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GUANZHONG JAMES WEN EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago, December 1989. (Title: The Current Land Tenure System and its Impact on Long-Term Performance of Farming Sector: the Case of Modern ) M.A. Economics, University of Fudan, , June '82.

ACADEMIC and NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Institution Rank Dates Frontiers of Economics in China Co-Editor Sept.1, 2013 - (FEC) Executive Editor March 2011 –Aug. 2013 Shanghai Development Fund Advisory board Nov. 2010- RIETEH, Fudan University1 Senior Fellow . Aug. 15, 09- RCFPE, Tsinghua University2 Specially Invited Senior Follow Dec. 2008- Shanghai University of Specially Appointed Prof. 03,2008- Finance and Economics (SHUFE) Trinity College Prof. 07, 2007- Trinity College Associate Prof. 07, 1998- Trinity College Assistant Prof 09,1994-06, 1998 School of Economics, Fudan University Guest Prof. 07,2001-07,2003 CCER, Peking University Visiting Prof. 02,98-07, 98 East Asian Institute, Columbia Visiting Scholar 06, 97-05, 98 University University Honorary Professor 07, 95- Columbia University Adjunct Assistant Prof 01,1995-01,1996 Baruch, CUNY, Assistant Prof 09, 1989-1994 Univ. of Chicago Visiting Scholar 1983-84 Univ. of Fudan Instructor 1982-83. Chinese Academy of Research Assistant 05,1978-08,1979 Social Sciences

COURSES TAUGHT Development Economics; Asian Economies; Senior Seminar on China’s Institutional Innovation and Economic Development; Globalization, Rivalry, and Coordination; Pacific : the Fall and Resurgence, The Basic Economic Principle; Intermediate Microeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Econometrics; Managerial Economics; International Economics (International Trade and Finance), The Tales of Two Cities: Kong and Shanghai, Asian Economies, The Fall and Resurgence of the Pacific Asia

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

1 RIETEH stands for Research Institute of Economic Thoughts and Economic History, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 2 RCFPE stands for Research Center for Political Economics, Tsinghua University, , China. 1 2

American Economic Association (AEA) Chinese Economists Society (CES) President of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), 1999-2000 Vice President of CES, 1994-95 Chairman, the Academic Publishing Committee of CES, 1998-2004 Member of Academic Publishing Committee, 2004--2009 Member of editorial Board of China Economic Review (In English, published by Elsevier of North- Holland) Member of editorial Board of China Economic Quarterly (in Chinese, published by CCER, Peking University) Member of editorial Board of Historical Think Tank, July, 2009-

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS Honorary member of CES, 1996- 1997 One year research grant, Trinity College, 2005-2006.

LANGUAGES English: read, speak, and write fluently Chinese: read, speak and write fluently (Mandarin and Shanghai dialect)

AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, International Economics, Chinese Economic Development and Reforms

PUBLICATIONS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

A. BOOKS

1. Authored Books “Our People Have No Land (吾民无地)”, Beijing: Dongfang (Oriental) Publishing House, July 1, 2014.

Institutional Change and Long-term Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis on the Differences in Market Expansion and Economic Dynamic Development between the Pre-modern and China, co-authored with M. Hua, W. , Y. Zhang, Shanghai: Fudan University Press, June 2006.

2. Edited Books

Ed. (with D. and H. Zhou) China’s Economic Globalization through the WTO, England, Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate Publishing Limited, May 2003.

Ed. (with S. Wei and H. Zhou) The Globalization of the Chinese Economy, England, London: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Nov. 2002.

Ed. (with Z. Zheng, X. Wang and X. Zuo) WTO and China: Developing through Globalization, China, Beijing: The People’s University Press, September, 2001.

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Ed. (with D. Xu) The Reformability of China's State Sector (In English), Singapore: The World Scientific Publishing Company, March, 1997.

Ed. (with D. Xu) Reforming the State-Owned Enterprises in China (in Chinese), Beijing, China: The Economic Publishing House of China, June 1996.

Ed. The Land Tenure System in Contemporary China (in Chinese), , China: Science and Technology Press, summer, 1994.

Ed. (with Y. Zhao) The Taiwan Model (in Chinese), New York: Oriental News Press, 1993.

B. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1. Chapters in Edited Scholarly Collections

“The Super Dream of the Superpower”, included as a chapter in China in its Shadow, et al, Arts and Literature Press, May, 2013, 13-20.

