Critical Connections: Forum on Cultural Studies in Asia and Beyond
16 March 2012, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SCHOLAR AND GUEST SPEAKER
Prof. QI Yongfeng (Communication University of China)
email: < qiyf0505@sina.com >
" Coexistence of Multi-civilizations and Competition of Development Patterns"
Facing the reality of economic recession, debt problem and high unemployment rates, scholars in western countries have realized the reason of financial crisis not only exists in western financial system but also the problem of western culture and development pattern. We need to study the reason of economic crisis from the cultural aspect, and study the development patterns brought by different human culture tradition, and the change of geopolitics after the financial crisis. The author believes that with "American capitalism falling down from the altar" , China, India, Brazil and other new markets and developing countries are rising. Actually the world development patterns are irreversibly switching from the dominant western culture and American pattern to the era of coexistence of multi-civilizations and competition of development patterns.
Professor QI YONGFENG is Director of Academic Committee at the Institute of Culture Deevelopment, Communication University of China. He is also the Judge of the National Social Science Foundation and the National Arts Fund of China. He is director of Cultural Studies Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research focuses include culture economy, cultural investing and financing, public cultural service system, cultural development strategies and policy, etc. He is the leading researcher of more than 10 national projects such as “Public Finance and Chinese culture development strategy” and “The development of cultural industries under the current economic situation”. |