使命 | Mission: Research, students, social responsibility, and inclusion

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The Manchester China Institute (MCI) promotes mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples through research, students, social responsibility, and inclusion.

Research

MCI advances research excellence in China studies across the Humanities. Impact and equality are central to MCI's research mission:

  • Impact - To foster socially responsible research with impact beyond academia, MCI champions knowledge production and exchange.
  • Equality - MCI seeks to create a more equal world, incubating research on racial, gender, economic, and other inequalities both within China and between China and the world.

Students

MCI supports teaching and learning about China across The University of Manchester. It also promotes student wellbeing through programmes that seek to reduce prejudice and improve the Chinese and British student experiences on campus.

Social Responsibility

Through civic engagement, knowledge exchange, and bespoke programmes, MCI fosters understanding and empathy between the British and Chinese publics. Manchester was the first - and remains the only - British university to set social responsibility as a core goal. We make the world a better place!

Inclusion

A common stereotype about Chinese in the Anglophone world is that they are smart but standoffish. In this view, they neither need nor deserve help. This attitude can lead to both passive neglect and the active exclusion of Chinese communities. MCI, therefore, works hard to create spaces where our Chinese students and staff feel included in the life of the University. MCI is a majority BAME institute.

Given Britain’s past experience as a colonial power in China, MCI is particularly keen to help educate the British and Chinese publics about their shared past, and to oppose both Orientalist and Occidentalist knowledge production about China and Britain. While embracing differences, therefore, we celebrate our common humanity: British or Chinese, all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

Video Introduction

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History

A group of formally dressed individuals posing in front of the Lee Building's green door outside cutting a red ribbon

In December 2017 Dr Lee Kai Hung donated £5 million to the University of Manchester to promote mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples.

In May 2018, the Manchester China Institute was formally opened in the newly dedicated Lee Building on Oxford Road. See: