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Summer talks series: Connected histories of capitalism

A conversation with Professor Andrew Liu.

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Jun 09 2021

16:00 - 17:30 CEST

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The author will discuss his paper 'Factories Behind the Storefront: The four Cantonese small tigers, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific, and histories of flexibility'.
This paper is an early, speculative intervention into the nascent study of the history of the neoliberal era. I seek to expand our focus on the internal crises of the West in the 1960s and 1970s by looking at parallel developments across the Asia-Pacific region in the post-war period through the 1980s. First, I examine early 1980s experiments with rural, labor-intensive industrialization in Guangdong Province, powering the rise of China’s eventual export-driven industry; second, I connect this local story to broader changes in Hong Kong and east Asia as a whole, simultaneously revisiting older literature on the east Asia miracles and the four small tigers of Asia in preceding periods. Finally, I argue that it is useful to pay greater attention to Asian history as the context for the global rise of flexible accumulation in processes of manufacture, labor, and corporate organization, a story so familiar now to social-scientific literature on late-century globalization.

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