
— RESEARCH
Examining the economic ideas and order-shaping strategies of the Chinese Nationalist Party and Chinese Communist Party between 1944 and 1955, and the contemporary legacy of China’s historical economic ideas.
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Amy King, ‘The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order’, Security Studies, 2024, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 146-152. (open access)
Peter Drysdale, Amy King and Adam Triggs, ‘Asia’s economic and political security in a shifting global order’, in Shiro Armstrong, Tom Westland, Adam Triggs (eds), Navigating Prosperity and Security in East Asia, Canberra: ANU Press, 2023, pp. 215-231.
Amy King, ‘Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order’, European Journal of International Relations, 2022, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 910–933.
Amy King, ‘China’s external economic relations during the Mao years’, in Richard von Glahn and Debin Ma (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of China, Vol. 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 685-721.
Xiaoyu Lu, Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate, Palgrave MacMillan St Antony’s Series, 2021.
Rosemary Foot & Amy King, ‘China’s world view in the Xi Jinping era: Where do Japan, Russia, and the USA fit?’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2021, Vol. 23, Issue 2, Special Issue: Chinese foreign policy: A Xi change? pp. 210-227. (Shortlisted for John Peterson Best Article Prize 2021)
Amy King, H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Jason Kelly’s Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent. Harvard University Press, 2021. Volume XXIV, no. 16, 9 January 2023, pp. 1-25.
Xiaoyu Lu, ‘The Imperative to Narrate: Personal Storytelling and LGBT Norm Translation in China’, Human Rights Quarterly, 2020, Vol. 42, Issue 3, pp. 545-572.
Amy King, ‘Asia has no appetite for a new Cold War’, Australian Financial Review, 12 June 2019. Cross-published in the East Asia Forum as “No appetite for a ‘new Cold War’ in Asia” on 9 June 2019.
Amy King, H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Shu Guang Zhang's Beijing’s Economic Statecraft during the Cold War, 1949-1991. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and John Hopkins University Press, 2014, Volume XVIII, No. 27 (2017), 29 May 2017.
Amy King, 'Understanding China and the future economic order: Australia must look to history', China Matters Stance, 4 April 2017.
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Bo Li, 'Evolving Ideas and Norm Contestation: China as a Global Sovereign Debt Manager', China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 15 November 2024.
Shahar Hameiri, 'Explaining China’s Approach to the Global Governance of Sovereign Debt Distress: A State Transformation Analysis', China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 18 October 2024.
Muyang Chen, 'The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance', China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 20 September 2024.
Amy King, 'No History without the Future', ANU International Relations' Department's 75th Anniversary Symposium, Canberra, 18-19 July 2024.
Sebastian Haug, 'Multilateral Development Cooperation with Chinese Characteristics? Insights from the United Nations', China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 12 June 2024.
Amy King & Darren Lim, 'A China-led international order', Australia in the World podcast, 23 April 2024.
Denghua Zhang, 'Testing China's Influence Overseas - the Case of Pacific Island Countries', China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 8 March 2024.
Amy King & Wenting He, ‘The Resilience of Self-reliance in China: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Order-Shaping’, China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 23 February 2024.
Xiaoyu Lu, ‘Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate ‘, China, Development and International Order Seminar Series, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, 2 February 2024.
Amy King, ‘Reinterpreting the past, and rebuilding the new:
Constructing unofficial Cold War Sino-Japanese relations’, Borders, Boundaries and War across Eurasia: Cycles of Violence and Resilience, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2023 Winter International Symposium, December 7-8, 2023, Hokkaido University, Sapporo.Amy King, ‘What makes a ‘Chinese idea’ Chinese? Entanglements, connections, and China in the post-WWII economic order’, Global Asia: Entanglements Between West, South, Central and East Asia, 1900-2020, University of Tokyo, 26-29 October 2023.
Amy King, ‘China in a changing global order and implications for Australia’, Invited speaker, William Ah Ket Leadership Program, ANU Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership, Canberra, 23 August 2023.
Amy King, ‘How China Shapes the International Economic Order’, National Foundation for Australia-China RelationsStorytelling Series, Sydney & Canberra, 18 August 2023.
Wenting He, ‘A Historical Institutionalist Analysis of China’s Engagement with the Reform of International Monetary System since 1997,’ 10th Annual Conference of The Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS), University of Melbourne, 5-7 July 2023.
