Past Manchester China Institute events
Jessica Harrison-Hall - China - A History in Objects
China’s history and geography are wonderfully rich and varied, yet it is neither as self- containe...
[Cancelled] Jamie Coates - An Ethnographic Film: Tokyo Pengyou
This talk and film screening will explore how we can understand young Chinese mobilities beyond fram...
Webinar Series - Jamie Coates - An Ethnographic Film: Tokyo Pengyou
Join this webinar to be first to watch the award-winning short film followed by a Q&A discussion wit...
Richard Kirkby - PRC Under Mao: The Anti-Urban Myth
Super-urbanisation is the PRC’s avowed policy of today, and it is in a sense one of continuity wit...
[Cancelled] Fabio Lanza - “To Make Life More Beautiful:” Gender, Industrial Labour, and Collectivization during the Great Leap Forward
In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to c...
Di Lu - The Legal issues related to Euro-American Botanical Exploration in Nineteenth-Century China [ECR Workshop]
During the first four decades of the nineteenth century, Euro-Americans in China could legally resid...
Jessica Harrison-Hall: China - a History in Objects [cancelled]
China’s history and geography are wonderfully rich and varied, yet it is neither as self-contained...
[Cancelled] Linda Li - Institutional contradictions and change: Challenges for Hong Kong and a globalizing China
How can we assess the challenges and opportunities for Hong Kong and China given the conspicuous con...
Felix Wemheuer - "Great achievements, big failures: How to evaluate the social changes of the Mao era"
In the Mao Era (1949–1976), millions of Chinese people experienced social upward mobility, while o...
Felicia Chan - The Little Nyonya: Sinicisation and the politics of return migration
In 2008-2009, Singapore’s national broadcaster, MediaCorp, produced a 34-episode Mandarin-language...