Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ Is Lying Contagious? Spatial Diffusion of Agricultural “Satellites” During China’s Great Leap Forward
The University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Hongwei Xu on Agricultural Satellites during the Great Leap Forward.
When:
September 29, 2015 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Where
Previous research has well recognized the critical role of spatial proximity in facilitating social diffusions, but often ignores how the effect of spatial proximity may be constrained by human institutions. Situated in China’s Great Leap Forward (GLF) movement in 1958, this study examines how spatial proximity and political proximity interactively structured the nationwide diffusion of “launching agricultural satellites” - exaggerating grain yields, a contributing factor to the catastrophic GLF famine that claimed millions of human lives.
Hongwei Xu is a research assistant professor at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. He received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Brown University in 2012. His methodology interests include spatial statistics, longitudinal and multilevel analysis, and Bayesian inference. His substantive research topics cover health inequalities, epidemiologic and nutrition transitions, child well-being, and the residential segregation of ethnic groups. He is currently working as a research team member on the China Family Panel Studies, one of the largest longitudinal data collection projects in contemporary China.
Phone Number:
7347646308
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