Wenting He, ‘Where is there disagreement over the rules and principles underpinning the international economic order, why has controversy taken place?,’ Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group on “Rules Based Order: Strengthening consensus on the rules and principles underpinning international order”, Hanoi, 25-26 May 2023.
Amy King, Manjeet Pardesi and Na Young Lee, ‘Panel Discussion: Power and Ideas in Global Order’, GRADNAS Seminar Series, 24 May 2023.
Amy King, Roundtable participant on Andrew Phillips’ How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the Making of Modern Asia, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, (with George Lawson, Ayse Zarakol and Andrew Phillips), Australian Political Science Association Annual Conference, ANU, Canberra, 26-28 September 2022.
Xiaoyu Lu and Rosemary Foot, Podcast on Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate, Palgrave Macmillan St Antony’s Series, 2021.
Amy King, ‘Chinese visions of international economic order change’, Contesting World Order Panel, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 10 December 2020.
Amy King & Xiaoyu Lu, ‘Development without dependence: ideas, narratives, and the domestic origins of China’s international development policy’, Tackling the Domestic-International Nexus in Analysis of China and the Asia-Pacific Panel, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 9 December 2020.
Xiaoyu Lu, ‘From Angola to Syria: Chinese Non-State Actors in Post-conflict Reconstruction’, International Studies Association MENA, 2020.
Amy King, ‘China and International Economic Order: New Research Directions,’ Geoeconomics Working Group, Australian National University, Canberra, 29 July 2020.
Amy King, ‘China and the Global Economic Order,’ Columbia-Harvard International Conference on China and the World, Australian National University, Canberra, 17-18 December 2019.
Amy King, ‘Power, Shared Ideas, and Order Transition: China, the United States, and The Creation of the Bretton Woods Order,’Global China Seminar, New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, Victoria University, Wellington, 10 October 2019.
Amy King, ‘China, Development, and Bretton Woods: the Role of Collective Ideas in Order Transition,’ ISA Asia-Pacific Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 4-6 July 2019.
Xiaoyu Lu, ‘When Local Returns to the Global: Translating China’s Development Experience’, Ideas, Development, and East Asia’s order transition panel, ISA Asia-Pacific Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 4-6 July 2019.
Amy King, ‘China, Development, and Bretton Woods: The Role of Collective Ideas in Order Transition,’ Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, Canberra, 20 May 2019.
Xiaoyu Lu, ‘When Norms Become Narratives: A Political Ethnography of Norm Diffusion in UNDP China’, British International Studies Association, 2019.
Amy King, ‘Present at the Creation? China in the International Economic Order 1944–1955,’ Regional Orders in International Law and History, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 10 July 2018.
Amy King, ‘‘China as a ‘Norm-Shaper’ in the International Economic Order: From Bretton Woods to Bandung (1944-1955),’ International Studies Association, 58th Annual Convention, Baltimore, February 2017.
Amy King, Discussant, ‘Australia, China, the Belt and Road and the Global System,’ Asian Bureau of Economic Research, National Institute of International Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, 11 December 2017.
Amy King, ‘Present at the Creation? China in the International Economic Order, 1944-1955,’School of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 27 October 2017.
Amy King, ‘Life after the TPP: Can Asia Reach an Economic Agreement?,’Asia’s Multipolar Moment?, Australian National University, Canberra, 24-25 October 2017.
Amy King, ‘China and the International Economic Order: Bretton Woods, Bandung and Beyond,’School of Politics and International Relations Research Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, 10 August 2017.
Amy King, ‘China and the International Economic Order: from Bretton Woods and Bandung to AIIB and BRI,’ China's Foreign Policy and Regional Order, Griffith University Asia Centre, Brisbane, 28 August 2017.
Amy King, ‘The Legacy of War: Postwar Ideas of Economic and Political Change in Asia and Beyond,’ Violence, Atrocity and Conflict: New Research from East Asia in Comparative Perspective with Europe, University of Oxford, Oxford, 16 June 2017.
Amy King, ‘Transforming the International Economy and the Nation-State: China from Bretton Woods to Bandung (1944-1955),’ Seventh Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4-6 July 2016.
Amy King, ‘Economics and Strategy,’50th Anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 19-20 September 2016.
— FEATURED WORK
Publication
China’s External Economic Relations during the Mao Era
Book
Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China
Research Collaborations
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