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Past events

Our past events include seminars, book launches, workshops and mutual understanding dialogues that have taken place in the China Forum.

The topics explored in these events range from ancient Chinese civilisation to China's reform and opening up since the 1970s.  The inaugural seminar was delivered by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew in February 2019.

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Rise of China via opening up: a practitioner's experience

The China Forum seminar on Thursday 16 May 2024 was given by Dr Yuebing Lu (University of Birmingham, Air Liquide (China) Holding Co. Ltd, and B Capital).

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Rise of China via opening up: a practitioner's experience
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China and the global semiconductor industry

The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 28 February 2024 took the form of a roundtable seminar. The panellists were Associate Professor Douglas B. Fuller (Copenhagen Business School), Dr Mathieu Duchâtel (Institut Montaigne, Paris) and Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu (University of Southampton).

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China and the global semiconductor industry
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The Geopolitics of AI

The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 20 February 2024 was delivered by Professor Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton).

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The Geopolitics of AI
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Chinese Dress in Detail

The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 24 January 2024 was delivered by Sau Fong Chan (Victoria and Albert Museum).

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Chinese Dress in Detail
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China's Hidden Century

The China Forum seminar on Thursday 23 November 2023 was given by Jessica Harrison-Hall (British Museum).

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China's Hidden Century
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Sanxingdui bronzes and metallurgical network in the Shang dynasty

The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 17 October 2023 was delivered by Professor Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research).

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Sanxingdui bronzes and metallurgical network in the Shang dynasty
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State and market in local development: the cases of Wenzhou and Guyuan

The China Forum seminar on Thursday 25 May 2023 was delivered by three scholars from China's Centre for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD), Development Research Center of the State Council, PRC: Dr Zhang Jin (Vice President, CIKD), Dr Chen Xiao (Associate Research Fellow, CIKD) and Dr Liang Xiaomin (Associate Research Fellow, CIKD).

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State and market in local development: the cases of Wenzhou and Guyuan
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Bioethics in China today

The China Forum lecture on Tuesday 23 May 2023 was given by Professor David Archard, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Honorary Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy.

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Bioethics in China today
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Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise

The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 3 May 2023 was delivered by Professor Christopher Marquis (Fellow, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú, and Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, Cambridge Judge Business School).

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Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: how Exams, Autocracy, Stability, & Technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline

The China Forum lecture on Tuesday 14 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Yasheng Huang (Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, and Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management).

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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: how Exams, Autocracy, Stability, & Technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline
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The rule of law in China

The China Forum lecture on Thursday 9 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Simon Deakin (Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Business Research, and co-Chair of the Strategic Research Initiative in Public Policy, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge).

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The rule of law in China
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China, the G20, and sovereign debt: from club to global governance

The China Forum lecture on Tuesday 7 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Deborah Brautigam (Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy Emerita and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC).

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China, the G20, and sovereign debt: from club to global governance
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China in British education: The Natzler Report in historical perspective

The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 1 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Timothy H. Barrett (Emeritus Professor, SOAS China Institute and Japan Research Centre; and Member of the Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS, University of London).

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China in British education: The Natzler Report in historical perspective
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Wendell Willkie’s 1942 Circumnavigation of the World: Asia and the Second World War

The China Forum lecture on Thursday 16 February 2023 was delivered by Professor Hans van de Ven (Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, St Catharine's College, Cambridge; Deputy Director, China Forum; and Visiting Chair Professor, Department of History, Peking University).

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Wendell Willkie’s 1942 Circumnavigation of the World: Asia and the Second World War
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5G in China

The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 7 February 2023 was given by Ms Sihan Bo Chen (Head of Greater China, GSMA) and Dr Paul G. Clifford (Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School).

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5G in China
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Links between Britain and China in Higher Education and research

The China Forum lecture on Thursday 26 January 2023 was delivered by The Rt Hon Lord Willetts, President, Resolution Foundation; Visiting Professor, King's College London; former Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014); and former MP for Havant (1992-2015).

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Links between Britain and China in Higher Education and research
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Refashioning the East Asian Order

The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 30 November 2022 was delivered by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense; former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Principal American interpreter during President Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972.

