Venue: The Reading Room, Room G-4, Tang Chi Ngong Building, HK

A one-day international conference co-organised by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (inc. the Centre of Asian Studies), at The University of Hong Kong and the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC, Hong Kong)

A great deal has been written and debated on the competitive and almost simultaneous rise of both India and China in the 21st century. Academic debates in Asia - or more evidently in the West - have indeed tended to follow the trends of diplomatic and popular perceptions of a growing (and confusing) Sino-Indian rivalry gradually taking shape. Theoretical and empirical scientific studies have thus to a great extent focused on the global political, security and economic implications of rising China-India interactions, rather than on the way they are studied, understood, perceived and interpreted in China and India.