• 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) , Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford) , Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford) , Dr Oliver Hargrave (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

• 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

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

Thursday 21 October 2021

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

Thursday 28 October 2021

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

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 18 November 2021

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

Monday 22 November 2021

• 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

• 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

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

Monday 24 January 2022

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

Thursday 3 February 2022

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

Monday 7 February 2022

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

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 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

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

Monday 28 February 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 13 October 2022

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

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 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

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

Thursday 3 November 2022

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

Thursday 10 November 2022

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

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 19 January 2023

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

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 23 February 2023

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

Thursday 2 March 2023

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

Monday 6 March 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Monday 16 October 2023

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

Thursday 26 October 2023

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

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 23 November 2023

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

Thursday 18 January 2024

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

Monday 22 January 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 15 February 2024

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

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 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

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

Monday 4 March 2024

• 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

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

Thursday 2 May 2024

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

Thursday 9 May 2024

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

Thursday 16 May 2024

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

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 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

• 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

• 17:00 - Problematic Analogies: Diplomatic Exchange and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)

Monday 10 June 2024

• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 17:00 - Intrepid Nobodies: Chinese Servants in the Canton Trade, 1700-1850
  Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 12:00 - What is the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait?
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 17:00 - Imagined 'Chinatowns' (hancheng 漢城) in Medieval Manchuria: A Critical Han Studies Approach to Liao Dynasty Populations and Settlements
  Dr Lance Pursey

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 17:00 - Efficacious Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Contemporary Daoist Practice
  Dr David Mozina (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 17:00 - Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
  Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Monday 18 November 2024

• 17:00 - Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
  Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 17:00 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 17:00 - Grassroots Officials, Worker Wrongdoings, and Masculinity in the Nantong Municipal Steel Rolling Mill c. 1970
  Dr Amanda Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London)

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:00 - A China Reporter's Notebook - Watching a Great Power Open and Rise, then Turn Inwards
  Mr David Rennie (The Economist)

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:00 - A Nosedive into Medieval China: Smells, Identities and the Writing of the Olfactory Past
  Dr Flavia Xi Fang (University of London)

Monday 17 February 2025

• 12:00 - China’s Evolving Approach to Economic Security
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:00 - Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
  Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan University)

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:00 - Yang sheng and Diaitētikē: Comparative Perspectives on Regimen in Early China
  Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)

Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:00 - Involuntary Bachelorhood and the Crises of the Son-centred Intergenerational Contract – Insights from Gender-imbalanced Rural China
  Professor Lisa Eklund (Lund Universty)

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:00 - Exploitation in the Bedchamber: Maidservants in Late Ming Erotic Novels
  Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Authoritarian Teleology
  Dr Iza Ding (Northwestern University)

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - Public Service, Party-State: Teaching, Gender, Power, and Memory in China, 1940s-1980s
  Dr Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)

Monday 19 May 2025

• 12:00 - Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World: Hypermobility, Hyperdiversity and Hyperconnectivity
  Professor Shibao Guo (University of Calgary)

Monday 26 May 2025

• 17:00 - How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
  Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 29 May 2025

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

Thursday 12 June 2025

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

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)

Thursday 26 June 2025

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