Semiconductor chips can be found in almost every technology that is essential to modern life, from cars, to ventilators, to smartphones. No wonder then, that a shortage of these silicon wafers during the pandemic generated new anxieties and about how, and more importantly where, they are produced. Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore), author of Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia, joins us to discuss how firms from South Korea, Taiwan, and China integrated East Asia into the interconnected worlds of electronics production across the globe.
The first 30 people to register will receive a free copy of the book (US mailing addresses only).
Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography and Co-Director of Global Production Networks Centre at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award by UK’s Regional Studies Association, the 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the American Association of Geographers and the 2017 Murchison Award by UK’s Royal Geographical Society.
Special thanks to the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and the Geography Department at UW-Madison for co-sponsoring this event.