使命 | Mission: Impact, equality, understanding

UK and China flags blowing in the wind

The Manchester China Institute (MCI) promotes multidisciplinary research and teaching about China across all faculties at the University of Manchester, with a focus on the Humanities.

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

Impact, equality, understanding are central to the MCI mission:

  • Impact. MCI engages in socially responsible research with impact beyond academia, seeking to benefit Britain, China, and the world.
  • Equality. MCI seeks to create a more equal world through research on economic, gender, racial, and other inequalities both within China and between China and the world.
  • Understanding. MCI promotes empathy and mutual understanding in UK-China relations, seeking to reduce the likelihood of conflict.
Prof Peter Gries

Our vision is to create a truly multidisciplinary institute studying China today, with a focus on globalisation and international affairs. The Institute's mission will be to better understand China's expanding role in a rapidly globalising world, and to promote mutual understanding between the UK and China. We're able to embark on this thanks to the foresight and generosity of Dr Lee.

Prof Peter Gries / The Manchester China Institute Director

Watch a short film (English)

Pete Gries discusses the launch of the Manchester China Institute. These videos include a two minute introduction and an eight minute extended discussion.

Watch a short film (Chinese)

Pete Gries discusses the launch of the Manchester China Institute in Mandarin. This video provides a five minute introduction to the new institute:

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