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Talk by Li Zhang, UC Davis

The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies will host Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology and Interim Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis.

When:
April 6, 2017 12:15pm to 1:45pm
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Li Zhang is Professor of Anthropology and Interim Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California-Davis. She was a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and the President of the Society of East Asian Anthropology (2013-15). Her research concerns the cultural, spatial, political, and psychological repercussions of market reforms and postsocialist transformations in China. She is the author of two award-winning books: Strangers in the City (Stanford 2001) and In Search of Paradise (Cornell 2010), and the co-editor of Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (Cornell 2008). Her current project explores an emerging psychological counseling movement and how it reshapes Chinese people's understandings of selfhood, well-being, and governing.

Cost: 
Free
Phone Number: 
(310) 825-8683