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Refashioning the East Asian Order
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Exotic, marginal, and 'invisible' aspects of Early Modern China and the Maritime Silk Road

The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 29 November 2022 was given by Professor Dr Angela Schottenhammer, Professor of Chinese Middle Period & Early Modern World History, KU Leuven; Director of the Crossroads Research Centre; Selected Senior Researcher, School of Economics, Shanghai University; and research affiliate, Geography Department, UGent.

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Exotic, marginal, and 'invisible' aspects of Early Modern China and the Maritime Silk Road
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The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra

The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 16 November 2022 was given by Dr Roger Hart, Professor of Chinese History and Director of the China Institute at Texas Southern University.

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The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
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How Covid has affected China's local government debt

The China Forum lecture on Thursday 10 November 2022 was delivered by Professor Jean C. Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Stanford University; Director of Stanford China Programme, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University; and Lee Shau Kee Director of Stanford Center at Peking University.

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How Covid has affected China's local government debt
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China and India: development achievements and challenges

The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 3 November 2022 took the form of a roundtable event, with four leading international scholars, Professor Shailaja Fennell, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Professor Huaichuan Rui and Assistant Professor Isabella Weber.

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China and India: development achievements and challenges
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China biodiversity and conservation: status, challenges and opportunities

The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 12 October 2022 was delivered by Professor Zhiyun Ouyang, Professor and Director at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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China biodiversity and conservation: status, challenges and opportunities
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From the "Great Divergence" to the "Great Convergence": The modern transformation of the Yangzi Delta's economy in a new perspective

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 15 June 2022 was delivered Professor Li Bozhong, Chair Professor of Humanities, Peking University, and Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

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From the "Great Divergence" to the "Great Convergence": The modern transformation of the Yangzi Delta's economy in a new perspective
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Accidental conflict: America, China, and the clash of false narratives

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 7 June 2022 was delivered by Dr Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.

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Accidental conflict: America, China, and the clash of false narratives
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The rise and fall of communalism in modern Chinese and Israeli literature

The China Centre seminar on Tuesday 31 May 2022 was given by Professor Yaron Peleg (Kennedy-Leigh Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú) and Dr Huiruo Li (PhD graduate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge).

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The rise and fall of communalism in modern Chinese and Israeli literature
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The Chinese Conundrum

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 26 May 2022 was delivered by the Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrat party, former MP for Twickenham, former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.

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The Chinese Conundrum
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Is China still playing our game? Institutional outsourcing in the era of Xi Jinping

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 11 May 2022 was delivered by Professor Edward S. Steinfeld, Director of the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Brown University.

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Is China still playing our game? Institutional outsourcing in the era of Xi Jinping
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Public goods provision and Chinese economic development

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 5 May 2022 was delivered by Professor Lawrence J. Lau, Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance, and former Vice Chancellor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Public goods provision and Chinese economic development
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Homo Arborealus: the intermeshing of regimes of tree-mindedness

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 17 March 2022 was given by Professor Adam Yuet Chau, Professor of the Anthropology of China, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at St John's College, Cambridge.

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Homo Arborealus: the intermeshing of regimes of tree-mindedness
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Lord Millet in Alibaba's cave: the resurrection of an iconic Chinese food

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 9 March 2022 was given by Professor Francesca Bray, Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

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Lord Millet in Alibaba's cave: the resurrection of an iconic Chinese food
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China through media

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 3 March 2022 was delivered by Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, London, and Walt Disney Chair in Global Media and Communications, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.

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China through media
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China's ancient poems for the modern era

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 22 February 2022 was given by Tim Clissold, Senior Research Associate of the China Centre, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú, and author of three books on China, including Mr China.

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China's ancient poems for the modern era
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British Chinese - the invisible community

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 16 February 2022 was given by Dr George Chak Man Lee, former London Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector and first Chinese police officer in the UK, first Chinese Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate (GE 2015), and Liberal Democrat Party Parliamentary Candidate (GE 2019).

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British Chinese - the invisible community
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Metals, nomads and the foundations of the Silk Roads

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 9 February 2022 was given by Dr Miljana Radivojević, Lecturer in Archaeomaterials, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London.

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Metals, nomads and the foundations of the Silk Roads
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Matters of science: sound and silk in 17th Century Ming China

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 1 February 2022 was given by Professor Dr Dagmar Schäfer, Managing Director and Director of Department III (Artifacts, Action, Knowledge), The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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Matters of science: sound and silk in 17th Century Ming China
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China's good war: how World War II is shaping a new nationalism

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 18 January 2022 was delivered by Professor Rana Mitter OBE, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford and Vice-President (Public Engagement) of the British Academy.