“China’s Territory Changes and its Impulse to Leave Agrarian Society: An Economic Geographical Approach to Needham Puzzle,” collected in The Great Lecturing Hall Series, edited by the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijng, China: Economic Management Press, forthcoming.

“The Globalization and the Lagging Income Growth in China’s Rural Areas”, collected in China facing the challenges of globalization: issues and prospects, Cornell University Press, forthcoming.

“The Land Takings in US and its Relevance to China”, co-authored with Yingchun Xu, collected in Collection of Papers on International Comparison of Land Systems, Beijing: the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press, forthcoming.

“A Free Exit Mechanism is the Best Guarantee for Voluntary Collectivization: What Lessons We Can Learn from Past Collectivization Failures”, collected in On the Land System Reform of China, Beijing, China: Chinese Financial and Economic Press, April, 2009.

“The Incompatibility of China’s Rural Land System with an Increasingly Urbanized and Marketized Economy”, collected in Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics, ed. by Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang, Kingston, On. Canada: McGill Queens University Press, 2009

“To solve the Three Agrarian Issues, One should not Avoid Privatizing Rural Land”, collected in Rural China in Transformation: Chinese Agriculture, Peasants and Rural Society in the Era of Reform, : Tide Time Publishing, 2007.

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“How well can China handle its peak demand for grain?” collected in China's AgriculturalDevelopment: Challenges and Prospects, Editors: X. Dong, S. Song, X. Zhang, Ashgate Publishing Limited, UK, 2006.

“Why Was China Trapped in Agrarian Society: an Economic Geographical Approach,”, collected in Institutional Changes and Long-term Economic Development—A Comparative Historical Analysis on the Differences in Market Expansion and Economic Dynamic Development between the Pre-modern Europe and China, co-authored with M. Hua, W. Li, Y. Zhang, et al. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, June 2006.

“China’s Territory Changes and its Impulse to Leave Agrarian Society: An Economic Geographical Approach to Needham Puzzle,” collected in Academic Speeches by Famous Scholars, ed. by G. Tian, Vol. I, Shanghai: The Press of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, May 2005.

“On the Adverse Impact of China’s Traditional-Type land System on its Population Distribution in an Globalization Era,” collected in Economic Globalization and China, ed. By M. Hua and W. Li, Shanghai: Fudan University Press,July, 2003.

“The City Groups in Delta, Urbanization, and Rural ,” collected in China’s Urbanization, edited by A. Chen, Beijing: Economic Scientific Printing House, Sept. 2003.

“Challenges and opportunities for China’s Agriculture after its WTO Accession,” to China’s Economic Globalization through the WTO, ed. by D. Lu, G. J. Wen, and H. Zhou, Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, May 2003.

“Urbanization and Population Relocation”, included in The Globalization of the Chinese Economy, ed. by G. J. Wen, S. Wei and H. Zhou. England, London: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Nov., 2002.

“Isn’t Market–oriented Reforms the Ultimate Way out for China’s Agriculture?” collected in Macro China, ed. X. Long, Beijing: The Mechanical Industry Press, Oct. 2002.

“The Sino-USA Economic Relations in the Post-WTO Era,” collected in Constrained Engagement, ed. by Y. Hao and Y. Zhang, Beijing: Xinhua Press, Sept. 2001.

“Economic Globalization, China’s Urbanization and Population Redistribution”, included in WTO and China: Developing through Globalization, ed. by G. J. Wen, Z. Zheng, X. Wang and X. Zuo. China, Beijing: The People’s University Press, September, 2001.

“Chinese Rural Social Security and Land Holding,” co-authored with A. Zhao, included in Social Security Reform in China, ed. by J. Yin, S. Lin and D. Gates, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., Jan. 2000.

“Chinese Rural Social Security and Land Holding,” co-authored with A. Zhao, included in Social Security Reform in China, ed. By Xu, Yin and Zheng, Beijing, China: Economic and Scientific Publishing House, April, 1999.

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“The Deep-rooted Causes of the Asian Financial Crisis and its Lessons to China,” collected in A Symposium on Finance and Economics, The Press of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, February, 1999.

“The Nature of TVEs’ Policy to Subsidize Agriculture: Reinternationlization of Externalities,” collected in Chinese Township and Village Enterprises: Experience, Nature, and Reforms, ed. by W. Hai and Y. Wang, Beijing, China: The China Industry and Commerce Association Press, Jan. 1997.

“The Two Models of TVE: and Sunan,” collected in Chinese Township and Village Enterprises: Experience, Nature, and Reforms, ed. by W. Hai and Y. Wang, Beijing, China: The China Industry and Commerce Association Press, Jan. 1997.

The Dual Responsibilities of Government During the Period of Economic Transition, collected in The Modernization of and the Development Experience of Taiwan, ed By K. Yeh and D. Tang, , Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, November, 1995.

“The Evolution of China’s Land Institutions and the Changes in its Total Factor Productivity”, collected in The Land Tenure System in Contemporary China (in Chinese), ed by G. J. Wen, Changsha, China: Hunan Science and Technology Press, summer 1994.

“Government, Market and Taiwan Experience,” collected in Taiwan Experience and 's Economic Reform ed. By G. Yi, Beijing: Chinese Economic Press, 1994.

“An Evaluation of the Land Reforms across the Taiwan Strait,” in The Taiwan Model (in Chinese), ed by Y. Zhao and G. J. Wen, New York: Oriental News Press, 1993.

"Economic Growth of Agricultural Production in China by : an Econometric Analysis", co- authored with B. Ma, Political and Economic Reforms in Asia, New York:St.Johns University Press, 1992.

"China's Agricultural Development: Recent Experience and Policy Issues," (with Lin, J.and Yao, X.), in Agricultural Development in the Third World," ed. by C. Eicher and J. M. Staatz, 2nd edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Population Growth and the Land Fragmentation," collected in Studies on The China's Rural Land Institution, ed by L. Ma, Z. Wang et al., : People's Printing House, Oct. 1989.

The Recent Development in the Rural Contract Theory, (in Chinese) collected in The Frontier of Economics, ed by M. Tang & Y. Mao, Beijing, China: Commercial Printing House, September, 1989, pp74-93.

2. Chapters in Reference Works

“The and Its Consequences,” an entry to China Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the People’s Republic, ed. J. Luo, Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, May, 2005.

“The Impact of WTO Entry on China’s Agriculture,” an entry to China Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in 5 6

the People’s Republic, ed. J. Luo, Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, May, 2005.

C. PAPERS IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS

1. Articles “Communal Dining System and the Puzzle of the Great Leap Famine: Re-examine the Causality between Communal Dining and the Famine”, China Agricultural Economic Review, co-authored with Liu, forthcoming.

“What Should Zoning Aim to Filter: Market Failure or Entry Rights of Non-State Owned Land? —— A Discussion with Mr.Chen Xiwen on How to Dismantle the Urban-Rural Dual Structures”. Academic Monthly, Vol. 48, No. 8, August, 2014, 5-17.

“Land Use Efficiency under Government-led Urbanization: Empirical Results from China”, Academic Monthly, co-authored with Yi Chai, forthcoming.

“The Inherent Logic of Urbanization, Chinese Characteristics, and the Universal law of Urbanization”, Academic Frontier, January, 2014. “Which Type of Urbanization Better Matches China’s Factor Endowment: A Comparison of Population-Intensive Old Puxi and Land-Capital-Intensive New ”, Frontier of Economics in China, co-authored with J. Xiong, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 516-534.

“A comparative Study on Farmland Requisition and Compensation System in China and the US”, Journal of Northwest A&F University (Social Sciences Edition), Yingchun Xu and James Wen, 2013, Vol. 13, No. 5, 29-35.

“Introduction to the Special Issue on China’s Three Agrarian Issues”, Modern China Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 2, 2013, 2-56.

“Why can only endogenous urbanization reduce rural/urban income disparity?” Caijing (Finance and Economics) No. 347, March, 2, 2013, 89-92.

“Urbanization: Changes from Exogenous ones to Endogenous ones”, New Industrial Economy, Jan., 2013, 27-30.

“The Institutional Causes of why China’s Social Restructuring has been lagging behind its Economic Restructuring”, Frontiers (Xueshu Qianyan)”, 2012, No. 9, 6-17.

“Is there a Third Hand?” Open Times (Kaifang Shidai), No. 8, 2012, 130-140.

