The event is a continuation of the seminar initiated at CUHK in 2005 by the Universities Service Centre for China Studies (USC) with support from CCK-APC. With the theme “State-Business Relations in China”, this year’s seminar invited a total of 26 scholars to present their research papers. The papers were divided into seven panels scheduled over a period of two days. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: China’s State-Business Relations in International Context; State, Business and Society; State-Business Relations in the Republican Era; Business Environment and Regulation; Digital Economy and Platform Governance; Innovation System and Regional Development; and Industrial Development and Economic Statecraft.
Six CUHK faculty members, including Prof. Li Chen, Prof. Tim Summers, Prof. Kristof Van den Troost, and Prof. Lin Zhenru from CCS, Prof. Zhu Ling from the Department of Sociology, and Prof. Puk Wing Kin from the Department of History, were invited to serve as discussants. Prof. Yan Shuliang from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) was also invited to serve as external moderator.
To commence the Seminar, Prof. Lai Chi Tim, Director of CCK-APC and Executive Associate Director of ICS, and Prof. Hoyan Hang Fung, Director of Centre for China Studies, were invited to deliver opening and welcoming speeches on the first day.
The Seminar also invited four keynote speakers to deliver keynote speeches to further encourage academic exchange:
State-Party-Business Relations in China
Prof. Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard (Professor at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) |
Is a “Silent Revolution” in the Making in China? Postmaterialist Values, and Political Attitudes and Behaviour
Prof. Chen Jie (Associate Dean at the School of Humanities and Social Science, CUHK-SZ) |
Still the Century of Statism: As Chinese Local Governments Grew into Venture Capitalists
Prof. Keng Shu (Research Fellow at the School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University) |
Chips War? Global Production Networks and Geopolitics in the Post-Pandemic US and East Asia
Prof. Henry Wai-chung Yeung (Choh-Ming Li Professor at Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK) |
The speeches were engaging and insightful, fostering lively exchanges. The speakers’ extensive experience in research and career development provided valuable insights and guidance to the attendees.
On the first day of the seminar, Dr. Miriam Seeger, Librarian of the USC Collection at CUHK, generously offered the participants a tour to the Collection. As one of the most extensive and accessible collections on post-1949 China, the USC Collection contains various valuable research materials such as provincial and national newspapers and periodicals from the early 1950s, regional and statistical yearbooks, and provincial, city, county and village gazetteers.
Moreover, Dr. Yuan Zaijun, editor at CUHK Press, gave the participants a special introduction to The China Review, a multidisciplinary journal on China Studies published by CUHK Press since 1990. Both library tour and the special introduction provided different materials and perspectives to the Seminar’s participants, enhanced their understanding of the subject matter.
