Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - Transformation of the Regional Order during the Cold War
  Christian Talley (University of Oxford), Federico Pachetti (University of Hong Kong)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - East-West Interactions and their Impact in the 19th century
  Josepha Richard (University of Sheffield), Yu Qiong (SOAS, University of London)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - Special Film Screening Session at China Centre Lecture Theatre
  Chun-yu Liu (Independent Artist)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Flow of Goods, People, and Ideas within and beyond East Asia
  Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Casper Wits (Doshisha University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - State-building in China and India during the 20th Century
  Meiying Li (King's College London), Anton Harder (London School of Economics)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - Empires and the International System at the Turn of the Century
  Thomas Barrett (University of Tokyo), Noriko Unno-Yamazaki (University of Tokyo)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 24 April 2017

• 17:00 - Transnational Actors and the State in the Sino-Russian and Sino-American Contexts
  Yuexin Rachel Lin (National University of Singapore), Pete Millwood (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 8 May 2017

• 17:00 - International Solidarity and Intervention in 20th Century East Asia
  Edwin Michielsen (University of Toronto), Alex Ferguson (University of Southampton)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 22 May 2017

• 17:00 - New Perspectives on International Dimensions of Late Qing Reforms
  Jiani He (University of Cambridge), Jiani He (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 5 June 2017

• 17:00 - Rethinking Sino-British Interactions in the 19th Century
  Ching-Yin Nathan Kwan (King’s College London and University of Hong Kong), Michael Yeo Chai Ming (University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 16 October 2017

• 17:00 - Rethinking the Opium War and Fascism in East Asia
  Various Speakers
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 30 October 2017

• 17:00 - Conflicts and Security among the Regional Powers in the Asia Pacific
  Various Speakers
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 13 November 2017

• 17:00 - China, Nation-state, and Cultural Diplomacy in Historical Perspectives
  Various Speakers
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 27 November 2017

• 17:00 - Sino-Japanese Wars: Communications, Cartoons, and Diplomacy
  Various Speakers
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - Transnational Exchanges in the Asia-Pacific
  Ruth de Llobet-Franch (Universitat Pompeu Fabra-GRIMSE, Barcelona), Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 5 February 2018

• 17:00 - Gendered Experiences of Christianity and Nationalism during the Second World War in East Asia
  Alexandria Dugal (University of Oxford), Jennifer Bond (SOAS, University of London)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 19 February 2018

• 17:00 - Cold War Variations in the Representation of China
  Hao Chen (University of Cambridge), Nelson So (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 5 March 2018

• 17:00 - Spies in East Asia
  Amanda Zhang (University of Oxford), Miriam Matejova (University of British Columbia)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 30 April 2018

• 17:00 - New Perspectives on Hong Kong & Sino-British Relations in the Early 20th Century
  Vivian Kong (University of Bristol), Woody Di Wu (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 14 May 2018

• 17:00 - Cold War Competition and Cooperation in East Asia
  Natalia Matveeva (SOAS, University of London), Sheng Peng (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 21 May 2018

• 17:00 - Legal Controversies & State-Building in Late 19th Century East Asia
  Takahiro Yamamoto (University of Heidelberg), Jonathan Chappell (London School of Economics)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 4 June 2018

• 17:00 - The Development of Transna'onal Thought in East and Southeast Asia
  Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (Harvard University & University of Cambridge)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 15 October 2018

• 17:00 - Medicine, Empire, and War in China: The Transnational and the Local
  Meilin Zhou (SOAS), Mo TIAN, (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 5 November 2018

• 17:00 - Japanese Non-State Actors in the Age of Empire
  Maj Hartmann (KU Leuven), Yongkeun Chun (Royal College of Art)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 12 November 2018

• 17:00 - Japan and Korea: Building and Dismantling Empire
  Hannah Shepherd (Trinity College, Cambridge), Deokhyo Choi (University of Sheffield)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 26 November 2018

• 17:00 - China and the World: International Connections in Technology and Counter-Insurgency
  Tan Ying Jia (Wesleyan University), Xiu Guangmin (Sichuan University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 21 January 2019

• 17:00 - Migration and Citizenship in Qing China and British Hong Kong - “Anglo-Chinese”: Transimperial Exchange and the Location of International Law in Qing China
  Nicholas McGee (University of Toronto)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Migration and Citizenship in Qing China and British Hong Kong - Negotiating Informal Racial Divides: The “Portuguese Collaborators” in British Hong Kong, 1840-1880
  Catherine Chan (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 4 February 2019

• 17:00 - Islands in Empires in Modern East and Southeast Asia: New Perspectives - Camphor, Celluloid and Posthuman Imperialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective
  Faizah Zakaria (Leiden University and Nanyang Technological University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Islands in Empires in Modern East and Southeast Asia: New Perspectives - Island Pioneers: A Study of the Profile, Activities and Legacy of Early Settlers in the Disputed Islands of East and South China Seas
  Katherine Bandanwal (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 18 February 2019

• 17:00 - Art, Anarchism and Transnational Friendship: Cultures of Exchange in Northeast Asia - The Rediscovery of Traditions and Trans-Cultural Dialogues: Chen Shizeng and the Art Salon of the Early Republican Beijing, 1912-1923
  Zi Wang (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Art, Anarchism and Transnational Friendship: Cultures of Exchange in Northeast Asia - Vassily Eroshenko in Japan: the Subversitve Meaning of Friendship Across Borders
  Ian Rapley (University of Cardiff)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 4 March 2019

• 17:00 - Sino-Indian Connections: New Perspectives on 20th century Conflicts
  Yang Han (University of Oxford), Zhaodong Wang (University of Edinburgh:)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 13 May 2019

• 17:00 - Families Across Borders in the Asia-Pacific
  Y.J. Hwang (University of Pittsburgh), Kanako Kuramitsu (University of Birmingham)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 27 May 2019

• 17:00 - Rethinking Class in Interwar China and Japan
  Jamyung Choi (Yanbian University), Peter Kwok-Fai Law (SOAS, University of London)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 17 June 2019

• 17:00 - Cultures of Occupation in Beijing and Hong Kong
  L. Odila Schröder (University of Nottingham), Vivien Chan (University of Nottingham)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 21 October 2019

• 17:00 - Land Reform from Above or Below: A Comparative Study on Land Reform in North Korea and North Vietnam
  Hyunjong Noh (Seoul National University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Industrial Management and Technical Development in the DPRK and China During the 1950s and 1960s
  Charlotte Webb (SOAS, University of London)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 4 November 2019

• 17:00 - A New Woman: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in the U.S. and China, 1864-1934
  Xiao Li (Southern Illinois University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Another Way to Shape Cantonese Cultures: Missionaries’ Cantonese Language Books in the 19th Century
  Sixing Chen (University of Hong Kong)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 18 November 2019

• 17:00 - Post-war Constructions of Southeast Asia through Social Welfare and Urban Development
  Michael Sugarman (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Japanese Mediation in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation (1963-66): The View from London
  Giulia Garbagni (University of Cambridge)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 2 December 2019

• 17:00 - International “Experts” in Relief and Rehabilitation: the Failure of the UNRRA in Immediate Post-WWII China
  Jiayi Tao (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - The Soviet Sinologists and USSR’s Response to the Normalization of U.S.-China Diplomatic Relations, 1977-1981
  Sheng Peng (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 27 January 2020

• 17:00 - Moving Bodies: Post-War Dance, Women, and Protest in Japan
  Alice Baldock (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - How the National Ballet of China’s 2017 Tour of Australia Forged an Interracial Far Right Alliance
  Ellan Lincoln-Hyde (SOAS)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 10 February 2020

• 17:00 - Across, Between and Beyond Nation States: Overseas Chinese Private Remittance Networks, 1850s-1930s
  Ania Gricuk (LSE)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Another War: China’s Struggle for Financial Aid during WWII
  Lin Ma (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 24 February 2020

• 17:00 - A Chinese in the Dark: Infrastructure and Illumination in German Qingdao, 1898-1914
  Mimi Cheng (University of Rochester)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Write Well, Work Well: Script Reform, Efficiency Movements, and Nation Identity in Japan and Germany, 1919-1945
  Toshiki Kawashima (University of Pennsylvania)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 9 March 2020

• 17:00 - Visions of Profit: American Commerce on the Yangtze River during the Taiping and American Civil Wars
  Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - The Cadiz Affair, Zhenjiang (1874-1878): Jurisdictional Competition and Foreign Influence in Late Qing China
  Georges Moraitis (Queen's University, Belfast)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 11 May 2020

• 13:00 - Colonial Contradictions: Wartime Refugees in Neutral Hong Kong and Macau, 1937-1945
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing mark.baker@history.ox.ac.uk
  Helena F. S. Lopes (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 18 May 2020

• 13:00 - The Morals of Modernity: Travelling Yinshu (Obscene Books) between Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s-1930s
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing thomas.barrett@orinst.ox.ac.uk
  Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 25 May 2020

• 13:00 - In between the ‘Continents’: Japanese Tango Musicians in China, 1920s-1940s
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing lin.ma@orinst.ox.ac.uk
  Yuiko Asaba (Osaka University/University of Huddersfield)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 1 June 2020

• 17:00 - Imperium inter Imperia: The Catholic Church in Modern Chinese and Global History
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing thomas.burnham@history.ox.ac.uk
  Steven Pieragastini (Loyola Marymount University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 8 June 2020

• 13:00 - ‘With a mill-stone about her neck’: China’s Participation in the 1924-1925 Geneva Opium Conferences and its Impacts
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing lin.ma@orinst.ox.ac.uk
  Yun Huang (University of Strathclyde)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 15 June 2020

