Completed Projects
Global Cities and Social Life of Finance Capital in Asia

TEAM

Core members
  • Chen Zhiwu (HKIHSS, The University of Hong Kong)
  • Helen F. Siu (Anthropology, Yale University; HKIHSS, The University of Hong Kong)

MAIN THEME

The flow of international capital has changed people’s world-views and life-styles. World cities are reaching outwards to compete, collaborate and survive in a much transformed global order. Topics for research training include the historical flow of finance capital between China, India, the Middle East and Europe; Hong Kong as an art-collecting hub and its impact on the international art market; the repositioning of the middle class in these volatile global cities; cosmopolitan imaginings in Shanghai’s urban planning; economic life and work ethics of city youth today; and the experiences of Chinese family businesses as the powerhouse for China’s global economic expansion. There are 4 sub-projects with interrelated themes.

  • Financial Integration History between China and the World (PI: Chen Zhiwu)
  • Everyday Life in Global Shanghai: The Economic Life and Work Ethics of Shanghai Youth Today (PI: Jiang Jin, East China Normal University)
  • Shanghai: Global City Aspirations and the Transformation of the Everyday (PI: Wang Xiaoming, Shanghai University)
  • Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong: A Global Phenomenon (PI: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

OUTPUT

Publications
  • 姜進主編,《上海都市想像與日常生活的更張》,上海辭書出版社,2020。
  • 姜進策劃,《行走上海——探尋200年的都市歷史,文化,經濟與休閒》,上海:華東師範大學上海史研究中心出版,2015。
  • 譚金花著,《開平碉樓與村落的建築裝飾研究》,中國華僑出版社,2013。