Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:00 - A China Reporter's Notebook - Watching a Great Power Open and Rise, then Turn Inwards
  Mr David Rennie (The Economist)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 31 January 2025

• 12:00 - Infrastructure Provision and Local Violence: Evidence from Georeferenced BRI Projects
  Dr Chong Chen (Tsinghua University)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Transforming the Way of Water: Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea and Zao Wou-Ki’s Paintings
  Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:00 - A Nosedive into Medieval China: Smells, Identities and the Writing of the Olfactory Past
  Dr Flavia Xi Fang (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
  Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The Emotions of Empire: Love, Desire, and the Moral Psychology of Cosmic Resonance in the Lǚshi Chunqiu and Huainanzi
  Dr Curie Virág (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Botanical remediations: Farming, Plants and Contemporary Arts in Hong Kong
  Dr Minna Valjakka (University of Helsinki)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:00 - Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
  Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Early Modern Korea, 1392-1910
  Dr John Lee (University of Durham)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

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
• 17:00 - Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
  Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks

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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia