Past Manchester China Institute events
Xiaodong Lin, Magdalena Wong & Derek Hird - Masculinities in China and Chinese Masculinities: Roundtable Discussion
In this discussion-focused event, the MCI has invited speakers Dr Xiaodong Lin (University of York)...
Tao Wang [ECR] - How does Guanxi shape democracy? A case study using evidence from Taiwan
Political scientists have produced a voluminous amount of literature on the subject of 'guanxi', the...
Hannah Theaker - No Mere Soldiers: Gansu's Republican-era Muslim 'Warlords' as Politicians, 1911-1932
The Ma Family Muslim leaders who dominated northwestern Chinese politics through the early Republica...
Amy Zhang, Asa Roast & Carwyn Morris - Online Influencers and China's Urban Aesthetics [Roundtable Discussion]
How do aesthetics influence urbanism and consumption in Chinese cities? And how should we understand...
Yan Wang Preston - Yangtze: The Mythical Mother River of China
This talk is held in conjunction with Manchester Museum. In this talk the award-winning British-Chin...
Tobias Ross - The Chinese Football Dream: How voluntarily-driven is China’s private football boom? [Early Career Researcher Workshop]
Since initiating a set of large-scale reforms in the field of football at the highest political leve...
China and the World after Covid-19: A Conversation & Book Launch with Orville Schell
This webinar will commence with a discussion of the legacies of China’s Cold War past in Chinese d...
Fuchsia Dunlop - A Taste of Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao or Gong Bao chicken is one of the best known Chinese dishes, almost universally adored and...
Jingran Yu - A Better Experience, or a Better Investment? A Case Study of Chinese Students at a British Branch Campus in China [Early Career Researcher Workshop]
With public higher education funding being repeatedly cut, UK universities have been extending their...
Ed Pulford - China-Russia Friendship, Internationally and Interpersonally
Both during the 1950s Sino-Soviet Friendship and again in the present era of apparent bonhomie betwe...