Asia Centre

Professor James Z. Lee (Frederick Huetwell Professor and Director, Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan; Changjiang Scholar and Director, PKU-UM Joint Institute at Peking University) will introduce in his presentation the preliminary results of an ongoing project on higher education, social mobility and stratification in China (1952-1999).

Professor Lee and his colleagues, notably Cameron Campbell (Pr in Sociology, UCLA), are known in particular for the production and analysis of large-scale individual-level socio-demographic data from the late imperial times to the present.

The conference is organized by Asia Centre – Centre Études Asie and the Centre Asia-Pacifique from DAIE of Sciences Po. The conference will be in english and introduced by François Godement, Sciences Po/Asia Centre.

Information : r.jouannigot@centreasia.org