Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What are the historians’ biggest frustrations with popular conceptions of China in the United Kingdom?
  Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Professor Robert Chard (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Literary Transmission as Political Action: Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Compendium (c. 1650)
  Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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