中研院社會所4/28Economic Growth and the Problem of Development in Postwar Hong Kong
2023-04-11
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【講題】Economic Growth and the Problem of Development in Postwar Hong Kong: The Case of Taiwan Machine Manufacturing
【講者】Professor Macabe Keliher （ Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University）
【主持】吳介民研究員（中央研究院社會學研究所）
【時間】2023.04.28，14:30-16:30
【地點】中央研究院社會學研究所904會議室（中央研究院人文館南棟9樓）
【報名】https://forms.gle/aKZ4idgRvmBkBXxq6
【活動聯絡】江旻諺（cis@gate.sinica.edu.tw）
演講簡介：
Postwar Hong Kong experienced some of the fastest economic growth in the developing world. What has received less recognition, however, is that productivity was just as exceptional, outpaced only by Japan. Scholars have focused on the former phenomenon and offered supply-side explanations of Hong Kong’s growth—i.e. low cost labor—but overlooked the former, thereby conflating growth with development. This talk offers an explanation of Hong Kong’s development, arguing that firms turned to Taiwan state-owned enterprises to acquire advanced equipment, automate production process, and increase efficiency. Drawing on Taiwan archival records, the talk looks closely at Hong Kong metal fabrication firms, noting that they entered into long-term relationships with Taiwan industrial centers and state-owned enterprises, which provided necessary machinery, parts, and expertise. In mapping the relationships between Hong Kong firms and Taiwan, the paper not only shows the diversification and automation of Hong Kong industry, but also sheds new light on regional networks and their relation to the East Asian developmental state.
講者簡介：
He is currently at work on a four-part history of capitalism in China, exploring developments from 1400 to the present. The most recent installment of this project is a history of the transformation of the postwar Hong Kong political economy.
【活動說明】本場次活動僅規劃現場參與，無線上參與形式。
【講題】Economic Growth and the Problem of Development in Postwar Hong Kong: The Case of Taiwan Machine Manufacturing
【講者】Professor Macabe Keliher （ Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University）
【主持】吳介民研究員（中央研究院社會學研究所）
【時間】2023.04.28，14:30-16:30
【地點】中央研究院社會學研究所904會議室（中央研究院人文館南棟9樓）
【報名】https://forms.gle/aKZ4idgRvmBkBXxq6
【活動聯絡】江旻諺（cis@gate.sinica.edu.tw）
演講簡介：
Postwar Hong Kong experienced some of the fastest economic growth in the developing world. What has received less recognition, however, is that productivity was just as exceptional, outpaced only by Japan. Scholars have focused on the former phenomenon and offered supply-side explanations of Hong Kong’s growth—i.e. low cost labor—but overlooked the former, thereby conflating growth with development. This talk offers an explanation of Hong Kong’s development, arguing that firms turned to Taiwan state-owned enterprises to acquire advanced equipment, automate production process, and increase efficiency. Drawing on Taiwan archival records, the talk looks closely at Hong Kong metal fabrication firms, noting that they entered into long-term relationships with Taiwan industrial centers and state-owned enterprises, which provided necessary machinery, parts, and expertise. In mapping the relationships between Hong Kong firms and Taiwan, the paper not only shows the diversification and automation of Hong Kong industry, but also sheds new light on regional networks and their relation to the East Asian developmental state.
講者簡介：
Macabe Keliher （Associate Professor, Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University）
Macabe Keliher is a historian of early modern and modern China. His award-winning book on the formation of the Qing empire, The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, is an institutional and political history of ritual in early modern China. Focusing on symbolic practices that disciplined political actors and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation and argues that ceremonial and ritual acts not only defined power and authority but also played a key role in shaping political order in seventeenth-century China to lay the basis for empire.
He is currently at work on a four-part history of capitalism in China, exploring developments from 1400 to the present. The most recent installment of this project is a history of the transformation of the postwar Hong Kong political economy.
【活動說明】本場次活動僅規劃現場參與，無線上參與形式。
