Tuesday 20 May 2025

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

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Seekers of Truth: The Life and Deeds of The South Asian Tradition of Etymology
  Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University (SHNU))
  Pali Week: Texts and Research
• 17:00 - How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
  Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - Abhidhamma as Oral Text, the Mind as Oral Text
  Eviatar Shulman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Pali Week: Texts and Research

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
  Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 2 June 2025

• 17:00 - Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to China
  Zhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 6 June 2025

• 10:30 - Southern Encounters: Nanyang and New Cultural Regionalities in Chinese Studies
  Various Speakers
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Monday 9 June 2025

• 17:00 - Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker lecture
  TBA
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
  Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Śyāma Jātaka in the Dazu Rock Carvings
  Li Ling (Sichuan University)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies
• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 17:00 - I Film, Therefore We Are: Chinese Labourers, UGC, and the New Collective Documentary
  Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Friday 20 June 2025

• 12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
  Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 17:00 - Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
  Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
  China Studies Seminar series