Caught between Empires: Democracy and Nation State Formation in Taiwan by Dr Rwei-ren Wu (吳叡人) Date: Thursday 30 June 2022Time: 11.00am-12.15pm AESTLocation: Online event Registration is essential The webinar is supported by Macquarie University in memory of Prof Chwei-Liang Chiou AM (1938-2021). In this lecture, Dr Rwei-ren…
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Let’s Talk About Digital China: Current Issues and Future Topics
RMIT University Date: Thursday 23 June 2022Time: 11.00am-12.00pm AESTLocation: Webinar Registration China’s rise and transformation as a digital power has been studied and debated among students,scholars, observers, and pundits worldwide. The ongoing process of China’s digital great leapforward is accompanied…
‘Innocent Young Girls’: The search for female provincial leaders in China
Date: Tuesday 2 August 2022Time: 5.00-6.00pm AESTLocation: Online event Registration CSC Bookworm Series About this event China’s local political leadership contains few women. Current scholarship on the topic co-locates women’s political participation with the representation of other marginalized social groups.…
Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2022Time: 12.00-1.00pmLocation: Online event Registration About the event The subject of this book is Chinese temple theatre, the predominant venue and form for theatrical performance in premodern China. With a view to evaluating the role of…
The “New” and “Old” in Xi Jinping as a Chinese Leader
Date: Thursday 23 June 2022Time: 5.30-7.00pmLocation (hybrid): Online & Seminar Room, China in the World Building (188). Fellows Lane, ANU REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL About the event:Xi Jinping is often described as a fundamentally new kind of leader in Chinese politics…
Sino-Russian Relations in Historic Context: Ideology, Agency and Interests
Date: Thursday 16 June 2022Time: 12.00-2.00pmLocation (hybrid): Online & Seminar Room, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL Lunch will be available from 12pm, with the seminar commencing at 12.30pm. About the Event:Sino-Russian relations have always…
Researching Elite Politics in China
Date: Thursday 9 June 2022Time: 5.30-7.00pmLocation (hybrid): Online & Seminar Room, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane ANU REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL About the event:Research on Chinese elite politics has never been easy – not only have outside observers…
Book Talk: Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2022 (lunch from 12pm)Time: 12.00-2.00pm Location (hybrid): Online & Seminar Room, China in the World Building (188), Fellows Lane, ANU REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL Lunch will be available from 12 pm, with the seminar commencing at 12.30 pm. About the…
Book Talk: Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
Date: Thursday 2 June 2022Time: 4 – 5:30pm AEST (Light refreshment at 3:30pm)Location: In-person & online Registration essential This book talk for Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead Books, Text Publishing 2022) explores a new attempt to…
Book Talk: The Emergence of Global Maoism
Date: Thursday 19 May 2022Time: 4 – 5:30pm AESTLocation: In-person & online Registration essential How did Maoism go global? This book talk for The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979 (Cornell University Press,…