SOAS to host China Debate 2019: ‘Will China’s Rise be Peaceful?’

This year’s annual debate, hosted by the SOAS China Institute, will bring together experts from across academia to examine China’s rise.

29th April 2019

SOAS China Institute academics give evidence in Foreign Affairs Committee report

SOAS China Institute Director Professor Steve Tsang and Academic Member Dr Yuka Kobayashi (Lecturer/Assistant Professor in China and International Politics) have been quoted extensively in a new report by the Foreign Affairs Committee on China.

9th April 2019

In Memoriam: Roderick MacFarquhar (1930-2019)

With the passing of Harvard University Professor Emeritus Roderick MacFarquhar, international China Studies has lost a true giant in the field, and the SOAS community has lost an esteemed colleague and cherished friend of many decades.

15th February 2019

SOAS China Institute Director gives evidence at Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry on China and the international rule-based system

12th February 2019

Belt & Road Initiative: Bringing the East and the West Together?

How we should understand China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and what it means are two of the key themes addressed in this Panel Discussion organised by the SOAS China Institute on 26 November 2018.

15th January 2019

SOAS scholar awarded £300K from British Academy to research Life Stories of the China-Myanmar Jade Trade

Dr Mandy Sadan, Reader in the History of South East Asia, has been awarded £300,000 from the British Academy Sustainable Development Programme for a two-year project called 'Sustainable Lives in Scarred Landscapes: Heritage, Environment, and Violence in the China-Myanmar Jade Trade'.

29th October 2018

WSD Handa Distinguished Lecture given by Dr Thomas Christensen

Professor Christensen highlighted structural changes which affect China’s place in East Asia and its relationship with the USA, the other leading player in East Asia.

13th October 2018

New SCI Staff Member

Aki Elborzi joins SOAS China Institute as new Events and Communications Assistant.

17th September 2018

June - July 2018 Issue of The Middle East in London out now

The June - July 2018 issue of The Middle East in London, the bi-monthly magazine of the London Middle East Institute, is now available.

31st May 2018

Annual SOAS China Institute debate on the sustainability of the Chinese model

The 2018 SOAS China Institute ‘China Debate’ will bring together experts from across government business and academia to discuss the sustainability of the Chinese model.

10th April 2018

SOAS students triumph again at Chinese Bridge competition

SOAS students have again won top prizes in the UK final of the 17th Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition, held at Queen Elizabeth II Centre on 24 March.

10th April 2018

Philanthropic donation to research the histories of objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan or ‘Summer Palace’

Louise Tythacott, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, has been awarded a major philanthropic donation to undertake research on the histories and displays of objects from the Yuanmingyuan, or old ‘Summer Palace’, in Beijing.

The project will run until January 2019, and will result in a publication which traces the diaspora and displays of Yuanmingyuan artefacts in Britain and France. 

12th March 2018

Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 returns to SOAS for second year

SOAS University of London’s Centre for African Studies will once again be hosting the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing award ceremony this year.

30th January 2018

SOAS celebrates partnership with Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art to secure future loan of Percival David Library and archives

SOAS University of London this week celebrated the strengthening of its relationship with the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art through the signing of a new Loan Agreement.  The Agreement, signed by the School’s Director Baroness Valerie Amos CH and the Chair of the Percival David Foundation, Colin Sheaf, coincided with the inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Shane McCausland, who has held the Percival David Chair in Chinese Art since 2015.

11th December 2017

SOAS scholar’s new book provides fresh insight of Chinese workplace culture

Dr Jieyu Liu, Deputy Director of the SOAS China Institute and Reader in Sociology of China, explores how gender and sexuality shape experiences at work in the new millennium China in her latest book.

3rd October 2017