Events

13 Apr 2015

12:00 – 13:30

USC, 8/F, Tin Ka Ping Building, CUHK

Dr. Valeria Zanier

Dr Valeria Zanier is Marie Curie Research Fellow of Department of International History London School of Economics and Political Science. After getting her PhD in East Asian History (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), she was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation (Taipei), then from the Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies at the University of Padua. Starting in A.A. 2008/09. Dr Zanier has been a lecturer in “The Political Economy of China” and “East Asian Contemporary History” at Ca’ Foscari University. Her current research project “PRC’s economic relations with European non-Communist countries in the period 1952 – 1965” received two-year funding from the European Union 7th Framework Programme and is eventually resulting into a monograph.

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Tel.: (852) 3943-8763/8765
Email: usc@cuhk.edu.hk

Language: English Lunch Fee: Free Admission, HK$20.00 for Lunch

During the Cold War two major constraints shaped the contours of trading between the Blocs. While NATO limited commerce through embargo, the Socialist economic pattern imposed that foreign trade with the West be carried out by pro-communist organizations and middlemen. This paper will analyze the China-Europe case, uncovering the role played by those Western European entrepreneurs and organizations not loyal to Communism. Going through a number of examples, the paper will show that businessmen held China’s market crucial enough to circumvent embargo measures. Moreover, the paper will demonstrate that these players actively sought alternative solutions to the monopolium operated by pro-communist actors, pushing for establishing strong relations with Chinese state actors and lobbying with Western European political actors to cut away red competitors.

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