”A Comparison of Urbanization Model: the Case of Pudong and Puxi”. Co-authored with J. Xiong, Journal of Urban Planning, No.4,2012,18-24.

“Why Was China Trapped in an Agrarian Society--An Economic Geographical Approach to the 6 7

Needham Puzzle”, Frontiers of Economics in China, Vol. 6, No. 4, Dec. 2011, 507-534.

“The Exit Rights Lost and Regained and the Great Leap Famine”, co-authored with LIU Yuan, China Economic Quarterly《经济学（季刊）》，Vol.9， No3， 2010, 1083-1117.

“Exit Rights from the Communal Dining Halls and the Famine: A Response”, China Economic Quarterly, Vol.9， No3， 2010, 1163-1176.

“Structural Imbalance, Depressed Internal Demand, Outdated Land System, and the Way out from the Dilemma,” Nankai Economic Studies《南开经济研究》, No. 2, 2010, 17-27.

“The Way Out From the Trap of the Current Land System—Allowing Land Privatization”, China and world affairs《中国与世界观察》, No. 2, 2010，100-113.

“The Real Challenge to China: How to Remove the Institutional Barriers to Domestic Demand”, The Chinese Entrepreneurs, No. 2, 2009.

Lessons learned from the Period When Free Exit was Denied”, The 21st Century, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, No. 111, Feb. 2009, pp13-22.

“Accelerate the Reforms of the Land System that causes Market Distortions and Social Conflicts”. The Comparison of Socia-Economic Systems 《经济社会体制比较》No. 2, 2008.

“Be on Guard against rationalizing the Hybrid of Market and Planning”. The Chinese Entrepreneurs 《中 国企业家》, No. 1, 2008.

“The Three Agrarian Issues cannot be Resolved by Ignoring Farmland Ownership”, China and World Affairs, No.3/4, 2007,167-191.

“Why Was China Trapped in Agrarian Society,” New History, forthcoming.

“How to Share Prosperity: A Free and Competitive Market Provides a Fair Reference system to Income Distribution,” 21st Century, Chinese University of Hong Kong, No. 96, August 2006, pp4-12.

“China’s Territory Changes and its Impulse to Leave Agrarian Society: An Economic Geographical Approach to Needham Puzzle,” China Economic Quarterly, Peking University, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005, pp519-540.

“Land Holding and Social Security in Rural China,” Homo Oeconomicus, co-authored with A. Y. Zhao, Oct. 1999, pp157-176. [Revised and reprinted in J. Yin, S. Lin and D. Gates]

The Bright Prospect of China’s Future Grain Demand and Supply, International Economic Review, Nov. – 7 8

Dec. 1999. pp 32-42. The Communal Duality: Agricultural Subsidies from TVEs (with G. Chang), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan.1999, pp79-86.

“Food Availability Versus Consumption Efficiency: Causes of the Chinese Famine,” co-authored with G. Chang, China Economic Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1998, Special Issue, pp. 157-165.

The Sustainability of China’s Economic Boom in 1990s, American Journal of Chinese Studies, October, 1997, pp264-275.

"Communal Dining and the Causation of the Chinese Famine of 1958-1961" (with G. Chang), Economic Development and Cultural Change, October, 1997, a lead article, pp1-34. . "The Land Tenure System and the Saving and Investment Mechanism: The Case of Modern China," Asian Economic Journal, November issue, 1995, pp233-259.

"China's Regional Grain Self-sufficiency Policy and its Aggregate Effect on Output Value" (with J. Y. Lin), the Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1995, pp187-206.

"Total Factor Productivity Change in China's Farming Sector: 1952-89." Economic Development and Cultural Change, Oct. 1993, a lead article, pp.1-41.

"Investment Under Risk in Property Rights", with C. Zhang. China Economic Review, Spring, 1993, pp49- 53.

"The Two-Tier System of Property Rights and the Transitional Situation in China," Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Fall, 1991, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp65-85.

2. Comments and Shorter Papers “Commentary on ‘Collecting Land Value through Public Land Leasing’”, collected in Value Capture and Land Policies, ed. By Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012, 145- 148.

“Preface” to Crisis and Transformation, edited by J. Xu, L. Ma et al. Shanghai, China: Shanghai People’s Press, April, 2009.

“China is returning to its long-term equilibrium point--Comments on Abe’s paper”, Asian Economic Papers, Volume 2, Number 2, 1 March 2003, pp. 132-144(13).

