Past events
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DR XUELEI HUANG: Scents of China [Book Launch]
17:00 - 18:30 27 February 2024
In this talk, Dr Xuelei Huang discusses her latest book - "Scents of China: Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell". In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to...
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DR IBRAR BHATT & HENG WANG: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China
17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2024
In this in-person talk, Dr Ibrar Bhatt and Heng Wang explore the semiotic heritage of Sino-Muslim communities in China. In this presentation, we [the speakers] delve into the intricate connections between the literacies of religious practice, food heritage, and artistic expression within Sino-Muslim...
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PROF HARRY WU: Can China Overcome Growth Slowdown and Productivity Deterioration?
17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2024
In this in-person talk, Prof Harry Wu examines how can China rise to the challenges of growth slowdown and productivity deterioration. The talk begins with China's growth decline over the last decade and productivity deterioration since the 1990s to revisit the features and fundamental problems of the...
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Revolution, Rebellion & Empire on Early Maoist China's Tibetan Borderland
17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2023
Join Benno Weiner's in-person talk on "Revolution, Rebellion, and the Afterlives of Empire on a Tibetan Borderland of Early Maoist China". When in 1949 the Chinese Communist Party “liberated” the area of eastern Tibet known as Amdo, it declared that Amdo Tibetans at last had become “masters of...
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China's Greatest Poet: In the Footsteps of Du Fu [Book Launch]
17:00 - 18:30 7 November 2023
Join us for the in-person launch of Michael Wood's latest book, "China's Greatest Poet: In the Footsteps of Du Fu", held at Portico Library. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined...
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