Monday 12 May 2025

• 17:00 - Oxford China Centre & China, Law and Development Book Launch
  Hybrid event. Registration required for online attendance.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 May 2025

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

Thursday 15 May 2025

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

Friday 16 May 2025

• 14:00 - Chinese Developmentalism in the Nanjing Decade
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 19 May 2025

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

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
  Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Reframing Modern China: Deaf Education and the Sensory Politics of Race and Empire
  Shu Wan (University of Buffalo), Gemma McLean-Carr (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 14:00 - Governing Shanghailand: The SMC and SMP
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 26 May 2025

• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
  Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
  Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 29 May 2025

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

Friday 30 May 2025

• 14:00 - OxCRG Pub Social
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
  Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 12 June 2025

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

Friday 13 June 2025

• 14:00 - Sustaining Continuity: Conservation Approaches to Placemaking for Chinese Voluntary Associations
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Monday 16 June 2025

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

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 13:00 - Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
  Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
  TBA
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Rethinking Hong Kong’s Laissez-Faire Myth
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Thursday 26 June 2025

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