People | 专家
Learn more about the academics and professionals who work at the Manchester China Institute.
MCI academic and professional staff
Professor Peter Gries
Peter is the founding Director of MCI and studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on China and the United States.
William Kirkby
William is the Institute Manager and studied for an MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies before working in China's cultural and educational technology sectors.
Dr Xiaobing Wang
Dr Wang is an MCI Research Director, and Senior Lecturer in the Economics of China.
Dr Gregory Adam Scott
Dr Scott is the Teaching Director within MCI and a Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History.
Nasira Asghar
Nasira is the Administrator within the Manchester China Institute.
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Lorelei Baciu
Lorelei is MCI’s External Engagement & Support Officer. She manages the public-facing platforms and assists on several projects both in the community and on-campus.
MCI research associates
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Aoife Cantrill - Research Associate
Aoife’s research looks at the politics of gender, literature and language in Taiwan and China under Japanese imperialism.
Email: Aoife.cantrill@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr. Han-Wu-Shuang (Bruce) Bao - Research Associate
Bruce’s (包寒吴霜) research focuses on social perceptions, cultural stereotypes, and their psychological consequences, with a quantitative methodology based on natural language processing and large-scale text analysis. He is also focusing on developing new, broader methodologies and research tools for psychological science.
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Dr Tao Wang - Hallsworth Research Fellow
Tao’s ongoing work centres on political representation in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations.
Email: tao.wang-3@manchester.ac.uk
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MCI research affiliates
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Dr Katja Levy - Research Fellow
Dr Katja Levy 李可嘉 is a political scientist and Kui Man Gerry Yeung Postdoctoral Research Fellow currently studying charity and civic engagement in the UK and China. Further research interests include China's foreign relations, particularly with Europe and Latin America.
Email: katja.levy@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Carwyn Morris - Research Associate
Dr Carwyn Morris is a Human Geographer who researches how surveillance and censorship are practiced and imagined, digital activism, mobility and migration and the production of digital territory.
Email: carwyn.morris@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Cong Peng - Research Affiliate
Cong Peng 彭聪 studies the social/political psychology of emotions, with a focus on gratitude and indebtedness.
Email: cong.peng@manchester.ac.uk
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Qiaochu Zhang – PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester
Qiaochu’s research interests span Chinese foreign policy, norm contestation theory, and UN politics. Her PhD project explores the questions of whether, and if so, how China executes normative contestation regarding the liberal norms of human protection.
Email: qiaochu.zhang-4@manchester.ac.uk
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Jingran Yu - Research Affiliate
Jingran's research interests lie at the intersection of sociology, education and geography, with a particular focus on transnational educational space and its implications for socio-spatial (in)equalities.
Email: jingran.yu@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Hanwei Li - Research Affiliate
Hanwei Li 李晗薇 studies the sociological and educational aspects of highly skilled migration and student migration, with a focus on Europe and China.
Email: hanwei.li-2@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr Pak Chun (Paton) Yam - Research Affiliate
Paton Pak Chun Yam studies the social/political psychology of emotion and intergroup contact, with a focus on intergroup schadenfreude.
Email: paton.yam@manchester.ac.uk
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Dr David Tobin – Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China
David Tobin is Hallsworth Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China. His research focuses on the relationship between identity and security in China's ethnic politics.
Email: david.tobin@manchester.ac.uk
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Yi Wang - Research Affiliate
Yi Wang studies collective memory, nationalism, international security, and political communication, with a regional focus on China.
Email: wywest@hotmail.com
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MCI scholars in residence
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Shiyue Jia - PhD student in Economics, School of Economics, Peking University
[April 2023-present] Shiyue's interests lie in the Development Economy, focusing particularly on Industrial Policy. Her current research in Manchester is examining "China's hidden unemployment", based on perspectives within the Modern Monetary Theory.
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Dr Jin Dai - Researcher in Memory and Media Representation
[Feburary 2023-present] Jin’s research focuses on memory studies, visual anthropology, media representation and cultural identity, with a particular regional interest in Xinjiang, China.
