ICCS Seminar No. 326

Title: The ideological origins of the Sannong Wenti: Reconfiguring the peasantry in Chinese policy discourse, 1986-1992

Speaker: Dr Jane Hayward, Postdoctoral Research Official, Contemporary China

Studies Programme, University of Oxford

Time: 16:00-17:30, June 7

Venue: SPPM classroom 319

 

Jane Hayward joined the China Centre in January as a Post-doctoral Research Officer working with Professor Vivienne Shue. She holds a PhD in East Asian

Studies from New York University. Her dissertation, "State of the Peasantry: The Agrarian Question in Contemporary China," examined the status and role

of the peasantry in policy debates on the reforms since 1978. While carrying out her dissertation research in Beijing, Jane held a post as Senior Research Student at the Centre for Research on the Chinese Peasant Question, Beijing Normal University, and was a visiting scholar at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She was also affiliated to the China Research Centre for Comparative Politics and Economics. Recently, Jane taught on the International Politics course for the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS. At Oxford, she is teaching the Politics and Government of China option, and researching the issue of rural-urban relations.