Sam-Kee CHENG 鄭琛奇
Research Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Tel: +853 8822 8392
Office: Room 4038, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (E21B)
E-mail: skcheng@um.edu.mo
- 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)
- Political economy of China’s development
- Chinese investments in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Western Marxism, colonialism and imperialism
- Historical materialism
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Dr. Sam-Kee CHENG is currently a Research Assistant Professor of Department of Government and Public Administration. She holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London and was supervised by Dic Lo. The title of her dissertation is The Political Economy of China’s Development and Go Global: Primitive Socialist Accumulation in China and Its Impact on Latin America and Africa. Sam-Kee Cheng is the co-ordinator of the Political Economy of China’s Development Working Group in International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), an international academic group aims to promote Marxist political economy and organises annual conferences in Europe. She is currently working with publisher Routledge on a book on primitive socialist accumulation in China.