日期: 2026年3月30日
時間: 下午2:30 – 4:30
地點: 香港大學百周年校園逸夫教學樓4樓4.36室
主講
徐國琦 教授
香港大學歷史系張學義基金教授 (中國歷史)
中國跨國史研究院創院院長
討論嘉賓
陳志武教授
香港大學金融學講座教授
鄭裕彤基金教授(金融學)
量化歷史研究中心主任
香港人文社會研究所所長
主持
沈海鵬教授
香港大學協理副校長（教學 – 教學型研究生課程）
港大經管學院副院長（EMBA & IMBA 課程）
潘燊昌基金數據科學與創新教授
商業分析與創新講座教授
簡介 (只提供英語版本)
An acclaimed historian’s bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?
China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials—and emerged as a major US competitor—its leaders are looking within, focused on suppressing dissent and fostering cohesion. The result has been an increasingly nationalist cultural agenda, celebrating a Chinese identity steeped in the mystique of the Middle Kingdom and nostalgia for heroic twentieth-century resistance. Yet Chinese nationalism, like nationalism everywhere, is fraught. Few Westerners, and even fewer Chinese, recognize that the very idea of China is up for grabs.
In this sweeping history, Xu Guoqi explores the transnational construction of Chineseness. The Idea of China describes an identity constantly under renovation. Through dialogue and confrontation with neighbors, more distant outsiders, and Chinese speakers and writers within the state, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the diaspora, the idea of China has been reshaped repeatedly across time. Even bedrock cultural formations like Confucianism have been reimported to China after their translation in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. The idea of China has always been and remains a continuing process, invented, subverted, and reinvented to serve the shifting needs of kings and bureaucrats, industrialists and intellectuals, allies and adversaries.
Xu’s chronicle is as provocative as it is rigorous, and his conclusion could hardly be starker: China, fundamentally, is constituted by a shared history. To accept this is to begin moving past the heated great-power rivalries that threaten international peace and stability today.