Events
Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy
6 Mar 2017
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Lecture Theatre 5, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Professor Shirley Lin
Syaru Shirley Lin is a member of the founding faculty of the master’s program in global political economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and teaches political science at the University of Virginia. She offers courses on theories of international political economy and cross-Strait relations at both universities. Her book, Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. Professor Lin graduated cum laude from Harvard College and earned her masters and Ph.D. from the department of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Lin retired as a partner at Goldman Sachs, where she led the Principal Investment Area for Asia ex-Japan, managing investments in more than fifty companies across multiple industries in twelve countries. In that capacity, she spearheaded the firm’s investments in many technology start-ups and was a founding board member of Alibaba Group and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. Prior to her work in private equity and venture capital, she specialized in the privatization of state-owned enterprises in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore. Professor Lin’s present board service includes Goldman Sachs Asia Bank, Langham Hospitality Investments, Mercuries Life Insurance. Appointed by the Hong Kong government, she is a member of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation. She also advises Crestview Partners, a private equity fund based in New York, and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, a non-profit foundation supporting the development of new therapeutic medical technology based in Virginia. She has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the South China Morning Post. And she has been interviewed by the New York Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail. In addition to her book, her academic work includes: “Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Government Responses to Student-led Protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong.” The ASAN Forum 3 (6): November-December, 2015. “Bridging the Chinese National Identity Gap: Alternative Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan,” in Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, Vol. 25, edited by Gilbert Rozman (Washington, D.C.: Korea Economic Institute of America, 2014) “Taiwan and the Advent of a Cross-Strait Financial Industry.” Paper presented at the Conference on Taiwan Inclusive, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Nov. 15–16, 2013. “National Identity, Economic Interdependence, and Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Policy: the Case of ECFA,” in New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations: How Far Can the Rapprochement Go? edited by Richard Weixing Hu (London: Routledge, 2013)
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