Elizabeth Economy (Author, The World According to China)

For nearly a decade, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for the "Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," - for China to strengthen itself at home and to claim greater centrality for itself on the global stage. But what does this mean in practical terms?

Anthony Y.H. Fung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University) & Shin Dong Kim (Hallym University, Korea)

This talk will discuss the cultural industries and cultural policies in China and Korea.

Professor Todd H. Hall (Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford & Director of the University of Oxford’s China Centre)

Professor Shameen Prashantham (Professor of International Business & Strategy, and Associate Dean (MBA), China Europe International Business School)

This presentation draws upon Professor Shameen Prashantham's recent book synthesizing insights for multinational corporation managers on challenges associated with partnering with startups and associated strategies to overcome these.

The Programme will run from January - December 2022, during which time mentors and mentees will have the opportunity to meet regularly to discuss career opportunities, aspirations and growth.

Dennis W.H. Kwok (Harvard Kennedy School), Chun-Yi Lee (University of Nottingham) & Shelley Rigger (Davidson College)

Hong Kong is quietly undergoing a momentous transformation since the introduction of the State Security Law in the middle of 2020. The changes are not dramatic like the protests of 2019 but their significance should not be underestimated. This panel discussion will address both the changes in Hong Kong and their implications for Taiwan and its people. It will also look at how Hong Kong is changing the political dynamics in Taiwan.

Darren Byler (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)

In this talk, Professor Darren Byler draws on more than 24 months of ethnographic research in the Uyghur region of Northwest China and nearby Kazakhstan between 2011 and 2020, it considers how Muslim farmers can be turned into unfree workers under the sign of terrorism.

Xufeng Zhu (Professor & Executive Associate Dean, Director of Think Tank Research Center, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University)

Professor Xufeng Zhu talks about his latest book The Politics of Expertise in China, in which he argues that expert involvement can be regarded as the result of the inherent characteristics of policy changes in the Chinese policy process. Moreover, experts influence some policy change cases significantly and in others not.

Pei-Chia Lan (Distinguished professor of Sociology, Director of Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University)

Professor Pei-Chia Lan will talk about her recent book 'Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US', where she uses parenting as an empirical lens to examine cultural transformation and persisting inequality in the contexts of globalization and immigration.

Various speakers

To celebrate Chinese New Year, the True Heart Theatre will be giving a presentation on their foundations, and will also give an interactive and improvisational performance for SOAS Library's Hidden Histories webinar series.

Vanessa L. Fong (Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College)

This talk looks at how the intensive parental investment, high educational attainment, and egalitarian gender roles experienced by the cohort born under China’s one-child policy have led to high rates of late marriage and other social phenomena.

Professor Victor C. Shih (Associate Professor & the holder of the Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego)

Yasheng Huang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Professor Yasheng Huang will show that China’s technological collapse happened much earlier than previously thought and the collapse coincided closely with the rise of autocracy and ideological homogeneity.

Beatrice Zani

Guobin Yang (Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)

The sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8, 2020 was an unprecedented historical event in modern world history. Professor Guobin Yang recounts this history by presenting a galaxy of scenes and characters from his recently published book 'The Wuhan Lockdown'.

Tiantian Zheng (SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York)

Based on ethnographic research on self-identified gay men in Northeast China, this seminar addresses the ways in which these self-identified gay men cope with the hostile social environment through consciously shifting identities between the public and the private.

Professor Susanne Y. P. Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Based on the analysis of 80 life stories of self-identified lesbians and gay men in three major cities in China, this seminar examines the challenges sexual minorities face within the context of their family, and the strategies they have employed to gain family acceptance.

Dr Derek Hird (Lancaster University)

This talk connects Chinese middle-class men’s understandings of themselves with wider debates about China’s place in the world.

Professor Stephen Morgan (Nottingham University Business School)

The primary focus of the seminar will be on China’s quest to develop an innovative economy, which is essential to sustain growth in the next few decades.

Dr David E. Scharff, MD (International Psychotherapy Institute; Editor, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in China; International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis)

This seminar introduces the way that large vectors of history and policy affect the intimate interior of families, and how that, in turn, will continue to influence China’s overall future.

Professor Pervez Ghauri (University of Birmingham)

This seminar analyses the negotiation behaviour of Chinese businesspeople from a socio-cultural perspective. A Swedish multinational, Ericsson, is followed for several years and its negotiation process for different Chinese projects in the telecommunication industry is studied.

Li Zhang (Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis)

This talk is an overview and open discussion of Zhang’s newly published book - an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times in China.

Louisa Lim (University of Melbourne)

This book talk explores a new attempt to craft a history for Hong Kong centring local voices.

Various Speakers

Exploring key sites of importance from protest spaces, parties and meeting spaces and their spiritual, psychological, emotional value to Queer London.

Jie Li (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University)

This talk excavates a media history of loudspeakers and open-air cinema through the conceptual framework of “socialist hot noise”: a participatory sociothermic affect and a synergy between body and electricity that soldered scattered populations into the revolutionary masses.

Emma Teng

Emma Teng