Past Manchester China Institute events
Margaret Hillenbrand - Feeling Precarious in China
On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in the basement of a two-storey building in...
Guobin Yang - “An Absolutely Ordinary Person”: Stories from the Wuhan Lockdown
A conversation with Guobin Yang about lockdowns from Wuhan to Shanghai. The sealing off of Wuhan fr...
Decolonise East Asian Studies - What is the British Chinese Identity?
This wide-ranging talk aims to unpack the complex and personal reality of the British Chinese Identi...
David Stroup - Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims (Book Launch)
China points to the Hui—the largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its...
Paul Crookes - The Developing Landscape of EU-China Relations
This presentation will analyse the current relationship between the European Union and China to asse...
Martin Palmer - Daoism in China’s Climate Change Policy
This event is co-organised with the Manchester Museum. In this talk, broadcaster and theologian Ma...
GDI Lecture: Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order with Yeling Tan
Professor Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal...
Edward Vickers - How the National Security Law is Shaping Education in Hong Kong
The implications of Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL), which came into force in July 2020, a...
Cora Lingling Xu - The Portrayal of Chinese International Students: A Critical Review
This talk will critically review the portrayal of Chinese international students in both English and...
Sinicising Islam: Roundtable Discussion
A “strike hard” (Yanda) campaign was launched in Islamic communities in China in 2014. Under thi...