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Quotidian Social and Political Life in China: Documentary Screenings
Newton Niu is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from China, with nearly two decades of
experience working across state broadcast and independent production. His collaborative and independent
projects have received major international and Chinese awards, including recognition at IDFA and the
Sundance Film Festival.
Based on extensive fieldwork across almost all provinces in China, his work engages with contemporary
Chinese society, politics, and everyday governance, offering a distinctive ground-level perspective shaped
by work in both rural communities and senior institutional settings. He will be presenting and discussing
his work.
Sam Crane, a Professor at Williams College and Director of the Williams-Exeter Program whose work
focuses on contemporary Chinese politics and ancient Chinese philosophy, will moderate.
Date:
16 February 2026, 16:30
Venue:
Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details:
Rector's Drawing Room
Speakers:
Newton Niu,
Sam Crane (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Exeter College
Organiser:
Laura Sjoberg (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
laura.sjoberg@politics.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Sam Houskeeper
