Hugh Alexander Dunn Lecture: China Engages Maritime Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative in Historical and Institutional Perspectives
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 09 August 2019 - Friday, 09 August 2019
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Room:
- 213
- UQ Location:
- Richards Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- https://hapi.uq.edu.au/event/session/4203
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Associate Professor Chi-Kong Lai
- Phone:
- 56339
- Email:
- c.lai@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Since Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed it in the late 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has constituted China’s defining strategy in engaging the outside world, especially in the 70-plus countries alongside the two routes connecting China with Europe and Africa by way of Central Asia and Southeast Asia. As the main pathway for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and China’s major economic partner, Southeast Asia--where the great majority of the Chinese diaspora reside--occupies a significant place in the new initiative. In view of China’s growing clouts in the region and the fact that economic relations are inevitably intertwined with the nations’ socio-political transformations, there are important ramifications with the implementation of the BRI for the region and its Chinese diaspora. How should one interpret the BRI in an historical and institutional perspective? As one of the most economically influential groups in the region, how do the Chinese communities react to the opportunities and challenges associated with the BRI? What are the roles of ethnic capital, nationalism and transnationalism in the unfolding of the BRI? How do Chinese diaspora confront with the seemingly conflicting logics between transnational mobility and national identifications? What are the theoretical implications, if any, of the Southeast Asian experiences for deciphering new patterns of Chinese transnationalism and diaspora engagement? This paper attempts to provide some preliminary answers to these questions.
Professor Hong LIU is the Tan Lark Sye Endowed Chair Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he also holds the positions of Chair of School of Social Sciences and Director of the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration.
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