Speaker:
Pang Laikwan, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Moderator:
Jean Ma, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: CBC, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU
The concept of sovereignty is a crucial foundation of the current world order. Regardless of their political ideologies no states can operate without claiming and justifying their sovereign power. The People’s Republic of China (PRC)—one of the most powerful states in contemporary global politics—has been resorting to the logic of sovereignty to respond to many external and internal challenges, from territorial rights disputes to the Covid-19 pandemic. In her forthcoming book, One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty (Stanford University Press, 2024), Pang Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty. Surveying the four different political structures of modern China—imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist—and the dramatic ruptures between them, Pang argues that the ruling regime’s sovereign anxiety cuts across the long twentieth century in China, providing a strong throughline for the state–society relations during moments of intense political instability.
Pang Laikwan is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research spans the wide spectrum of culture in modern and contemporary China and Hong Kong. She is the author of several books, including The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement (2021), The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China’s Cultural Revolution (2017) and Creativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses (2012).
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