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Jane Hayward

Dr Jane Hayward

Lecturer in China and Global Affairs

Biography

Dr Jane Hayward has a PhD from the East Asian Studies Department of New York University. She has held post-doctoral positions at the Oxford University China Centre, and the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she worked at the Institute for Contemporary China Studies.

She is currently working on her book manuscript which examines China’s agrarian question and policy discourses on land and production organisation.

Research

  • China's agrarian question and related urban transformations
  • State theory
  • Interpretive policy analysis
  • Intellectual history

Jane's research is located, conceptually and empirically, at the intersection of Chinese Politics, International Political Economy and Modern Chinese History.

The main focus of her research is China’s agrarian question, which she examines in international and historical context. Jane is interested in the politics of China’s ‘peasantry’ (nongmin) – the reorganization of rural land and labour, the urban transformations to which these are connected, and the ways that relations between the urban and rural are being reconfigured as the Chinese state integrates with the global capitalist economy.

Teaching

  • China and the Age of Globalisation (Lau China Institute core module)

PhD supervision

Jane welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to conduct research on China's agrarian question (or 'peasant question'), policy and intellectual debates over rural land and production organization, and related urban transformations, in both the contemporary era and from a historical perspective.

Further Details 

See Jane's research profile

    Research

    Urbanisation
    Urbanisation, Rural Development and Social Transformations research group

    A research group examining urban-rural development and its effect on the developing world.

    News

    Are public protests challenging authoritarian regimes around the world?

    A new podcast episode looks at recent large-scale public protests in Russia, China and Iran including what has sparked them and what they tell us about the...

    banner from public protest about Iran saying 'not a protest a revolution'

    Events

    17OctImage of a laptop screen with the word 'censored' running across

    Panel discussion - Things you can’t say: Academic censorship in China and China Studies

    How is censorship impacting scholars within Chinese universities and research institutions? What are the problems being posed for scholars overseas, and what...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    05JunTiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution in New China

    Book Talk - Land Reform & Echoes of Counterrevolution in China

    Join Professor Brian DeMare as he presents his new book "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution in New China"

    Please note: this event has passed.

    20OctWho's Watching Digital Surveillance in China

    Who’s Watching? Digital Surveillance in China

    While governance, surveillance, monitoring and censorship in China make daily headlines, this panel will discuss the differences between these concepts and...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Higher education and science: geopolitical tools or actors in their own right?

    Higher education and science have more to offer the international community than as the geopolitical tools governments often use them as. On a backdrop of...

    8 Nov panel 1903x558

      Research

      Urbanisation
      Urbanisation, Rural Development and Social Transformations research group

      A research group examining urban-rural development and its effect on the developing world.

      News

      Are public protests challenging authoritarian regimes around the world?

      A new podcast episode looks at recent large-scale public protests in Russia, China and Iran including what has sparked them and what they tell us about the...

      banner from public protest about Iran saying 'not a protest a revolution'

      Events

      17OctImage of a laptop screen with the word 'censored' running across

      Panel discussion - Things you can’t say: Academic censorship in China and China Studies

      How is censorship impacting scholars within Chinese universities and research institutions? What are the problems being posed for scholars overseas, and what...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      05JunTiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution in New China

      Book Talk - Land Reform & Echoes of Counterrevolution in China

      Join Professor Brian DeMare as he presents his new book "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution in New China"

      Please note: this event has passed.

      20OctWho's Watching Digital Surveillance in China

      Who’s Watching? Digital Surveillance in China

      While governance, surveillance, monitoring and censorship in China make daily headlines, this panel will discuss the differences between these concepts and...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Higher education and science: geopolitical tools or actors in their own right?

      Higher education and science have more to offer the international community than as the geopolitical tools governments often use them as. On a backdrop of...

      8 Nov panel 1903x558