• 13:00 - A ‘Bridge’ from China to the Eastern Malay Archipelago: Sojourners and Smugglers in Early Twentieth-Century Sandakan, North Borneo
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing thomas.burnham@history.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Yeo (University of Oxford/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 22 June 2020

• 13:00 - Nishihara Kamezō and the Origins of Developmentalist East Asia: State Socialism, WWI, and the East Asian Economic League
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing di.wu@history.ox.ac.uk
  Ernest Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 12 October 2020

• 13:00 - Voting with your hooves: waves of flight of herdsmen from Hulun Buir to the Mongolian People's Republic, 1962-1964
  TBA
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 19 October 2020

• 13:00 - Chinese Propaganda Policy and Wartime Publicity in Australia, 1937-1945
  Bolin Hu (University of Auckland)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 26 October 2020

• 13:00 - Hokkaido as “Eastern America”: Towards a Critique of Transcolonialism
  Michael Roellinghoff (University of Tokyo)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 2 November 2020

• 13:00 - Gender-Sound in Wonderland: Zhao Yuanren’s Nonsensical Pronouns, Literary Translation, and the Limits of the National Language Movement
  Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 16 November 2020

• 13:00 - Marriage of Convenience: Constructing a Japanese Model of Empire Through Intermarriage, 1919-1937
  Genevieve Tan (University of Pennsylvania)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 23 November 2020

• 13:00 - Touring China’s Underground "Great Wall": From the 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Clashes to Shelter Diplomacy
  Katrin Heilmann (King's College London)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 30 November 2020

• 13:00 - Forgotten Leader of a Forgotten Alliance: Abdurresid Ibrahim and his Vision of Japan as the Leader of Muslims
  Time may change as yet to be confirmed
  Muhammed Cihad Kubat (Bilkent University and Inonu University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 13:00 - Atlas in Motion: Visualising Manchuria in Moving Images
  Yufei Li (University of Cambridge)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 13:00 - Global Trade and Translingual Contact in Sinophone Asia: The English and Portuguese Languages in Chinese Everyday Life, 1800-1840
  Carl Kubler (University of Chicago)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 13:00 - Legitimated Rule through Minority Liberation: China’s Incorporation of Muslim Minorities as Presented at Bandung
  Arianne Ekinci (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 13:00 - Treaty-making and Colonization in East Asia: Korea and Vietnam in the 19th Century
  Jeeve Song (University of Florida)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 13:00 - The World of Science and the Chinese Reader: Negotiating Nation and Universe in Popular Science Publications, 1933-1945
  Noa Nahimias (York University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 13:00 - The Legal Life of Women in the Shanghai’s Concessions (1845-1943)
  Lu Yu (Zhejiang University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 13:00 - Visible ‘Races’: Constructing Boundaries in Chinese Press Photographs (1907-1913)
  Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 13:00 - A Journey to the other Pacific Shore: A Study on the Chinese-Ecuadorian ‘Mestizaje’ Phenomenon, 1900-1930
  Luis-Felipe Borja (MIT Sloan School of Management), Maria Jose Borja (Renmin University), Christian David Mejia (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 13:00 - Mexican Japanese: Experiences of Mestizaje, Ethno-Racial Exclusion and Strategies to Attain Equality
  Jessica A Fernández de Lara Harada (University of Cambridge)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 13:00 - One Empire, One Nation: Imperial Reconfiguration Projects in Britain and China (1880-1920)
  Asier Aguirresarobe (University of the Basque Country)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 13:00 - Multiple Jeju(s): Representation of the U.S. Occupation on Jeju Island during Jeju 4.3
  Youjoung (Yuna) Kim (Johns Hopkins University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 13:00 - From Harbin to Paris: A Transnational History of Russian Refugees during the Great Famine in China 1958-1962
  Yuqing Qiu (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 13:00 - W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and the Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
  Jingjian Wu (Yale Law School)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 13:00 - Evolution of a Hybrid Typology: Christian Churches Built in Huế, Vietnam in the 20th Century
  Phi Nguyen (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and Haute École d'art et de design, Geneva)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 13:00 - Reinscribing Diplomatic Protocol: The Case of Chile During Korean Détente, 1970-1973
  Eilin Rafael Perez (University of Chicago)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 13:00 - Debating Chinese Cruelty: Legal Orientalism, Summary Execution, and Extraterritoriality
  Yuan Tian (University of Chicago)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 4 October 2021

• 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 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - An Archive of Comparison: Between Adab, Wenxue and Literature
  Professor Michael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 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

• 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

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Battle of Images: The Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
  Prof. Ying Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Monday 29 November 2021

• 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

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 17:00 - Missionaries, Civil Servants, and Military Officers: Competition and Entanglements in East and Southeast Asia
  Dong-Yu (Donny) Lin (National Taiwan Normal University), Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 20 January 2022

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

Monday 24 January 2022

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

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 13:00 - Health and Hygiene in Late Modern Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
  Loretta Lou (University of Macau), Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 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

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

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 17:00 - Militarizing Atomic Energy across the Taiwan Strait in the Cold War and Challenging the Nuclear Family in 19th Century Korea
  Laura Pflug (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Young-Chan Choi (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 17:00 - Between and Beyond Nation-Building and Self-Representation
  Maria Sobotka (Freie Universität zu Berlin), Yiwen Liu (Cleveland Museum of Art)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 7 March 2022

• 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

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 17:00 - Poverty and Squalor in Modern Chinese Realism
  Dr Keru Cai (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:00 - The Vibrant Material and Digital Geographies of Contentious Politics in China
  Dr Carwyn Morris (University of Manchester)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - Internal Mindsets of Change and Progress in Revolutionary and Cultural Revolutionary China
  Yaowen Dong (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ying Tong (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 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

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 17:00 - The Kangaroo Man in the Paddock: Reproductive Technologies and Body Politics in Lily Hsueh’s Writings of Family History
  Dr Po-hsi Chen (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:00 - Modernity and Marginalisation
  Aylin Yilmaz Şaşmaz (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University), Çile Maden Kalkan (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University), Tak Wai Hung (University of Hong Kong)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022

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

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:00 - Pacifists and POWs
  Bingyi Gong (Osaka University), Gundė Daukšytė (Heidelberg University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 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

• 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

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:00 - Nationalistic Discourses Beyond National Borders
  Tycho van der Hoog (Leiden University), Duy Tan La (Vietnam National University and Academy of Korea Studies)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Monday 3 October 2022

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

Monday 10 October 2022

• 17:00 - Demystifying China's Innovation and Entrepreneurial System
  Professor David Gann (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 13 October 2022

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

Friday 14 October 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT1: Centring Chinese History
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 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

Friday 21 October 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT2: New Global Approaches to Late Imperial China
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - Reconsidering the Principles of Zheng Xuan’s 鄭玄 Canonical Scholarship
  The talk will be in Chinese
  Hashimoto Hidemi 橋本秀美 (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - Revisiting the Early Modern Era
  Rômulo da Silva Ehalt (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), Niamh Calway (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 27 October 2022

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

Friday 28 October 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT3: Foreign Intervention and the Search for Modern China
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?
  This is an in-person and online event. To attend online (via Zoom), registration is required
  Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 3 November 2022

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

Friday 4 November 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT4: Hong Kong in the Cold War
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 16:00 - Crossing the Iron Curtain: North Korea’s and Japan’s Connections to the World during the Cold War
  Please note this seminar is at 16:00
  Camilo Aguirre Torrini (University of Sussex), Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022

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

Friday 11 November 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT5: Rethinking Intellectual Transition in Late Imperial China
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Green Ink: Plant-human Relations in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Dr Astrid Møller-Olsen (Lund University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 17:00 - Hong Kong – China’s canary down the mine?
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:00 - Obsessed with Reading: Bovarysm as a Phenomenon in the Reception of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China
  Date has been changed from 8 to 16 November. Location has changed to Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - New Worlds and New Connections in East Asia
  Please note this seminar is online via Zoom
  Annabel Storr (Durham University), Hae Uk Ko (University of Chicago)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 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

Friday 18 November 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT6: A Genealogy of Feudalism
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 17:00 - She’s an Icon, She’s Your Type: Linguistic Gender through Typographic and Visual Perspectives in Republican China
  Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 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

Friday 25 November 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT7: Hong Kong: A Decolonising Transition
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 17:00 - Intellectual Visions of Nations and Peoples in Interwar East Asia
  This event is hybrid
  Andrea Bourgogne (King's College London), Hanzhi Dai (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 1 December 2022

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

Friday 2 December 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT8: Chinese Nationalism
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 19 January 2023

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

Friday 20 January 2023

• 13:00 - Modernity in Early 20th Century China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 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

Friday 27 January 2023

• 13:00 - Governance in Warlord Era China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - China and the UK in 2023, is there a Progressive Way Forward?
  Catherine West (MP)
  China Centre talks

Monday 30 January 2023

• 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

• 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

Friday 3 February 2023

• 13:00 - The Macroregions of China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 12:10 - The View From Beijing: Reflections on Recent Developments in the PRC
  Talk and discussion will start at 12.10
  Prof. Katherine Morton (Schwarzman College)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Risk of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Strategy, Technology and Deterrence
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Civilians and non-combatants during war and conflict in modern East Asia
  This talk will occur in-person and also be available online - If you would like to attend online, please register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkQ,mGpyTF6qF0KqX_vIaXUDJA,CQdGCXSjFUKM4Hng2DOiiQ,oAzvs5OpnkKn_Q2s9wA5fg,7DeXDCVKBkCwS-a4UBIjUg,Ww6rLjhisEy2NLVQ5-swHg?mode=read&tenantId=cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
  Federica Cicci (Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University), Dr. Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 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
• 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

