Month: August 2025

Three-day Postgraduate Summer School

August 4, 5, 6, 2025
Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong

This summer school is co-sponsored by the China, Humanities, and Global Studies research hub at the University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Arts) and the Graduate  Program of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University.

It features lecture-discussions and a roundtable spread over three afternoons and led by Professors Daniel Vukovich (胡德) and Daniel Elam from HKU, and Li Haimo  (李海默), Li Yin (李寅), Yin Peiqiu (银培萩), Yin Zhiguang (殷之光), and Zhang Xueying (张雪滢) from Fudan. Together we will examine some of the history, problems, current prospects, and intellectual questions subtending the global south, modernization, development, Bandung, colonialism or empire, and political economy. This HKU event also forms part of the Fudan Graduate School’s ten-year project “China and the World under Great Changes.”

Dates: August 4, 5, 6, 2025
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
Language: English

Registration is open to all HKU Research Postgraduate students. Please note that this is a non-credit-bearing program. It is simply an opportunity to enhance one’s learning and exchange views about the global south, the current conjuncture (and older, colonial ones), and related theoretical and empirical issues. Readings are available here. All are welcome but space is very limited so please register only if you will actually attend all three days.

Day 1, August 4:
1:45 pm  Introduction | coffee and snacks
2:00-3:00 pm
Professor Yin Zhiguang (殷之光) Theorising the Future, Global South and the Historical Continuum of World Order Making
3:30-4:30 pm
Professor Dan Vukovich (胡德) The New Global Conjuncture?: Problems of Method & Interpretation
4:30-5:30 pm
Professor Li Haimo (李海默) The Global South from a Burkean Perspective

Day 2, August 5:
1:45 pm  Coffee and snacks
2:00-3:00 pm
Professor Zhang Xueying (张雪滢) Will China Take the Leadership Vacuum?
3:30-4:30 pm
Professor Yin Peiqiu (银培萩) The Evolution and Constraints of Congressional Power in U.S.–China Tech Competition: Insights from the TikTok Act

Day 3, August 6:
1:45 pm  Coffee and snacks
2:00-3:00 pm
Professor Daniel Elam Tristes-Tropiques or Global South: Nation-Building, World-Making, and Post-Independence Anticolonial Thought
3:30-4:30 pm
Professor Li Yin (李寅) China’s Innovation and Development:  Phenomenon, Consequences, and Implications for the Global South
5:00-5:30 pm  Discussion

Prof. Dan Vukovich (胡德), HKU, School of Humanities

Dan Vukovich (胡德) is an inter-disciplinary scholar who works on issues of colonialism/imperialism and critical theory in relation to the intellectual and political history of the “China-West” relationship. He has worked in Hong Kong since 2006, after earlier stints at Hocking College and UC Santa Cruz before and after his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently Chair of the Comp Lit Program at HKU and has been an Advisory Research Fellow at Southeast University (东南大学) in Nanjing and a Visiting Professor of Politics at East China Normal University (华东师范大学). He is the author of three monographs, including China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC (Routledge 2012), Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the P.R.C. (Palgrave 2019) and most recently After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). In these three books and in numerous articles he is concerned with the age-old problems of representation, the politics of knowledge (and ‘real’ politics), and the dialectics of difference and universality.

Prof. Daniel Elam, HKU, School of Humanities

Daniel Elam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in transnational Asian and African literatures in the twentieth century, modernism, postcolonial theory, and global intellectual history. He is the author of World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth (Fordham University Press, 2020) and Impossible and Necessary (Orient BlackSwan, 2020).

Prof. Li Haimo (李海默), Fudan University

Li Haimo is currently assistant professor in political science at Fudan University, Shanghai. His major research area is American political thought and Contemporary American Politics. His academic works in English have been formally published in top-tier journals such as History of Political Thought (A&HCI, Q1), Law and History Review (SSCI, A&HCI Q1), The European Legacy (A&HCI, Q2), Journal of British Studies (SSCI and A&HCI, Q1), and European Journal of International Law (SSCI, Q1).

Prof. Li Yin (李寅), Fudan University

Li Yin is an Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and Associate Director of the Shanghai Center for Innovation and Governance at Fudan University. His research focuses on innovation, industrial policy and economic development. He is the author of China’s Drive for the Technology Frontier: Indigenous Innovation in the High-Tech Industry (Routledge, 2023). His research has been published in journals, such as Research Policy, Technovation, and Issues in Science and Technology. He also writes frequently for Wenhua Zongheng (Beijing Cultural Review).

Prof. Yin Peiqiu (银培萩), Fudan University

Yin Peiqiu is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. Her research focuses on U.S. foreign policy, philanthropy, and the intersection of technology, religion, and international relations, with particular emphasis on the role of elite networks—such as philanthropic foundations and think tanks—in shaping global power dynamics. Her work appeared on CSSCI journals such as Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, Foreign Affairs Review, and Contemporary World & Socialism, among others. Her book, Dark Money Politics: Philanthropic Foundations and American Hegemony (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2022), examines the influence of private foundations on U.S. hegemony. Dr. Yin holds a Ph.D. in International Politics from Fudan University and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University.

Prof. Yin Zhiguang (殷之光), Fudan University

Yin Zhiguang is a Professor in international politics at the Fudan University. His research interest lies mainly in the area of Chinese modern intellectual and legal history, ethnic minority policy, 19-20 century history of international relations, imperial history, and Sino-Middle Eastern relations. His research and teaching centre on a theoretical interests in understanding the making of the modern world order through the dynamic tension between domination and resistance. His current projects include studies of liberal imperialism and Afro-Asian solidarity movements with a particular interests in Sino-African, Sino-Middle Eastern relations and pan-Africanism. His most recent monographs include: A New World: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the PRC’s Imagination of Global Order (Chinese, 2022), and Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China (Brill, 2014). His articles appear in English and Chinese academic journals such as European Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, History, Turkish Journal of Sociology, Shehui Kexue (Social Sciences), and Kaifang Shidai (Open Times).

Prof. Zhang Xueying (张雪滢), Fudan University

Zhang Xueying is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and a Research Fellow at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. Her research focuses on international institutions and the foreign policies of the United States and China, with particular emphasis on China’s engagement with the UN system and emerging multilateral frameworks such as the AIIB, BRICS, and SCO. Her work has appeared in The Review of International Organizations, Global Policy, and The Pacific Review, among other journals. Her forthcoming book, The Exit of Hegemony? The Logic of U.S. Withdrawals from Postwar International Institutions, will be published by Shanghai People’s Publishing House in 2025.