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Charles Melville examines the relationship between Persian illustrations and the events they represent.

In this seminar, Professor Surabhi Chopra will discuss her paper which examines civil society engagement with immigration detention in Hong Kong.

This lecture explores Iraqi sculptor Jewad Selim's pivotal role in shaping Iraq’s post-war artistic and cultural identity.

Robert Lee Suettinger's recent biography of Hu Yaobang, 'The Conscience of the Party', informs this discussion on political struggle among CCP elites and the legacy of 'reform and opening'.

This presentation explores how people build a sense of place and community in the development zones and corridors that have become focal sites of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia.

Dr Lobsang Sangay sets out the legality behind the tradition of the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and examines the implications and motivations of China's involvement in the institution of the Dalai Lama.

Chinese internet fiction ('netfic') tends not to be highly regarded for its aesthetic accomplishments; however, this talk explores the aesthetic functions of netfic from a premodern perspective.

In this seminar, Dr Sam Crane argues that the institutional structure of the Confucian-Legalist state created incentives that thwarted the stable enactment of leadership roles required for political stability.

This talk will historicise the anxieties that nation-states encode in their body politic, examining relations between China and India across their Himalayan border.