Current NYU Shanghai Global Research Initiatives Fellows

Li Chen
M.B.A. Candidate, Department of Economics, Stern
Email:
lc1803@nyu.edu

Synopsis of Research in Shanghai (March 29 - May 26)：

With a new wave of market-reform, China is opening up its media and entertainment market in recent years. Most notably, the Walt Disney Company entered the mainland China market with Shanghai Disneyland, a joint-venture between Disney and Shanghai government-owned enterprises. At virtually the same time, DreamWorks entered China with its joint-ventures with China Media Capital, a venture capital fund with significant state-backing and large SOE investments. New tourist-focused ventures would take additional demand for transportation systems in Shanghai. Chen’s research seeks to explore how these new tourist-focused ventures will impact the transportation and related industries’ SOE reform.

Professor Tao Goffe
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, FAS
Email:
tg69@nyu.edu

Synopsis of Research in Shanghai (May 8 - May 26)：

Professor Goffe’s research project, entitled, "Chiney Royal: Afro-Asian Intimacies in the Americas," connects the Atlantic and Pacific worlds through tracing the history of Chinese indenture in the Caribbean from the nineteenth century to the present. Professor Goffe’s work is in conversation with Global China Studies, and overseas Chinese literary theories would be greatly enhanced by research conducted in Shanghai. The work of Professor Tzu-Hui Celina Hung in literature is especially compelling in connection with Professor Goffe’s research. In Shanghai she plans to conduct interviews in Pudong, where there is a vibrant community of expatriate West Indians.