Friday 10 February 2023

• 13:00 - Theology in Early 20th Century China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 15:00 - China’s Ambitions to Explore the Moon and the Prospects for Lunar Governance
  Prof Martin Elvis (Harvard University), Dr Alanna Krolikowski (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Food in Motion in East Asia
  Xie Zhentian (University of St Andrews), Aaron Molnar (University of British Columbia)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2023

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

Friday 17 February 2023

• 12:30 - Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe
  For link to full paper, please contact: information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) (Pennsylvania State University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Studying High Politics in Contemporary China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 17:00 - Translating Modernity: Construction and Imagination of the West in 20th China
  Qi Cheng (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Yunxia Li (University of Cologne)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023

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

Friday 24 February 2023

• 13:00 - Qing Ecological Policy and the Creation of Manchuria
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 15:00 - Chinese Companies Going Global. Findings from the Cornell EMI report 2022
  Dr Lourdes Casanova (Cornell University), Dr Anne Miroux (Cornell University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 13:00 - Politics Across the Ming-Qing Transition
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 6 March 2023

• 13:00 - Competition of Lifestyles during the Cold War
  Will Sack (Harvard University), Karina Khasnulina (University of Leipzig)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 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

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 12:00 - Situating Hong Kong in International Politics through Documentary Filmmaking: the Questions of Agency and Representation
  Dr Malte Kaeding (University of Surrey), Dr Heidi Wang-Kaeding (Keele University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 13:00 - Contested Chinese Nationalism and Global Spatial Imaginaries at the Turn of the 20th Century
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 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

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 12:00 - The US‒Japan Alliance and Taiwan
  Professor Adam P Liff (Indiana University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 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

Friday 28 April 2023

• 14:00 - Modern Battles for Ancient China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 1 May 2023

• 17:00 - Guarding Dictatorship: China's Surveillance State.
  Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 12:00 - China’s Path to Global Influence
  Prof. Richard Carney (China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Ruling the Sichuan’s Stage: Reading China’s Sociocultural Transformation from the 18th to the 20th Century through the Perspective of Opera
  Dr Igor Iwo Chabrowski (University of Warsaw)
  China Centre talks

Friday 5 May 2023

• 14:00 - Philosophy and Language in Early Modern China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 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

Friday 12 May 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Foreign Policy (I)
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 15 May 2023

• 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

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 12:00 - Decoupling in the Digital Age: China and the Challenge of Massive Modularity
  Prof. Eric Thun (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Sino-Western Trade during the early Cold War
  Yi Liu (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Ka-shing So (Binghamton University, SUNY)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 19 May 2023

• 14:00 - 1945-49: The four-year collapse of the KMT
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 22 May 2023

• 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

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 17:00 - Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s Korean Remake Believer
  Dr Jinhee Choi (King's College London)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 17:00 - From Public Sympathy to Collective Anger: Media, Emotions, and Politics in 1930s-China
  Dr. Xin Fan (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 26 May 2023

• 14:00 - Being Christian in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 13:00 - The Myth and Facts of China's Public Surveillance System: Evidence from the Government Procurement Contracts
  Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Exhibiting China and de-Colonization: Archaeology and Museology across East Asia and the World
  Shing-Kwang Chan (Princeton University), Reynold K. W. Tsang (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 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

Friday 2 June 2023

• 14:00 - History, Tradition, and Ethics in Late Imperial Thought
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 5 June 2023

• 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

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 14:00 - Personal Experiences and Connections within the Japanese Empire
  Agnese Dionisio (Waseda University), Merle Kartscher (Harvard University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 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

Friday 9 June 2023

• 14:00 - Race and Racialisation in Contemporary China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 17:00 - Borderlands and Soviets: PRC Nationalities Policy and Nuclear Deterrence
  Duanyi Yi (University of Glasgow), Chendong Pi (University of California, Davis)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 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

Friday 16 June 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Foreign Policy (II)
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Friday 6 October 2023

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:00 - Hong Kong: Not Just Another Chinese City
  Vaudine England (Leiden University)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 17:00 - Literary Transmission as Political Action: Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Compendium (c. 1610)
  Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 13 October 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Historiography on China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 16 October 2023

• 12:00 - U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour
  Mr Aaron Halegua (Aaron Halegua PLLC)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 17:00 - One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929‒1939
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford), Dr Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 12:00 - Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Friday 20 October 2023

• 14:00 - Reappraising the Sino-Soviet Split
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 23 October 2023

• 17:00 - Colonial Administration and Modern China
  Please contact us if you would like a Teams link for our sessions streamed online - https://en-gb.facebook.com/OxIHEAS/
  Yimeng Cheng (University of Macao), Qingrou Zhao (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)
• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Dr Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 17:00 - Spectres of Progress in a Northeast Asian Borderland
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 October 2023

