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Email

skcheng@um.edu.mo

Tel

+853 8822 8392

Office

Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 1002A

Sam-Kee CHENG 鄭琛奇

Research Assistant Professor

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London (2020)
MSc in Globalisation and Development, SOAS, University of London (2009)
BA in History, with minor in French Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005)

Research Interests

  • Political economy of China’s development
  • Chinese investments in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Western Marxism, colonialism and imperialism
  • Historical materialism

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Sam-Kee Cheng, ‘Historical and Social Bases of Primitive Socialist Accumulation in China’ in International Law and Political Economy: Reflections on Contemporary China, edited by Organizing Committee of the I International Congress, Brazil: The University Press of the Federal University of Viçosa, forthcoming.
  2. Sam-Kee Cheng, ‘Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2023.2222410
  3. Sam-Kee Cheng, ‘Primitive Socialist Accumulation in China: An Alternative View on the Anomalies of Chinese “Capitalism”’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 2020, Vol. 52, 4: pp. 693-715 https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613419888298
  4. Sam-Kee Cheng, ‘Imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean: What Impact Chinese Investments Can Bring with Lessons from Hong Kong’, Geosul, 2020, Florianopolis, v.35, n. 77, pp.399-428 https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-5230.2020v35n77p399

Working papers

  1. Wolf, C. & S.K. Cheng (2018) ‘Chinese FDI in Angola and Ethiopia: Between Flying Geese and Resource Colonialism?’, IDCEA Working Paper n.02. SOAS, London https://www.soas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/Chinese%20FDI%20in%20Angola%20and%20Ethiopia.pdf
  2. Wolf, C. & S.K. Cheng (2018) ‘Chinese Overseas Contracted Projects and Economic Diversification in Angola and Ethiopia 2000-2017’, IDCEA Working Paper n.03, SOAS, London https://www.soas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/Chinese%20Overseas%20Contracted%20Projects.pdf
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