Delta on the Move Lecture Series

Dragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

Via Zoom
2023-09-14 15:002023-09-14 17:00Asia/Hong_KongDragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

Delta on the Move Lecture Series
Dragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson
(London School of Economics and Political Science)

Date/Time: September 14, 2023 3:00 pm (HKT) / 9:00 am (CEST)
Venue: via Zoom
Language: English
Enquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hk

    2023-09-14 15:002023-09-14 17:00Asia/Hong_KongDragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

    Delta on the Move Lecture Series
    Dragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

    Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson
    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

    Date/Time: September 14, 2023 3:00 pm (HKT) / 9:00 am (CEST)
    Venue: via Zoom
    Language: English
    Enquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hk

      Title:

      Dragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

      Speaker:

      Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson (London School of Economics and Political Science)

      Date/Time:

      September 14, 2023 3:00 pm (HKT) / 9:00 am (CEST)

      Language:

      English

      Enquiry:

      (Email) ihss@hku.hk

      Title:

      Dragon Lady Traders of the 1970s: How the US and China Rebuilt a Trade Relationship Through Textiles and Hong Kong

      Speaker:

      Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson (London School of Economics and Political Science)

      Date/Time:

      September 14, 2023 3:00 pm (HKT) / 9:00 am (CEST)

      Language:

      English

      Enquiry:

      (Email) ihss@hku.hk

      Abstract

      This talk tells the story of Dragon Lady Traders, a US-based company established by Veronica Yhap in the early 1970s that imported clothing from China. Yhap’s experiences highlight the challenges and contingencies of US-China trade relations after 20 years of Cold War isolation. But they also reveal the importance of both the textile industry and Hong Kong to China’s reintegration with global capitalism.

      About the Speaker

      Elizabeth Ingleson is an assistant professor in the International History department at the London School of Economics. She specialises in the histories of U.S. foreign relations, U.S.-China relations, capitalism and labour. Her first book, Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (coming in spring 2024 with Harvard University Press), explores how the United States and China rebuilt trade ties in the 1970s, after over twenty years of isolation – and in the process unwittingly reshaped global capitalism. She has written a number of articles and chapters on various aspects of U.S.-China relations and U.S. capitalism and is additionally writing a book under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, China and the United States since 1949: An International History. Prior to her appointment at LSE, she was Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University’s International Security Studies. She has held fellowships at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and Southern Methodist University’s Centre for Presidential History and earnt her Ph.D. in history from the University of Sydney.

      Organizer

      This is an event jointly organized by the “Delta on the Move: The Becoming of the Greater Bay Region, 1700 – 2000” Research Cluster and the Chinese Business History Webinar Series.

      POSTER