• 14:00 - ‘The People’ in Chinese Foreign Policy
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 17:00 - Intersection across the Pacific: Race, Migration, and the Environment in Modern East Asia
  Zelin Pei (University of Arizona), Rory Qianqing Huang (Texas A&M University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 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

Friday 3 November 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Grand Strategy?
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Cultural Revolution in a Rural County of China
  Professor Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars
  Dr Elisabeth Forster (University of Southampton), Dr Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 10 November 2023

• 14:00 - Women in Chinese Christianity
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 13 November 2023

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:00 - Western Imports, Asian Agency: Encounters between Nationalism and Transnationalism in East Asia
  Kyrie Vermette (University of British Columbia), Andrew Ka Pok Tam (University of Glasgow)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 17 November 2023

• 14:00 - Gender in Chinese History
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 12:00 - Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building: Implications for US–China Relations
  Professor Shiping Tang (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 November 2023

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

Friday 24 November 2023

• 14:00 - The Constitution of China
  https://unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/magd4621_ox_ac_uk/EeZxy2xxhXFMgCcmA6nUHikBK18lmmeXN9tA7Tkbq4J4MA?e=1B5mIQ for termcard.
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Politics of Promotion and Survival in China's Foreign Affairs System
  Dr Tyler Jost (Brown University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Gao Xingjian’s Bilingual Experimentation on the World Stage: Encounters with Translation
  Kate Costello (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:00 - Transcending the "Bamboo Curtain": Cultural diplomacy and tourism across the Taiwan Strait
  Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester), Cho-kiu Li (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 17:00 - Race for 'Frozen Garlic': Assessing Taiwan's 2024 Elections
  Dr Jonathan Sullivan (University of Nottingham), Dr Mariah Thornton (LSE), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 1 December 2023

• 14:00 - The PRC and the South China Sea in the 2010s and 2020s
  https://unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/magd4621_ox_ac_uk/EeZxy2xxhXFMgCcmA6nUHikBK18lmmeXN9tA7Tkbq4J4MA?e=1B5mIQ for termcard.
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 4 December 2023

• 16:00 - To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity
  Film screening and discussion with Director
  Tsai Tsung-lung (National Chung Cheng University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - US–China Competition: Risks without Rewards?
  Professor Ashley J. Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 17:00 - Xi Jinping and Time
  Dr Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 19 January 2024

• 13:00 - The Vicissitudes of the Image of the Soviet Union among the Chinese Public during the 1950s
  Presentation in Mandarin
  Professor Wang Zihui (Northwest University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 22 January 2024

• 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

• 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

Monday 29 January 2024

• 16:00 - Public Health in China: Multidisciplinary Workshop
  Xianbing Du, Dong Guoqiang, Eben Kirksey, Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge), Binli Dai (MPhil student in Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 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

Friday 2 February 2024

• 13:00 - Democracy, Nationalism and Revolution: The Relationships between Revolutionists and the Powers during China’s National Protection War (1915‒1916)
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Honglei Cheng (Central China Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Mao and Mao’s Legacy
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)

Monday 5 February 2024

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

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:00 - The 'Strategic Partnership' between China and the European Union after Twenty Years: Drivers of Change and Continuity
  John Farnell (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Friday 9 February 2024

• 14:00 - Sino-Japanese relations in the 21st century
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 16:00 - Alternative Modes of Sino-Japanese Relations: Party Movement and Japanese Writings
  Yingzi Feng (University of Edinburgh), On I Lam (University of Cambridge)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
  Professor Michael C Davis (Wilson Center)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 15 February 2024

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

Friday 16 February 2024

• 13:00 - Where is the Way out for the Sino-Indian Border Dispute?
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Xinmin Sui (Zhengzhou University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 19 February 2024

• 10:00 - 清代宮廷戲臺與戲曲 (The Court Stages and Dramas of the Qing Dynasty)
  Lecture conducted in Chinese
  Professor Lee Chang-Sook (Seoul National University)
• 14:00 - 十五世紀以來韓中使臣的戲曲體驗和兩國宮廷慶祝戲比較小論 (A Comparison of Korean and Chinese Envoys' Experience of Drama and Court Celebrations in the Two Countries since the Fifteenth Century)
  Lecture conducted in Chinese
  Professor Lee Jeong-Jae (Sogang University, Korea)
• 17:00 - Receptivity to Different Types of Migrants in Taiwan: Civic Behaviour and Support for Same-sex Marriage as Novel Correlates
  Dr Hsin-Chieh Chang (Fudan University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 12:05 - The Upside of US‒Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Medium Format: Soil Photography, Ecological Mosaics, Dispossession
  Dr William Schaefer (Durham University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:00 - Population and Identity in the PRC and ROC during the 1950s
  Adrian Kwong (University of Oxford), Zhelun Zhou (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 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

