1. Suicides during the Cultural Revolution: A Cultural Sociology Perspective • Fei Yan, Tsinghua University.

2. The Rise of Bureaucracy in Concert with the Market: Explaining China’s Reform through Xiaohong Xu’s Theory of Ordoeconomism • Yingyao Wang, University of Virginia.

3. Polanyi Meets Luxemburg in China: Rethinking Xiaohong Xu’s “Great Separation” Thesis through the Lens of Chinese Workers (1974-1989) • Yueran Zhang, University of Chicago.

4. From Factory to Platform: Gender, Labor, and the Human-Machine Reconfiguration in China’s Reform • Jun Zhou, University of Michigan.

5. Naturalizing "Gui Lv" - the Transformation of CCP's Understanding of the Society during 1977-1979 • Bolun Zhang, Zhejiang University; Yimang Zhou, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).