Topic:

Book Launch and Discussion on Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model

Speaker:

Wu, Jieh-min research fellow (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica,)

Time:

2022.12.16 11:00-13:00

Location:

8F, Room802, Institute of Sociology, South Wing, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica

Brief:

Host:
Chen, Chih-Jou (Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)

Discussants:
Hsieh, Michelle Fei-Yu (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Hung, Ho-fung (Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University)
Lei, Ya-Wen (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University)

【About the book】 Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard University Asia Center) is an English-language updated version of Rent-Seeking Developmental State in China: Taishang, Guangdong Model and Global Capitalism (National Taiwan University Press). This book explains the process and dynamics of China’s emergence as the world’s factory, using an innovative global value chain theory that links Taiwanese businesspeople, the local polity, and global value chains. It is hard to imagine the Guangdong model without Taiwanese investment, and without the Guangdong model, the rise of China would not have occurred. Taiwanese capital and businesspeople have made critical but often overlooked “contributions” to China’s rapid economic growth over the past three decades. This book proposes the theoretical concepts of differential citizenship, institutional rent-seeking, and rent-seeking developmental states in an attempt to explain the rise and fall of contemporary Chinese economic development.

Speaker
Wu Jieh-min is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He co-founded the Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University, and has published widely on China’s development, social movement, Hong Kong, and Taiwan-China relations. His most recent books include Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), China’s Influence and the Center-periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific (with Brian Fong and Andrew Nathan, Routledge, 2021), and The Political Sociology of the “China Factor”: The Penetration of Chinese Influence in Taiwan Society (「中国ファクター」の政治社会学——台湾社会における中国の影響力の浸透, with Momoko Kawakami. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2021).

Book Link: https://reurl.cc/101e0W

Facebook livestream: https://www.facebook.com/iosacademiasinica/

Registration: https://forms.gle/d9NU3oXijepgj5Ck7