Dr. Qin Shao, a professor of History at the College of New Jersey and a visiting scholar at USC spoke tonight regarding problems facing thousands of long-time residents in urban China as result of the fast growing economy and building boom in major urban centers. Her research has focus on cities such as Shangai. Entire old housing areas are disappearing to make room for modern high raise constructions. Thousands of old. traditional residents are being displaced with or without compensation, often by powerful . Building contractors, often government-sponsored, ruled by laws challenging long and expensive claims for damages to displaced homeowners. Although Dr. Shao focused on the problems facing ,many urban resident protesters in China, a communist country, an American audience might have a different perspective had said presentation being received in China. In the name of progress, in our country we often face similar urban displacement problems.
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