Past events
Our past events include seminars, book launches, workshops and mutual understanding dialogues that have taken place in the China Forum.
The topics explored in these events range from ancient Chinese civilisation to China's reform and opening up since the 1970s. The inaugural seminar was delivered by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew in February 2019.
Rise of China via opening up: a practitioner's experience
The China Forum seminar on Thursday 16 May 2024 was given by Dr Yuebing Lu (University of Birmingham, Air Liquide (China) Holding Co. Ltd, and B Capital).
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The Past, Present and Future of Innovation in China
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 8 May 2024 was delivered by Professor Xiaolan Fu (University of Oxford).
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China and the geopolitical recession of our times
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 7 May 2024 was delivered by Vuk Jeremić (CIRSD).
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China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 30 April 2024 was delivered by Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London).
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Deglobalization and global development: Reflections on China
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 12 March 2024 was delivered by Professor Patrizio Bianchi (UNESCO).
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China and the global semiconductor industry
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 28 February 2024 took the form of a roundtable seminar. The panellists were Associate Professor Douglas B. Fuller (Copenhagen Business School), Dr Mathieu Duchâtel (Institut Montaigne, Paris) and Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu (University of Southampton).
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Tackling global AMR: Building bridges in a suboptimal geopolitical climate
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 21 February 2024 was delivered by Professor Timothy R. Walsh (University of Oxford).
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The Geopolitics of AI
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 20 February 2024 was delivered by Professor Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton).
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Tackling the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Insights from rural China
The China Forum seminar on Thursday 8 February 2024 was delivered by Professor Helen Lambert (Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol).
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Geography, Geology and China's early mastery of essential energy sources and of access to minerals
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 31 January 2024 was delivered by Professor Dame Jessica Rawson (University of Oxford and Merton College Oxford).
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Chinese Dress in Detail
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 24 January 2024 was delivered by Sau Fong Chan (Victoria and Albert Museum).
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Chinese and Asian supply chain and funding in an era of geopolitical tensions
The China Forum seminar on Monday 27 November 2023 was delivered by Andrew Sheng (Asia Global Institute, the University of Hong Kong, and China Banking Regulatory Commission).
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China's Hidden Century
The China Forum seminar on Thursday 23 November 2023 was given by Jessica Harrison-Hall (British Museum).
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On the revival of Confucian communism in contemporary China
The China Forum seminar on Thursday 16 November 2023 was delivered by Professor Daniel A. Bell (The University of Hong Kong).
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Sanxingdui bronzes and metallurgical network in the Shang dynasty
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 17 October 2023 was delivered by Professor Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research).
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A common prosperity society for all: China in 2035
The China Forum seminar on Thursday 12 October 2023 was delivered by Professor Angang HU (Tsinghua University).
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State and market in local development: the cases of Wenzhou and Guyuan
The China Forum seminar on Thursday 25 May 2023 was delivered by three scholars from China's Centre for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD), Development Research Center of the State Council, PRC: Dr Zhang Jin (Vice President, CIKD), Dr Chen Xiao (Associate Research Fellow, CIKD) and Dr Liang Xiaomin (Associate Research Fellow, CIKD).
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Bioethics in China today
The China Forum lecture on Tuesday 23 May 2023 was given by Professor David Archard, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Honorary Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy.
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Joseph and Dorothy Needham's engagement with China: newly available on-line resources
The China Forum lecture on Thursday 18 May 2023 was delivered by John Moffett (Librarian, East Asian History of Science Library, Needham Research Institute).
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Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 3 May 2023 was delivered by Professor Christopher Marquis (Fellow, , and Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, Cambridge Judge Business School).
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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: how Exams, Autocracy, Stability, & Technology brought China success, and why they might lead to its decline
The China Forum lecture on Tuesday 14 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Yasheng Huang (Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, and Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management).
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The rule of law in China
The China Forum lecture on Thursday 9 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Simon Deakin (Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Business Research, and co-Chair of the Strategic Research Initiative in Public Policy, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge).
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China, the G20, and sovereign debt: from club to global governance
The China Forum lecture on Tuesday 7 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Deborah Brautigam (Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy Emerita and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC).
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China in British education: The Natzler Report in historical perspective
The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 1 March 2023 was delivered by Professor Timothy H. Barrett (Emeritus Professor, SOAS China Institute and Japan Research Centre; and Member of the Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS, University of London).
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Wendell Willkie’s 1942 Circumnavigation of the World: Asia and the Second World War
The China Forum lecture on Thursday 16 February 2023 was delivered by Professor Hans van de Ven (Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, St Catharine's College, Cambridge; Deputy Director, China Forum; and Visiting Chair Professor, Department of History, Peking University).
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5G in China
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 7 February 2023 was given by Ms Sihan Bo Chen (Head of Greater China, GSMA) and Dr Paul G. Clifford (Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School).
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Links between Britain and China in Higher Education and research
The China Forum lecture on Thursday 26 January 2023 was delivered by The Rt Hon Lord Willetts, President, Resolution Foundation; Visiting Professor, King's College London; former Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014); and former MP for Havant (1992-2015).
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Refashioning the East Asian Order
The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 30 November 2022 was delivered by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense; former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Principal American interpreter during President Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972.
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Exotic, marginal, and 'invisible' aspects of Early Modern China and the Maritime Silk Road
The China Forum seminar on Tuesday 29 November 2022 was given by Professor Dr Angela Schottenhammer, Professor of Chinese Middle Period & Early Modern World History, KU Leuven; Director of the Crossroads Research Centre; Selected Senior Researcher, School of Economics, Shanghai University; and research affiliate, Geography Department, UGent.
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The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 16 November 2022 was given by Dr Roger Hart, Professor of Chinese History and Director of the China Institute at Texas Southern University.
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How Covid has affected China's local government debt
The China Forum lecture on Thursday 10 November 2022 was delivered by Professor Jean C. Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Stanford University; Director of Stanford China Programme, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University; and Lee Shau Kee Director of Stanford Center at Peking University.
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China and India: development achievements and challenges
The China Forum seminar on Wednesday 3 November 2022 took the form of a roundtable event, with four leading international scholars, Professor Shailaja Fennell, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Professor Huaichuan Rui and Assistant Professor Isabella Weber.
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China biodiversity and conservation: status, challenges and opportunities
The China Forum lecture on Wednesday 12 October 2022 was delivered by Professor Zhiyun Ouyang, Professor and Director at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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From the "Great Divergence" to the "Great Convergence": The modern transformation of the Yangzi Delta's economy in a new perspective
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 15 June 2022 was delivered Professor Li Bozhong, Chair Professor of Humanities, Peking University, and Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
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Accidental conflict: America, China, and the clash of false narratives
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 7 June 2022 was delivered by Dr Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
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The rise and fall of communalism in modern Chinese and Israeli literature
The China Centre seminar on Tuesday 31 May 2022 was given by Professor Yaron Peleg (Kennedy-Leigh Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, ) and Dr Huiruo Li (PhD graduate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge).
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The Chinese Conundrum
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 26 May 2022 was delivered by the Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrat party, former MP for Twickenham, former Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 19 May 2022 was delivered by Professor Henrietta Harrison, Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford China Centre, and Stanley Ho Tutorial Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford.
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Twelfth-century life in the Song capital: Zhang Zeduan's 'Spring Festival on the River'
The China Centre seminar on Tuesday 17 May 2022 was given by Professor Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor, Emeritus, SOAS, University of London.
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Is China still playing our game? Institutional outsourcing in the era of Xi Jinping
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 11 May 2022 was delivered by Professor Edward S. Steinfeld, Director of the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Brown University.
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Public goods provision and Chinese economic development
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 5 May 2022 was delivered by Professor Lawrence J. Lau, Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics, Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance, and former Vice Chancellor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Homo Arborealus: the intermeshing of regimes of tree-mindedness
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 17 March 2022 was given by Professor Adam Yuet Chau, Professor of the Anthropology of China, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at St John's College, Cambridge.
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Lord Millet in Alibaba's cave: the resurrection of an iconic Chinese food
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 9 March 2022 was given by Professor Francesca Bray, Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
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China through media
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 3 March 2022 was delivered by Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, London, and Walt Disney Chair in Global Media and Communications, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.
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China's ancient poems for the modern era
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 22 February 2022 was given by Tim Clissold, Senior Research Associate of the China Centre, , and author of three books on China, including Mr China.
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British Chinese - the invisible community
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 16 February 2022 was given by Dr George Chak Man Lee, former London Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector and first Chinese police officer in the UK, first Chinese Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate (GE 2015), and Liberal Democrat Party Parliamentary Candidate (GE 2019).
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Metals, nomads and the foundations of the Silk Roads
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 9 February 2022 was given by Dr Miljana Radivojević, Lecturer in Archaeomaterials, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London.
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Matters of science: sound and silk in 17th Century Ming China
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 1 February 2022 was given by Professor Dr Dagmar Schäfer, Managing Director and Director of Department III (Artifacts, Action, Knowledge), The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
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China's good war: how World War II is shaping a new nationalism
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 18 January 2022 was delivered by Professor Rana Mitter OBE, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford and Vice-President (Public Engagement) of the British Academy.
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A drop in the ocean: The (in)visibility of Chinese literature in translation
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 30 November 2021 was delivered by Nicky Harman, prize-winning literary translator (Chinese to English) and former co-Chair of the Translators Association, The Society of Authors.
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China's pursuit of semiconductor independence: opportunities and constraints
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 24 November 2021 was delivered by Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu, Lecturer in Chinese Politics in the Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton.
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Reflections on the afterlives of Mao era posters
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 18 November 2021 was delivered by Professor Harriet Evans, Professor Emerita and former head of Chinese section, University of Westminster; Chair of Trustees to The Rights Practice (NG); Visiting Professor of Anthropology, LSE; and former President, the British Association for Chinese Studies.
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Politics and governance in China: the party in control?
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 11 November 2021 was delivered by Professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of International Economics, Government and Business, and former Director of the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.
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The lure of China: writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 3 November 2021 was delivered by Dr Frances Wood, former Curator of Chinese collections, the British Library, and member of the steering committee of the International Dunhuang Project.
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Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia
The China Centre seminar on Wednesday 27 October 2021 took the form of a set of three short lectures on the topic Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia, followed by an extended Q&A discussion. The three speakers were Dr Ildikó Bellér-Hann (Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen), Professor Michael Dillon (Professor of History and Affiliate of the Lau China Institute, King's College London), and Tim Clissold (Senior Research Associate, China Centre , and author of three books on China, including Mr China).
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Carbon neutrality: how fast can China go?
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 21 October 2021 was delivered by Professor Pan Jiahua, Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics & Director, Institute of Ecocivilization Studies, Beijing University of Technology.
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US Grand Strategy and intellectual and political exchange among the US, China and Europe
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 20 October 2021 was given by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute, Columbia University; SDG Advocate for UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals; and Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
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Challenges to sustaining China's economic growth
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 13 October 2021 was delivered by Professor Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
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The Sino-Western détente
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 16 June 2021 was delivered by The Rt Hon Lord O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, HMG.
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How China escaped shock therapy: the market reform debate
The China Centre seminar on Wednesday 9 June 2021 comprised a lecture given by Isabella Weber (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst), followed by a roundtable discussion chaired by Professor Peter Nolan CBE, with Professor Barry Naughton (University of California San Diego) and Professor Dwight H Perkins (Harvard University).
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The other half billion: rural development in China
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 3 June 2021 was given by Professor Robert Ash, Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London, and Founder and Professorial Research Associate of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS.
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The future of Hong Kong
The China Centre seminar on Tuesday 25 May 2021 took the form of introductory presentations and a round table discussion on the future of Hong Kong. The speakers were Professor Ian Grenville Cross SC, Isabel Hilton OBE, Ronny Tong SC and Professor David Zweig.
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The history of China's high-speed trains
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 20 May 2021 was delivered by Professor Huaichuan Rui, Professor of International Business at the School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Whither Socialism with Chinese Characteristics?
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 13 May 2021 was given by Dr David Lane, Emeritus Reader in Sociology and Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge; and former Professor of Sociology, University of Birmingham.
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China's inner Asian border with Russia: what does it reveal about relations between the two countries?
The China Centre lecture on Thursday 6 May 2021 was delivered by Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology (Emeritus) and Founder & Research Director, MIASU (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit), University of Cambridge.
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China re-connects: joining a deep-rooted past to a new world order
The China Centre lecture on Friday 19 March 2021 was delivered by Professor Wang Gungwu CBE, former Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong, and former Director & former Chairman, East Asian Institute, Singapore.
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China in the 1980s: lessons for today
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 16 March 2021 was delivered by John Gittings, Research Associate, China Institute, SOAS, University of London, and former Assistant Foreign editor and Chief Foreign Leader-Writer, The Guardian (UK). The main body of John Gittings's lecture analysed the political landscape of China in the 1980s.
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Can we avoid war with China?
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 9 March 2021 was delivered by the Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin, visiting Professor, Policy Institute, King's College London, former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and former Minister for Government Policy, HMG. The central theme of Sir Oliver's lecture was the increasing mistrust and mutual suspicion between the West and China, which he characterised as a ‘real and present danger’ for humanity.
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A fresh look at climate change: climate risks and COP26
The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 3 March 2021 was delivered by Professor Sir David King, Founder & Chair, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda, former Chief Scientific Adviser, HMG and former FCO Climate Envoy.
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Ceramics and society in the Song dynasty
On Thursday 25 February 2021 the China Centre Seminar was given by Dr Rose Kerr, Honorary Associate, Needham Research Institute, and Former Keeper of the Far Eastern Department, Victoria and Albert Museum. Dr Kerr's lecture focused on the porcelain industry in China during the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD).
