This panel is co-hosted by Yale Club of Hong Kong, Notre Dame Beijing Global Gateway, Cornell China Center and Yale Center Beijing.

Event Time

February 9, 2023 | Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am Eastern Standard Time (EST)
February 9, 2023 | Thursday
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm China Standard Time (CST)

Participation Format

Registration is required to obtain a ZOOM Conference access link, which will be sent to your registration email or phone shortly. Please enter the ZOOM room 15 minutes before the starting time. When the room is full, latecomers will not be able to access the ZOOM conference.

Registration

Please click on“HERE” to register. This event is exclusively for faculty, staff, students and alumni of Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, and Yale University, as well as participants of past Notre Dame Beijing Global Gateway, Cornell China Center and Yale Center Beijing programs. Attendees need to be approved. Please register before 11:00 am (CST) on February 8. Your registration request will be confirmed at least 24 hours ahead of the event.Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu if there are any problems.

Ticket
Free (Need Approval)

LANGUAGE

The language of the event will be English.

The Event

As China opened up its economy over the past four decades, conventional wisdom held that the country’s growing embrace of free markets would lead to a more liberal society. Instead, China’s unprecedented economic growth has positioned state capitalism as a durable foil to the orthodoxy of free markets, to the confusion of many in the West. Many have commented on China's renewed embrace of Maoist principles. What does this mean for the future of the Chinese economy and relations with the West? What are the implications of China returning to some of the ideological principles spearheaded by Mao Zedong? And how much of China’s decades of economic success can be credited to Mao and Maoism? Mao and Markets (Yale University Press, 2023) examines these questions and charts how Mao’s ideological principles, mass campaigns, and socialist institutions have enduringly influenced Chinese entrepreneurs, listed companies and provincial and city politicians.

The Speaker

Christopher Marquis
Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is the author of the award winning books Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. Prior to joining Cambridge he worked at Cornell for over 6 years, and Harvard for over 11 years, where he developed an award-winning course on social entrepreneurship. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and more than 50 Harvard business cases on topics related to sustainable business, and has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association. Marquis earned a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan and BA in History from Notre Dame. Before his academic career, he worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase.