{"id":19833,"date":"2026-08-31T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=19833"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:43:49","slug":"the-future-of-maritime-china-and-hongkong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/the-future-of-maritime-china-and-hongkong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Maritime China and Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> September 16th, Wednesday, 2026, 15:00 &#8211; 17:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Since the end of World War II, Hong Kong has developed into one of the most important interfaces connecting China with the rest of the world, establishing itself as a major center of international finance and trade throughout China\u2019s reform and opening-up and its integration into the global economy. Since its handover in 1997, Hong Kong has faced a succession of challenges, including the Asian Financial Crisis, SARS, the Global Financial Crisis, periods of intense social and political upheaval, the implementation of the National Security Law, and growing strategic competition between the United States and China. These developments have repeatedly prompted predictions of Hong Kong\u2019s decline. Contrary to such forecasts, however, Hong Kong has continued to seek new functions and roles within a changing international order, while retaining its significance as an interface between China and the world. Focusing on this \u201cHong Kong Paradox,\u201d this lecture reinterprets Hong Kong\u2019s survival and transformation not simply as matters of economics or politics, but within the longue dur\u00e9e of Chinese civilization.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture begins with two broad orientations of civilization\u2014continental and maritime\u2014and applies them to Chinese civilization through a new analytical framework of \u201cLand China\u201d and \u201cSea China.\u201d From this perspective, it traces a historical trajectory from the maritime networks that emerged through overseas trade during the Song dynasty, through the port cities of southern China and Chinese diaspora networks in Southeast Asia, to Hong Kong\u2019s emergence as a modern international financial hub. In doing so, the lecture examines how Hong Kong developed into a critical interface linking China with the wider world. It will further consider Hong Kong\u2019s future amid intensifying geopolitical competition and the fragmentation of the global economy, as well as the prospects for China\u2019s continued external opening and the emergence of a new economic order in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker, Dr. Jaeyoung Lee, studied economics at Seoul National University and received his MA and PhD in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. He subsequently held a number of key positions in international finance, economic policy, and financial cooperation at Korea\u2019s Ministry of Finance, and also participated in ASEAN+3 regional financial cooperation and the establishment of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO). He currently serves as Group Head and Senior Economist at AMRO, where he is responsible for analyzing macroeconomic conditions and financial markets in major economies across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: September 16th, Wednesday, 2026, 15:00 &#8211; 17:00 Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Since the end of World War II, Hong Kong has developed into one of the most important interfaces connecting China with the rest of the world, establishing itself as a major center of international finance and trade throughout China\u2019s reform and opening-up and its integration into the global economy. Since its handover in 1997, Hong Kong has faced a succession of challenges, including the Asian Financial Crisis, SARS, the Global Financial Crisis, periods of intense social and political upheaval, the implementation of the National Security Law, and growing strategic competition between the United States and China. These developments have repeatedly prompted predictions of Hong Kong\u2019s decline. Contrary to such forecasts, however, Hong Kong has continued to seek new functions and roles within a changing international order,&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19835,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833\/revisions\/19835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}