Middle-class on the Move: Chinese family, gender and culture

The aim of this seminar is to explore the Chinese middle-class as a central subject of critical and forward-looking research. In so doing, we have invited a distinguished group of scholars to reflect on the making of the Chinese middle-class in conceptual terms as well as the meanings and significances of the middle-class in contemporary China.
The idea of the Chinese middle-class has been celebrated but also contested in present day China and around the world. The workshop asks what are the appropriate definitions of the Chinese middle-class? Is it a useful research perspective to address or conclude from? And how does the emerging Chinese middle-class look in comparative perspectives? The workshop will widen the scope of most current middle-class research by focusing on class as closely intertwined with lifestyles, family ideals and gendered norms and practices.

Confirmed Keynotes

LI Chunling, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CASS, Institute of Sociology
Rising Middle Class in China: Growth and Challenge
David Goodman, Professor, China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Middle Class China: Dreams and Aspirations

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