Hukou Reform and Rural Dispossession in China by GPS

Since the 1950s, the Chinese government has allocated resources through a household registration system, called “hukou,” dividing the population into urban and rural residents with different — and very unequal — sets of entitlements. In his talk, professor Joel Andreas will reexamine the evolution of the hukou system, focusing on access to rural land and considering the implications for the rural population of the current shift from hukou-based to market-based land rights. This event was recorded Jan. 20, 2015.