Co-hosted by RASBJ and Yale Center Beijing. This talk is part of the Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium.

Event Time

Friday, May 10, 2024

Registration

6:30 pm-7:00 pm

Discussion and Q&A

7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C)

Registration and Fees

Registration
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Ticket: Free for Yale alumni and members of RASBJ; RMB 30 for regular admission.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

LANGUAGE

The language of the event will be English.

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

Hong Kong and Shenzhen have long been considered both a gateway and a window on the world. During China’s era of reform and opening-up, the role of this borderland was crucial to development and modernization. Yet this region had a long tradition of border crossings: it was a node of migration, a site of departure and return for the Chinese overseas, and a channel for all kinds of exchange. Join three historians from around the world—Peter Hamilton (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Denise Ho (Yale University), and Taomo Zhou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)—as they discuss their current and recent work on this border, the diaspora, and the investments central to reform-era history. 

Speakers

Denise Ho '00
Associate Professor of History, Yale University

Denise Ho is associate professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University. She is an historian of modern China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China (2018) and co-editor of Material Contradictions in Mao’s China (2022). She is currently completing her second book, entitled Cross-Border Relations: A Grassroots History of Hong Kong and China.  

Peter E. Hamilton '07
Assistant Professor in World History (Pacific World), Lingnan University in Hong Kong

Peter E. Hamilton is the author of Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia University Press, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 2021). Its Chinese edition was published in early 2024 by Monsoon Zone Publishing. He graduated from Yale in 2007 and taught with the Yale-China Association in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2009. His second book is investigating the history of scientific management across China’s twentieth century and will be published by Columbia University Press.

Taomo Zhou
Associate Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Taomo Zhou is an Associate Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her first book, Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2019),won a Foreign Affairs “Best Books of 2020” award and an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Taomo is currently working on her second book project tentatively entitled Made in Shenzhen: A Global History of China’s First Special Economic Zone, which is under advance contract with Stanford University Press.

Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium

Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of Starr Insurance Companies, and a member of Yale Center Beijing’s Advisory Committee, Yale Center Beijing is pleased to host the Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium, which convenes thought leaders from all sectors who, in the spirit of Mr. Greenberg, play pivotal roles in building bridges among China, the U.S., and the rest of the world.