【清華社會所系列演講 X 中國研究工作坊】

●講題：中國問題：八個世紀的幻想與恐懼香港抗爭空間的劇變
●講者：孔誥烽（約翰．霍普金斯大學社會學系及高等國際研究學院韋森費特政治經濟學教授）
●主持人：沈秀華（國立清華大學社會學研究所副教授兼當代中國研究中心主任）
●時間：2025/02/18（週二） 12:30-14:30
●地點：清華大學人文社會學院C310

●講者經歷：
Ho-fung Hung is Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology & Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

●演講簡介：
For centuries Western scholars portrayed China either as a land of superior morality, economy, and administration or as a formidable country of pagans posing a global threat to Western values. Idealized images of China were used to shame rulers for incompetence. Blames on a demonized China as an external threat were used to exonerate ruling elites for domestic problems. In the twentieth century, the geopolitics of global capitalism enabled more reflexive perspectives on China, but the de-orientalization of knowledge is far from complete. In this thoughtful study, Ho-fung Hung shows how both Western elites and China’s authoritarian regime continue to promote many orientalist stereotypes to advance their economic interests and political projects. He argues for seeing macro-historical political-economic changes as related to changes in the relative dominance of different intellectual ideas, and suggests how open debate can overcome the extremes of fantasy and fear.

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