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Ye Tian - Researcher in Translation Studies
[February 2023-Present] Ye Tian田野 is interested in the theoretical and practical insights of translation, especially how they facilitate an alternative understanding of China. He is also intrigued by the theory of semiotic translation, and thus inclined to rethink culture theories within the scope of intersemiotic translation.
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Dr Seong Lin Ding - Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Malaya
[October 2022 - present] Dr Ding's research focuses on minority and heritage languages, multilingualism, and identity.
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Qianyue Meng - Lee Kai Hung Predoc Awardee Ph.D student in Regional Economics, Wuhan University, China
[October 2022 - present] Qianyue conducts research on rural development in China, with a focus on rural finance and family farms.
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Min Li – Ph.D. student in Industrial Agglomeration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
[April 2021 - present] Min conducts research on industrial clusters in China, with a focus on creative industries.
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Nicholas McGee - Doctoral Candidate in History at the University of Toronto
[March 2020-March 2021] Nicholas McGee researches nineteenth-century conflict between the Qing and British empires over Chinese migration flows.
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Dr Di Lu – Researcher of Chinese Materia Medica and Natural History in a Global Context
[Sept 2019-March 2020] Dr Di Lu conducts research on legal issues related to Euro-American Botanical Exploration in Nineteenth-Century China.
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Ziqi Yin - PhD student in Art History, Tsinghua University, China
[Jan-March 2020] Ziqi Yin 尹子琪 focuses on the Influence of Western Art History on Chinese Art History and theory in the 20th Century.
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Dr Eric Schluessel - Assistant Professor of History and Political Science
[Oct-Nov 2019] Eric Schluessel studies the social and cultural history of Xinjiang and its connected regions.
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Extended team
Affiliated faculty
A list of Manchester China Institute affiliates:
- Dr Elena Barabantseva - Politics, School of Social Sciences. Elena is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese International Relations. Her research interests lie at the intersection of borders, identity, migration, intimacy, and citizenship in the context of globalising China.
- Dr Alison Browne – Geography, School of Environment Education and Development; Sustainable Consumption Institute. Alison is a Lecturer in Human Geography. She research interests include the everyday practices, governance and sustainability transitions of water, energy, waste and food in China, the UK, Europe and Australia.
- Dr Elisa Gambino - Elisa's research focuses on Chinese economic engagement overseas.
She is particularly interested in the internationalisation of Chinese capital, state-business relations in China’s political economy, and, more recently, Chinese intra-African trade - Dr Ping Gao - Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development. Ping is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems. His research interest is ICT for development in China.
- Dr Renfei Gao – International Business, Alliance Manchester Business School. Renfei is Presidential Fellow in Comparative and International Business. His research interests include behavioural strategy, international business, and cooperate governance, with a particular focus on China.
- Dr Yong Han - Law, School of Social Sciences. Yong is a Lecturer in Commercial Law. His research interests are English commercial and private law, the contemporary relevance of aspects of Chinese legal tradition, and the Chinese legal system.
- Dr Xia Han is Lecturer in International Business at the Alliance Manchester Business School. Her research interests include international business and strategy, with focus on the international expansion of Chinese firms.
- Mr William Hebenton - Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law. Bill is a senior lecturer in criminology. His main interests are in comparative research on 'national' criminologies; crime and punishment in China and the Greater China region (Taiwan); regulation of sexual offenders in the community.
- Prof Richard Heeks - Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development. Richard is a Professor of Digital Development and his research specialisms include digital development, ICT4D, digital economy, digital labour, data justice and China’s digital expansion.
- Dr Deljana Iossifova - Architecture, School of Environment, Education and Development. Deljana is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies. She is interested in the complex processes of spatial, social and technological coevolution in the context of rapidly urbanising China and wider East Asia.
- Prof Yaojun Li - Sociology, School of Social Sciences. Yaojun is a Professor of Social Change. His research mostly focuses on social mobility and social stratification in Britain, China and the USA as well as social capital and wellbeing in Britain, China, Australia and the USA. His interests also include generosity in Britain and immigrant integration in Britain and the USA.
- Dr Miguel Antonio Lim - Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. Miguel is a Senior Lecturer in Education with special focus on International Development. He is particularly interested in issues around transnational and international higher education.
- Dr Jenna Mittelmeier - Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. Jenna is a Lecturer in International Education located in the Manchester Institute of Education. Her research expertise focuses broadly on the internationalisation of higher education. She's particularly interested in international students' transition experiences, pedagogies with international students, and curriculum internationalisation.
- Prof Khalid Nadvi - International Development, School of Environment Education and Development; Global Development Institute. Khalid is a Political Economist specialising in issues relating to trade and industrial development. In particular, his work has focused on small enterprise clusters, global value chains and production networks, global standards, corporate social responsibility and technological upgrading.
- Dr Ed Pulford - Chinese Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Ed is a lecturer in Chinese studies and primarily an anthropologist with research interests in the past and present of socialism, transnational and cross-border connections across Asia, and northeast Asian indigenous peoples.
- Dr Gregory Adam Scott - Chinese Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Gregory is a Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History. His main research interest is in the history of late-Imperial and modern China up to the 1960s, especially cultural, religious, ideological, social, and technological history.
- Prof Philip Shapira - Innovation Management and Policy, Alliance Manchester Business School. Phil is a Professor of Innovation Management and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR). His main research interests are science, technology and innovation management policy, regional innovation, and evaluation.
- David R. Stroup - Politics, School of Social Sciences. David is a lecturer of Chinese politics who focuses on nationalism, ethnic politics, and authoritarian state-society relations in China. In particular, his research focuses on everyday ethnic politics in urban Hui Muslim communities.
- Dr Pei Sun – International Business, Alliance Manchester Business School. Pei is a professor and chair of international business. His research interests include corporate governance and nonmarket strategy, with a particular focus on how foreign and domestic firms manage and exploit institutional complexity and changes in China and how their strategies and corporate governance arrangements impact upon firm outcomes, stakeholders, and wider society.
- Dr Pao-Chen Tang – Chinese Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Pao-Chen focuses on the intersection between film aesthetics and ecopolitics. He has written extensively on questions of the nonhuman in reciprocity with ethics, and with filmmaking.
- Dr Rian Thum - History, School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures. Rian is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese History. His research focuses on the historical anthropology of Muslim communities in China, including Uyghurs and Hui, with attention to China-India connections, Sino-Muslim diasporas, assimilationist colonialism, book circulation, mobility, and non-traditional archives.
- Dr Xiaobing Wang - Economics, School of Social Sciences. Xiaobing is a Senior Lecturer in the economics of China. His research interests include labour economics, migration and urban-rural divide, with a focus on China.
- Dr Arkadiusz Wisniowski - Social Statistics, School of Social Sciences. Arkadiusz works on developing statistical methods for modelling and forecasting complex social processes, with a particular focus on migration and mobility, and combining various sources of data.
- Prof Cecilia Wong - Planning and Environmental Management, School of Environment, Education and Development. Cecilia is Professor of Spatial Planning. Her research interests include policy monitoring and spatial analysis, strategic planning, and urban and regional development policies.
- Dr Francesca Young Kaufman - East Asian History, School of Arts, Languages and Culture. Francesca's research focuses on the intersection of culture, history, and memory in China after 1989. She uses an interdisciplinary methodology combining cultural history and film and visual studies to explore the politics of representation in Chinese cinema and art at the end of the twentieth century.
- Dr Xia Han - International Business, Alliance Manchester Business School. Xia lectures in International Business at Manchester Business School. Her research interests include international business and strategy, with a focus on the international expansion of Chinese firms.
- Dr Amy Zhang – Planning and Environmental Management, School of Environment, Education and Development. Amy is a Lecturer in Urban Planning. Her research focuses on urban politics and governance, urban knowledge and policy mobilities, postcolonial urban theory, and state-society relations of China.
- Dr Yawei Zhao – Geography, School of Environment Education and Development. Yawei is a Lecturer in Socio-Cultural Geography. Her research interests include technology, experience-scape, urban (in)formality, and the intersection of lifestyle migration and urbanization.
