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END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20370308T030000 RDATE:20371101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c6bc86fcbc4b043b9c8cad99f195a07e CATEGORIES:“Speaking of China” Lecture CREATED:20210307T102456 SUMMARY:The State, Market, and China’s Anti-Covid-19 Mobilization (Yan Hairong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. & Barry Sautman, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology) LOCATION:Zoom (registration required) DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global-China Office. It is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register (https://rutg ers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcode6hpj4qE9T77UDUltZFySQBDFLDsCTT).\n\nAbst ract:\nShortly after the initial outbreak of Coronavirus in China, the Chin ese state took unprecedented measures. At present, China’s Covid-19 death r ate is 3 per million population, far below the top 10 countries whose death rates range between 789-1337 per million. How do we understand China’s mob ilization against Covid-19 in the larger context of the healthcare commodif ication and reform in China? It has been known that doctor-patient disputes and conflicts have become a social issue in the process of the health care reform. Against this background, how do we evaluate the role of the Chines e state? How have medical staff and ordinary people participated in the mob ilization against Covid-19? \nThe talk will address these questions and arg ue that decommodification of treatment for Covid-19 patients, as well as so cial mobilization from above and below are key to China’s effective fight a gainst the pandemic. However, whether and how this experience will impact o n further healthcare reform in China is still uncertain. Globally, a Yello w Peril racialization of the pandemic has grown. We suggest that critiquing and overcoming this racialization needs to be part of the global effort to fight the pandemic. A starting point for countering racialization is the realization that the rejection of the way in which non-Western countries, e specially China, mobilized against the virus, reflects a political and raci al bias. \nBios:\nYAN Hairong teaches at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her intellectual interests include China-Africa links, agrarian change, col lective and cooperative rural economy, and rural-urban migration. She is th e author of New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Wo rkers in China (Duke University Press, 2008) and has co-authored with Barry Sautman East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and “Colonialism” and, in Chinese, China in Africa: Discourse and Practices (Beijing: shehui kexue chubanshe, 2017). Her most recent works include Agr arian Marxism (co-edited with Michael Levien, Michael Watts, Routledge, 201 8), Agrarian Changes in China (Brill, in press) and “Mode Switching: the S tate, Market, and Anti-Covid-19 Shadow of Socialism in China” (Dialectical Anthropology, 2020).\nBarry SAUTMAN, a political scientist and lawyer at th e Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, has worked on ethnic po litics in China, including ethnic policies, the Tibet and Xinjiang issues, and relations between Hong Kong people and mainland Chinese. He co-authored with Yan Hairong, Localists and ‘Locusts’ in Hong Kong: Creating a Yellow- Red Peril Discourse (Baltimore: University of Maryland Series in Contempora ry Asian Studies, 2015). They also research China/Africa political economy and interactions between Chinese and Africans, most recently publishing 中国在 非洲: 话语与现实 (China in Africa: Discourses and Reality) (北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2017).\ n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global-China Office. It is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to regist er.
Abstract:
Shortly after the initial outbreak of Coronavirus in China, th e Chinese state took unprecedented measures. At present, China’s Covid-19 d eath rate is 3 per million population, far below the top 10 countries whose death rates range between 789-1337 per million. How do we understand China ’s mobilization against Covid-19 in the larger context of the healthcare co mmodification and reform in China? It has been known that doctor-patient di sputes and conflicts have become a social issue in the process of the healt h care reform. Against this background, how do we evaluate the role of the Chinese state? How have medical staff and ordinary people participated in t he mobilization against Covid-19?
The talk will address these q uestions and argue that decommodification of treatment for Covid-19 patient s, as well as social mobilization from above and below are key to China’s e ffective fight against the pandemic. However, whether and how this experien ce will impact on further healthcare reform in China is still uncertain.&nb sp; Globally, a Yellow Peril racialization of the pandemic has grown. We su ggest that critiquing and overcoming this racialization needs to be part of the global effort to fight the pandemic. A starting point for counte ring racialization is the realization that the rejection of the way in whic h non-Western countries, especially China, mobilized against the virus, ref lects a political and racial bias.
Bios:
YAN Hairong teaches at Hong Kong Polytechnic Univers ity. Her intellectual interests include China-Africa links, agrarian change , collective and cooperative rural economy, and rural-urban migration. She is the author of New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development , and Women Workers in China (Duke University Press, 2008) and ha s co-authored with Barry Sautman East Mountain Tiger, West Mountai n Tiger: China, Africa, the West and “Colonialism” and, in Chines e, China in Africa: Discourse and Practices (Beijing: sh ehui kexue chubanshe, 2017). Her most recent works include Agraria n Marxism (co-edited with Michael Levien, Michael Watts, Routledge, 20 18), Agrarian Changes in China (Brill, in press ) and “Mode Switching: the State, Market, and Anti-Covid-19 Shadow of Socialism in China” (Dialectical Anthropology, 2020).