Uni-Tübingen

Prof. Gordon Cheung 張志楷

Name:Prof. Gordon Cheung 張志楷
Home Institution:University of Durham, School of Government and International Affairs
Duration of Stay:February 14 - 21st, 2010; June 16 - 30th, 2025

Biography

Prof. Gordon C. K. Cheung (張志楷) is Associate Professor in International Relations of China and former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at Durham University, United Kingdom. He obtained his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997, and became a Fellow of the Higher ducation Academy in the UK in 2007. He serves as advisory board member of the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at the University of Tübingen, Germany since 2008. He has been editing a leading academic journal, East Asia: An International Quarterly since 2004. Previously, he taught and held various visiting positions at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, Renmin University in China, University of Oxford, Tsinghua University in China, University of Tübingen, University of Hong Kong and Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He has authored four books on Chinese international relations and political economy: Market
Liberalism: American Foreign Policy toward China (1998), China Factors: Political Perspectives and Economic Interactions (2007) [Chinese version, 《中國因素:大中華圈的機會與挑戰》 (2009)], intellectual Property Rights in China: Politics of Piracy, Trade and Protection (2009) and China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial (2018). He has published many articles in leading academic journals. Gordon engages a long-term project on the global view of China’s economic development and transformation. His other research projects cover the politics of China-Taiwan economic relations and the political economy of food and the global Chinese.

 

 

Recent Publications

Books:
China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2018.
Intellectual Property Rights in China: Politics of Piracy, Trade and Protection. London: Routledge, 2009
《中國因素:大中華圈的機會與挑戰》, 張志楷著,林宗憲譯,台北: 博雅書屋,221頁。(ISBN: 978-986-6614-24-8)
China Factors: Political Perspectives and Economic Interactions. New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007. 

Editing of special issues:
‘Made in China vs. Made by Chinese: Global Identities of Chinese Business’ (special issue) Journal of Contemporary China 18(58) (2009).
‘Greater China and Regional Governance: Problems and Prospects’ (special issue) East Asia: An International Quarterly 21(1) (2004). 

Articles:
‘China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Economic Footprints in the Middle East vs. Geopolitical Dimensions with the United States’ East Asian Policy 15(1) (2023): 60-73.
‘When Margaret Thatcher met the Chinese’: UK’s SMEs policies in the 1980s and the case of See Woo Holdings’ Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 8(3) (2016): 335-354. (with Edmund Terence Gomez)
‘Hong Kong’s Diaspora, Networks and Family Business in the UK: A History of the Chinese “Food Chain” and the Case of the W. Wing Yip Group.’ The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China 12(1) (2012): 45-72. (with Edmund Terence Gomez)
‘Cultural Identities of Chinese Business Networks of the Shark-fin Business in Hong Kong.’ Asia Pacific Business Review, 17(2) (2011): 343-359. (with Chak Yan Chang) 
‘The 2008-09 Global Financial Fallout: Shanghai and Dubai as Emerging Financial Powerhouses?’, Asian Politics and Policy 2(1) (2010): 77-93.
New Approaches to Cross Strait Integration and Its Impacts on Taiwan’s Domestic Economy: An Emerging ‘Chaiwan’? Journal of Current Chinese Affairs: China Akeutll 39(1) (2010): 11-36.
‘Family Firms, Networks and “Ethnic Enterprise”: Chinese Food Industry in Britain.’ East Asia: An International Quarterly 26(2) (2009): 133-157. (with Edmund Terence Gomez)
‘Governing Greater China: Dynamic Perspectives and Transforming Interactions’ for the special issue in the Journal of Contemporary China 18(58) (2009): 93-111.
‘International Relations Theory in Flux in View of China’s Peaceful Rise’ Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 26(1) (2008): 5-21.
‘Hong Kong’s Information Technology after 1997 and the case of 3G Mobile Licences “Auction” in 2001’, China: An International Journal 4(2) (2006): 314-326.
‘Identity: In Searching the Meaning of Cheesiness in Greater China’. Copenhagen Discussion Paper 10 (May 2006) 1-30.
‘Involuntary Migrants, Political Revolutionary and Economic Energizers: A Search for Image Building of Southeast Asian Overseas Chinese,’ Journal of Contemporary China 14(42) (2005): 55-66.
‘Chinese Diaspora as Virtual-Nation: Interactive Roles between Economic and Social Capital’ Political Studies 52(4) (2004): 664-684.