This academic year will see the 1st WUN Contemporary China Center Annual Lecture with Professor David SG Goodman, one of the most prolific researchers on China.
The WUN Contemporary China Center brings together scholars from the WUN partner universities through seminars and workshops with the aim to foster and support interdisciplinary research on China.
Speaker
David SG Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney
Title
Economics, Empire, and Ethnicity: Old perspectives on China and globalisation
Abstract
The rapid economic growth of the PRC since 1978 has placed that country at the centre of many other countries agenda for globalisation and its challenges. There are three dominant public beliefs about China's economic development, history, and cultural composition: that China has been 'rising' during the last three decades; that China as a state has a long history; and that there is a high degree of social and cultural homogeneity amongst the Chinese. Each of these three assists in the understanding of China's development and place in the world. At the same time there are alternative interpretations that result from taking a longer term historical perspective on these same issues. This longer term perspective suggests a more complex role for China in the future of globalisation, as well as for the development of the Chinese state.
Bio
David SG Goodman is Academic Director of the Chinese Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he is also Professor of Chinese Politics. He was educated at the University of Manchester (Politics and Modern History) Peking University (Economics) and the London School of Oriental and African Studies (Chinese and Chinese Politics.) His research has concentrated on China's provincial politics; the history of the Chinese Communist Party; and social and political change in China since 1900, especially at the local level. He is currently undertaking research on the formation of local elites in contemporary China (with Dr Beatriz Carrillo and Dr Minglu Chen); and on the relationships between the Chinese Communist Party and local elites in North China during 1939-1940. His most recent publications are Twentieth Century Colonialism in China (2012) Peasants and Workers in the Transformation of Urban China (2012) and Middle Class China (2012). He is currently completing Class and Social Stratification in China for publication next year.
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For more information please contact Dr Hinrich Voss at hv@lubs.leeds.ac.uk or 0113 343 2633.