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Colloquium on Technological and System Reform held 17-22 April 1988, organised by Professor Robert Cassen, Dr. Cyril Lin and Mr. Percy Mistry. The objective of the seminar was to brief Chinese economists on the impact. of technological change on institutional arrangements based international experience. The seminar examined the impact of technological change on four particular sectors: finance, telecommunications, transport and urban development. Participants were: Mr. Gao Shangguan, Systems Reform Commission, Beijing; Mr. Kong Deyong, State Planning Commission, Beijing; Ms Li Jia, Systems Reform Commission, Beijing; Mr. Li Xingyong, State Science and Technology Commission, Beijing; Mr. Peng Sen, Systems Reform Commission, Beijing; Mr. Su Xuezhi, Ministry of Electronics Industry; Mr. Wu Mingyu, Development Research Centre of the State Council, Beijing; Mr. Zheng Hongqing, Systems Reform Commission, Beijing. Speakers were: Mr. David Bayliss, London Regional Transport; Mr. Andrew Graves, Sussex; Professor Philip Hanson, Birmingham; Dr. Kurt Hoffman, Sussex; Dr. Daniel Jones, Sussex; Dr. R. Kaplinsky, Sussex; Dr. Sanjay Lall, IES, Oxford; Mr. N. Marbrow, British Airways; Dr. Paul Stoneman, Warwick; Mr. Howard Williams, Newcastle; Mr. Malcolm Wicks, Digital Equipment Co. Ltd.; Mr. Howard Williams, Newcastle.

Workshop on Comparison of Chinese and Soviet Economic and Political Reforms, held on 14 May 1988, organised by Dr. Cyril Lin. Participants were: Mr. Archie Brown, St. Antony's College; Professor Wlodzimierz Brus; Dr. Don Clarke, SOAS; Mr. Peter Clark, Far Eastern Research Department, FCO; Dr. Elizabeth Croll, SOAS; Ms Lesley Dean, Research Department Soviet Section, FCO; Ms Sarah Dent, Far Eastern Research Department, FCO; Dr. Stanislaw Gomulka, LSE; Mr. Michael Kaser, St. Antony's College; Professor Liu Guoguang; CASS Beijing; Dr. Mary McAuley, St. Hilda's College; Dr. Peter Nolan, Jesus College, Cambridge; Dr. Alex Pravda, Chatham House; Professor Stuart Schram, SOAS; Professor Su Shaozhi, CASS, Beijing; Dr. Hans van der Ven, Oriental Studies Faculty, Cambridge; Professor Peter Wiles, LSE.

The State, Household, Families and Individuals: Studies of Population in Contemporary China, held on 2 June 1990 organised by Professor Glen Dudbridge. The workshop was chaired by Professor Dudbridge and heard papers from Mr. Alan Davies, Trinity College, Cambridge; Dr. Kevin Schürer, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; and Mr. Zhao Zhongwei, Trinity College, Cambridge; with comments from Professor Robert Cassen, QEH; Dr. Graham Clarke,

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