Suqin Ge is Professor of Economics and has come all the way from Virginia Tech in the USA. Taking time out from running the Center for Future Work Places and Practices, Prof. Suqin Ge joins us to discuss her article“Reaping What You Sow: Historical Rice Farming and Contemporary Cooperative Behavior in China”published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

While China is often described as a collective society, Prof. Suqin Ge explains how such practices can be traced to the cooperative behavior demanded by intensive agricultural labour. In particular, Prof. Suqin’s data explores how historicrice-farming communities engendered cooperation and kinship, traits that have continued and evolved long after such farming practices ended. She explains how it is often through studying these historical economic practices that we can explain the social organisation of today.

Join us to learn about the historical economic formation of modern China.

水稻种植如何塑造了中国人的互助精神？

说到中国社会，人们常说它重集体、讲合作、强调互助与关系。你是否想过这种国民性格不仅仅是文化使然，也是历史经济结构长期塑造的结果？本期节目，我们邀请到美国弗吉尼亚理工大学经济学教授葛苏勤，以严谨学术研究为依据，带我们一起探索稻作文明如何塑造中国人的合作基因，以及这种古老传统如何持续影响当代社会。

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