New Frontier of Economic Globalization: The Significance of China’s Accession to WTO, China Economic Review, 11, 2000, 432-436.

D. ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL NEWSPAPERS

“The Common Problem of the Current Hukou System and the Land Tenure System in China”, The Financial Times (its Chinese website: http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001046274), Aug. 30, 1012.

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Biweekly Columns on Economic Observer, April to July, 2008.

“The Land System that Has Caused China losing its Comparative Advantage Prematuredly”, The Economic Observer, March 4, 2008.

“China’s Current Land System has to be Reformed”. Economic Observer. Oct. 8, 2007.

“China’s Agriculture and Urbanization in the Perspective of Globalization”, The 21st Century Economic Report, Aug. 18, 2006.

“How to share the prosperity”, part 2, The 21st Century Economic Report, July 27, 2006.

“How to share the prosperity”, part 1, The 21st Century Economic Report, July 24, 2006.

“Which should be prioritized: Grain Security or Farmers’ Income,” China Business Post, Nov. 7, 05.

“The Communal Land Ownership and the Worsening Income Distribution,” The 21st Century Economic Report, August 16, 23, 26, 29, 2004.

“Preliminary Comments on the Newly Adopted Land Law”, Economic Observer, October, 30, 2002.

“Make China’s Land System More Efficient”, Economic Observer, March 11, 2002.

“To Accelerate China’s Urbanization, Please be More Tolerant to Slums in Big Cities”, 21 Century Economic Report, Sept. 3, 2001.

“Isn’t Market–oriented Reforms the Ultimate Way out for China’s Agriculture?”, 21 Century Economic Report, Aug. 20, 2001.

“Market Mechanism, Government Role and the Rule of Law: A Review on Market Failure, Government Failure and their Remedies”, China Economic Times, June 2, 2001.

E. BOOK REVIEWS

Fighting Famine in : State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s by Lillian Li, China Review International, Vol. 16, No. 2, forthcoming.

Origin of Increasing Returns (the Chinese edition, T. W. Schultz, China, Beijing: Peking University Press, August, 2001), Journal of Finance, September, 2001.

The New Asia in Global Perspective, Myung Gun Choo, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), Journal of Comparative Economics, 29, 2001, 391-393.

“China’s Famine and Its Real Cause,” Y. Y. Kueh’s Agricultural Instability in China, 1931-1990, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 46, No. 3, 1998, pp. 658-663.

Calamity and Reform in China, Dali Yang, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol.26, No. 1, March 9 10

1998, pp. 204-206.

"The Application of the Institutional Economics to the Study on China's Economic Reform: A Book Review,” Institutions, Technology and China's Agricultural Development by J. Y. Lin, Economic Research, Dec., 1992.

F. WORKING PAPERS

On the Function of Urban Planning and Zoning: Do They Play A Decisive or Subsidiary Role in Allocating Land Use?

PRESENTED PAPERS, LECTURES AND PERFORMANCES

“The Urban/Rural Divide and the Land Tenure System: The Case of China”, an invited presentation at the Seoul National University, May 12, 2014.

“The Barriers to Free Flow of Factors of Production and the Delay in Social Transformation: The Case of Mainland China”, an invited presentation at the National Taiwan University, March 14, 2014.

“The Tumultuous Path of China’s Collectivization Historical Lessons Learned as Rights to Free Exit were Lost and Partially Regained”, an invited speech given at the inaugural meeting of the Research Institute of Economic Thought and Economic History (RIETEH), Aug. 15, 09, Fudan University.

“China’s Outdated Land System and its Impact on Urbanization, Service Sector, and Other Structural Consequences”, paper presented at the NBER and CCER joint conference, July 2, 2009, Peking University.

“Why it was High Time to Return to the Copernican World from the Ptolemaic World: the Increasing Distortions Caused by China’s Current Land System”, paper presented at the Shanghai Forum of Socio-Economic Development Strategy and the Public Policy, June 30th, 2009,

“The Urgency in Reforming China’s Land System”, speech at the conference of “Land System, Hukou System and Urbanization”, June 27, 2009, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

“The Imperativeness to Lower Urbanization Cost and Boost Domestic Demand -- China’s Long-term Challenges and Opportunities in the Looming Global Structural Adjustment”, invited presentation, May 11, 2009, Shanghai Forum, Fudan University, China.

