Book Talk: 𝘗𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘻𝘩𝘰𝘶 by Mark Baker

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Speaker/Author: Mark Baker is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of East Asian History at the University of Manchester, UK. His interests across twentieth-century China include urban history, the history of war, and state-society relations. Since writing Pivot of China, he has been researching China's international logistics in the Second World War.

Moderator: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University 

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Abstract for talk: Pivot of China (Harvard Asia Center, 2024) examines spatial inequality across China's twentieth century and beyond. It argues that by focusing on certain kinds of places, people and infrastructures, the development strategies of successive Chinese states exacerbated inequality in multiple dimensions: rural-urban, inter-city, and inter-regional. Pivot of China explores this story through the city of Zhengzhou - an unheralded inland regional center, 'pivot' not just of China's railroad network but also between the winners and losers of modern China's spatial politics.