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Reframing Global China: Mapping Power Beyond Borders
Mapping Global China event
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As part of the workshop Reframing Global China: Mapping Power Beyond Borders, this public-facing panel invites a broader audience to reflect on how we study, visualize, and understand China’s global presence. Global China is often described through its scale: vast infrastructure corridors, expanding capital flows, digital platforms, security partnerships, development finance, and growing political presence across regions. Yet global China is not only a matter of size or outward expansion. It is a complex and evolving set of relationships that connect states, firms, financial institutions, local governments, diasporic communities, and international organizations. It unfolds through negotiations, frictions, adaptations, and competing interpretations on the ground. But how do we actually see these dynamics? What role do maps, datasets, and visualizations play in shaping how scholars, policymakers, journalists, and the public interpret China’s global role? Mapping can illuminate patterns of connectivity, concentration, and dependency, yet it can also flatten complexity, obscure agency, and reproduce assumptions. Data can reveal scale and distribution, but it is always partial, structured by definitions, access constraints, political sensitivities, and methodological choices. This roundtable brings together scholars to reflect on the power and politics of mapping global China, the limits and blind spots embedded in available datasets, and the ways security logics, soft power initiatives, normative projects, and capital flows acquire spatial form. The discussion will explore how economic expansion, infrastructure development, and financial intermediation reshape regional geographies, while also considering how local actors respond to, negotiate, or resist these processes. Rather than treating China as a unified and coherent actor, the panel examines the multiplicity of institutions, intermediaries, and local dynamics that shape global engagements. At the same time, it invites a critical reflection on the analytical tools we use to represent these processes, asking what becomes visible and what remains obscured when global China is rendered through maps and numbers.
Speakers: – Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford) – Rachel Hulvey (Indiana University) – Jing Qian (New York University Shanghai). Moderated by: – Adele Carrai (University of Oxford)
Date:
6 March 2026, 17:30
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Speakers:
Professor Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford),
Professor Rachel Hulvey (Indiana University),
Professor Jing Qian (New York University Shanghai)
Organiser:
Professor Adele Carrai (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Adele Carrai (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Orchard
