Tim SUMMERS

Assistant Professor / MA Programme Director

PhD Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Room 1105, 11/F,
Yasumoto International Academic Park

3943 1071

summers@cuhk.edu.hk

Tim Summers’ teaching and research focuses on the international relations and political economy of contemporary China. Tim is the author of three books, China’s Hong Kong: the politics of a global city (Agenda, 2019 & 2021), China’s Regions in an Era of Globalisation (Routledge, 2018) and Yunnan – A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia (Chandos, 2013), as well as journal articles on topics from the Belt and Road Initiative and UK-China relations to maritime politics. He has authored a number of policy research papers for both Chatham House and the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. Tim is also Assistant Professor (by courtesy) in CUHK’s School of Governance and Policy Science, and a member of the Policy Research and Global China programmes at CUHK. He is Programme Director of the MA in Chinese Studies at CCS.

Research Interests

  • international relations
  • political economy of contemporary China
  • Chinese politics; regional development

Representative Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

2019

Summers, Tim. China’s Hong Kong: The Politics of a Global City, Second Edition. Agenda Publishing, 2021.

2018

Summers, Tim. China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization. Routledge, 2018.

2013

Summers, Tim. Yunnan – A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia: A Case Study of China’s Political and Economic Relations with its Neighbors. Cambridge: Chandos Publishing, 2013.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

2024

Summers, Tim, Li, Chen and Miao, Chunzi. British Economic Strategy and Regional Institutions in Asia, 2016–2024. Asia Europe Journal

2023

Summers, Tim. UK-China Academic Relations in a World of Strategic Rivalry. In Wong Suk Ying et al. (eds), Reimagining the Humanities: Chinese and Western Perspectives. Beijing: Commercial Press, 579-608, 2023

2023

Summers, Tim. Maritime politics as discourse in the Indo/Asia-Pacific. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(3), 572-589, 2023 

2022

Summers, Tim. Britain and Hong Kong: the 2019 protests and their aftermath. Asian Education and Development Studies 11(2), 276-286, 2022 

2022

Summers, Tim. Worsening British views of China in 2020: evidence from public opinion, parliament and the media. With Hiu Man Chan, Peter Gries & Richard Turcsanyi. Asia Europe Journal 20, 173-194, 2022 

2021

Summers, Tim. Economic Statecraft in Anglo-Chinese Relations: Recalling the Hong Kong Airport Negotiations. Diplomacy & Statecraft 32(4), 789-809, 2021

2021

Summers, Tim. Carrots, not Sticks: A Historical Analysis of Beijing’s Economic Statecraft Towards Hong Kong. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 50(3), 422-437, 2021

2021

Summers, Tim. “Imagining Brexit: The UK’s China Policy after the Referendum” in A new beginning or more of the same: The European Union and East Asia after Brexit, edited by Michael Reilly and Chun-yi Lee, ,Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

2020

Summers, Tim. Negotiating the boundaries of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38(5): 809-813, 2020

2020

Summers, Tim. “Structural power and the financing of the Belt and Road Initiative.”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Volume 61, 2020 – Issue 2: 146-151. 

2019

Summers, Tim. “The Belt and Road Initiative in Southwest China: Responses from Yunnan Province.” The Pacific Review, Volume 34, 2021 – Issue 2: 206-229.

2019

Summers, Tim. “The External Affairs of the Hong Kong SAR: UK-Hong Kong Economic Relations.” Asian Education and Development Studies.

2019

Summers, Tim. “The UK’s China policy under US-China strategic rivalry: the impact of think tank research.” China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 5(2): 1-20, 2019.

2018

Summers, Tim. “Rocking the boat? China’s ‘belt and road’ and global order” in China’s Presence in the Middle East: The implications of the One Belt, One Road Initiative edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Niv Horesh, 2018.

2018

Summers, Tim. “The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at 20: Evaluating the Sino-British Joint Declaration.” Asian Education and Development Studies 7(1): 89-101.

2017

Summers, Tim. “Chinese multilateralism: diluting the TPP”, in The changing currents of transpacific integration: China, the TPP, and beyond edited byAdrian Hearn and Margaret Myers. Lynne Rienner, 2017. Routledge, 2018.

2016

Summers, Tim. “British Policy toward Hong Kong and its Political Reform.”, Issues & Studies, Vol. 52, No. 4.

2016

Summers, Tim. “Thinking inside the box: China and global/regional governance.” Rising Powers Quarterly, 1(1): 23-31.

2016

Summers, Tim. “Discourses and institutions in China’s maritime disputes”, China Information.

2016

Summers, Tim. “China’s ‘New Silk Roads’: sub-national regions and networks of global political economy”, Third World Quarterly, Volume 37, 2016 – Issue 9: 1628-1643.

2015

Summers, Tim. “Society and politics in China Today”, review article, International Affairs 91 (5): 1151-60.

2015

Summers, Tim. “China’s approaches to globalisation”, China’s World, Vol. 1, Issue 1.

2014

Summers, Tim, Ash, Robert and Porter, Robin. “Rebalancing towards a Sustainable Future: China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme” in China and the EU in Context: Insights for Business and Investors, edited by Kerry Brown. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.

2012

Summers, Tim. “(Re)positioning Yunnan: Region and Nation in Contemporary Provincial Narratives”, Journal of Contemporary China, 21(75): 445-59.

2011

Summers, Tim. “China’s Western Regions 2020: Their National and Global Implications” in China 2020:What Policy Makers Need to Know About the New Rising Power in the Coming Decade, edited by Kerry Brown. Chandos, 2011.

2008

Summers, Tim. “China and the Mekong Regions.” China Perspectives, 2008 (3): 68-77.

Others

2023

Summers, Tim. Shaping the policy debate: How does the British media present China? Lau China Institute Policy Series 2023. China in the World No. 8, in partnership with CUHK.

2018

Summers, Tim, Kwok, K.C. and Lau, Lawrence. “EU-China Innovation Relations: From Zero Sum to Global Networks.” Chatham House Research Paper.

2017

Summers, Tim, Garcia-Herrero, Kwok, K.C., Liu, Xiangdong and Zhang, Yansheng. “EU-China economic relations to 2025: building a common future.” joint research paper for Chatham House, Bruegel, CUHK and China Center for International Economic Exchanges.

2014

Summers, Tim. “China’s Global Personality.” Chatham House research paper.

2013

Summers, Tim. “China’s New Leadership: Approaches to International Affairs.” Chatham House briefing paper.

2012

Summers, Tim, Ash, Robert and Porter, Robin. “China, the EU, and China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme.” for the European External Action Service (under the EU-China Research and Advice Network).

Current Research Projects

2020, ‘A community of shared future’: ideas debates and innovations in China’s global vision, Direct Grant for Research

2018, China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Provincial Policy Responses in Yunnan, Direct Grant for Research

Courses Offered

CHES1101 China in Global Perspectives
CHES3006 (CCSS3500) China's Strategic and Diplomatic Cultures
CHES3010 Governing China
CHES3107/ CHES5149 China and Regional Order
CHES5001B Perspectives on Chinese Studies
CHES5002B Chinese Studies Field Trip
CHES5108 Selected Themes in Chinese Politics
CHES5130 China’s Regions and their Global Interactions
CHES5201 Independent Study Project
CHES5202 Research Lab
CHES6010 China Seminar 1
CHES6020 China Seminar 2
CHES8001A Thesis Guidance
CHES8001B Thesis Guidance