CHAGS exists to foster the inter-disciplinary, theoretically-informed study of the global conjuncture, one that so powerfully and self-evidently features the impacts and potentials of a rising China since the 1970s, as well as the “second handover” of Hong Kong as it enters a new era of integration with the mainland. By ‘global conjuncture,’ we refer to the specific ensemble of cultural, economic, and social forces that make up our given period or ‘moment’ of the global situation, as well as its political outcomes and new realities. What is China’s and Hong Kong’s place in this, and in what ways? This hub supplements and complements the valuable empirical, area-based, quantitative, policy, and other work on China, Hong Kong, Asia, and globalization being done at HKU. It seeks to produce and support humanistic, interpretive, and reflective work that builds on concrete and contextualized studies yet aspires to a more global reach.
