Event Time

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Registration
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Panel Discussion + 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
Please click “HERE” further below to register.

Ticket: Free for Yale alumni; RMB 30 for regular admission.

*The registration fee for the event is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event..

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The event will be in Chinese. 

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

The Event

Located in Northeast China, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang) was China's most important industrial enterprise in the early years of PRC. The history of Angang from 1915 to 2000 epitomizes the acceleration, transformation, and tribulations of China's journey towards modern industrialization. In the forthcoming book Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism, Koji Hirata, a Senior Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer in History at Monash University, utilizes archives in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and English to provide the first comprehensive history of this enterprise before, during, and after 1949–1976. The book reveals the transnational factors in the economic history of China and shows the interactive patterns of the world ecnomic order in the 20th century.

On July 16, Koji Hirata, joined by Hongzhe Wang, Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication at Peking University, and Jinyi Chu, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, will explore the interactions between large state-owned enterprises and local governments during the planned economy period, using the city of Anshan as a case study.

Speakers

Koji Hirata
Senior Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer in History, Monash University

Koji Hirata is a Senior Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer in History at Monash University. He earned his PhD in history at Stanford University. Before joining Monash, he was a Research Fellow (JRF) at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on modern China, Japan, and Russia/Soviet Union with broader implications for the global economic history. His latest book, Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in August 2024.

Hongzhe Wang
Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication, Peking University

Hongzhe Wang (b. 1983, Anshan, China) is a media historian and associate professor of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. He received a PhD in communication from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include media history, the Cold War, cybernetics, information society, and labor studies. He has long been involved in advanced studies in media-centered humanities, social sciences, and art history. He is the founder of Beijing Media Group and Game Manual, and co-founder of Assembly. He lives and works in Beijing.

The Moderator

Jinyi Chu
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University where he is also affiliated with the European Studies Council, the Council on East Asian Studies, and the International Security Studies program. Chu holds a PhD from Stanford University. His research interests span Russian poetry, socialist culture, Russo-Chinese relations, memory studies, and translation studies. Chu’s first book, Fin-de-siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal (Oxford UP, 2024) shows that modernism in Russia emerged from a sustained dialogue with Chinese culture. He has also authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and public essays on the writing of Lenin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Pasternak. Now he is working on a book project on the aesthetics of reform in 1980s Soviet Union and China.