[KS] Online Symposium: Demographic Challenges in East Asia

[Melissa Dale]

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies invites you
to join us for our spring virtual symposium, “Demographic Challenges in
East Asia”
<https://www.usfca.edu/event/demographic-challenges-east-asia-symposium/11447542#:~:text=As%20life%20expectancy%20has%20risen,children%20and%20fertility%20is%20declining.>
(Keynote: April 10th, Panels: April 11th).

As life expectancy has risen, Asians have gotten older and now are living
longer. At the same time, the number of marriages has steadily decreased,
women are having fewer children and fertility is declining. East Asian
nations are now facing the challenges of shrinking populations and
workforces and aging populations with fewer young people to support them.
What are the key factors driving Asia’s demographic challenges? What are
the consequences of these challenges and how have Asian nations and their
citizens responded? What can we learn from their attempts and experiences?
What pathways and policies have worked historically and how might they be
applied to the current situation today? Join us for one or more of these
important presentations designed to promote academic discussion on issues
related to the demographic challenges facing East Asian nations both
historically and today.

Keynote Address:
*Young Chinese Women Defying Marriage and Childrearing Pressure
<https://www.usfca.edu/event/young-chinese-women-defying-marriage-and-childrearing-pressure/11447541>*
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2024, 5:00-6:15 pm P
Leta Hong Fincher, author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender
Inequality in China” and Research Associate, Columbia University
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Leta Hong Fincher to
deliver the keynote lecture for its online symposium, “Demographic
Challenges in East Asia.” In 2022, China’s population shrank for the first
time since the famine in the early 1960s under Mao Zedong’s catastrophic
“Great Leap Forward” campaign. This seismic demographic transformation was
preceded by plummeting birth rates in recent years, as women in China have
increasingly turned their backs on marriage and children. Through their
individual choices, these women are posing a complicated problem for the
Chinese Communist Party. Leta Hong Fincher looks at what lies ahead for
women’s rights in China as the government carries out a pro-natalist,
pro-marriage propaganda campaign and a harsh crackdown on feminist activism.

Melissa S. Dale, Ph.D.
Executive Director & Associate Professor
Center for Asia Pacific Studies
Editor, *Asia Pacific Perspectives*
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., KA 241E
San Francisco, CA  94117-1080
(415) 422-2590
mdale3 at usfca.edu

Author of *Inside the World of the Eunuch: A Social History of the
Emperor’s Servants in Qing China
<https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=396>*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20240408/cb85fe24/attachment.htm>