Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
  Professor Steve Tsang (SOAS)
  China Centre talks

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)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 24 January 2025

• 13:30 - Rainbow Bridges: Chinese Queer Short Films Showcase
  Film - English & Mandarin subtitles provided, original audio in Mandarin. Q & A Discussion in English
  Jenny Man Wu (Filmmaker), Hongyu Jiang (Film Director), Yuqing Lai (Film Director), Siyuan Liu (Film Director)

Monday 27 January 2025

• 10:00 - Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing
  Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California Irvine)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - EU-China Relations in their 50th Anniversary and Future Perspectives
  Ambassador Jorge Toledo (Delegation of the European Union to the People’s Republic of China)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:00 - US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Prospect and Retrospect
  Dr Andrew Scobell (United States Institute of Peace)
  China Centre talks

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)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Transforming the Way of Water: Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea and Zao Wou-Ki’s Paintings
  Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

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)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
  Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The Emotions of Empire: Love, Desire, and the Moral Psychology of Cosmic Resonance in the Lǚshi Chunqiu and Huainanzi
  Dr Curie Virág (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks

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)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Early Modern Korea, 1392-1910
  Dr John Lee (University of Durham)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 17:00 - The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
  Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 17:00 - Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia