China: Past, Present and Future
Interdisciplinary Seminar Series 2009-2010 Thursday 17.30-19.00 (room will be announced) ALL WELCOME.
With the support of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, the Department of History and the School of Management, a series of seminars on China-related topics will launch in the new academic term.
The series will run from October 2009 to April 2010. Its purpose is to draw together academic staff and students to examine and observe the development of China from modern period through to today from many different angles.
Topics will include China's political system, economics, globalisation, urbanisation, international relati##被过滤##, culture, and history.
Autumn Term
8 Oct - Dr. Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway) How to 'hump' ministers and mothers: Internet musical activism in the Chinese diaspora
22 Oct- Dr. Wang Catherine (Royal Holloway) Horses for Courses: Paths to Innovation in UK and Chinese High-Tech Firms
5 Nov - Post-graduation presentati##被过滤## (two PhD student volunteers required)
19 Nov- Dr. John Kieschnick (University of Bristol) Interpreting the Past in Chinese Buddhism
3Dec -Prof. Raj Brown (Royal Holloway)
Muslims on China' Borders (TBA)
Spring Term
21 Jan- Dr. Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS)
China's Contemporary Foreign Trade Relati##被过滤##
4 Feb- Dr. Anne Gerritsen (Warwick) Jingdezhen's China: Porcelain in Local and Global Context
19 Feb- Zheng Yu (Royal Holloway, PhD candidate) & Ren Yanxiang (Beijing University )
Dynamic Hybridisation: the case of Japanese subsidiaries in China
The European arms purchase by Chinese Ministers in late Qing Dynasty
11 Mar- Dr. Elisabeth Hsu (Oxford University)
Seminar
title - TBA Prof. Vivienne Shue (FBA. Leverhulme Professor and Director, Contemporary China Studies Programme, Oxford) Small Mercies:
Poverty/Charity, State/Market, and the Provision of Social Welfare in Urban China
Series Convenor
Dr. Weipin Tsai
(weipin.tsai@rhul.ac.uk) |