Past Manchester China Institute events
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...
Shigeto Sonoda - Asian Views of China in the age of China's rise
China’s rise is transforming global politics and economics, from Manchester to Manhattan. But Chin...
Nick McGee - The ‘Coolie’ and the ‘Comity of Nations’: Human Trafficking, Foreign Advisors and the Incorporation of Qing China into an Unequal Liberal Order [ECR Workshop]]
By the 1860s, Qing China was facing an unprecedented crisis of human trafficking in coerced “cooli...
Nyíri Pál - Europe’s New Bildungsbürger? Chinese Migrants in Search of a Pure Land
Nyíri Pál Professor of Global History, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Author of Reporting for China...
Manchester China Institute book presentation - 'Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia' by Dr Miriam Driessen
China’s new globalism plays out as much in the lives of ordinary workers who shoulder the task of...
Who lose and who win? The spatial differences in the impacts of high-speed railway on regional economic growth in China
It is widely believed high speed railway could improve regional development by enlarging local labou...
The Alan Turing Instute / HDR UK Seminar
The FBMH Fellowship Academy and Wellcome 4ward North Clinical PhD Academy are pleased to welcome Pro...
The Politics of Memory and Identity: Remembering and Forgetting the “Century of Humiliation” in China
Manchester China Institute Lunch Talk The Politics of Memory and Identity: Remembering and Forgetti...
Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life
Keynote speakers: Prof Em Clara Greed (UWE) Dr Christoph Luethi (EAWAG) Prof Nicholas Rose (King's...