A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
Cities & City-Dwellers in Modern China
A conference at UC Irvine on urban life in China.
When:
March 10, 2007 12:00am
Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10 am - 3:30 pm
UC Irvine Humanities Instructional Building, Room 110, Irvine, CA 92697
Sponsored by the UC Irvine Department of History, the World History Program, and the Center for Asian Studies.
10 am – noon: Republican Cities, Republican Workers, Republican Lives
Lien Ling-Ling (Academia Sinica) “Creating Recreational Space: Department Stores and Urban Culture in Republican Shanghai"
Discussant: Yan Yunxiang (UCLA)
Brett Sheehan (USC) "Building Eden Amidst Chaos: The Dongya Corporation Factory in Tianjin in the 1930s and 1940s"
Discussant: Kenneth Pomeranz (UC Irvine)
1:30 – 3:30 pm: Transformation & Continuity in Urban China
Laurie Duthie (UCLA), "Of Global Capitalism and Local Lives: Shanghai's White Collar Executives in the Foreign-Invested Economic Sector"
Discussant: Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)
Carolyn Cartier (USC), "Historical or Transhistorical? Thinking about Time-space and the City in China"
Discussant: Joseph Esherick (UCSD)
Parking: Lot 7 or parking structure at West Peltason and Pereira.
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