Alanna Krolikowski, PhD (Vertretung der Professur für Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft des modernen China, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Why are some sensitive, strategic high-technology industries organized into transnational production networks while others are fragmented into national industrial bases? This project explores this general question through a comparison of China-U.S. trade in two strategic, dual-use sectors: civil commercial aircraft […]

Prof. Margherita Zanasi (Director of Asian Studies, Department of History at Louisiana State University) This lecture explores the limits of adopting a modernization approach to the study of economic change in Qing China. Recent works have successfully “decentered” developmental determinism by questioning both the uniqueness of the European experience and the imposition on non-Western countries […]