Chinese Tidings Lecture Series

Chinese Tidings Lecture Series (東風講座)

China, the Global Economic Crisis, and the East Asian Developmental Model中國、全球經濟危機、與東亞發展模式

Presented by Ho-fung Hung
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Indiana University, Bloomington

Thursday, February 17, 2011
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Ballantine Hall 005

*Light refreshments will be served*

Chinese Tidings is an annual series of lectures presented entirely in Chinese. Offered to stimulate discussions on a range of topics while fostering cultural literacy and language skills, the series is open to native speakers of Chinese, students of the language, and even those with no proficiency, since simultaneous summary translations are provided throughout the lectures by Flagship students.

Chinese Tidings is another activity sponsored by the IU Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy and the IU Chinese Flagship Centers to increase opportunities for authentic interaction in Chinese.
For more information, please contact Piin-Shiuan Wu at piwu@indiana.edu.


In this talk, Dr. Hung will talk about the global economic crisis in terms of China’s recent economic ascendancy, which, extending the earlier East Asian model of export-led growth, is based on its rapid export-oriented industrialization and accumulation of foreign exchange reserve. While China’s agrarian crisis has been restraining the growth of its domestic consumption, forcing it to depend on the US market for its exports, the continuous rise of China as the new center of global capitalism hinges on whether China can shift to a new model of development driven by domestic private consumption.

Dr. Ho-fung Hung is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Associate Director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business at Indiana University–Bloomington. Dr. Hung researches Chinese political economy and state–society interaction in historical and global perspectives. He is author of Protest with Chinese Characteristics (Columbia University Press, 2011; winner of President’s Book Award, Social Science History Association) and editor of China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). His paper on China and the global crisis won the first prize of the 2010 research paper award of the World Society Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland.

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