Hundred Flowers Series Launch | NYC
Join Leta Hong Fincher, Teemu Ruskola, Eli Friedman, and Weixiang Chen at the BISR offices for the launch of Verso's Hundred Flowers series. RSVP here!
Join Verso on October 22 for the launch of Hundred Flowers, a new book series from Verso offering nuanced debate and analysis of China’s past, present, and future. Teemu Ruskola and Eli Friedman will be in conversation with Weixiang Chen and Leta Hong Fincher to discuss the books' three launch titles, The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class, Involution, and The Women. RSVP here!
About the panelists:
Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist and scholar who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Ms. Magazine, the BBC and CNN. She is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.
Teemu Ruskola is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations as well as Professor of Law. He is a scholar of Chinese law and society in a comparative and global context. He is the author of The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Harvard University Press, 2013), as well as co-author of Schlesinger’s Comparative Law (Foundation Press, 2009) and co-editor of a special double issue of the journal Social Text on China and the Human. Ruskola is an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and has received several national and international awards for his interdisciplinary scholarship.
Eli Friedman has a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and has been on the faculty of the Industrial Labor Relations School since 2011. He is also the faculty advisor for the Cornell Labor Action Tracker, which is the only comprehensive database of strike events in the United States. His previous books include The Urbanization of People:The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City (Columbia 2022) and Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Cornell 2014). He also co-edited the English translation China on Strike: Narratives of Worker Resistance (Haymarket, 2016).
Weixiang Chen is a Chinese labor activist and a doctoral student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has been active in labor organizing and worker empowerment for a decade in southern China. His research interest lies in the labor relations, labor movement and China. He teaches Research Method at Queens College.
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