Dr Ivan Franceschini, Australian National University

1-2:30pm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Location: Online. Registration at https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdu-trTkoEtMo4RrjqPqkEgCMqZk9hKKD

Over the past few years, and especially since the inception of the Belt and Road Initiative a decade ago, the idea of a ‘Global China’ has come to dominate international debates in academia and beyond. But what do we refer to when we use such a broad term? Drawing from Ching Kwan Lee’s ground-breaking theorisation and the speaker’s work with The People’s Map of Global China and the Made in China Journal, this talk will outline three different approaches to Chinese international engagements—Global China as policy, power, and method—and propose possible ways to combine them to overcome the limitations of each.

Ivan Franceschini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Australian National University. His research mainly focuses on labour issues in China and the social impact of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia—in particular, Cambodia. He is the founder and co-editor of the Made in China Journal and The People’s Map of Global China / Global China Pulse, as well as the managing editor of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. His latest publications include the co-edited volumes Xinjiang Year Zero (ANU Press, 2022) and Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (Verso Books, 2022), as well as the co-authored book Global China as Method (Cambridge University Press, 2022),  He co-directed the documentaries Dreamwork China (2011) and Boramey: Ghosts in the Factory (2021).

 

The Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the MacFie Bequest.

For more details on the SCCR Seminar Series: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/sccr/events/ 

First published: 16 November 2022

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