馬建福，香港中文大學人類學系博士候選人,主要從事穆斯林文化與社會研究。

寧夏海原縣地處寧夏南部山區，人口43萬，其中回族人口占70%左右。該縣在實現經濟發展和社會現代化的過程中，推行建設新農村、縣城搬遷、縣城改造等政策。本次講座主要分析在上述各項政策的推行過程中，國家主導下的空間生產所引起的民眾如何用適合他們自身身份的方式來做出應對。

Fang Xiaoping is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the China Research Centre, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. He obtained Ph.D. in History from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008. His research interests focus on the history of medicine and health in twentieth century China. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (New York: University of Rochester Press, 2012).

Abstract: In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of healthcare delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, which integrated the villages into a regional network of healthcare services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors attracted the attention of scholars and social commentators from their first appearance.

This seminar argues that the establishment of the rural medical system through barefoot doctors implanted medical institutionalization in Chinese villages through the construction of a hierarchical medical system, the formalization of medical encounters, and the codification of the medical community. It proposes a dumbbell-shaped structure to the evolution of the medical system and the origin of the current crisis in rural medicine, which the system has been undergoing since 1978. It discards the standard interpretation of the roles of barefoot doctors in the three-tier medical system, and dispels the myth that economic liberalization destroyed the provision of rural healthcare.

Denise Hare is Professor of Economics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A, where she teaches courses on economics of development as well as on economic problems and policies in Asia.  She received her B.A. from Carleton College and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her research concerns rural economic development in China and Vietnam. Previous work has examined rural labor markets, rural land issues, and local public finance.

Abstract: China has long struggled to achieve food security.  In the era of a planned economy, local self-sufficiency was dictated by policy.  With China’s transition to a market economy, different policy schemes have been utilized, with greater emphasis on the role of market forces, especially in conjunction with China’s accession to WTO in 2001.  However, self-sufficiency in grain production remains a deeply rooted goal, and interventionist measures towards its achievement are still viewed as the most direct and effective means of food security. This paper examines how the well being of China’s rural population, proxied by measures of food consumption, is affected by the promotion of grain production.

Brooke Wilmsen is a Lecturer in International Development at La Trobe University. She has a PhD in Geography from The University Melbourne and conducts research across the field of forced migration studies. Her PhD research (upon which this seminar is based) involved a large survey of those displaced by the Three Gorges Dam in China. In recent years she has been working with the La Trobe Refugee Research Centre on issues pertaining to refugee resettlement in Australia. In 2011, Brooke was awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) by the Australian Research Council for a follow-up study of the resettlement at the Three Gorges Dam. She will conducting the fieldwork component of this research over five months from September 2012 in partnership with China Three Gorges University (CTGU) in Hubei Province.

Abstract: The restoration of livelihoods after displacement from a development project (such as a large dam) is commonly based on providing compensation to those who are displaced.  Whilst it is important to make it up to those who have lost land and housing, the outcomes of this approach has been overwhelmingly disastrous for those affected. For this reason, scholars propose a new foundation for development-forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR); that is, to conduct the resettlement as a development project in its own right.  Through this approach it is anticipated that the benefits of development will accrue to those displaced; thus improving the outcomes of resettlement.  China was the first country to include such an approach in its national policy and those displaced by the Three Gorges Dam are the first to be resettled under it.  This seminar explores what happened to a sample of the displaced to make way for the Three Gorges Dam and asks: do the benefits of a developmental approach to DFDR accrue to those who suffer the most?