China’s Economic Transformation in the New Media Era: From Economic
Miracle towards Financial Bubbles and Crisis?
Fri 3 February 2017
18:00 – 19:30 GMT
Univ of Westminster, London
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinas-economic-transformation-in-the-new-media-era-tickets-31022409863
https://www.facebook.com/events/937726506360023/
This event hosted by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
explores China’s economic development model since 2008. Public
discussions about China’s economy tend to be fascinated by the high
growth of China’s gross domestic product and to celebrate such figures
as economic miracle.
In this context, often China’s Internet economy is presented as being
the largest online market of users in the world and experiencing similar
growth. In summer 2015, China saw a drop of its stock-market values.
Commodity prices for oil, gold, food, iron, metal and coal fell on the
world market. The Chinese economy’s growth rate slowed down. Will China
see the bursting of financial bubbles and economic crisis? What are the
underlying forces of China’s economic development? And what are the
implications for the Chinese Internet economy?
The event will explore these questions in the form of two talks by
experts on the Chinese economy – Dr Dic Lo and Dr Bingqing Xia. Dr Dic
Lo (SOAS University of London) will speak about the financialisation of
the Chinese economy and the role of productive investment. Dr Bingqing
Xia (research fellow at WIAS) will focus on the financialisation of
capital accumulation process in the Chinese Internet industry. WIAS
director Christian Fuchs will chair the event and discussion.
Other forthcoming WIAS events:
January 25: Building Community with the Help of Information and
Communications
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-community-with-the-help-of-information-and-communications-tickets-30489441741https://www.facebook.com/events/629892760544419/
March 3: The Unreality of Reality TV: From After Dark towards Twitter,
Big Data, and Big Brother
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/the-unreality-of-reality-tv-from-after-dark-towards-twitter-big-data-and-big-brother
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