiao Wu, New York University.

3. Transitional Trap and SOE Reform in Northeast China in the 1990s • Wen Xie, Peking University.

4. What Are We Talking about when We Talk about Contingency: What Is Exactly “Contingent” about China’s Transition from Socialism to Capitalism? • Yueran Zhang, University of Chicago.

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