“On the Lessons of Exit Rights”, speech at the Research Center for Political Economics, Tsinghua University, Dec. 13, 2008.

“The Land Takings in US and its Relevance to China”, presented on Oct. 20, 2008 at the International Comparison of Land Systems by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

“A Comparative Study of China and the Rest of in Income Distribution”, invited presentation, May 27, 2008, Shanghai Forum, Fudan University, China.

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“The Land Disputes and the Barriers in China’s Urbanization”, invited presentation at the International Conference held at Nankai University, April 17, 2008, , China.

“The Hidden Systemic Issues for a Harmonious Society”, invited presentation, Dec. 27, 2007, the International Conference held at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing.

“Geographic Approach to Needham Puzzle”, invited presentation, Shanghai Forum, Oct. 4, 2007,Economic History Semiar, Columbia University, New York.

“The Agrarian Issues and the Land System in Mainland China”, invited presentation, Sept. 28, 2007, Chungshan University, Kaosiong, Taiwan.

“Changes in China’s Territory and its Impulse to Come out of the Agrarian Trap” An Economic Geographic Approach to the Needham Puzzle’”, The annual meeting held in Hong Kong of the Economic Asssociation of Asia and Pacific, July 25, 2007.

“Geographic Approach to Needham Puzzle”, Shanghai Forum, May 27, 2007,Fudan University, Shanghai China.

“Land System, Urbanization, ande the harmonious Society”, at the Second World Forun on China Studies, Shanghai, Sept. 21, 2006.

“Farmers’s Income Situation, Land System, and Urbanization”, presented at the International Conference on Model of Social and Economic Development at University, Hangzhou, China, July 17, 2006.

To solve the Three Agrarian Issues, One should not Avoid Privatizing Rural Land”, presented at the International Conference on the Harmonious Development of China’s Economy: Efficiency, Justice and Rule of Law, Shanghai, China, July 2, 2006.

“China’s External Balance and its Income Disparity between Rural and Urban Sectors”, invited to serve as a panelist at HSBC/China Institute Corporate Lecture, New York, June 21, 2006.

“Changes in China’s Territory and its Impulse to Come out of the Agrarian Trap” An Economic Geographic Approach to the Needham Puzzle’” Harvard Yenching Institute, June 2-4, 2006, Cambridge, Ma.

Invited to serve as a discussant at the Telecommunication Session of the Yale China Conference, Yale University, April 21-22, 2006.

Served as a discussant at a CES session during the American Economist Association, Jan 7, 2006, Boston.

“The Determination of Farm Size in the Absence of Land Ownership,” presented at the American Economic Association annual meeting, Jan. 08, 2006.

Invited to serve as a discussant at the Economic Session of the Beijing Forum, Nov. 11 – 18, 2005.

“Differences in Factors, Barriers to their Mobility, and Remedies for Income Inequality,” presented at the 11 12

Conference on China at a Crossroad: Searching for a Balanced Approach to Development, Nov. 5-6, 2005, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

“The Needham Puzzle,” a speech delivered at Shanghai Century Publishing Group on Oct. 12th, 2005.

“China’s Urbanization and its Three Agrarian Issues,” a speech delivered at the Shanghai Salon and sponsored by Shanghai Development Research Fund, Sept. 19, 2005.

Invited to serve as a panelist at a Roundtable Event on China’s Rural Development, the China Institute, New York, May 8, 2004.

“An Economic Approach to the Needham Puzzle,” given in Fudan University, Shanghai, 25, Aug. 2004.

“Why Should We Promote the Private Ownership of Arable Land in China?” delivered at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Aug. 24, 2004.

“Could China Come out of Agrarian Society by itself--An Factor Endowment Approach?” delivered at the World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai, Aug. 22, 2004.

“Should Farmers’ Income or Food Security be China’s Priority?” presented at the International Conference on China’s Rural Development, Hangzhou, China, June 28, 2004.

“The Communal Land Ownership and its Impact on Farmers’ Income Distribution,” presented at the International Conference on Promoting Private Ownership in China, Beijing, China, June 20, 2004. “The Flaws in the Communal Land Ownership,” presented at the Institute of Rural Economic Research, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, June 18, 2004.

