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
Research
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...
Events
Panel discussion - China's urban question
Join experts for a discussion about China's urban question from its real estate crisis to ghost cities as part of China Week 2024.
The Smart State: Technology as a silver bullet to China’s economic, developmental and geopolitical challenges
Rogier Creemers (Leiden University) reviews the framework of China’s techno-industrial approach, discussing how it seeks to navigate both China’s domestic and...
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...
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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"
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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...
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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...
Research
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...
Events
Panel discussion - China's urban question
Join experts for a discussion about China's urban question from its real estate crisis to ghost cities as part of China Week 2024.
The Smart State: Technology as a silver bullet to China’s economic, developmental and geopolitical challenges
Rogier Creemers (Leiden University) reviews the framework of China’s techno-industrial approach, discussing how it seeks to navigate both China’s domestic and...
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.
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.
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...