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China's good war: how World War II is shaping a new nationalism
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A drop in the ocean: The (in)visibility of Chinese literature in translation

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 30 November 2021 was delivered by Nicky Harman, prize-winning literary translator (Chinese to English) and former co-Chair of the Translators Association, The Society of Authors.

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A drop in the ocean: The (in)visibility of Chinese literature in translation
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China's pursuit of semiconductor independence: opportunities and constraints

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 24 November 2021 was delivered by Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu, Lecturer in Chinese Politics in the Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton.

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China's pursuit of semiconductor independence: opportunities and constraints
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Reflections on the afterlives of Mao era posters

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 18 November 2021 was delivered by Professor Harriet Evans, Professor Emerita and former head of Chinese section, University of Westminster; Chair of Trustees to The Rights Practice (NG); Visiting Professor of Anthropology, LSE; and former President, the British Association for Chinese Studies.

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Reflections on the afterlives of Mao era posters
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Politics and governance in China: the party in control?

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 11 November 2021 was delivered by Professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of International Economics, Government and Business, and former Director of the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.

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Politics and governance in China: the party in control?
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The lure of China: writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 3 November 2021 was delivered by Dr Frances Wood, former Curator of Chinese collections, the British Library, and member of the steering committee of the International Dunhuang Project.

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The lure of China: writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard
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Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia

The China Centre seminar on Wednesday 27 October 2021 took the form of a set of three short lectures on the topic Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia, followed by an extended Q&A discussion. The three speakers were Dr Ildikó Bellér-Hann (Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen), Professor Michael Dillon (Professor of History and Affiliate of the Lau China Institute, King's College London), and Tim Clissold (Senior Research Associate, China Centre °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú, and author of three books on China, including Mr China).

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Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia
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Carbon neutrality: how fast can China go?

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 21 October 2021 was delivered by Professor Pan Jiahua, Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics & Director, Institute of Ecocivilization Studies, Beijing University of Technology.

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Carbon neutrality: how fast can China go?
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US Grand Strategy and intellectual and political exchange among the US, China and Europe

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 20 October 2021 was given by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute, Columbia University; SDG Advocate for UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals; and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

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US Grand Strategy and intellectual and political exchange among the US, China and Europe
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Challenges to sustaining China's economic growth

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 13 October 2021 was delivered by Professor Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

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Challenges to sustaining China's economic growth
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The Sino-Western détente

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 16 June 2021 was delivered by The Rt Hon Lord O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, HMG.

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The Sino-Western détente
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How China escaped shock therapy: the market reform debate

The China Centre seminar on Wednesday 9 June 2021 comprised a lecture given by Isabella Weber (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst), followed by a roundtable discussion chaired by Professor Peter Nolan CBE, with Professor Barry Naughton (University of California San Diego) and Professor Dwight H Perkins (Harvard University).

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How China escaped shock therapy: the market reform debate
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The other half billion: rural development in China

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 3 June 2021 was given by Professor Robert Ash, Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London, and Founder and Professorial Research Associate of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS.

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The other half billion: rural development in China
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The future of Hong Kong

The China Centre seminar on Tuesday 25 May 2021 took the form of introductory presentations and a round table discussion on the future of Hong Kong. The speakers were Professor Ian Grenville Cross SC, Isabel Hilton OBE, Ronny Tong SC and Professor David Zweig.

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The future of Hong Kong
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The history of China's high-speed trains

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 20 May 2021 was delivered by Professor Huaichuan Rui, Professor of International Business at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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The history of China's high-speed trains
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Whither Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 13 May 2021 was given by Dr David Lane, Emeritus Reader in Sociology and Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge; and former Professor of Sociology, University of Birmingham.

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Whither Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?
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China's inner Asian border with Russia: what does it reveal about relations between the two countries?

The China Centre lecture on Thursday 6 May 2021 was delivered by Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology (Emeritus) and Founder & Research Director, MIASU (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit), University of Cambridge.

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China's inner Asian border with Russia: what does it reveal about relations between the two countries?
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China re-connects: joining a deep-rooted past to a new world order

The China Centre lecture on Friday 19 March 2021 was delivered by Professor Wang Gungwu CBE, former Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong, and former Director & former Chairman, East Asian Institute, Singapore.

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China re-connects: joining a deep-rooted past to a new world order
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China in the 1980s: lessons for today

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 16 March 2021 was delivered by John Gittings, Research Associate, China Institute, SOAS, University of London, and former Assistant Foreign editor and Chief Foreign Leader-Writer, The Guardian (UK). The main body of John Gittings's lecture analysed the political landscape of China in the 1980s.

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China in the 1980s: lessons for today
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Can we avoid war with China?

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 9 March 2021 was delivered by the Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin, visiting Professor, Policy Institute, King's College London, former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and former Minister for Government Policy, HMG. The central theme of Sir Oliver's lecture was the increasing mistrust and mutual suspicion between the West and China, which he characterised as a ‘real and present danger’ for humanity.

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Can we avoid war with China?
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A fresh look at climate change: climate risks and COP26

The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 3 March 2021 was delivered by Professor Sir David King, Founder & Chair, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda, former Chief Scientific Adviser, HMG and former FCO Climate Envoy.

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A fresh look at climate change: climate risks and COP26
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Ceramics and society in the Song dynasty

On Thursday 25 February 2021 the China Centre Seminar was given by Dr Rose Kerr, Honorary Associate, Needham Research Institute, and Former Keeper of the Far Eastern Department, Victoria and Albert Museum. Dr Kerr's lecture focused on the porcelain industry in China during the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD).

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Ceramics and society in the Song dynasty
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The children of China's great migration

On Wednesday 27 January 2021 the China Centre Seminar was delivered by Professor Rachel Murphy, Professor of Chinese Development and Society and fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, President of the British Association of Chinese Studies and former junior research fellow at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú.

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The children of China's great migration
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WPP - China Centre event: Interacting with China in a complex world

On Tuesday 17 November 2020 the second WPP - China Centre, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú, China forum was held. The virtual event addressed the topic 'Interacting with China in a complex world'.

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WPP - China Centre event: Interacting with China in a complex world
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New silk roads and new citadels: the dragon, the crescent and the mousedeer

On Thursday 12 March 2020 the China Centre Seminar was delivered by Mr Azman Mokhtar, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and former CEO (2004 - 2018) of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

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New silk roads and new citadels: the dragon, the crescent and the mousedeer
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East, West and the search for universal values: China's century?

The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 4 February 2020 was delivered by Lord Stephen Green. Stephen was successively CEO and Chairman of HSBC (2003-10) and UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment between 2011-13. Lord Green's lecture addressed the topic of ‘East, West and the search for human values’, which is the subject of his book The Human Odyssey.

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East, West and the search for universal values: China's century?
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Institutions, infrastructure and geopolitics in Eurasian connectivity: a global trade hub Yiwu

On 27 January 2020 the China Centre, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú, and Cambridge Central Asia Forum held a joint seminar in collaboration with the University of Sussex Asia Centre and Royal Holloway, University of London. The seminar was devoted to an analysis of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province.

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Institutions, infrastructure and geopolitics in Eurasian connectivity: a global trade hub Yiwu
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Canada and China: challenges and opportunities

The first lecture of the Lent term in the China Centre’s 'China in the World’ seminar series was delivered by the Hon. John McCallum, P.C. It was held on Wednesday 22 January 2020 in the Frankopan Hall. The Hon. John McCallum delivered a lecture on the challenges and opportunities in the relationship between Canada and China.

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Canada and China: challenges and opportunities
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Iron and steel in Chinese history

The final Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Tuesday 26 November 2019 in the Webb Library. Dr Donald Wagner, Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus) at the University of Copenhagen, delivered a seminar on the history of the Chinese iron and steel industry.

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Iron and steel in Chinese history
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China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations

The third Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Monday 4 November 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Zhu Tianbiao gave a lecture on China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations.

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China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations
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Fellows’ China Day

On Thursday 21 November 2019 the China Centre hosted the second Fellows’ China Day in the Webb Library.

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Fellows’ China Day
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China's Belt and Road Initiative - understanding its potential impact

The second Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Thursday 24 October 2019 in the Webb Library. Sir Douglas Flint CBE delivered a lecture on understanding the potential impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

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China's Belt and Road Initiative - understanding its potential impact
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Understanding modern China: where does it come from and where is it going?

The first of the Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Tuesday 15 October 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Zhang Weiwei delivered a lecture about understanding mondern China.

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Understanding modern China: where does it come from and where is it going?
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Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road: book launch and BRI seminar

On Monday 17 June 2019 the China Centre, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú hosted a joint seminar and book launch in West Court. The other hosts were: China Social Sciences Press (CSSP); National Institute for Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); and Taylor and Francis Group (Routledge).

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Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road: book launch and BRI seminar
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Earth and environment in East Asia - risks and opportunities

The final of the Easter term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Wednesday, 5 June 2019 in the Bawden Room. Professor Simon Redfern delivered a lecture about earthquakes and volcanoes in East Asia.

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Earth and environment in East Asia - risks and opportunities
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A turning point? Branding Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain in the fourteenth century

The second of the Easter term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Monday, 3 June 2019 in the Bawden Room. Professor Shih Ching-fei’s lecture located the porcelain industry of Jingdezhen within the wider context of the evolution of the Chinese porcelain industry.

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A turning point? Branding Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain in the fourteenth century
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Why is the world's transition to renewable energy moving so quickly?

The first of the Easter term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Thursday, 30 May 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Peter B Littlewood's wide-ranging lecture located China's current developments in energy technologies within the context of the long-run development of world energy supply, innovation and pricing.

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Why is the world's transition to renewable energy moving so quickly?
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WPP - China Centre event: China in the World

WPP and the China Centre, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú, jointly organised a meeting on ‘China in the World’. The event took place on Tuesday 30 April 2019 in the Frankopan Hall, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú.

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WPP - China Centre event: China in the World
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Painting in China today: the art of Liu Dahong

The second China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held in the Frankopan Hall on Wednesday 27 February 2019. The seminar focused on art in China today with lectures from Professor Shane McCausland, Johnson Chang and Professor Liu Dahong.

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Painting in China today: the art of Liu Dahong
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Liangzhu and the origins of complex society in China

The inaugural China Centre lecture in the 'China in the World' seminar series was delivered by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew on Thursday, 21 February 2019 in the Webb Library.

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Liangzhu and the origins of complex society in China
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Fellows’ China Day

The China Centre and the Intellectual Forum jointly hosted a Fellows’ China Day in the Webb Library on Thursday 29 November 2018. The event provided an opportunity to appreciate the wide range of activities involving academics of the College and their counterparts in China.

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Fellows’ China Day

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    °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú has all the benefits of being large, historical and prestigious college, whilst also retaining fantastic welfare: the staff and other students all care about each other, and will be there to cheer you on when you are thriving, but also there to support you if you need any help. I chose Jesus due to several reasons, including its prime location, where it is very central, and easy to access everywhere, even if you work in one of the institutes further out. I also selected Jesus for its MCR...

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    Tom

    Postgraduate

    There are many reasons why I’m so happy to be a part of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú. The three biggest reasons for me are the opportunities to be involved in College sport, the support the College provides for me with for my research and the help in making sure that we have comfortable, affordable accommodation when we have needed it. °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú is so friendly and so it is incredibly easy to get involved in the sport and social side of the College. The MCR does a great job in welcoming new...

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    Ahsan

    Postgraduate

    It is a well-accepted opinion in Cambridge that °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú is the best college and no other college even comes a distant second. Its sports grounds are enormous, its buildings are mesmerising, its libraries are rich, its chapel is the oldest, its accommodation is the best value for money, its international community is diverse, its religious circles are the most welcoming, and its members are the smartest, kindest and the friendliest. It is one of the central colleges that aims to offer three years accommodation to postgraduates, and has comparatively...

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    Matthew

    Postgraduate

    °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½Ó¿Ú has been at the heart of my Cambridge experience. I chose the College because I was impressed by its distinctive blend of academic rigour and extracurricular achievement. A College for all-rounders, Jesus is a lively and rewarding place to study. I couldn’t be happier here! Friendly and engaged, the Jesus postgraduate community never ceases to impress me. At ease with themselves and forever curious, my peers go out of their way to cultivate a sense of camaraderie. After a day of leafing through old manuscripts at the National...

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