Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:00 - Involuntary Bachelorhood and the Crises of the Son-centred Intergenerational Contract – Insights from Gender-imbalanced Rural China
  Professor Lisa Eklund (Lund Universty)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
  Please note the change of time and venue from other talks and as advertised on posters
  Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Designing for Scarcity, Navigating Decline: Architecture, Industry, and Global Economic Transformation in Twentieth-Century China
  Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh), Niall Chithelen (University of California, San Diego)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 17:00 - Why do we study China in the way that we do (and can we still today)? Reflections from a Frequent Flyer
  Professor Shaun Breslin (Warwick)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 17:00 - The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
  Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 17:00 - Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
  Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
  Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
  Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia