Day 1 & 2 coverage – 2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Economic Transformation

17 July, 2008 Update: More coverage here, here, and here (with audio interviews).

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The University of Chicago 2008 Conference on China’s Economic Transformation started yesterday (July 14th) and day 2 of the conference has just finished 30 minutes ago.

On Day 1, Professor Ronald Coase delivered the welcome speech and Prof. Steven N. S. Cheung delivered the conference keynote address via video (DVD) to the conference participants.

There were many interesting sessions and discussions in the first two days (see official program) of the conference and I am trying my best to get in touch with some conference participants in Chicago to do a few over-the-phone interviews to find out their conference experiences and what they’ve learned so far.

I have reached out to some of the conference participants and requested help from Julia (Chicago’s media contact). I will keep you posted and see if I will have any luck at all.

At the moment, while it may be egoistically and idiotically “nice” to see the few blog entries I wrote on the conference appear on page one of a Google search alongside with University of Chicago’s announcements, I would rather see some in-depth news coverage of this most important conference (which news coverage is sadly lacking at the moment). Hopefully with some luck, may be I can start provide some good coverage by conducting some interviews with the conference participants.

On that note, I would like to specially thank Marjorie, Julia, and Lorrie for all the wonderful and kind help they have been providing from Chicago. Thanks.

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July 16, 2008, 6:46 MST Update: I’ve just finished my first interview with one of the conference participants (Dr. Heiwai Tang). The interview went really well and was very enjoyable. I will be posting my interviews (in both English and then Cantonese) with him once I finish processing the audio recordings. Stay tune.