Events this person is hosting:

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Cybersecurity and Informatization: Restructuring Chinese Governance Through Technology’
  Dr Rogier Creemers (Leiden University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - An Introduction to and Revisionist Critique of the Case (案) as Historical Source and Administrative Artefact in Local Jurisdictions of the Late Empire
  Dr Maura Dykstra (Caltech)
  China Studies Seminar series

Events this person is organising:

Monday 4 October 2021 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Financial Control in China: Mutual Endangerment in State-Business Relations
  Professor Meg Rithmire (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Cybersecurity and Informatization: Restructuring Chinese Governance Through Technology’
  Dr Rogier Creemers (Leiden University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rural Development in China and East Asia
  Professor Kristen Looney (Georgetown University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dog Days and Salted Fish: Malaise of Indolence among Young Migrant Café Workers in Shanghai
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe
  Professor Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Reimagining the World Order: Chinese Literary Conventions and the Representation of International Relations in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
  Dr Ming Tak Ted Hui (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Being Transgender in China: Trans Celebrity, Queer Activism and Feminist Politics
  Professor Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Future Is Now: Theory and Method of the Newborn Socialist Thing
  Professor Laurence Coderre (New York University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Typographic Bodies: Futurist Biopoetics in Republican China
  Dr Chloe Estep (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Back Down to the Countryside: Contextualizing the Fanxiangqingnian ‘Return Youth’ Phenomenon, A Case Study of Heyang Village
  Linda Qian (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Jokebooks and Humour Publications in Late-Ming China
  Dr Elizabeth Smithrosser (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
  Professor Roselyn Hseuh (Temple University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Foreigners and Outsiders: Chinese Views of Jesuit Missionaries in the Late Ming Period
  Dr Ana Carolina Hosne (National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Chinese Legal Thought on the Global Stage
  Professor Samuli Seppänen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 2 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Fathoming the Changes between Heaven and Earth. Reconsidering the Status of the Book of Changes in Wang Bi’s Philosophy
  Hybrid event: in-person and online (via Zoom). Registration required for online attendance.
  Dr Raphaël Van Daele (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Beyond Heteronormativity? Intimacy and Intersectionality of Lesbians and Gay Men in Post-Reform China
  Hybrid event: In-person and online (via Zoom). Registration required to attend online.
  Professor Susanne Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 3 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Chinese Latrine: a Pigstory
  Professor Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Taiwan’s Postwar Student Movement and the Making of Democracy
  Online event, but can be watched online at the China Centre, in the Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
  Professor Ming-sho Ho (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fighting Imperialism – Forging Solidarity: Africa in PRC Visual Propaganda, 1950s to 1980s
  Dr Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modernity on the Periphery: Urbanisation and Informality after the Chongqing Model
  Dr Asa Roast (University of Leeds)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - How do movement parties learn lessons of defeat in Taiwan? The case of the Green Party Taiwan
  Dr Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Du Fu (712‒770) and his Troubled Search for Identity (POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
  This seminar has been postponed until further notice
  Professor David McMullen (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
  Professor Victor Seow (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reader, Author, Icon, Superhero? Lu Xun and his Literature in Chinese Comics
  Dr Lena Henningsen (University of Freiburg)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today
  Prof. Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Divergent Trajectories of China’s Email-Order Brides (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only.
  Professor Monica Liu (University of St Thomas)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Self-Fashioning in Tang China: From the 'Casual Gaffer' to the 'Master of Extreme Torment'
  Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only, via MS Teams
  Prof. Seiji Shirane (The City College of New York (CUNY))
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Qing Empire and its Offshore Islands during the Long Eighteenth Century
  Prof. Ronald C. Po (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Attitudes to Chinese Economic Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
  Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
  Online seminar, which can be viewed at the China Centre
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China
  Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Negotiated Sovereignty: The Fisherfolks and the State in the Northern Gulf of Tonkin, 1954‒1964
  Dr Qingfei Yin (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - TALK POSTPONED: The Wor(l)d Itself: The Language of Mapping China
  TALK POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Dr Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - ONLINE: Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the Development Model
  Online event. Can be viewed online remotely or at China Centre.
  Dr Jieh-min Wu (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
  This talk will be in the Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Dr Jérôme Doyon (Sciences Po)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Framed by the Archive: Maoist Revolution and the Case of Merchant Zha, 1949‒1952
  Professor Brian DeMare (Tulane University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - An Introduction to and Revisionist Critique of the Case (案) as Historical Source and Administrative Artefact in Local Jurisdictions of the Late Empire
  Dr Maura Dykstra (Caltech)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sino-US Relations: A Historical Perspective from the Pearl River Delta
  Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: China’s Law of the Sea
  This talk has been postponed until further notice
  Dr Isaac B Kardon (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Studies Seminar series