Lecturer: Zhou Xiaohong (Dean, Professor and Ph.D. adviser of School of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Nanjing University)

Organizer: Zhongshan Municipal Library

Co-organizer: Zhongshan Economic Daily

Sponsor: Zhongshan Branch of China Life Insurance Company Limited

Time: At 8 p.m. of October 17th, 2009

Location: Variety show auditorium on the 3rd floor of Zhongshan Municipal Library

Introduction of Lecturer:

Zhou Xiaohong is now the Dean of School of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Nanjing University as well as a professor and Ph.D. adviser, who is granted the National Award for Distinguished Teacher in 2009. 

Lecture Preview:

The discussion concerning about the middle class has become a hot topic among both sociologists and ordinary people in China. Historian Tang Degang said that Americans were born middle class. Walter Whitman, an American poet in the 19th century, gave similar remarks that the middle class was the most valuable one of any community. However, how to define the middle class in China? Has the middle class already come into being? Then who is consisted in the middle class?