Seminar-Cum-Book Launch: “The Rise of China and the Chinese Overseas”

Author:

Dr Leo Suryadinata

Visiting Senior Fellow, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Guest of Honour and Speaker:

PROFESSOR WANG GUNGWU

Chairman, ISEAS Board of Trustees; and

Chairman, Management Board, East Asian Institute

National University of Singapore

The Rise of China and the Chinese Overseas:
A Study of Beijing’s Changing Policy in Southeast Asia and Beyond

About the Book

With the rise of China and massive new migrations out of it, China has adjusted its policy towards the Chinese overseas in Southeast Asia and beyond. This book deals with Beijing‘s policy which has been a response to external events involving the Chinese overseas as well as internal needs of China. It appears that a rising China considers the Chinese overseas as a source of socio-political and economic capital and would extend its protection to them whenever this is not in conflict with its core national interest. The impacts on and the responses of the relevant countries, especially those in Southeast Asia, are examined.

Programme

9.30 am – 10.00 am          Registration

Moderator: Dr Ooi Kee Beng, Deputy Director, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

10.00 am – 10.10 am        Remarks by Author

Dr Leo Suryadinata, Visiting Senior Fellow, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

10.10 am – 11.00 am        Speech by Guest of Honour and Speaker

Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman, ISEAS Board of Trustees; and Chairman,
Management Board, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

11.00 am – 11.30 am        Questions and Answers

Registration

To register, please fill in this form and email it to iseasevents2@iseas.edu.sg by 1 March 2017.