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

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - The US-China Conflict and a Divided Southeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan
  Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Colonial Projects and Local Realities in East Asian ‘Peripheries’
  Scott Ma (University of Zurich), Surigage (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 6 March 2025

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

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)
  China Studies Seminar series

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 - Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
  Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Designing for Scarcity, Navigating Decline: Architecture, Industry, and Global Economic Transformation in Twentieth-Century China
  Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh), Niall Chithelen (University of California, San Diego)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

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 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
  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