- Prof Yang-Wen Zheng - Chinese History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Yangwen is a Professor of Chinese History. Trained as an economic historian, her research interests developed into studying Sino-foreign interaction through the lens of foreign goods/things indigenised in China. Other research areas include Asian naming practices, China's relations with Southeast Asia and the Asian Cold War.
- Dr Qingna Zhou - Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development. Qingna is a Senior Tutor in Human and Digital Development and her research interests include digital transformation, digital platform and China’s digital expansion.
- Dr Zhang Hai, Visual Anthropology, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. Zhang is a Director of The Research Centre of Visual Anthropology at Yunnan University, China, and is a visiting academic in Manchester for the 2022/2023 year. His research is focusing on the ethnographic filmmaking of southwest ethnic groups, cross-border immigrant issues, and the development and social transition of ethnic groups in relation to Yunnan's tea plantations.
Advisory board
A list of Manchester China Institute board members: TBA
Steering committee
A list of Manchester China Institute Steering Committee members:
- Dr Elena Barabantseva - Politics, School of Social Sciences. Elena is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese International Relations. Her research interests lie at the intersection of borders, identity, migration, intimacy, and citizenship in the context of globalising China.
- Dr Alison Browne – Geography, School of Environment Education and Development; Sustainable Consumption Institute. Alison is a Lecturer in Human Geography. She research interests include the everyday practices, governance and sustainability transitions of water, energy, waste and food in China, the UK, Europe and Australia.
- Mr William Hebenton - Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law. Bill is a senior lecturer in criminology. His main interests are in comparative research on 'national' criminologies; crime and punishment in China and the Greater China region (Taiwan); regulation of sexual offenders in the community.
- Prof Yaojun Li - Sociology, School of Social Sciences. Yaojun is Professor of Social Change. His research mostly focuses on social mobility and social stratification in Britain, China and the USA as well as social capital and wellbeing in Britain, China, Australia and the USA. His interests also include generosity in Britain and immigrant integration in Britain and the USA.
- Dr Miguel Antonio Lim - Education, School of Environment, Education and Development. Miguel is a Senior Lecturer in Education with special focus on International Development. He is particularly interested in issues around transnational and international higher education.
- Prof Khalid Nadvi - International Development, School of Environment Education and Development; Global Development Institute. Khalid is a Political Economist specializing in issues relating to trade and industrial development. In particular, his work has focused on small enterprise clusters, global value chains and production networks, global standards, corporate social responsibility and technological upgrading.
- Prof Philip Shapira - Innovation Management and Policy, Alliance Manchester Business School. Phil is Professor of Innovation Management and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR). His main research interests are science, technology and innovation management policy, regional innovation, and evaluation.
- Dr Hui Wang - Business Engagement and Support Team. Hui works as the senior China Business Engagement Executive for the University of Manchester. Her role is to catalyse and support a step change in the University’s business engagement with China, with main responsibilities to identify the opportunities for, and then develop and deliver tailor-made strategies with leading corporates.
- Dr Xiaobing Wang - Economics, School of Social Sciences. Xiaobing is a Lecturer in the Economics of China. His research interests include labour economics, migration and urban-rural divide. Xiaobing explores these areas with a particular focus on China.
- Prof Zhongdong Wang - High Voltage Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Zhongdong is Professor of High Voltage Engineering. Her research interests include condition monitoring techniques, thermal, electrical transient and magnetic modelling techniques for transformers, insulation ageing mechanisms and alternative liquid insulating materials.
- Prof Cecilia Wong - Planning and Environmental Management, School of Environment, Education and Development. Cecilia is Professor of Spatial Planning. Her research interests include policy monitoring and spatial analysis, strategic planning, and urban and regional development policies.
- Dr Alan Wu - Executive Education, Alliance Manchester Business School. Alan is Executive Director of China Programmes in the Executive Education division of Manchester Business School. His team developed customised programmes for Chinese companies, government officials and universities.
- Prof Yang-Wen Zheng - Chinese History, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Yangwen is Professor of Chinese History. Trained as an economic historian, her research interests developed into studying Sino-foreign interaction through the lens of foreign goods/things indigenised in China. Other research areas include Asian naming practices, China's relations with Southeast Asia and the Asian Cold War.