“The Communal Land Ownership and its Impact on Farmers’ Income Distribution,” presented at China Institute, New York, an invited talk by Chinese Law and Economics Association, May 3, 2004.

“Land Tenure System in Rural China and its Impact on Farmers’ Income,” presented at the Conference on China’s Economic Reforms, Claremont Graduate University, LA, March 5, 2004.

“When, if ever, China was closest to an Industrial Revolution and Why China missed it?” an invited talk given at Wesleyan University, Oct. 23, 2003.

“Why Was China Trapped in Agrarian Society: an Factor Endowment Approach,” presented at the Conference on World Economy, Aug. 1, 2003 in Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

To be invited to give talks on China's Economic performance by VOA at its China Forum Show broadcast live to East Asia numerously times since 1994.

To serve as discussant at sessions during the American Economic Association’s annual meetings in various cities, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004.

To function as an interpreter to Professor Merton Miller, a Nobel Laureate in Economics as he give a keynote address at the Shanghai International Symposium on the Reforms of China's State Sector held in July 12 13

1995.

"What Really Caused the Chinese Famine: A Reexamination" (with Gene Chang), presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, July, 1994.

"The Externalities and the Rationale of Providing Subsidies by the Township and Village Entreprises to Farmers" (with Gene Chang) at the International Conference on "The Mechanism of Rapid Growth: the Case of the Township and Village Entreprises in China at Hangzhou, China, August, 1994.

Chaired a session on the topic of Economic Reforms sponsored by the Chinese Economist Society (CES) at the annual AEA meeting at Boston January, 1994.

Chaired a session on the topic of Chinese Economic Reforms and Development, at the annual Chinese Economist Society conference, Chicago, August, 1994.

"The Dual Responsibilities of Government in Economic Transition," an invited presentation at the Conference of the Modernization of China, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June,1993.

"The Adaptability of Taiwan's Economic Institutions to Mainland China," presented at the Conference of Reform and Market Economic Institutions at Hainan, China, July, 1993.

"The Impact of Taiwan's Development Experience on the Mainland China's Development", presented at the Tenth Annual Asian Conference,' Oct. 29, 1992, New York: St. Johns University.

SERVICES (since being tenured)

Trinity

Committees

Member of Appointment and Promotion Committee (2009-2012)

Member of Faculty Research Committee (2006-2008)

Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Education Advisory Committee (2004-2005)

Member of Faculty Research Committee (2003-2005)

Chair of Faculty Research Committee (fall, 2004)

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B. Bring in speakers and organize events (since being tenured)

Yang Yao, Deputy director of China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University,

giving a speech “On Disinterested Government of China in Economic Reforms and

Development”, Feb. 23, 2009.

Wenqian Gao, author of “The later Life of Zhou EnLai, to discuss Zhou’s unknown role in the

Cultural Revolution and his strained relations with Mao Zedong during the turbulent time of

the Cultural Revolution on April 17, 2006;

A group of scholars (from , , and among other ) to

join scholars here to discuss the impacts of Internet on racial relations in China on Nov. 5-7,

2004.

Hui , a famous professor from Tsinghua University, to discuss Mao’s lingering radical influence

in China today as China is polarizing in income distribution on April 8, 2004.

Siyuan Cao, a famous economist to discuss the reforms of the state-owned enterprises on April 17,

2003;

Zhihai Zheng, economic counselor at the Chinese Consulate in New York to discuss the achievements

and remaining issues of the Chinese economy on Nov. 12, 2002;

President Shenghong Wang of Fudan University to give a speech on the Higher Education in China

on Oct. 2, 2001;

Tiankai Cui, the deputy representative of China’s permanent delegation to the United Nations to

discuss the remaining issues in China’s WTO negotiations on Oct. 24, 2000.

C. Developing and Sponsoring Trinity Shanghai Semester (2002-)

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Community: organizing an international symposium on WTO and Globalization in the summer of 2000 (as one of

the side effects, this event lifted the publicity of Trinity College in China).

Invited panelist at VOA’s various TV programs that are broadcast live to East Asia (as one of the side

effects, these interviews lifted the publicity of Trinity college in China).

Interviewed by BBC and Radio of Free Asia frequently (as one of the side effects, these interviews

lifted the publicity of Trinity college in China).

Invited to review three China projects sponsored by Center for International Private Enterprises

(Summer, 2005).

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