Friday 23 February 2024

• 14:00 - Chinese Christian Miracles and Exorcisms
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:00 - Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China
  Professor Ying Qian (Columbia University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - Making Modern Chinese Women with Global Cultural Flows
  Julia Haoran Ni (The University of Kansas), Mengjin Xue (University of York)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 29 February 2024

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

Friday 1 March 2024

• 10:00 - Transmediating Traditions in China and Beyond
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Shanghai A-Fei: Fashionable Rebels and Discourse Showdown in Socialist China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Yajuan Liu (East China Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Historical Anthropology and the South China School
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:00 - Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
  Anne Stevenson-Yang (J Capital Research USA LLC)
  China Centre talks
• 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

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Business and Economic Developments in Modern China
  Menggelisha (University of Oxford), Mingke Ma (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - The British China Story
  Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London)
  China Centre talks

Friday 8 March 2024

• 11:00 - From Shi jing to Internet: The Poetry Republic of China
  Professor Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University)

Monday 8 April 2024

• 12:00 - Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
  Professor Thomas J. Christensen (Columbia University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 17:00 - Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why?
  Professor Yuen Foong Khong (National University of Singapore)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Worrying about China: Storytelling, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Global Circulation of Independent Chinese Documentary
  Dr Luke Robinson (University of Sussex)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 25 April 2024

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

Friday 26 April 2024

• 10:00 - Workshop - “Domicide”: State violence and the destruction of home in the Middle East and China
  Ammar Azzouz, Alex Vasudevan, Jennifer Altehenger, Margaret Hillenbrand, Salwa Ismail, Farida Makar
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 13:00 - Migrant Approaches, Family Patterns and Social Integration: the Striving Teams' Family Migration in Contemporary China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Godfrey (Gaohui) Wu (Central South University, PR China)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - LGBTQ Identity in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 17:00 - Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
  Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 12:00 - How Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
  Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 2 May 2024

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

Friday 3 May 2024

• 14:00 - Rural Reconstruction
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Door Opened: Documenting the Early Years of China’s Reform Era
  Adrian Bradshaw (Photojournalist)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - From the Studio of Sour Mood: Poetry and Prose of Guan Yunshi 貫雲石 (1286–1324)
  Professor Emeritus Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Localising and Resisting Western Knowledge and Colonial Ideas: Encounters and Trajectories in Twentieth-Century China
  Mengliu Chang (University of Pennsylvania), Henoch Gabriel Mandelbaum (University of São Paulo)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024

• 14:00 - Collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:30 - Eat Bitter
  Documentary Film Screening
  Ningyi Sun 孙宁忆. (Film Director)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 17:00 - Landscape Paintings and Territorial Sovereignty in Socialist China
  Professor PANG Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 10:00 - Solitude and Community in Contemporary Chinese Culture
  Various Speakers
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 12:00 - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
  Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Democracy in Early Modern East Asia? Japanese chivalric “solidarity” and Chinese imperial “meritocracy” in contrast and collaboration
  Kiri Paramore (University College Cork)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 16 May 2024

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

Friday 17 May 2024

• 14:00 - Consumerism in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 20 May 2024

• 17:00 - Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
  Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 17:00 - Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - If Hong Kong is really over
  Dr Kim Wah Chung
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 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

Friday 24 May 2024

• 14:00 - Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 27 May 2024

• 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

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Disease of Money: Coins, Traders, and Agency in Twelfth-Century East Asia
  Mikael Adolphson (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 17:00 - Late Imperial China's Informal Connections to the World: Globalisation in the Networks Literati and the Commercial Settlement
  Dan Knorr (University of Cambridge), Zheng Chen (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 31 May 2024

• 14:00 - Early Chinese Communism
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 17:00 - Transnational Literary and Infrastructure Connectivity in Modern China
  Weikang Zhang (University of Oxford), Xinyi Chi (Durham University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 17:00 - Parades and Power in Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Japan: The Daimyo of Satsuma’s visits to a village of captured Korean potters within his domain
  Rebekah Clements (ICREA)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 6 June 2024

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

Friday 7 June 2024

• 14:00 - Joint Session with the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 10 June 2024

• 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

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 17:00 - Still Chasing the Xiezhai: Mythology and Visual Representations of Justice in Chinese History
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ernest Caldwell (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Monsters on the Margins: Tales of the Extrahuman on the Periphery (and Outside) of Mediaeval China
  Justin Winslett (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 17:00 - Reassessing Republican China and the Taiwan Strait Crises
  Yi-Chuan (Nicholas) Chiu (University of Oxford), Qiang Zhang (University of Nottingham)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Invitation to a Banquet: Exploring Chinese food
  Ms Fuchsia Dunlop
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Friday 14 June 2024

• 14:00 - Pub Social @ Gardeners Arms on North Parade
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 12:00 - China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
  Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
  China Centre talks

Friday 19 July 2024

• 16:00 - An Extraordinary Journey: The First Chinese Art Student to Visit Twentieth-Century India
  Dr YAN Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Thursday 17 October 2024

