Episode Summary
Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China.
Shownotes Ho-fung Hung
Prof. Ho-fung Hung at the Johns Hopkins University:
https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/ho-fung-hung/
The Conference ‘China and Us: Perspectives on Peace, Human Rights and Socio-Ecological Transformation’:
https://www.attac.de/china-konferenz/startseite
Ho-fung, H. (2015). The China Boom. Why China Will Not Rule the World. Columbia University Press.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-china-boom/9780231540223/
on Citic Press:
https://www.group.citic/en/Diversified_Portfolio/New_Consumption/Citic_Publish/
on the 1989 protests in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
on the fiscal reform in China in 1994:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-Sharing_Reform_of_China_in_1994
on Carl Schmitt:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/archiv/537943/ortung-und-ordnung-carl-schmitt-im-nationalsozialismus/
on Benito Mussolini:
https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/benito-mussolini
https://nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2023/09/benito-mussolini-aufstieg-und-fall-eines-faschistischen-diktators/
the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China:
https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawsregulations/201911/20/content_WS5ed8856ec6d0b3f0e9499913.html
on Foucault's ‘Regime of Truth’:
Lorenzini, D. (2015). What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?. Le foucaldien 1(1).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317961938_What_is_a_Regime_of_Truth
the mentioned article by Ho-fung Hung in the Jacobin:
Ho-fung, H. (2023). Mussolini in Beijing. Jacobin.
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/mussolini-in-beijing
on China’s falling CO2 emissions:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/
on renewable energy in China:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-5-february-2026-clean-energys-share-of-economy-record-renewables-thawing-relations-with-uk/
Ho-fung, H. (2026). The China Question. Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/china-question/C15B207366F98DC034ED279435A8CCCA
on the case of Solyndra:
