Welcome to the Contemporary China Studies Programme
The Contemporary China Studies Programme (CCSP) was founded in 2002 with a generous grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Its activities, concentrated primarily in the social sciences, form part of a concerted effort now underway at Oxford to enhance all areas of research, teaching, and library resources relating to China, both past and present.
CCSP is based in Oxfords School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and shares the Schools commitment to improving our understanding of the complexity and the interrelatedness of different societies through the encouragement of high quality interdisciplinary study. The Programme has been directed, since its inception, by Professor Vivienne Shue. The Programme Administrator is Ms Veronique Cubilie-Ratio. For information on the MSc Modern Chinese Studies please contact Ms Lucy Driver.
Today, research on modern and contemporary China is thriving at Oxford University, and the Contemporary China Studies Programme is a vibrant focal point of activity supporting students, postdoctoral research fellows and faculty members working in Chinese studies across the University, as well as the larger University community and the public at large.
CCSP organizes frequent seminars, workshops, colloquia and conferences to develop, share, and disseminate innovative current research about China. The Programme regularly hosts visiting academics from China and around the world who wish to carry out research on China in Oxford. And it is also able to offer a limited number of fellowships and other financial support to postgraduate students concentrating on the study of China at Oxford within the social sciences, broadly conceived.
In addition to Professor Shue, core members of the Programme include Professor Christine Wong, Professor of Chinese Public Finance, Dr Jan Knoerich, Departmental Lecturer in the Economy of China, Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright, University Lecturer in the Human Geography of China, and Dr Paul Irwin Crookes, Departmental Lecturer in the Political Economy and International Relations of China.
Other specialists on modern and contemporary China at Oxford hold appointments across the University in the departments of Economics, Politics and International Relations, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Medicine and Public Health, the Environmental Change Institute, and Interdisciplinary Area Studies, as well as in Oxford Said Business School. Most of these specialists are actively involved in providing doctoral supervision and in teaching on various degrees, including the new MSc in Modern Chinese Studies, the MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies, as well as the BA.
Explore this website to learn more about CCSP and Chinese Studies more broadly at Oxford, and follow the links to related units within the University.
Latest News
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Newly appointed administrator for the MSc Modern Chinese Studies
Ms Lucy Driver is joining us as the new MSc Modern Chinese Studies administrator. She previously worked as an administrator for the Global MBA programme at Oxford Brookes University. We are delighted to welcome her at the China Centre and are looking forward to working with her.
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A new publication by Dr Janette Ryan, academic visitor with CCSP
Dr Janette Ryan is about to publish the second volume of the Education in China series that she edited following the conference she organised on "Education reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices" sponsored by CCSP in March 2009.
Updated: 23 May 2011 Read more... -
China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation - A Book by J. Ryan
We're delighted to announce the publication of the first volume of a series of two books on Education Reform in China edited by Dr Janette Ryan, one of the CCSP academic visitors.
Updated: 29 Oct 2010 Read more...