[MIT CSSA Outreach] Fwd: [MIT CSSA INFO] China Inequality Symposium

[YU PU]

>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 in Pound Hall Room 107.
>
>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
>a few sub-Saharan countries.
>
>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.
>
>Among the speakers invited are He Weifang, probably the best-known
>constitutional scholar in China today, Li Shi, a pioneer in the study of the
>income-gap in China, 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.
>
>For more information on the symposium and how to register and participate,
>please visit out website at: http://www.uschinalawsociety.org/symposium or
>call Xiangmin Liu at 617-951-7977.
>
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Yu Pu, Ph.D candidate
Department of Chemical Engineering
MIT, Cambridge

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