Mapping the network

Together, the Poverty Research Network scholars possess a dozen different affiliations. They come from nine universities, two major national research organizations – the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences – and the National Bureau of Statistics.

Eight of the network’s 19 young scholars (42%) are women – a proportion, says coordinator Li Shi, that is higher than at senior levels in China’s universities and institutes, where women normally make up about 20% of staff.

The network’s geographic reach has also expanded over time. Of the seven researchers supported in the first year, six are from Beijing and one from Shanghai. But five of the 12 scholars who joined in subsequent years are affiliated with universities in cities other than Beijing and Shanghai.

In fact, the researchers’ roots extend more widely than that. Few of them actually come from Beijing or Shanghai. Most were born in smaller cities and moved to the major centres for graduate school.

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