• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford) , Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford) , Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford) , Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford) , Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford) , Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford) , Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays and Thursdays
• Web Address: https://chinacentre.web.ox.ac.uk/home
• Organising department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Monday 4 October 2021 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Financial Control in China: Mutual Endangerment in State-Business Relations
  Professor Meg Rithmire (Harvard University)

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dog Days and Salted Fish: Malaise of Indolence among Young Migrant Café Workers in Shanghai
  TBA

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Future Is Now: Theory and Method of the Newborn Socialist Thing
  Professor Laurence Coderre (New York University)

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Back Down to the Countryside: Contextualizing the Fanxiangqingnian ‘Return Youth’ Phenomenon, A Case Study of Heyang Village
  Linda Qian (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Jokebooks and Humour Publications in Late-Ming China
  Dr Elizabeth Smithrosser (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
  Professor Roselyn Hseuh (Temple University)

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

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)

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 2 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 3 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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

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

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

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)

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - How do movement parties learn lessons of defeat in Taiwan? The case of the Green Party Taiwan
  Dr Dafydd Fell (SOAS)

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)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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))
• 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))

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book talk: Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?
  Dr Olivia Cheung (SOAS)

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)

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Pure and True: the Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims
  Dr David Stroup (University of Manchester)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How to Tell a Sensitive History: Interviews with Chinese International Communist Volunteers in Burma
  Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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))

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
  Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - As if Heaven is Speaking: Astrology and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)