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Project summary
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Lichao (Lee) Yang commenced her PhD in Anthropology in March 2007. Prior to this, Lee achieved her M.Sc. degree in Sustainable Resource Management at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her Master’s thesis was on participatory land planning and community development in Northern China. She has also been involved in many activities on gender issues and community development. In 2004, alongside completing her Master’s degree, Lee worked as project officer for the GTZ Poverty Alleviation Monitoring Project in Jiangxi Province, as well as for the AusAID Grassland Management Project in Inner Mongolia.
Through her doctoral project, Lee aims to research the implementation of participatory approaches to development projects in rural China, adopting a Development Studies lens. Following her Master’s study project and work experience, she is keen to investigate the realities and misconceptions of “participation” in China, and to explore some of the political, cultural, institutional and even psychological reasons for participatory project successes and failures.
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