September 26th 2007

Recent economic reform in the People's Republic of China has seen the emergence of new categories of wealth and power widely referred to as the 'new rich' and sometimes as the 'new middle class'. This public lecture explores the hierarchies of wealth, status and power of China's emergent new rich, their place within the current class structure and perhaps most significantly, how they may figure in China's and Australia's long-term futures.

David S G Goodman
David Goodman is Professor of Contemporary China Studies at UTS and a member of the University's China Research Centre. His key areas of inquiry are social and political change in China, both now and in the Twentieth Century. He has written extensively on both. He is currently engaged in research on the developing relations between China's new entrepreneurs and the state. Professor Goodman has a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Resources

• flyer (PDF 52k)
• presentation slides (PDF 1.3 MB)
• audio recording (MP3 27.1 MB)

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