The Research Office will hold a workshop titled " The Rise of China and its Implications for the Eurocentric Worldview", conducted by Prof. LAU Wing Kam, Raymond, a visiting Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary China Research Center of HKSYU.

Details of the workshop:

• Title: The Rise of China and its Implications for the Eurocentric Worldview
• Presenter: Prof. LAU Wing Kam, Raymond
• Date: 24 March 2026 (Tuesday)
• Time: 13:00-14:15
• Location: RLB303, Research Complex, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

The rise of China in economic and technological terms carries immense implications for the world. Political commentators generally see this in terms of a shift in the balance of state power from a unipolar to a multipolar world order. While this is a related issue, our attention is on a different level, namely, what the rise of China potentially implies for the future trajectory of world civilization. For the past 500 years, world civilization has been dominated by the Eurocentric worldview, which sees Euro-America as ‘superior’ in cultural terms and hence regards Euro-America as the standard by which the rest of the world is measured and judged. The rise of China poses a grave challenge to this worldview, opening up the prospect of the world’s emancipation from it in spiritual, cognitive and cultural terms, thereby laying the grounds for world civilization to develop towards a diversified future.

Please register by 23 March 2026. To register for the workshop, please click: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlkzgJ1WAL3byqoVhHzzWXR1X37dyV7dYINcaAh2pNxGIrSQ/viewform