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Book Information:
This is the first monograph on the socioeconomic and political impacts of minerals on contemporary China. This book takes a novel perspective on the resource curse by disaggregating the society into three key actors, the state, capital, and labor. It tells nuanced stories about the distinctive effects of mineral resources on the state-capital-labor triad in China, a resource-rich country that has been largely overlooked in the resource curse discourse. Taking a subnational approach, this research zooms in on local situations and identifies clear causal channels through which mineral resources affect local development and governance as well as the welfare of local citizens. Characterizing mining industries as pro-capital and anti-labor, this research also highlights the redistributive roles that the state can play to address the unfair game. It reveals the Chinese state’s strategies to contain the resource curse and also pinpoints some pitfalls of the China model, which offer important policy implications for China and other resource-rich countries.
Author Information:
Dr. Zhan specializes in comparative political economy, contemporary Chinese politics, intergovernmental relations, local governance, and development studies. Her pioneering research on China’s resource sector and resource policies has been published in journals such as the China Quarterly, Environmental and Resource Economics, and the Extractive Industries and Society and received the CUHK Research Excellence Award.
Details: www.cambridge.org/9781316511268
Topic: “Ah Q Spirit” at Work? How Governments Manage Citizens’ Sense of Loss in International Conflicts
Date: 10 December 2021 (Fri)
Time: 3-4pm
Venue: Room 406, 4/F, Tsang Shiu Tim Building, United College
Speaker: Prof. Seanon Wong & Prof. William Smith
The MSSc Programme in Public Policy (MPUP) & MSSc Programme in Government and Politics (Greater China) (GPGC)
will co-organise a Taught Master Programme Information Session on 3 December 2021, with details as follow:
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640048
Prospective students who are interested in learning about the programme are strongly encouraged to join.
For students and visitors who are interested in international relation, Prof. Gunter Schubert, Chair Professor of Greater China Studies at the University of Tübingen and Associate Research Professor at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, will deliver a public lecture on the same day to report some of his observations concerning EU’s stance under the current U.S.-China relation.
Topic:
Squeezed between Scylla and Charybdis? The European Union's Quest of Strategic Autonomy in Times of U.S.-China Showdown Politics
Abstract:
Against the background of an intensifying geopolitical shift and deteriorating U.S.-China relations, the European Union (EU) struggles to determine its future direction in the arena of international politics. Squeezed between its traditional ally and a rising power at the commanding heights of the world economy, the EU ponders the concept of ‘strategic autonomy’ without being able to spell out, for the time being, what this could or should mean in terms of concrete policy. Meanwhile, pressure from both the U.S. and China on the European Union to take stances is increasing. Heterogeneity in the Union doesn’t help, as national interests of member states diverge in many instances and impede consistent policy-making. Being no specialist on European politics, the speaker reports on some of his observations concerning the EU’s internal strife to find common ground for a consistent foreign policy and invites the audience to discuss about the impact of a dramatically changing geopolitical environment on regional order in East Asia.
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Gunter Schubert, PhD, is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies at the University of Tübingen and Associate Research Professor at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He specializes in Chinese local governance and state-business relations, cross-strait political economy, Taiwan domestic politics and the change of regional and global order under the impact of China’s rise. Prof. Schubert currently teaches at CUHK’s Department of Government and Public Administration and the Center of Chinese Studies.
Committed to fostering the career development of our students, GPGC once again collaborated with MSSc in Public Policy to launch the MPUP & GPGC Alumni Day on 5 March 2022, via zoom.
During the event, speakers took turn to share their experience in career planning and job searching skills.
To cope with those who are planning further study, the programme invited 2 GPGC and MPUP alumni who are now PhD candidate at Beijing University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University to talk about admission tips and how they manage to receive offer from these prestigious universities.
The programme sincerely thanks our alumni for their contribution in making this event possible.
