S04E05 - Ho-fung Hung on the Political Economy of China

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:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra


on the economic policy of Mao Zedong and China’s relationship to
the Soviet Union, Felix Wemheuer’s youtube channel ‘Studying
Maoist China’ is recommended: 


https://www.youtube.com/@felixwemheuerstudyingmaois1051


on Chile during the Cold War: 


Lockhart, J. (2016). Reimagining Chile’s Cold War Experience:
From the Conflict’s Origins to Salvador Allende’s Inauguration.
University of Arizona. 


https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/620841


on Salvador Allende: 


www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Allende


on the Paris Commune:


Badiou, A. (2021). The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow.
Monthly Review 73(1). 


https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-paris-commune-marx-mao-tomorrow/


Weber, I. M. (2021). How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The Market
Reform Debate. Routledge.


https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493


the mentioned publication on i.a. guerilla policymaking: 


Heilmann, S. & Perry, E. J. (2011). Mao’s Invisible Hand. The
Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China. Harvard
University Press. 


https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674060630


the quote ‘it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the
end of capitalism’ is commonly attributed to Frederic
Jameson: 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson


on Wolfgang Streeck: 


https://www.mpifg.de/457994/Streeck


on the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election: 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election


Relevant Episodes of Future Histories 


S04E02 | Merle Groneweg zu Staatskapitalismus, Ökologie und
Klimapolitik in China


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e02-merle-groneweg-zu-staatskapitalismus-oekologie-und-klimapolitik-in-china/


S03E60 | Felix Wemheuer zu unserer Zukunft mit China


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e60-felix-wemheuer-zu-unserer-zukunft-mit-china/


S02E09 | Isabella M. Weber zu Chinas drittem Weg 


https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e09-isabella-m-weber-zu-chinas-drittem-weg/


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Episode Keywords


#Ho-fungHung, #JanGroos, #Interview, #JohnHopkinsUniversity,
#FutureHistories, #China, #PoliticalEconomy, #Capitalism,
#MarketSocialism, #Socialism, #Mao, #Governmentality, #Democracy,
#Imagination, #Society, #Communism, #ClimateChange