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

Friday 18 October 2024

• 14:00 - Applying Theory to Historical Research
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 21 October 2024

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

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 17:00 - “Connecting the Clouds”: Port City Lianyungang and Dutch Economic Interests in China, 1899-1937
  Cao Mingran (Leiden University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 25 October 2024

• 14:00 - Chinese Food
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - The Entanglement of Domestic Politics and International Interests: A New Perspective on the Diplomatic History of Modern China
  Zhang Gong (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)), Zhang Zhen (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 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

Friday 1 November 2024

• 14:00 - Twentieth Century Chinese Theatre
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 17:00 - Samurai in Siam: Miyazaki Tōten’s Utopian Farming Community (1895-96)
  Joel Littler (Harvard University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2024

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

Friday 8 November 2024

• 14:00 - The Lineage in Chinese History
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 12:00 - China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

Friday 22 November 2024

• 14:00 - Language and Politics in the Sinophone World
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 25 November 2024

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Audio(visual) Sources for Chinese Socialist Soundscapes: A Methodological Exploration
  Professor Jie Li (Harvard University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Transnational Networks and Contestations: 20th Century Territorial Conquest and the Cold War
  N.B. UPDATE - This session is now ONLINE ONLY on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDQwYzcxMDQtZDJjYi00OTUzLWE2YTgtYzU4NDJlY2FhZjZj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e97dbd5f-c58e-4e1a-baee-1d31ff07e256%22%7d
  Jiang Zhifeng (National University of Singapore), Clara Galzerano (University of Trento)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 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

Friday 29 November 2024

• 14:00 - KMT Authoritarianism and “Project National Glory”
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 12:00 - An Outlook for US-China-Taiwan Relations under Trump 2.0
  Oxford China Centre Talks & Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
  Professor Yeh-chung Lu (National Chengchi University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Constructing Thought and Infrastructure: The Interplay of Ideology and Development across East Asia
  Huo Changwei (SOAS University of London), Ha Jaeyoung (Peking University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 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

Friday 6 December 2024

• 14:00 - The CCP at the Grassroots
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 13 January 2025

• 12:00 - Moral Fluidity and Digital Economies: Socio-Economic Transformations in Rural China
  Mr Peng Wu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
  Professor Steve Tsang (SOAS)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 17:00 - Grassroots Officials, Worker Wrongdoings, and Masculinity in the Nantong Municipal Steel Rolling Mill c. 1970
  Dr Amanda Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 24 January 2025

• 13:30 - Rainbow Bridges: Chinese Queer Short Films Showcase
  Film - English & Mandarin subtitles provided, original audio in Mandarin. Q & A Discussion in English
  Jenny Man Wu (Filmmaker), Hongyu Jiang (Film Director), Yuqing Lai (Film Director), Siyuan Liu (Film Director)

Monday 27 January 2025

• 10:00 - Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing
  Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California Irvine)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - EU-China Relations in their 50th Anniversary and Future Perspectives
  Ambassador Jorge Toledo (Delegation of the European Union to the People’s Republic of China)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:00 - US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Prospect and Retrospect
  Dr Andrew Scobell (United States Institute of Peace)
  China Centre talks

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

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 14:00 - Subaltern labour in colonial Singapore and the Western Front
  Online ONLY via MS Teams: MS Teams link - https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWY5MThjZWEtNTlhYi00NjRjLTg3NjgtODQzOGRiZTkxZjgz%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e043e052-d190-40e8-aad0-0c66a10f59ad%22%7d
  Dr. Hema Kiruppalini (National Univeristy of Singapore), Julia Godart (Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Universite Paris Cite)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

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

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 17:00 - Taiwan and its Southeast Asia Challenge
  Professor Alex Tan (University of Canterbury)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Monday 17 February 2025

• 12:00 - China’s Evolving Approach to Economic Security
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 10:10 - Workshop: Connection in Contemporary Taiwan Cultural Studies
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Economic Autonomy and State Control in 20th Century East Asia
  Gus Tsz-kit Chan (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Man-Sing Cheung (Marco) (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

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

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - The US-China Conflict and a Divided Southeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan
  Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

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

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Colonial Projects and Local Realities in East Asian ‘Peripheries’
  Scott Ma (University of Zurich), Surigage (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:00 - Yang sheng and Diaitētikē: Comparative Perspectives on Regimen in Early China
  Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 7 March 2025

• 10:00 - Symposium: Gender and Care in China: New Challenges and Practices
  Venue has changed to Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor, turn left at top of stairs)
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - Land and the Origins of Contemporary Politics in Asia - Mainland China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia
  Professor William Hurst (University of Cambridge)
  China Centre talks

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

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:00 - 2025 Annual China and the World Program Conference
  Various Speakers

Friday 25 April 2025

• 12:00 - Governing Digital China
  Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
  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

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
  Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
  China Centre talks

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

• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 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

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks

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