PLRG-CALS Seminar: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap: The Co-evolution of Diversity in Property and Economic Development by Professor Xu Ting

On 25 October 2021, PLRG collaborated with Centre of Asia Legal Studies (CALS) and organised a seminar by Professor Xu Ting from University of Essex. Professor Xu provided an engaging analysis of China’s long-term property regime transformation from the seventeenth century to late 1090s in this seminar. The event was moderated by A/Prof Christian Hofmann, Deputy Director of CALS.

About the Speaker

XU Ting is Professor of Law at the University of Essex. She graduated with an LLB from Sun Yat-sen University and then gained her LLM (with Distinction) and PhD from the London School of Economics. Professor Xu is the author of The Revival of Private Property and Its Limits in Post-Mao China (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2014), and co-editor of Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (edited with Jean Allain, Hart Publishing, 2015) and Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 216 (edited with Alison Clarke, Oxford University Press, 2018). Her research interests are situated in the fields of property law; comparative property law; Chinese law; law, governance and development; property and human rights; socio-legal studies; comparative law; and political economy.