[MIT CSSA Outreach] Fwd: Harvard symposium on China's inequality and development

[YU PU]

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>The Harvard East Asian Legal Studies Program and the U.S. China Law 
>Society will host a symposium entitled "China at a Crossroads: Searching 
>for a Balanced Approach to Development," on November 5-6, 2005 at Harvard 
>Law School.
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>China, much like the U.S., has become a society of haves and 
>have-nots.  According to many academics specializing in China, the wealth 
>disparity we see in today's China – based on a comparison of the Gini 
>coefficients – is greater than that of the U.S. and second only to those 
>of Latin American and sub-Saharan countries.
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>The symposium will focus on searching for a balanced approach to 
>development promoting both efficiency and equality.   The goal of this 
>symposium is to examine systematically China's inequality from social, 
>economic, legal and political perspectives and to generate constructive 
>ideas and policy recommendations.
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>Among the speakers invited are He Weifang, one of the best-known 
>constitutional scholar in China today; Li Shi, a pioneer in the study of 
>the income-gap in China; Yu Jianrong, an authority on China's rural 
>governance issues; Anthony Saich, director of China programs at the 
>Kennedy School; and William Hsiao, the chief architect of a number of 
>innovative programs in healthcare both inside and outside China.   Some of 
>the West's most prominent Sinologists, including Roderick MacFarquhar and 
>Elizabeth Perry will moderate the panels.  Dean Elena Kagan of Harvard Law 
>School will welcome the attendees at the symposium opening.   For a 
>complete list of speakers, please go to 
><http://uschinalawsociety.org/symposium/speakers.htm>http://uschinalawsociety.org/symposium/speakers.htm. 
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>For more information on the symposium and how to register and participate, 
>please visit out website at: 
><http://www.uschinalawsociety.org/symposium>http://www.uschinalawsociety.org/symposium 
>or email U.S. China Law Society at 
><mailto:uschinalawsociety at gmail.com>uschinalawsociety at gmail.com .
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Yu Pu, Ph.D candidate
Department of Chemical Engineering
MIT, Cambridge

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