Past Manchester China Institute events
Linda Li - Institutional Contradictions and Change: Challenges for Hong Kong and a Globalizing China
Webinar: How to assess the challenges and opportunities for Hong Kong and China given the conspicuou...
Vanessa Frangville - Representations of Uyghurs in Chinese Cinema
Since 2017, massive arrests, detentions, and abuses have been reported in the Xinjiang Autonomous Uy...
Carwyn Morris - Surveillance states: Surveillance, censorship & digital activism in contemporary China
Webinar: This seminar considers the role of surveillance in contemporary Chinese society, how it str...
David Tobin - Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang [Book Launch]
Webinar: David Tobin will be introducing and discussing his new book, Securing China's Northwest Fro...
Fabio Lanza - “To Make Life More Beautiful:” Gender, Industrial Labour, and Collectivization during the Great Leap Forward
Webinar: In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical ef...
Pao-chen Tang - Hou Hsiao-Hsien Pre-Taiwan New Cinema: Review & Discussion of Cheerful Wind
Webinar: Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien rose to global fame in the mid 1980s with his films that...
Peter Gries - COVID-19 and the Future of China's relations with the West, Revisited
Webinar: Will future historians look back at 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic as the start of a new Co...
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...
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...
[Cancelled] Jamie Coates - An Ethnographic Film: Tokyo Pengyou
This talk and film screening will explore how we can understand young Chinese mobilities beyond fram...