ANNUAL REVIEW 2013 - 2014 2 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 3 From the Director CHINA: the landscape

From left to right: Prof Rosemary Foot, Mr Stephen Lillie, Mr Simon Robey, Dr Wenguang Shao and Prof Michel Hockx. I am delighted to present to you the first annual report of the SOAS China Institute (SCI). The SCI represents the collective expertise of one of the largest communities of China scholars in the Western world. It brings together 50 China experts with extensive knowledge and experience of the country developed across the humanities and social sciences.

China has changed tremendously since I first set foot there in 1986. Domestically it is a very complex country, in a constant state of flux yet seeking to achieve some form of social harmony. Internationally it is a major political and economic power, increasingly demanding to be understood on its own terms. More than ever before, critical understanding of China requires a team effort by experts across a range of disciplines, it requires genuine fluency in Chinese and genuine sensitivity to Chinese culture, and it needs direct and frequent Making an impact on global conversations. where Chinese experts across government, arts interaction with partners in China itself. Moreover, what organisations, media, NGOs, business and academia is needed is communication and dialogue between SOAS China Institute formal launch can work together to make an impact on important China experts working in different sectors and observing event, 28 April 2014. global conversations. He said: “Today the largest China from different angles or for different purposes. community of China scholars in Europe joins the global The significance of China in today’s world and the conversation with and about China… Big questions SCI research has huge contemporary relevance; we need for a deeper understanding of the country were facing China are global questions – at SOAS we have have established an advanced, bilingual teaching acknowledged by senior diplomatic, business and some of the answers – and we know we can find some programme in Chinese Studies; we organise events academic figures at the formal launch of the SOAS of the other answers with support and with partners.” and roundtables on topics of interest to academics, China Institute. students, and the wider public; we are a unique resource All the speakers emphasised the need for a deeper The launch was marked by the first event of the new of knowledge and opinion for media, government, understanding of the country, its domestic situation SOAS China Institute Lecture series, which will present and business; we actively engage with our alumni, and its economic, political, diplomatic and cultural original and valuable perspectives on China that cut research and consultancy networks throughout ties with the rest of the world. The speakers across business, media, government and academia. East Asia and with academic partners in China. congratulated the Chinese Studies community at SOAS with the timely establishment of the China At the inaugural event, China: The Landscape, four senior The SCI does not believe in simple answers when it Institute, which they agreed is ideally positioned to China experts from different sectors offered their views comes to China, but we do believe in answers. The contribute to global debates involving China. on the their personal and professional interaction with unique quantity and variety of voices represented by Chinese economic, political, social and cultural reality. our scholars and students will work towards providing An audience of well over 200 people from across the worlds of academia, government, business and those answers, and will do so in dialogues that will The speakers were: extend far beyond the walls of the university. media attended the event. A video recording of • Rosemary Foot, Professor of International Relations the event is available on the SCI website at http:// The following pages will show you who we are, at Oxford www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/launch/ . what we do, and where we are headed. We • Stephen Lillie, Director of Asia Pacific at the have done a lot in our first year and we are very Foreign and Commonwealth Office pleased to share with you the highlights. • Simon Robey, Chairman of Atlas Capital and Chairman of the Michel Hockx • Wenguang Shao, Managing Director of Phoenix Director, SOAS China Institute Chinese News & Entertainment Limited In his opening speech, SCI Director Michel Hockx talked of the importance of providing a platform 4 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 5 SOAS China Institute Research themes MA Advanced Chinese Studies

As the largest community of China scholars 5. CHINA: Images and Imagination The two-year MA Advanced Chinese Studies offers in Europe, we optimise our expertise comprehensive language-based training across Start of programme: Working with visual material, ranging from art to a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and September intake only. through interdisciplinary collaboration advertising, from journalism to propaganda, we explore social sciences. The programme is aimed at students around the following eight themes: innovative methods to visualise how China imagines pursuing careers in the academic world, business, Mode of attendance: itself, and how it is imagined elsewhere. Whilst focusing government and the media that require a skill set which 1. CHINA in Asia, Africa and the Middle East on art and culture this theme resonates across all encompasses disciplinary rigour, comprehensive area Full time. SOAS is the world’s leading institution for the study of disciplines, and produces new-style scholarly outputs knowledge and cultural and linguistic fluencies. Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This theme leverages that move beyond traditional books and articles. Course requirements: the School’s regional expertise to better understand Programme structure: Applicants should have at least intermediate-level the global context of China, outside of the typical 6. CHINA: Energy and Climate Students on the programme take four taught proficiency in modern Chinese (HSK Level 4). The US-China relationship. It considers China as a nation Moving beyond routine observations of China’s courses at SOAS during their first year, including language element of the training will be tailored that explores and expands, through trade, soft power, energy demands and air pollution challenges, this a team-taught core course provided by a range to meet the needs of students’ existing language and potentially through military power, including policy-focused research area encourages scholarly of SOAS China experts as well as a textreading skills. Alternative elements are available for both contemporary and historical perspectives. analysis of China’s current and future energy use, as seminar allowing students to integrate their Chinese applicants not in need of further Chinese language well as informed discussions of China’s responses reading skills into their disciplinary studies. training, such as native speakers of Chinese. 2. CHINA: Population and Change to climate change at both national and regional Fundamental demographic changes are taking levels. Proposals formulated in this research area Further courses can be selected from available disciplines SOAS China Institute: place in China and their impact on specific groups are supported by SOAS’s expertise in cultural and including Anthropology, Art and Archaeology, Cinema, The SOAS China Institute aims to be one of differs according to many factors, including historical aspects of China’s use of energy resources, Cultural and Regional Studies, Economics, History, Law, the world-leading centres for China expertise gender, age, ethnicity and urban or rural location. as well as by the expertise of our dedicated Centre Literature, Music, Politics, and Study of Religions. In their and pre-eminent in . The Institute Looking through the lens of changes in family life for Development, Environment and Policy (CEDEP). second year, students will undertake an extended period delivers interdisciplinary research seminars and related cultural values and traditions is one of study at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, where they and workshops; organises high profile lecture of the areas focused on within this theme. 7. CHINA: Justice and Rights will follow a tailor-made bilingual programme in Chinese events; facilitates roundtable meetings on current Human rights and social justice are highly contested Studies. Options for short-term internships with local companies will be made available. The second half of affairs; and provides specialist briefings, short 3. CHINA: Education and Censorship terms framing much of the debate about China in courses and bespoke training opportunities. other countries. By examining the practical implications the second year will be taken up with the writing of the This research area examines both the control of dissertation under close supervision back in London. information and the dissemination of knowledge of social, political and economic inequality in China, within state-driven sectors. Censorship in all its aspects as well as cultural and theoretical understandings is strongly in need of unbiased and level-headed of rights and justice from a Chinese perspective, Contact: research approaches. China is often criticised for its we aim to contribute independent, informed viewpoints to an often highly polarised debate. Student Recruitment Office, SOAS, censorship practices, yet at the same time Chinese , Thornhaugh Street, schools have been receiving worldwide praise for London, WC1H 0XG, UK. the high academic standards of their pupils. The role 8. CHINA: Beliefs and Communities of the Internet and the global creative industries will Questions about how religion, ideology and other T: +44 (0)20 7898 4034 also be prominently addressed under this theme. belief systems provide social cohesion but also E: [email protected]. produce tensions between different communities www.soas.ac.uk/sci/ma-advanced-chinese-studies 4. CHINA: Health, Water and Food Security lie at the core of this highly complex and Bringing together the economic, medical, and cultural interdisciplinary research area. Topics will range aspects of food, water and health in China, and from examination of China’s governance of ethnic linking them to crucial questions of domestic and minorities to the historical changes in the ruling international security provides greater understanding party’s own belief system, and from fieldwork among of how China sustains itself as it continues to religious groups in China to investigations into experience unprecedented economic growth. the culture of Chinese communities overseas. Environmental aspects related to food and water in China are also an integral part of this research area. 6 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 7 Recent Achievements by SCI Scholars

Dr Christopher Daily Journal of East Asian Studies and international exchange. Dr Dr Jacob Klein as “Tiananmen Square is being Dr Shane McCausland Volume 14: 31-52, Jan 2014. Publications Hill will be focusing on Burma Publications Cleansed with Blood” for the and South East Asia, and, working online journal The Conversation Publications Daily, Christopher A (2013), Robert 6. In January Dafydd published, alongside a research associate, will Klein, Jakob A. (2013) “There is and an interview for Sky TV.” Morrison and the Protestant Plan ‘Measuring and Explaining the be deciphering the Pyu language. no such thing as Dian cuisine!” Shane McCausland and Yin Hwang, for China. Hong Kong: Hong Electoral Fortunes of Small Parties Food and local identity in urban Publications eds, On Telling Images of China: Kong University Press; Columbia in Taiwan’s Party Politics.’ Issues and Together with SOAS linguistics PhD Southwest China’, Food and Essays in Narrative Painting and Re-launching the Central Asiatic University Press. (Royal Asiatic Studies. An International Quarterly candidate Thomas Owen-Smith, History 11 (1): 203-225. Visual Culture (Hong Kong: Hong Journal (ISSN 0008 - 9192), each Society of Great Britain and Ireland) on China, Taiwan, and East Asian Nathan published the edited volume Kong University Press, 2014). issue now featuring a regional Affairs, 50 (1). (2014) pp. 153-188. Trans-Himalayan Linguistics (Berlin: Klein, Jakob A. (2013) ‘Everyday focus. The first volume under new Mouton, 2014), the proceedings of approaches to food safety editorship was published in the a conference held at SOAS in 2010. in Kunming’, The China Dr Antonello Palumbo Dr Rachel Harris Quarterly 214: 376-393. spring (issue 56), with the Mongols as its special subject. Issue 57 will Publications Publications Klein, Jakob A. (2014) ‘Connecting be completely devoted to the Antonello Palumbo, An Early Chinese In 2013 Rachel Harris published an with the countryside? “Alternative” Tanguts, based on articles which commentary on the Ekottarika- edited volume: Gender in Chinese food movements with Chinese evolved out of a conference āgama: The Fenbie gongde lun and Music, Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease characteristics’, in Yuson Jung, Jakob organised by Dr Nathan Hill last year, the History of the Translation of & Shzr Ee Tan eds. Rochester: A. Klein and Melissa Caldwell (eds), as well as on new contributions the Zengyi ahan jing . Taipei: Fagu University of Rochester Press, Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and by Chinese/Asian researchers. Wenhua – Dharma Drum, 2013, which includes an introduction Socialist World. Berkeley: University xiv + 424 pp. ISBN 9789575986377 co-authored with Rowan Pease, of California Press, pp. 116-43. and her solo authored chapter: Dr Jieyu Liu ‘Doing Satan’s Business: Negotiating Oxfeld, Ellen (2014) ‘The moral Dr Jieyu Liu joined the SOAS China gendered concepts of music significance of food in reform-era Institute in January 2014, having and ritual in rural Xinjiang’. rural China’, in Yuson Jung, Jakob previously taught at Sussex (Gender A. Klein and Melissa Caldwell (eds), Studies and Sociology), Glasgow She also published a chapter: Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and (Sociology) and Leeds (East Asian ‘Harmonizing Islam in Xinjiang: Socialist World. Berkeley: University Studies). As a feminist sociologist, sound and meaning in rural Uyghur of California Press, pp. 44-68. she specialises in sociology of religious practice’, in Bellér-Hann gender with a regional focus on and Brox eds. On the Fringes of Watson, James L (2014) ‘Meat: China and other East Asian societies. Dr Dafydd Fell the Harmonious Society: Tibetans A cultural biography in (South) and Uyghurs in Socialist China. China’, in Jakob A. Klein and Anne Publications On 9 June 2014, she presented a Copenhagen: NIAS Press, pp293-317. Murcott (eds), Food Consumption paper entitled ‘Changing Family 1. Fell, Dafydd and Chiu, Kuei- Dr Andrea Janku in Global Perspective: Essays Relations in Rural China’, at the fen and Lin, Ping, eds. (2013) She produced a CD by a prominent Publications in the Anthropology of Food in Gender and Sexuality Research Ms Zhaoxia Pang Migration to and From Taiwan. Uyghur singer: ‘Arzu’ by Sanubar Honour of Jack Goody. New York: Symposium: Masculinities, Modernity London: Routledge. Tursun. Felmay Records, and won Janku, Andrea (2014) ‘Guoji rendao Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 25-44. SOAS at The International zhuyi zai Zhongguo: cong 20 shiji and Heteronormativity in the UK and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for China, held at the University of York. Conference on TCFL 2. Fell, Dafydd and Cheng , Isabelle sleeve notes written for ‘Borderlands’ chu de zaizhen tanqi.’ Shixue Sabban, Françoise (2014) ‘The taste yuekan, 2014 (4). pp. 15-19. On 24 June 2014, she presented a in Higher Education and Tseng , Yu-chin (2013) ‘The (Smithsonian Folkways 2012). for milk in modern China (1865- paper entitled ‘Ageing and Migration On 9 July 2014 The 12th politics of the mainland spouses’ 1937)’, in Jakob A. Klein and Anne in Rural China’, at the International Janku, Andrea (2013) ‘The International Conference on rights movement in Taiwan.’ In: Murcott (eds), Food Consumption Conference of Sustainable Internationalisation of Disaster Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Fell, Dafydd and Chiu, Kuei-fen Dr Nathan Hill in Global Perspective: Essays Development, Environmental Public Relief in Early Twentieth-century Language in Higher Education and Lin, Ping, (eds.), Migration to In February 2014, as part of an in the Anthropology of Food in Participation and Social Quality, held China.’ Berliner Chinahefte/Chinese opened at Regent’s University and From Taiwan.pp. 205-226. interdisciplinary team of researchers, Honour of Jack Goody. New York: at the Zhejiang University, China. History and Society (43). pp. 6-28. London. This is an annual event Dr Nathan Hill, together with Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 182-208. 3. Fell, Dafydd (2013) ‘Migration organised by British Chinese colleagues Dr Michael Willis at the through the lens of political Janku, Andrea (2014) ‘“New Publications Language Teaching Society (BCLTS), and Dr Sam van advertising: How Taiwanese parties Methods to Nourish the People”: Liu, Jieyu (2014) ‘Ageing, Migration which was established in 1997 and Schaik at the , were Dr Lars Laamann discuss migration.’ In: Migration to Late Qing Encyclopaedic Writings and Familial Support in Rural has since developed into a leading awarded a €7 million European Dr Lars Laamann pursued new and From Taiwan. pp. 125-134. on Political Economy.’ In: China’, Geoforum, 51: 305-312. organisation of Chinese Language Research Council (ERC) Synergy Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena avenues in research and publishing whilst on sabbatical during this teachers in the UK universities. 4. Fell, Dafydd and Sullivan, Grant, for a project ‘Beyond and Wagner, Rudolf G., (eds.), Liu, Jieyu (ed) (2014) Social academic year. The unscheduled Jonathan and Sapir, Eliyahu (2013) Boundaries: Religion, Region, Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Transformation in China, During the conference, about 130 highlight of the year became the first ‘Party Candidate Selection before Language and the State’. The Global Knowledge (1870-1920): London: Routledge. scholars and teachers from 12 week in June, during which events and after the Change of Ruling project will explore the interlocking Changing Chinese Ways of Thought. countries came to the meeting to were organised to commemorate Parties: A Study of the 2005 and kingdoms in Asia and their Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 329-366. present and share their research the 25th anniversary of the 2009 Local Executive Elections interactions between South, South findings; discuss and debate the demonstrations and subsequent in Taiwan.’ Taiwan Journal of East and Central Asia, focusing current issues in this field. massacre centred on Tiananmen Democracy, 9 (2). pp. 55-77. on the literary, economic and religious developments of the Square. Dr Laamann was able to Scholars and teachers from SOAS 5. Dafydd published: Should I Stay fourth and fifth centuries CE, a present an eye-witness account played an active role in the great or Should I Go? Patterns of Party crucial period of cultural formation at the SOAS colloquium devoted success of this conference. Professor Switching in Multiparty Taiwan, to the event, later published Michel Hockx, Director of SOAS 8 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 9 SOAS CHINA Institute in the Media

A global platform for academics and the wider world. China Institute, was invited as the first keynote speaker to present his Dr Tim Pringle view on the key issues of the study of Publications China, Chinese culture and Chinese Pringle, Tim (2013) Trade language. His speech was warmly Unions in China: The Challenge • The SOAS China Institute offers nearly • SOAS China Institute’s academic staff members welcomed and accompanied by of Labour Unrest (Routledge 50 experts from a range of disciplines – have provided expert commentary on a wide several applauses from the audience; Contemporary China) Paperback from finance, politics, languages and culture. range of issues. SCI Director Professor Michel SOAS is also home to The China Quarterly – Hockx frequently provides commentary on one of the most cited area studies journals languages, in particular on teaching and Dr Damian Tobin in the world. learning Mandarin in UK schools. He has Publications published articles in The Conversation on this Tobin, Damian (2013) ‘Renminbi subject and provided commentary on Voice internationalisation: precedents of Russia. He is also an expert on Chinese and implications.’ Journal of cultural policy and media censorship and Chinese Economic & Business comments frequently on those topics. Studies, 11 (2). pp. 81-99.

Tobin, Damian (2013) ‘The renminbi as an international currency: the next instalment of China’s economic reforms’ Journal of Chinese Economic & Business Studies, 11 (2). 79. History Contemporary society Professor Hockx and Dr Lars Laamann provided SCI Deputy Director Dr Jieyu Liu consistently offers commentary on the 25th anniversary of the 1989 insight on culture and society. The topics she has Dr Ulrich Volz people’s movement. This was featured on Sky News covered include the grieving process in China, stress Publications and in The Conversation. Dr Laamann’s eye-witness level among Chinese school pupils and sexuality in Dr. Yan Cui, Senior Lector of Volz, Ulrich (2014) ‘RMB account, in particular, in The Conversation, proved China, as featured in BBC Radio 4, Times Educational Department of China and Inner Asia Internationalisation and Currency extremely popular with readers. Art historian Dr Shane Supplement and BBC China respectively. In addition, presented her paper on Localization Co-operation in East Asia.’ In: McCausland described the first paper money under Dr Liu has been interviewed by the BBC The World of Teaching Materials Development; Hilpert, Hanns Günther and Ms. Zhaoxia Pang, Lector of the rule of Kublai Khan in China for a BBC World Tonight (on the impact of Malaysian Airline tragedy Rövekamp, Frank, (eds.), Currency Service programme on the history of money. upon Chinese families), Danish Broadcasting Department of China and Inner Cooperation in East Asia. Heidelberg Corporation (on gender inequality at work) and Asia chaired the session on Essay and New York: Springer, pp. 57-81. Writing and she was also elected Politics and economics (on Chinese middle class and food as a committee member of BCLTS. Volz, Ulrich (2014) ‘All Politics is consumption). Professor Hockx has also provided Last but not least, Dr. Lianyi Song, Local: The Renminbi’s Prospects The political impact of science and technology was in-depth analysis on internet culture and censorship Principle Lector of Department of as a Future Global Currency.’ In: covered by Dr Enze Han commenting on the China in China, publishing articles in Chinafile and in The China and Inner Asia was nominated Armijo, Leslie and Katada, Saori, moon landing on ITV News. Dr Hong Bo was a guest as senior advisor of BCLTS which is Conversation. As the Director of the SOAS China (eds.), The Financial Statecraft on CNBC, providing political insight on the significance Institute, he is also the spokesperson for the Institute’s going to be formally confirmed. of Emerging Powers. London: of the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the UK. Dr mission and was interviewed by The Economist, as Since the Chinese Bridge Routledge, pp. 103-137. Ito, Hiro and Tim Pringle, Professor Hockx and Dr Han provided Another Record Year well as by Propeller TV, the premium channel for the Competition started 13 years ago, Volz, Ulrich (2013) ‘China and Global commentary and analysis on the Hong Kong protests Imbalances from a View of Sectorial UK-China community which is broadcast on Sky. for SOAS in Chinese it has become the most challenging across Sky News, Deutsche Welle, The Conversation Reforms.’ Review of International Bridge Competition competition in the world in terms and Monocle Radio. During the Sunflower protests in of Chinese language proficiency Economics, 21 (1). pp. 57-71. At the 13th Chinese Bridge Taiwan in March and April, Dr Dafydd Fell was frequently Competition UK held on 22nd for university students who learn Chinese as a foreign language. In Volz, Ulrich (2014) ‘Comment on quoted in the Taiwanese media. He published two pieces March 2014, all three contestants ‘Lessons for China from Financial of analysis on the movement: ‘Occupy Taiwan and the from SOAS achieved brilliant results. all of the 13 competitions, SOAS has maintained its unique record Liberalization in Scandinavia’.’ Asian Red Shirts Movement.’ Nottingham China Policy Institute Frederic Gelati-Meinert (coached Economic Papers, 13 (1). pp. 48-50. by Wanli Gao) who was in his 4th in that at least one contestant Blog (2014), and ‘Importance of social movements from SOAS has been selected in year studies of BA Chinese was And these are shorter pieces: in Taiwan.’ Taipei Times (2014). A Chinese version of awarded the second place. the top two places to go China the latter piece was published in Wealth Magazine. for the final grand competition Ito, Hiro and Volz, Ulrich (2013) Arianna Guarnieri (coached by on behalf of the UK region. ‘Correcting China’s Macroeconomic Zhaoxia Pang) and Anna Zech Imbalances.’ East Asia Forum . (coached by Dr. Lianyi Song) both of The success of these contestants whom learned Chinese at SOAS as is also directly attributable to the Ito, Hiro and Volz, Ulrich (2013) their degree modules won the third great skills and professional efforts ‘Rebalancing the Chinese Economy.’ prize. All three of these contestants of their personal coaches who all China Forex . pp. 20-21. from SOAS were invited to go to work in the department of China China to join the Grand Competition and Inner Asia at SOAS and are also on behalf of UK university students. members of SOAS China institute. 10 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 11 Bespoke Training

The SOAS China Institute works together with the SOAS Enterprise Office to provide Chinese University of Hong bespoke training programmes related Kong (CUHK) – 2 week Summer Outcomes and Benefits to China which have been specifically designed for particular clients according Leadership Programme Staff and students are able to experience London from many different perspectives to their requirements or bid specifications. Client: Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) The enterprise team liaises closely with the and interact with a wide range of people Background and Requirements client throughout preparation and delivery from academics to practitioners, Members of to ensure programmes are of a high Each year SOAS provides a 2-week study Parliament and students. Having reflected on the standard whilst the institute is responsible programme for participants on the CUHK programme one of the students wrote “I got to for identifying and coordinating the most Leadership Development Programme which truly appreciate how diverse London is as a city, suitable expertise for a particular request. was established to nurture the leadership and how globalised and different Londoners potential of selected students. The course could be from one another. It was like seeing a The duration, content and delivery focuses on ‘London as a global city’ and is part mini globalised world with all its interactions”. style of these programmes are wide- of a two-year credit-bearing programme at ranging. A couple of recent programmes CUHK. The partnership with SOAS, University are provided to illustrate the range of London is aimed at promoting globalisation of expertise available at SOAS. and contemporary social change.

Approach The programme combines lectures on topics such as urban regeneration, creative industries, Tailored Programme for senior immigration and multiculturalism with visits to a managers from Chinese “The event provided our auction wide range of locations such as the Olympics site, art auction houses houses with an excellent Kew Gardens, the East End and Brixton as well as a day trip to Bristol where participants attend Client: Chinese Association of Auctioneers (CAA) opportunity. I suggest that a graffiti workshop. The itinerary is designed to Regional focus Asia/UK after our return to China, we provide important synergy with the emerging Background and Requirements should have a meeting to themes of global awareness and community engagement in other components of the The main objectives of the programme were to share our experiences and find out more about the business side of running programme. Students look at how globalisation an auction house and to learn about best practice learning in London, in order has transformed the politics, economy, from leading auction houses in the UK. to get a better understanding and culture of London and by considering urban development in the capital they are Approach of the rules and policies of encouraged to assess the future challenges and opportunities of Hong Kong as a world city. The course was a combination of classroom-based Sotheby’s and Christies”. lectures, discussion groups and visits to museums and auction houses, including the opportunity to participate in live auctions. Sessions were delivered by academics and auction house practitioners, giving participants a real insight into the subject area “The whole event organised by CUHK students attending a graffiti workshop rather than a purely theoretical approach. As most the team led by Dr. Tao Wang of the group did not speak English, all sessions were (from the Professors to the delivered via simultaneous translation equipment. PhD students) made our study The course at SOAS concluded with presentations trip very impressive. I hope in from some of the Chinese auction houses to an invited audience. The group then went on to do a the future, we can have more sightseeing tour of the UK, which included visits communications with British to country auction houses, antique counterparts, and welcome markets and famous sights. them to visit China as well.” Outcomes and Benefits Participants benefitted from the opportunity to exchange ideas and to study with colleagues from other auction houses in China, whilst also being able to engage with, and learn from, some of the leading experts in the UK. 12 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 13 Alumni Report China Quarterly

Editor: Professor Chris Bramall The China Quarterly is published The China Quarterly is the leading source for serious for SOAS, University of London scholarship on contemporary China and Taiwan. by Cambridge University Press. Rigorously peer-reviewed and edited to the highest https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/ standards, the journal publishes timely, in-depth, publications/journals/chinaq/ accurate and comprehensive research. International in scholarship, The China Quarterly provides readers with The China Quarterly, SOAS, University of London, an indispensable aid to understanding modern China, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, through articles, research reports and book reviews. Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Telephone: +44 (0)20 7898 4063 Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4849

Working with SOAS alumni and excellent partners Recent developments have underscored the in China and the surrounding region, the SOAS importance of SOAS’ work in the wider region, China Institute (SCI) has been actively engaging in building on its expertise in the languages, civilisations raising SOAS’ profile in East Asia and fostering global and societies of the region. The new SOAS China relationships. Professor Michel Hockx visited Singapore, Institute was established earlier in the autumn, and Hong Kong, Shanghai and Hangzhou in December the third Indonesia Kontemporer was staged at 2013, as part of building strong links with alumni in SOAS’ campus in London’s central district of learning the region, and promoting the work of the SCI. and heritage. In October the School received an extraordinary £20 million donation to support the With networking events in the four cities, SOAS alumni study and preservation of Southeast Asian art. were treated to talks by Hockx, Professor of Chinese at SOAS and a specialist in Modern Chinese literature. Zeba Salman, Head of Alumni Relations, who was His talk, entitled ‘Inside the Great Firewall: Internet part of the delegation, said: “This visit was a great Culture in the People’s Republic of China’ gave alumni opportunity to reconnect our international alumni- a critical perspective on internet censorship in China. body with current academics and with each other, and to hear about important developments at SOAS. In Singapore, Hockx was joined by Carol Tan (Professor We are working to grow and enhance our worldwide of Law at SOAS) and alumnus Dr Farish Noor of network of alumni and friends, and it’s with thanks Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who to their generosity and support that we are able to graduated from SOAS with an MA South East Asian bring multiple benefits to the life and work of the Studies. A Malaysian political scientist and historian, School - such as creating additional learning resources, Noor spoke about the impact of his SOAS studies and enhancing academic and social facilities and providing said: “SOAS is an institution of higher learning that is scholarships to ensure that we continue to attract unique in the gallery of institutions of higher learning the most talented students from all backgrounds.” in the UK, and its history is inevitably intertwined with that of empire, colonialism, anti-colonialism, To find out more about how you can get involved postcolonialism and the postmodern present. Living as with SOAS’ global alumni network, please contact we do in this postmodern age marked by our incredulity Zeba Salman on [email protected] or towards meta-narratives, perhaps we ought to accept call +44 (0)20 7898 4138. that SOAS is likewise a contested signifier that has many meanings to many people; and as an institution of some historical weight and standing, perhaps the time has come for a complex accounting of itself as well.” 14 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 15 AC Graham Memorial Lectures SOAS China Institute

2013-2014 was an exciting period for SOAS China Institute. The The annual AC Graham Memorial Lectures Centre continued to build its profile internally and externally with commemorate the scholarly contributions of Professor Angus Graham (1919-1991), who taught its events programme with some lectures attracting audiences classical Chinese philosophy and language at of close to a hundred people, including many from the wider SOAS from 1950-1984 and was widely seen as one of the world’s greatest authorities on business, media, and diplomatic community. Our regular seminar Confucianism and Daoism. The Memorial series commenced in October 2013 and included talks by: Lectures, which have been held since 2010, each year bring a renowned academic expert on Chinese philosophy to SOAS to deliver two Paul Pickowicz (University of California) Maria Menshikova (State Hermitage public lectures and teach a “master class” for “The Tangled Dynamics of Independent Museum, St Petersburg) “Date, MA and PhD students. They form a highlight Filmmaking in Contemporary China” history, and restoration of a ceramic in the events calendar for all those interested Lohan sculpture from Yizhou” in classical and premodern Chinese culture.

In 2014, the Memorial Lectures were delivered by Professor Roger Ames from the University of Hawai’i. Professor Ames is a world-leading figure in the study of Chinese philosophy, John Garnaut (Fairfax Media) Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Boston known especially for his unrivalled ability to “The Rise of Xi Jinping and the University) “Wronged by Empire: make Confucianism accessible and relevant Destruction of Bo Xilai” Wronged by Empire: Colonial in today’s global context. His well-attended Memories and Victimhood in India’s lectures focused on Confucian role ethics, and China’s Foreign Policy Today” conceptions of human nature and religiousness, and featured extensive and passionate discussion.

SOAS Online Radio has made available a feature profile of Professor Angus Graham William A. Callahan Susanne Y P Choi (Chinese University and recordings of previous AC Graham (London School of Economics) of Hong Kong) “Patriarchy Unbound: Memorial Lectures, at http://soasradio.org/ “Citizen Ai: Warrior, Jester Male Rural-to-Urban Migrants angus-graham-memorial-lectures . and Middleman” Negotiating Marital Power in China”

Roger T. Ames (University of Michel Hockx (SOAS), Andrea Janku Hawai’i) “Everyone can Become (SOAS), Lars Laamann (SOAS), a Sage:” A Revisionist Reading of Patricia Thorton (Oxford) “June the Mencius on ‘Human Nature’ Fourth 1989: An Overview”

Kathrine Morton (Australian National Prof Jeff Wasserstrom (University of University) “China’s Rise and Global California, Irvine) and Ms Isabel Hilton and Future of Global Governance” (chinadialogue) “Ways of Writing about China for Different Audiences”

Professor Bruce Dickson (George Washington University) “Can China Be Governed?” 16 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 17 SOAS China Experts

Anthropology and Dr Dic LO Dr Gerhard Kling History of Art and Ms Lik SUEN Dr Sanzhu ZHU Sociology Reader in Economics Professor of International Business Archaeology Principal Lector in Chinese Senior Lecturer in Chinese Expertise: China: industry and trade and Management Expertise: Modern Chinese Commercial Law Dr Jakob KLEIN in China; late industrialisation; Expertise: Mergers & Acquisitions, Dr Shane MCCAUSLAND languages and language Expertise: Chinese law; Lecturer in Social Anthropology Reader in the History of Art of China the Soviet-type economic International Business, Corporate pedagogy; Cantonese comparative commercial law Expertise: Food and eating, system and transformation Finance, Corporate Governance, Expertise: Pictorial arts of China - [email protected] [email protected] culinary traditions, [email protected] Mathematical & Statistical Modelling especially painting and calligraphy; consumption; China (South) [email protected] East Asian narrative art; canons, [email protected] Dr Ulrich VOLZ collecting and connoisseurship; Linguistics Library and Information Senior Lecturer in Development Dr Damian TOBIN Chinese art and modernity Dr Wynn CHAO Services Dr Kevin LATHAM Economics Lecturer in Chinese Business and [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Ms Wai Hing TSE Expertise: International Finance, Management Expertise: Syntax-semantics Social Anthropology Dr Lukas NICKEL Subject Librarian Open Economy Macroeconomics, Expertise: The reform of corporate interface; language universals and Reader in Chinese Art History and (China & Inner Asia) Expertise: Chinese theatre, popular Financial Market Development governance practices in China’s typology; psycholinguistics; Chinese Archaeology Expertise: culture, television and media; and Stability, Development and state-owned enterprises with [email protected] [email protected] Hong Kong and Guangdong Transition Economics, Global particular reference to the banking, Expertise: Archaeology in China; Province (PRC) Economic Governance, East oil and telecommunications sectors; early Buddhist art; traditional Dr Nathan HILL [email protected] architecture of China and Japan Asian Financial Markets the size of China’s state sector; Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics Literary and Cultural Studies [email protected] pre-reform economic relations [email protected] Expertise: Tibetan language from Dr Cosima BRUNO between Hong Kong and Mainland Development Studies old Tibetan to modern standard Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies China; and global production chains Dr Stacey PIERSON TIbetan; Tibetan historical and Dr Tim PRINGLE Financial and [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Chinese Ceramics Expertise: Contemporary Chinese biographical literature; Central Lecturer in Labour, Social Management Studies Expertise: History and production of poetry; translation studies Asian languages, in particular Movements and Develompent Chinese ceramics; history and theory [email protected] Dr Hong BO History Mongolian; Chinese minorities Expertise: East Asia, labour relations of collecting; history of art history Reader in Finance and Management [email protected] Dr Rossella FERRARI in China and Vietnam, trade union Dr Andrea JANKU Expertise: Firm investment [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Chinese and reform in China and Vietnam, Senior Lecturer in the decisions under uncertainty; capital Dr Justin Watkins Theatre Studies labour and social movements in History of China market imperfections; corporate Senior Lecturer in the Languages China, labour migration in China Language Pedagogy Expertise: Contemporary Chinese finance; corporate governance; Expertise: China, social and and Linguistics of South East Asia [email protected] cultural history; the early press drama and film; theory and financial economics; China Dr Yan CUI Expertise: Linguistics of and the history of communication; Senior Lector in Chinese practice of the avant-garde; [email protected] minority Chinese languages, environmental history transnational Chinese Culture Economics Expertise: Modern Chinese particularly Yunnan [email protected] [email protected] Yueqin DONG language and language [email protected] Professor Teaching Fellow pedagogy; literary stylistics Robert F ASH Dr Lars LAAMANN Professor Bernhard FUEHRER Expertise: [email protected] Professor of Sinology Professor of Economics with Lecturer in the History of China [email protected] Law reference to China and Taiwan Expertise: Popular religions in early Ms Wan Li GAO Expertise: Classical Chinese Mr Ernest CALDWELL philology, rhetoric, philosophy and Expertise: China’s economic modern China (16th-20th cc); Senior Lector in Chinese Dr Eunsuk HONG Lecturer in Chinese Law literature; the history of Sinology in development in the 20th and 21st Christianity in China (18th-20th cc); Lecturer in International Business & Expertise: Modern Chinese Expertise: Comparative Europe; reception of the canon with centuries (especially agricultural opium and other narcotics Management (China) language and language pedagogy methodologies and interdisciplanary specific reference to the Analects and rural change, demographic and (18th-20th cc); Manchu Expertise: Internationalisation [email protected] approaches to the study of law; [email protected] employment issues, consumption history (16th-20th cc) strategy of MNEs from developing Asian constitutionalism; East Asian and living standards); evolution [email protected] economies; Chinese economy and Ms Zhaoxia PANG perspectives on legal order Professor Michel HOCKX of ‘Greater China’; economic Lector in Chinese Chinese business management; Dr George LANE [email protected] Professor of Chinese development of Taiwan and Comparative economics; Applied Expertise: Teaching Chinese cross-Strait economic relations Senior Teaching Fellow Expertise: Modern Chinese literature econometrics with an emphasis as a foreign language; norms Dr Carol TAN and language; Chinese writers and [email protected] on spatial dependence Expertise: Specialisation the and practice in translation Reader in Law Ilkhanate, interested in Iran’s writings from the late imperial and [email protected] [email protected] Expertise: Contract; legal history; Professor Christopher BRAMALL relations with Yuan China and republican periods, with emphasis on British overseas rule and the law modern poetry and on the sociology Professor of Economics development of Toluid Mongol rule Dr Lianyi SONG Dr Huanguang QIU especially in relation to the leased of modern Chinese literature Expertise: Economic growth; [email protected] Principal Teaching Fellow Newton International Fellow territory of Weihaiwei and ethnic [email protected] income inequality; famine and Expertise: Expertise: Modern Chinese Chinese communities in Hong agricultural development in modern @soas.ac.uk language and language pedagogy Kong and SE Asia; law and society China; the political economy of [email protected] in SE Asia; traditional Chinese law Maoism; the development of the [email protected] contemporary Chinese empire [email protected] 18 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 19 Professorial Research Associates

Professor Andrew H-B LO Political and Sociology and Professor Renzo CAVALIERI Research Associates Visiting Scholars Professor in Chinese International Studies Gender Studies Research Expertise: Chinese Expertise: Chinese language Dr Xiangqun CHANG Dr Shengrong GAO Dr Dafydd FELL Dr Jieyu Liu contemporary law, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin); Research Expertise: Contemporary Shaanxi Normal University Reader in Comparative Politics with Deputy Director SOAS China foreign trade and investment fiction and prose from the Ming- China Studies; Chinese women and 5 March 2014-4 March 2015 reference to Taiwan Institute law, East Asian legal history Qing periods; cultural activities gender studies; personal, institutional Research Expertise: Chinese Expertise: Taiwan: democratisation, Expertise: Gender, sexuality [email protected] of Ming and Qing scholars, and social relationships; reciprocity environmental history, Chinese election campaigning, party and socio-economic especially games; Chinese export and social networks; social creativity; agricultural history watercolours, botanical culture politics, candidate selection, social development in China Professor Anthony DICKS social support and welfare; [email protected] movements and political corruption [email protected] Research Expertise: QC Laws local identity and culture; village Dr Jie GUO [email protected] of the People’s Republic of autonomy; rural development; University of South Carolina Dr Xiaoning LU China; traditional Chinese global civil society; fieldwork Dr Enze HAN Study of Religions 16 May 2014-15 July 2014 Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture law, international law; methodology; Marxist sociology. Lecturer in the International Research Expertise: Comparative and Language Professor Timothy H BARRETT commercial law; legal [email protected] Security of East Asia literature; gender theory; the history Expertise: Modern Chinese Research Professor of East Asian history; laws of Hong Kong History of sexuality; postcolonial studies film and literature; socialist Expertise: Ethnic politics in China and Mr Jonathan FENBY culture; popular culture China’s foreign relations, especially Expertise: History of Chinese Professor Stefan Research Expertise: History of Dr Zhen Tong [email protected] with Southeast Asian politics religion, notably Taoism and FEUCHTWANG Xiangtan University [email protected] Buddhism; pre-modern Chinese modern China: end of the 19th Research Expertise: Ritual century up to the present day. 1 July 2014-31 December 2014 Dr Tian Yuan TAN history, especially the Tang period and religion in China; Reader in Chinese Studies Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI [email protected] transmission of the Great Leap Research Expertise: Literature Lecturer in Chinese Politics Mr John GITTINGS Expertise: Traditional Chinese [email protected] famine; making place and Research Expertise: Comparative literature and culture, with Expertise: China and international Dr Christopher DAILY the urbanisation of villages study of the perception of peace and emphasis on drama, songs, and politics; WTO; environment Post Doctoral Research Fellow in war in ancient China and Greece Dr Fengxia WANG fiction in the later dynasties and human rights Chinese Religions Professor Michael PALMER [email protected] Guangzhou University [email protected] [email protected] Expertise: History of Chinese Research Expertise: Dispute 15 November 2013- Religions, especially Chinese Dr Tat Yan KONG resolution and civil procedure; 14 November 2014 Christianity; the beginnings of Chinese law (traditional and Dr Ian SECKINGTON Media Studies Reader in Comparative Politics and Research Expertise: Theater; Protestant Missions in China; modern); conflict of laws; Research Expertise: Elite Development Studies comparative literature. Dr Jaeho KANG Early Christian Missions in the comparative family law politics, social change in [email protected] Lecturer in Critical Media and Expertise: Korea and Taiwan: South Pacific, particularly Tahiti [email protected] China, political reform Cultural Studies government-business relations; and Hawaii; Critical Theory Expertise: East Asia; Korea, China comparative political economy; late and the Study of Religions Dr Tao WANG Dr Huanxiang WANG [email protected] Professor R G TIEDEMANN and Japan; critical theory; media industrialisation; development theory Research Expertise: Archaeology Jiaxing University theory; East Asian cultural studies; [email protected] Research Expertise: History of Dr Ulrich PAGEL of China; excavated texts of the 24 March 2014-23 March 2015 political communication; media and the Boxer War in China and its Bronze Age in China; paleography, Dr Julia C STRAUSS Reader in Language and Religion in Research Expertise: Theory and urban spaces in East Asian cities; consequences, 1900-1902 epigraphy and calligraphy; early Tibet and Middle Asia Methodology of Institutional and New media and democracy; media Professor of Chinese Politics [email protected] Chinese language and religion Evolutionary Political Economy spectacle and global mega events Expertise: China and Taiwan: public Expertise: Tibetan language and [email protected] literature; Buddhism in Central [email protected] administration and civil service, Dr Shih-Pe WANG regulation, state and society, and Asia; Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Dr Frances WOOD National Chung Cheng University environmental politics in China [email protected] Research Expertise: Dunhuang (CCU) Music [email protected] Dr Antonello PALUMBO studies, Chinese export 28 January 2014-28 August 2014 Dr Rachel HARRIS paintings, Chinese domestic Dr Konstantinos TSIMONIS Lecturer in Chinese Religions Research Expertise: Chinese Classical Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology architecture, Chinese history, Teaching Fellow Drama and Theatre, Premodern Expertise: Ethnomusicology; musics Expertise: Ideological history of pre- Chinese bibliography Literature, Contemporary Classical of China and Central Asia, especially Expertise: Political Representation modern China; Chinese religions, Dr Chao XI Drama and Theatre in Taiwan Uyghur; recorded music; music and and Mass Organisations in notably Taoism and Buddhism; the People’s Republic of Manichaeism and Eastern Christianity Research Expertise: Chinese ritual, music, identity and politics Dr Quan Wei [email protected] China: Chinese Youth and the in medieval China; Chinese cultural law; comparative corporate law Communist Youth League relations with Central Asia and governance; comparative East China Normal University Dr Hwee-San Tan [email protected] [email protected] securities regulation, law 1 May 2014-31 October 2014 Research Associate and political economy Research Expertise: Modern [email protected] Expertise: Ethnomusicology; Chinese Literature, Old-styled Buddhist music in China, Taiwan; poems and essays of the literati diaspora studies; intangible cultural during the 19th to 20th century heritage preservation; music in Singapore and Malaysia. [email protected] 20 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE ANNUAL REVIEW | 21 Events Listing

Lecture 17 February 2014 Confucian Role Ethics: Overcoming an Asymmetry in Cultural Comparisons Roger T. Ames

Lecture 21 February 2014 The Zhongyong and Confucian A-theistic Religiousness Roger T. Ames

Professor Hockx and members of the SOAS Tibetan Studies community Book Launch meeting with a delegation from the China Tibetology Research Center. 11 March 2014 Gender in Chinese Music Seminar Series 3 March 2014 14 October 2013 Kathrine Morton (Associate Dean Delegation Research College of Asia and Professor Paul Pickowicz the Pacific, and Senior Fellow, (University of California) 20 March 2014 Department of International Visit of Chinese delegation from The Tangled Dynamics of Relations, School of International, China Tibetology Research Center Participants in the Weber conference Independent Filmmaking in Political & Strategic Studies) Contemporary China China’s Rise and Global and Future of Global Governance Launch - Panel Debate 12 November 2013 Conference Lecture Conference 28 April 2014 Long-distance seminar 7 March 2014 5-6 September 2013 10 January 2014 AGM 4 speakers Trial session Professor Bruce Dickson (George The Weber Group of the British 20 November 2013 Islamic Soundscapes in China Washington University) Sociological Association and Universities China Committee 25 November 2013 University of Bonn Käte Hamburger Lecture Workshop Can China Be Governed? The Funding in the UK for Higer Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Law Prof Joshua Fogel (York University) Level Academic Exchange, Study and 23 January 2014 16 May 2014 as Culture’Max Weber and China: 14 March 2014 Research Between the UK and China Graduate Student Master Class Long-distance seminar Culture, Law and Capitalism Women, Literature and Obscenity: Maria Menshikova Ms Tracey Fallon (University The Regulation of ‘Harmful David Wang 13 January 2014 of Nottingham) Fiction’ in Modern China Date, history, and restoration Workshop John Garnaut of a ceramic Lohan Michel Hockx Workshop sculpture from Yizhou 27 September 2013 Course The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Destruction of Bo Xilai The Fu Manchu Complex and 5-6 June 2014 30 April 2014 25-29 November 2013 Reception Representations of East Asians in National Chung Cheng University, Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation 20 January 2014 Manjari Chatterjee Miller the Contemporary Arts and Media 27 January 2014 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. International (JSBCI) William A. Callahan Wronged by Empire: Wronged Chinese New Year Daniel York, Jennifer Lim and Justin Brave New Theatres: 1616 Professor of International Relations, by Empire: Colonial Memories Audibert: author, creative producer in China and England London School of Economics and Victimhood in India’s and and director of The Fu Manchu Lecture Visit Citizen Ai: Warrior, Jester China’s Foreign Policy Today Complex, Sir Christopher Frayling 9 January 2014 Training and Middleman (Professor Emeritus, Royal College 11 February 2014 12 May 2014 of Art), Dr Lee (University of Head-Wagging and Obscene Zhejiang University Delegate 23 June 2014 Greenwich), Dr Emma Mawdsley Music: Conflicts over Sound on 19 February 2014 Susanne Y P CHOI the Qing-Muslim Frontiers Training date for Chinese Delegate (University of Cambridge), Dr Amy Roger T. Ames Patriarchy Unbound: Male Rural- Ng, writer and historian, Dr Amanda Jonathan Lipman ‘Everyone can Become a Sage:’ to-Urban Migrants Negotiating Rogers (University of Swansea) A Revisionist Reading of the Marital Power in China and Dr Ashley Thorpe (Royal Mencius on ‘Human Nature’ Holloway, University of London) 22 | SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE SOAS CHINA INSTITUTE | 23 Join the SOAS China Institute SCI key staff “The largest community of China scholars in Europe joins the global The SOAS China Institute welcomes people with an interest in Chinese Studies who would like to get involved with our activities. Our offices are located on the first floor of conversation with and about China…” the Brunei Gallery and we welcome visitors by appointment. Michel Hockx at the SCI launch 2014 There are many ways of getting involved with the SCI: • As a Student: The SCI runs its own MA programme To get in touch: in Advanced Chinese Studies and a new MSc Email: Join us by email to receive regular event programme in Contemporary China Studies. Our information by writing to [email protected] Members also supervise up to 100 Phd Students working on China related matters. We also regularly Like us on Facebook and join our vibrant hold seminars and workshops specifically for students community: www.facebook.com/China.SOAS • As a Public Member: Our free event series, which is Michel Hockx (Director) held regularly on Monday evenings is open to the Follow and interact with us on Twitter: @soas_ci wider public. Michel Hockx is one of the world’s foremost experts on Our website: www.soas.ac.uk/sci the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literary • As a Visiting Scholar/Fellow: The SCI welcomes Address: communities and the way they organize themselves, applications from Visiting Scholars. The SOAS China Institute their relation to the state, and the technologies they Michel Hockx • As a Volunteer: The SCI occasionally hosts big Brunei Gallery employ to distribute their work. He currently holds the events for which we are always happy to welcome SOAS, University of London Chair of Chinese in the University of London and is volunteers. Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square the Founding Director of the SOAS China Institute. London WC1H 0XG Jieyu Liu (Deputy Director) Jieyu Liu’s path-breaking research explores gender, sexuality and socio-economic development in China. She is a specialist in the sociology of gender with a regional focus on China and other East Asian societies.

Robert Ash (Professorial Fellow)

Robert Ash has for many years been at the forefront Jieyu Liu of social science research on China. His research interests include sustainable development, China’s regional economic development, food security, energy, population and employment, consumption, and social welfare issues.

Li-Sa Whittington (Executive Officer) Li-Sa Whittington holds a BA in Chinese Studies from the University of Sheffield and has many years working experience, both in China and in the UK, in the areas of office administration, events management, marketing, social media, and external relations. Robert ASH Lucy Driver (Project Co-ordinator and Administrative Officer) Lucy Driver holds a BA in Spanish and Psychology from the University of Exeter and has experience of working in university administration, both in the UK and China. She previously worked at the University of Oxford where she was responsible for administering the MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies.

The SCI would like to thank Dr Seng Tee Lee and the Lee Foundation for their generous support. Li-Sa Whittington