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• Harnessing Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation in Ethiopia: Lessons from China
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• Son Preference and Sex Ratio Imbalances in China
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• "Urban Chinese Daughters" by Dr. Patricia O'Neill
• Linda Qian
• The Mortgage Migration
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• Introducing the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
• Why India-Pakistan-China Cooperation is Imperative for Peace and Prosperity in South Asia
• CHEW Conference 2018: Health, Environment and Welfare in China’s New Era
• ‘Russian Brides’ and the Politics of National Reproduction in the People’s Republic of China
• Hamsa Rajan at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
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• SIAS welcomes Professor Kyle Jaros
• The Guardian interviews former faculty member Jenny Chan
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on Europe-China relations after Brexit at the EU-Asia Centre in Brussels
• Paul Irwin Crookes interviewed by The South China Morning Post
• St Cross College Graduate Admissions Open Day
• Paul Irwin Crookes publishes new book ‘The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations: An Uneasy Partnership’
• Kyle Jaros speaks at the University of Cambridge
• Patricia Thornton co-edits special issue of The China Quarterly
• MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies - Afternoon Tea
• Jennifer Holdaway gives seminar at Hohai University
• Paul Irwin Crookes presents on EU–China economic relations at a panel discussion at the China Centre
• Paul Irwin Crookes presents the latest research on EU–China economic relations at Chatham House
• Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowships 2017
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at RUSI on UK-Taiwan economic relations post-Brexit
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on UK-China relations at an interdisciplinary policy workshop on Brexit
• Barclay Bram Shoemaker, MSc Student in Contemporary Chinese Studies, Publishes Articles in Vice Offering Unique Insights into Chinese Society
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on EU-China relations at Warwick University’s China Development Society
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• SIAS Careers Day
• Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Circuits of Waste and Value: Making E-waste Subjects in China and Japan
• Jennifer Holdaway speaks about environment and health in China on podcast for the Council on Foreign Relations
• Kyle Jaros - presenter at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference
• Jennifer Holdaway publishes article in Xuehai
• Anna Lora-Wainwright's second monograph forthcoming from MIT Press
• Kyle Jaros lectures on book project at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
• Miriam Driessen chairs panel at American Ethnological Society meeting
• Part-time Departmental Lecturership in Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on EU-China economic relations at a policy roundtable in Zurich organised by Chatham House and Credit Suisse Research Institute
• Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2017 - SIAS Internal Selection process
• A chapter by Jennifer Holdaway in the 'Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy in China'
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at BIICL conference on the political factors driving China’s international trade engagement with the UK and EU after the Brexit decision
• Coraline Goron is joining the China Centre in MT17 to work with Prof Anna Lora-Wainwright supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Philippe Wiener - Maurice Anspach Foundation
• Jennifer Holdaway speaks on environmental and social justice at Fudan University
• China’s Stance on NSG Membership Shows the Extent of India’s Challenge in the Global Nuclear Order
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at the annual EU-China Policy Roundtable in Brussels about ongoing challenges in realising an effective strategic economic partnership between Europe and China
• Kyle Jaros receives Fell Fund grant to research China's urban governance restructuring
• Paul Irwin Crookes meets up with London-based alumni from the MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Kyle Jaros speaks at Nanjing University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Departmental Lectureship in Contemporary Chinese Studies
• Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD) holds Summer Writing Workshop at Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Viola Rothschild awarded Ko Prize for best MSc dissertation
• Part-time Research and Administrative Assistant
• Paul Irwin Crookes publishes an online article in Europe’s World analysing a growing crisis of trust in EU-China economic relations despite prospects for accord over climate change policy
• Rachel Murphy gives Keynote Talk in Guangdong and is Visiting Scholar at Hong Kong University
• Miriam Driessen publishes in 中国非洲研究评论 (Annual Review of African Studies in China)
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks about China’s international relations at the annual conference of the Young China Watchers in London
• Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD) 9th Annual Conference in Beijing
• Doctoral student Linda Qian (Area Studies - China) publishes article in the International Journal of Communication
• SIAS/FCO East Asia Dialogue
• The Forum on Health, Environment and Development holds its 9th Annual Meeting in Beijing
• Anna Lora-Wainwright visits University of Oslo and the Autonomous University of Barcelona to speak about her book 'Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China'
• Anna Lora-Wainwright is visiting scholar at China Agricultural University
• Anna Lora-Wainwright discusses her new book and research in an interview with China Dialogue
• Anna Lora-Wainwright publishes blog about her new book in New Security Beat
• Professor Rachel Murphy gives Key Note Lecture at the Institute for the Study of Strategic Regions, Charles University
• Miriam Driessen publishes article on "Rural Voids" in Public Culture
• Jérôme Doyon gives presentation at University of London workshop
• FORHEAD holds conferences on current research on China's air pollution
• SIAS Winter Newsletter
• Read the latest review of the book 'The Politics of EU-China Economic Relations' by John Farnell and Paul Irwin Crookes, published in the journal International Affairs
• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 22nd Feb 2018 – University Deadline 23rd March 2018)
• Newton International Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 1st March 2018)
• The Robin & Nadine Wells Scholarship
• Paul Irwin Crookes interviewed by The New York Times about UK-China relations in light of Theresa May’s visit to China
• Paul Irwin Crookes and Kyle Jaros publish an article in ChinaFile examining UK-China relations
• Kyle Jaros publishes article in The China Quarterly
• Miriam Driessen interviewed by the BBC Chinese
• Anna Lora-Wainwright discusses new book at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Environmental Humanities Workshop
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at a workshop hosted by the Shanghai Institute of International Studies about Europe's maritime strategic engagement with China in East Asia
• Anna Lora-Wainwright's 'Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China' book wins BBC Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography
• Hamsa Rajan recently published an article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
• Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on UK-China economic relations at a conference organised by the UK Department for International Trade in London
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018/2019 - Expression of Interest Deadline 31/08/2018
• 'Challenges of Compression'
• FORHEAD holds its 10th Anniversary Conference in Beijing
• Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan Offers Mutual Benefits
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• The Double-Edged Sword
• Assessing China’s Economic Statecraft in Europe
• On Feeding the Masses: The Politics of Regulatory Failure in China
• Kevin Rudd talking about US-China relations
• War Crimes and Justice in China and East Asia in the Post-1945 Era
• New Youth: Watching Young China
• Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West
• Symposium: Drugs, Politics and Society in the Global South
• Time Has Begun: Hu Feng’s Poiesis in Socialist China, 1937-50
• The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century
• China, Europe, the UK and the US: New Thinking
• Land Reform outcomes in Shanxi and Guangdong, c.1945-1965: New Findings from the Ganbu dang’an
• A Rumor of Ghost (黑眚) and its Circulation in Ming and Qing China
• The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, 1876-1905
• Institutional Credibility and Authoritarian Governance: Evidence from Land Expropriations in China’s Urbanization
• Addressing Air Pollution in China: Not Just an Environmental Policy Problem
• Climbing the Mobility Ladder: Practices of Mobile Citizenship in China
• Royal treasures, secret texts and the forgotten esoteric traditions of pre-imperial China
• Back to the Future with Xi Jinping
• The end of the one-child policy and its effect on LGBT Chinese
• Film screening of 'Pink Dads' & a conversation with director Fan Popo
• Intoxicating Shanghai: Modernist Literature and Art in Shanghai's Jazz Age
• Mass Misleading of Leaders Under Authoritarianism: Implications for Understanding and Surveying the Public in China
• Chun-Tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture - China and the West: Crossroads of Globalisation
• Coastal Economies and China’s Maritime Power
• ‘Let your child win at the starting line’: Hong Kong’s Education System as a Desired Destination
• Latin American Centre Seminars: Co-hosted with the African Studies Centre and the China Centre: The impact of China in developing countries: Latin America and Africa compared
• Michael Wood and Rebecca Dobbs on 'The Story of China: Turning Chinese History into Television'
• State of Exchange: Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government
• China and the Death of American Comparative Law
• Forging the Golden Urn: Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, 1792-1911
• Rebels in Power: Shandong and Shanxi in China’s Cultural Revolution
• Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
• SIAS Careers Day
• The Emergence of the Indian and Chinese Economic Powerhouses: Historical and Institutional Perspectives
• The Making of Formal Politics in China ‒ Anticorruption Campaign in Transformation (2012-2017)
• China’s National Urbanization Program: Party-State Expansion and the End of the Village
• Surviving Conservation: Herders and Farmers in China’s Northwest
• Mandarin Forum: A World in Sand: Nomadic Life and its Response to Desertification in Alpine Wetlands and Grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau
• China’s Economy and Society – What Next? A discussion forum on contemporary Chinese politics and society with two distinguished commentators
• Re-Sacralizing the Landscape: Asian Communities and a Sustainable Future
• The Idea of China through the Lens of International Sports
• African Studies Seminar: Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
• China and Israel: Strange Bedfellows (1948‒2016)
• Mobile Phone Traders and Smartphone Users Between China and Myanmar
• Mandarin Forum: Rural Housing Land Right Registry and Rural Households in China
• The Mighty Words: Writing and Authority in Tang China
• CHEW Conference 2017: Contesting Modernisation: The Future of Health, Environment, and Welfare in China
• Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the Belt and Road Initiative
• Mandarin Forum: The Hui Warehouses in Gansu and the Local Society during the Republican Period: A Case Study
• Sir Robert Hart, Ireland’s Imperial Mandarin: The Most Influential Foreigner in Qing China
• Research Forum with Renmin University: New Research from China on Chinese Communist Party History and Contemporary Chinese Society
• The Aesthetics of Technological Excess in Contemporary Chinese Performance
• Growing Up in (and out) of Shenzhen: The Longer-term Impacts of Rural-Urban Migration on Children
• Rehabilitating History: A reconsideration of the treatment of disability in Chinese history and its implications for today
• Violence, Atrocity and Conflict: New Research from East Asia in Comparative Perspective with Europe
• Silk Road and Modern China: Doing business in China and other Asian markets
• Bombing, Civilians, and War: Comparisons between Europe, Japan, and China in World War II
• **CANCELLED** Magical Concepts and Political Economy
• The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection
• Rethinking the Opium War and Fascism in East Asia
• Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China’s Shadow
• Is China an ‘Entrepreneurial State’? Artificial Intelligence innovation under government guidance
• Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Enhancing Public Health Programs in China
• New Approaches to the South China Sea Conflicts
• Hollywood Made in China
• African Studies Seminar: China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
• Brexit, the UK, and China: Where Next?
• Special Event - Astor Lecture: Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?
• The Politics of Joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
• Skills Training of Migrant Workers and their Share of the Benefits of Development in China
• Electric shadows reloaded: the post-digital animateur, shadow play and handmade cinema
• IR Research Colloquium: Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
• After the 19th Party Congress: Xi Jinping Thought and the Future for Chinese Politics
• 50 Shades of Grey: The Emergence of ‘Smog Art’ in China
• China after the Party Congress: Challenges to America’s Role
• The Art of Non-Alliance in Cold War-era Chinese Literature
• RISJ Seminar: India and China: Strangers across the Border
• Migration and the Ripple Effect: How Chinese Mobility Prompts African Mobility
• Mandarin Forum: Governing Media and Mediatized Governance: Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Chinese Politics
• New Scholarship from the China Centre: Chinese Politics and Power
• The Regulatory State in China: Ambition, Strategy, and Limitation
• Blockbusters, Biennales and Market Economy: the Global Spin of Chinese Contemporary Art
• Studying China from Within and Without: A Personal Perspective
• Easy Riders and Good Fellows: Rebellion, Masculinity, and the Market in Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Film
• The Grammar and Semantics of Abstraction in Classical Chinese
• Connections: China and the West in the Making of History
• Are the US and China Fated to Fight?
• Taking China out of Premodern Global History
• BOOK LAUNCH: Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China
• The Stagnant Ditch and the Politics of Deodorizing China
• African Studies Seminar: Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
• China’s Inadvertent Empire: China in Central Asia
• Many Roads from Pasture to Plate: China’s Beef Trade, 1732-1931
• A System Apart: Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 till Now
• Masculine Compromise: The Impact of Migration on Family and Gender Relations in China
• Silencing Hong Kong: Press Censorship, Free Speech and Rule of Law in British Hong Kong (1850s–1940s)
• Gendered Experiences of Christianity and Nationalism during the Second World War in East Asia
• Economic Partnership between China and Europe: Reality, Possibility or Yesterday's Story?
• Déjà Vu? Photography as Metaphor: Repurposing Archival Photographs of Mao
• Why China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters
• Language and Securitization of Language Policy in Contemporary Xinjiang
• ‘Thugs-for-Hire’ and Outsourcing of State Repression in China
• Cold War Variations in the Representation of China
• Unmaking China’s Development: The Function and Credibility of Institutions
• **POSTPONED** Party, Nation-State, Empire: Morphologies of Rule in China
• **POSTPONED** ‘Did World War II in China matter?’
• Shades of Authoritarianism: State-Labour Relations in China
• Spies in East Asia
• **POSTPONED** Where next for Asia, China and post-Brexit Britain?
• The Pakistan-China Corridor: Impacts on Regional Stability
• The Unbearable Discretion of Street-level Bureaucrats: Corruption and Collusion in Hong Kong
• China’s Water Quality Management in the Era of Big Data
• Thoughts on the Book of Ritual Paraphernalia in the Qing Dynasty
• Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China
• Twin Cities under Attack: London and Chongqing during World War Two, 1937-1945
• New Perspectives on Hong Kong and Sino-British Relations in the Early 20th Century
• The Cultural Revolution and Me
• Lawyers and the Politics of Activism in the Xi Jinping Era
• Cultural Revolution: Personal Experiences
• The Legal Construction of Immigrant China
• China's Boxer Rising and First Global War
• Debt and the End of the Chinese Economic Miracle
• Energy Policy in Xi's China
• The Legal Challenges of the Belt and Road: Views from Dubai International Financial Centre Courts
• Cold War Competition and Cooperation in East Asia
• China Centre Distinguished Lecture: ‘The UK and China after Brexit – what next?
• Blue Plaque commemorating James Legge
• The Trajectory from Tongzhi Literature to the BL World
• China: Governing Stability at Home and Abroad
• Nissan Seminar: A one-day conference on Compressed Development in Asia and Beyond
• Mandarin Forum
• Britain, Asia, the World: Beyond Brexit?
• Legal Controversies and State-Building in Late 19th Century East Asia
• The Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN) conference
• ‘Reunion is A Dark Room’: Dream and the Camera Obscura of Kaili Blues
• From Regional Planning to Local Action: Challenges and Approaches for Development Initiatives in China
• Spatial Misallocation: The Crux of China’s Economic Slowdown
• Back to the Future? China’s Rise, Sovereignty, and International Law
• Independent Press in the Age of World Literature
• Party, Nation-State, Empire: Re-thinking the Grammar of Chinese Governance
• Mandarin Forum
• Talk by Chairman Stan Shih on Si-nnovation Island
• 'Britain Needs A New Mindset' - India expert gives evidence to House of Lords inquiry
• Sino-Indian Connections: New Perspectives on 20th century Conflicts
• Professor Paul Irwin Crookes published at Europe's World Journal
• Professor Paul Irwin Crookes delivered a lecture for the Association for International Affairs (AMO)
• Happiness in Henan, Circa 1200 BC: A Study of the Divination Coda kan 侃in the Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone Inscriptions
• Problematic Sovereignty on China’s Periphery: A Case Study of Post-1997 Hong Kong
• Making the Vigilant Citizens: Gender and Surveillance in China
• National security, free trade agreements and investment – the case of China
• 'Unpacking Farmers’ Cognition of Land Usufruct in China’s Urban Periphery: A Behavioural Institutionalist Perspective
• The Qièyùn Manuscripts before the Emergence of the Guǎngyùn
• Creative Compilations: Shifting content in popular print culture in late imperial
• Conversations with Confucius: New Views on History, Authenticity, and Humanity in Recently Unearthed Manuscripts
• Professor Kyle Jaros Publishes New Article in Studies in Comparative International Development Journal
• Lily McElwee
• Barclay Bram Shoemaker
• Professor Paul Irwin Crookes publishes new article at Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
• Dr Chigusa Yamaura
• Military-strategic Drivers of China’s Assertiveness in the SCS: Space and Naval Development
• China’s Weapons Transfer in the Western Hemisphere
• The Body Simile and the Politics of Illness in Early China
• Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
• Discussing Renaissance Pedagogy with late Ming Literati: the Role of Alfonso Vagnone's Treatises on Moral Philosophy
• Max Weber’s China: the Transcendental and the Empirical
• Gender and Class at Work in Rural China under Mao
• Might a Looming Water Crisis in Northern China Derail China's Economic Growth?
• Professor Kyle Jaros talks about his new book "China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development" in New Books Network
• Dr Hamsa Rajan published the article ‘Dilemmas of Feminist Practice in Transnational Spaces: Solidarity, Personal Growth, and Potential Solutions' in the journal Gender, Place and Culture
• Professor Maria H.A. Jaschok
• OSGA Global Forum: 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Challenges and Risks to Democracy Then and Now
• Professor Kyle Jaros presents his book "China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development" at Princeton's Wythes Center on Contemporary China and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China
• Professor Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at the annual EU-China Policy Roundtable in Brussels
• Recognised Students
• Professor Kyle Jaros co-authored the article Provincial Power in a Centralizing China: The Politics of Domestic and International “Development Space”, published on the China Journal
• Chinese Studies alumnus Mark Logan elected as a Member of Parliament in the General Election
• The Stuff of International Relations, and Why It Matters: Things, People, and the China Pavilion at the Leipzig Fairs
• Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang
• Threatened by Peace: The PRC’s Peacefulness Rhetoric and the ‘China’ Representation Question in the United Nations (1949-1971)
• China, Europe and the future of the World Trade Organisation: difficult choices ahead!
• The Qāḍī and the Yamen: Islam on the Ground in Late Imperial China
• The past and future of Chinese historical phonology: philology, reconstruction, and network theory
• Telling the Truth in Socialist China:Letters from the Masses and Mass-Line Epistemology, 1945 - 1978
• Science, Power and the Power of Science in China (1978 to nowadays)
• Dr Jérôme Doyon authored the article ‘The Strength of a Weak Organization: The Communist Youth League as a Path to Power in Post-Mao China’ published by The China Quarterly
• Dr Jérôme Doyon co-authored with Dr Franziska Keller the article ‘Knowing the Wrong Cadre? Networks and Promotions in the Chinese Party-State’ published by Political Studies.
• The Future of Area Studies Roundtable