Elebash Recital Hall

From the perspective of the West, China is easily misunderstood. Is it capitalist or communist, an adversary or a vital economic partner, a modernized nation or a retrograde regime? A panel of experts demystifies the vast economic and societal changes that have transformed China in recent decades. They discuss China’s remarkable strides toward eradicating poverty and the simultaneous growing inequality that has produced a new billionaire class; the decline in the birthrate despite the end of the One Child Policy; and how increased access to technology, with the limitations of censorship, is affecting the social landscape.

Featuring Yong Cai, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Qin Gao, professor of social policy and social work at Columbia University; Rongbin Han, professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia; and Branko Milanovic, research professor at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Capitalism, Alone and Visions of Inequality. Moderated by John Torpey, professor of sociology and history and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Presented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the China at CUNY Initiative, and the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

A video of this event will be posted a few days later on our YouTube Channel.

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