Category: Seminar

China’s Foreign Policy in Xi Jinping’s Third Term

Date: Thursday 24 November 2022Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm AESTLocation: In-Person, Auditorium, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane The Australian National University Acton, ACT 2601 REGISTRATION About this event Chinese leader Xi Jinping tightened his grip…

Anatomy of a Regional Civil War: Guangxi, 1967-1968

Date: Thursday 24 November 2022Time: 12.30 – 2.00pm AESTLocation: Online and Seminar Room, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane The Australian National University Acton, ACT 2601 REGISTRATION About this event During the violent early years…

Australian Migrant Heritage in South China

Join Christopher Cheng in uncovering the legacy of diaspora-funded schools in 20th-century Zhongshan. Date: Thursday 10 November 2022Time: 4.00 – 5.30pm AESTLocation: Online and In-Person at Seminar Room, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane, The…

Injunctions Against “Homosexuality” in the Chinese Bible

Date: Thursday 7 April 2022Time: 4:0–5:30 pm AESTLocation: Online REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL  It is well-known that when Chinese people converted to Protestant Christianity in the nineteenth century they were instructed to abandon certain practices that were regarded by their new faiths…

Literary Policy and Censorship in China since 1979

Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM Date: 30 March 2022 Registration On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. Towards the end of his speech he stated, to collective sighs of relief, that “the Party’s leadership…

Where do we find Chinese contemporary art in the Asian Modern?

China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney The CSC Bookworm Series Date: Wednesday 10 November 2021Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM AEDTLocation: Online  This seminar is free and open to the public!  REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL  John Clark’s magisterial The Asian Modern reconstructs the notion of art and…