Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Buddhists in the Print Culture of Republican China
  Dr Gregory Scott (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
  Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Problematic Analogies: Diplomatic Exchange and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?
  Dr Olivia Cheung (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Post Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry
  Dr Chen Pin-chuan (Taipei Representative Office, UK)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Locust Control in Late Imperial China
  Dr Desmond Cheung (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Pure and True: the Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims
  Dr David Stroup (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 2024 Elections
  Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Monique Chu (University of Southampton), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How to Tell a Sensitive History: Interviews with Chinese International Communist Volunteers in Burma
  Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Life Above All Else: Foucault, China and Mutations of the Biopolitical
  Dr Christian Sorace (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - China's Economic Diplomacy in an Age of 'Derisking'
  TALK CANCELLED
  Dr Lucie Qian Xia (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader, 1894‒1954
  Professor Joan Judge (York University, Toronto)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Engaging with Alterity: The Chinese Style of Gardening in 18th-century Britain
  Dr Yue Zhuang (University of Exeter)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labour, Commodity Circulation and Digitised Economies across Taiwan
  Dr Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Buddhists in the Print Culture of Republican China
  Dr Gregory Scott (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
  Professor Bin Xu (Emory University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Chinese Student Migration in Singapore
  Professor Zachary M. Howlett (YaleNUSCollege)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
  Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
  Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Problematic Analogies: Diplomatic Exchange and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Intrepid Nobodies: Chinese Servants in the Canton Trade, 1700-1850
  Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - What is the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait?
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Imagined 'Chinatowns' (hancheng 漢城) in Medieval Manchuria: A Critical Han Studies Approach to Liao Dynasty Populations and Settlements
  Dr Lance Pursey
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Efficacious Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Contemporary Daoist Practice
  Dr David Mozina (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
  Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
  Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series