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

Thursday 1 May 2025

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

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Identity and Conformity on the ‘Chinese Frontier’
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
  Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - A Touch of Noir: The Rise of Parasitic Media in Contemporary China
  Dr Shiqi Lin (Cornell University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Authoritarian Teleology
  Dr Iza Ding (Northwestern University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 9 May 2025

• 14:00 - The Problem of Nationalism
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

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

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

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

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

Friday 20 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rethinking Hong Kong’s Laissez-Faire Myth
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group