SOAS China Institute Monday Seminars
SOAS China Institute Monday Seminars examine the fundamental issues facing China today and provides unique opportunities to gain insight into China through the perspectives of internationally respected experts from both inside and outside of China.
Convenor and Chair: Professor Steve Tsang
Contact Li-Sa Whittington/ Aki Elborzi on sci@soas.ac.uk for further information.
Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.
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Forthcoming Events
What Is Xi Fighting? The Dynamics of Corruption in Post-Mao China
Professor Andrew Wedeman (Georgia State University)
Analysis of the anti-corruption crackdown launched by Xi Jinping in late 2012, early 2013 shows its primary effect was to dramatically increase the number of senior officials – popularly known as “tigers” – charged with corruption.
2 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM’The invention of the Han race’
Bill Hayton (Chatham House)
In this talk Bill Hayton will argue that the idea of a Han Race was constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century as a political strategy to support the arguments of revolutionary Chinese nationalism.
9 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWhat Explains the Resilience of Chinese Communist Party Rule?
Tony Saich (Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation / Daewoo Professor of International Affairs)
This talk will look at different explanations for the continued resilience of the Communist Party of China.
16 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMXi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Contemporary China
Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia)
How can we make sense of what Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are doing? This talk offers perspectives from the history of the Party and its notable style of governance: Rectification.
23 November 2020, Virtual Event, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM