| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 24, 2020 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 |
Post-1997 Hong Kong has become the restive frontier of global China – it is the place where the major strategies of global Chinese power are in full display, and where these have provoked the strongest popular resistance yet to Chinese domination. In this talk, I will first analyze Hong Kong as the testing ground for China’s power playbook around the world – (1) economic statecraft (2) patron-clientelism (3) symbolic violence. How do these mechanisms play out in Hong Kong? Second, I will trace the trajectory of countermovements in Hong Kong to generate lessons about the limits and effectiveness of global China.
Ching Kwan Lee is Dr. Chung Sze-yuen Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Her latest books include The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (Chicago 2017) and Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Cornell 2019).
RELATED EVENT: “Stand with Hong Kong Journalists” Photo Exhibit
DATES: December 2, 2019 – January 6, 2020
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LOCATION: Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
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PRESENTING PARTNERS:
Hart House, University of Toronto
Stand With Hong Kong Journalists (SWHKJ)
The International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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