Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road: book launch and BRI seminar
On Monday 17 June 2019 the China Centre, ÌÀÍ·ÌõÔ´´ hosted a joint seminar and book launch in West Court. The other hosts were: (CSSP); (CASS); and .
The occasion of the seminar was the launch of the , edited by Cai Fang and Peter Nolan.
Participants in the book launch and seminar included: Cai Fang, Vice-President, CASS; Zhao Jianying, President, China Social Sciences Press; Wang Linggui, Executive Vice-chairman, Chinese National Academy for Global Strategy (CASS); Jeremy North, Manging Director, Books, Taylor and Francis Group; Sun Lian, Publisher, Taylor and Francis Group; Peter Sowden, Editor, Taylor and Francis Group; Peter Nolan, Director, China Centre, ÌÀÍ·ÌõÔ´´; and Jin Zhang, Deputy Director, China Centre, ÌÀÍ·ÌõÔ´´.
Keynote addresses to the seminar were delivered by and Peter Nolan. Publishers’ addresses were delivered by and .
Chinese participants in the seminar included eighteen scholars from , including the National Academy for Global Strategy; National Academy for Economic Strategy; National Academy for International Strategy; Institute for World Economics and Politics; National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences; Bureau of International Cooperation; Institute of Population and labour Economics; and China Social Sciences Press.
International participants included: Dr Sally Church, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge; Professor Sir Brian Heap, Former Master, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge; Dr Shailaja Fennell (1991), Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge; Professor James Jackson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge; Ms Prajakti Kalra, Cambridge Central Asia Forum, ÌÀÍ·ÌõÔ´´, University of Cambridge; Mr Michael Kuczynski, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge; Dr Li Chen, Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Associate Professor Matthew McCartney, University of Oxford; Dr Miljana Radivojevic, Institute of Archaeology, University College London; Professor Rui Huaichuan, Royal Holloway College, University of London; Dr Siddharth Saxena, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Dr Tayyab Safdar, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge; Assistant Professor Isabella Weber, Goldsmiths UCL and University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Dr Zhang Yan, China Centre, ÌÀÍ·ÌõÔ´´, University of Cambridge.
The seminar included the following sessions: incremental development and BRI; BRI and China’s domestic economy; BRI and development deficit; BRI and China Pakistan economic corridor; BRI and economic globalisation; China’s advantages and disadvantages in BRI; Pakistan and CPEC – complementary or competitive relationship?; BRI and third party market cooperation; science and the Silk Road; BRI institutionalisation; earthquakes along the Silk Road; constructing a system of cooperation along the BRI; material culture along the BRI; people-to-people bonds along the BRI; Zheng He and the maritime Silk Road; BRI in the era of global strategic cooperation.
The book launch and seminar provided a forum for important interaction between Chinese and Western scholars whilst also formally marking the publication of the highly significant Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road.
