The Seventeenth Graduate Seminar on Modern and Contemporary China
The Seventeenth Graduate Seminar on Modern and Contemporary China (the Seminar), co-organized by the Centre for China Studies (CCS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies (CCK-APC), and the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), was held on 17-18 February 2025. Details are as follows:
Theme: State-Business Relations in China
Date: 17 – 18 February 2025
Time: 9:00 am – 6:10 pm (17 February)
9:00 am – 6:40 pm (18 February)
Venue: Conference Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, CUHK
The Selection Committee:
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- Professor Li Chen, Centre for China Studies (Chair)
- Professor Tim Summers, Centre for China Studies
- Professor Kristof Van Den Troost, Centre for China Studies
- Professor Lin Zhenru, Centre for China Studies
- Professor Zhu Ling, Department of Sociology
Panel moderators:
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- Professor Puk Wing Kin, Department of History, CUHK
- Professor Yan Shuliang, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
The call for papers was conducted from August to October 2024, inviting doctoral candidates and those who have obtained a doctoral degree within the past five years who are engaged in research related to the topic of contemporary China’s state-business relations to submit their contributions. The seminar received a total of 66 abstracts, and the organising committee selected 26 young scholars to present their papers, including 5 from Hong Kong and Macao, 9 from Mainland China, 3 from North America, 4 from Europe and 5 from other Asian countries and regions. The seminar was held over two days and featured seven panel discussions:
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- 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
- Industrial Development and Economic Statecraft
A special session was set up at the seminar, where Dr. Yuan Zaijun, an editor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, introduced The China Review to the participants. This journal, published since 1990, is an interdisciplinary Chinese studies journal dedicated to providing scholars with diverse research perspectives.
After the seminar, Dr. Miriam Seeger, Librarian of the Universities Service Centre for China Studies Collection at CUHK, led the participants on a tour to the USC Collection. The library houses 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, making it an important resource database for contemporary Chinese studies.