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The children of China's great migration
On Wednesday 27 January 2021 the China Centre Seminar was delivered by Professor Rachel Murphy, Professor of Chinese Development and Society and fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, President of the British Association of Chinese Studies and former junior research fellow at .
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WPP - China Centre event: Interacting with China in a complex world
On Tuesday 17 November 2020 the second WPP - China Centre, , China forum was held. The virtual event addressed the topic 'Interacting with China in a complex world'.
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New silk roads and new citadels: the dragon, the crescent and the mousedeer
On Thursday 12 March 2020 the China Centre Seminar was delivered by Mr Azman Mokhtar, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and former CEO (2004 - 2018) of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
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The China Pakistan economic corridor: progress, opportunities and perils
The China Centre lecture, in association with Cambridge Central Asia Forum and GCRF COMPASS, on Friday 7 February 2020 was delivered by Dr Tayyab Safdar.
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East, West and the search for universal values: China's century?
The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 4 February 2020 was delivered by Lord Stephen Green. Stephen was successively CEO and Chairman of HSBC (2003-10) and UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment between 2011-13. Lord Green's lecture addressed the topic of ‘East, West and the search for human values’, which is the subject of his book The Human Odyssey.
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Institutions, infrastructure and geopolitics in Eurasian connectivity: a global trade hub Yiwu
On 27 January 2020 the China Centre, , and Cambridge Central Asia Forum held a joint seminar in collaboration with the University of Sussex Asia Centre and Royal Holloway, University of London. The seminar was devoted to an analysis of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province.
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Canada and China: challenges and opportunities
The first lecture of the Lent term in the China Centre’s 'China in the World’ seminar series was delivered by the Hon. John McCallum, P.C. It was held on Wednesday 22 January 2020 in the Frankopan Hall. The Hon. John McCallum delivered a lecture on the challenges and opportunities in the relationship between Canada and China.
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Iron and steel in Chinese history
The final Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Tuesday 26 November 2019 in the Webb Library. Dr Donald Wagner, Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus) at the University of Copenhagen, delivered a seminar on the history of the Chinese iron and steel industry.
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China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations
The third Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Monday 4 November 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Zhu Tianbiao gave a lecture on China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations.
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Fellows’ China Day
On Thursday 21 November 2019 the China Centre hosted the second Fellows’ China Day in the Webb Library.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative - understanding its potential impact
The second Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Thursday 24 October 2019 in the Webb Library. Sir Douglas Flint CBE delivered a lecture on understanding the potential impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
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Understanding modern China: where does it come from and where is it going?
The first of the Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Tuesday 15 October 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Zhang Weiwei delivered a lecture about understanding mondern China.
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Routledge Handbook of the Belt and Road: book launch and BRI seminar
On Monday 17 June 2019 the China Centre, hosted a joint seminar and book launch in West Court. The other hosts were: China Social Sciences Press (CSSP); National Institute for Global Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); and Taylor and Francis Group (Routledge).
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International Workshop on China 1978 - 2018: Economy, Society and Environment
On 15-16 June 2019 the China Centre, hosted a joint workshop with the Development Research Centre (DRC) of the State Council of China.
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Earth and environment in East Asia - risks and opportunities
The final of the Easter term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Wednesday, 5 June 2019 in the Bawden Room. Professor Simon Redfern delivered a lecture about earthquakes and volcanoes in East Asia.
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A turning point? Branding Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain in the fourteenth century
The second of the Easter term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Monday, 3 June 2019 in the Bawden Room. Professor Shih Ching-fei’s lecture located the porcelain industry of Jingdezhen within the wider context of the evolution of the Chinese porcelain industry.
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Why is the world's transition to renewable energy moving so quickly?
The first of the Easter term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Thursday, 30 May 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Peter B Littlewood's wide-ranging lecture located China's current developments in energy technologies within the context of the long-run development of world energy supply, innovation and pricing.
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WPP - China Centre event: China in the World
WPP and the China Centre, , jointly organised a meeting on ‘China in the World’. The event took place on Tuesday 30 April 2019 in the Frankopan Hall, .
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Painting in China today: the art of Liu Dahong
The second China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held in the Frankopan Hall on Wednesday 27 February 2019. The seminar focused on art in China today with lectures from Professor Shane McCausland, Johnson Chang and Professor Liu Dahong.
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Liangzhu and the origins of complex society in China
The inaugural China Centre lecture in the 'China in the World' seminar series was delivered by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew on Thursday, 21 February 2019 in the Webb Library.
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Fellows’ China Day
The China Centre and the Intellectual Forum jointly hosted a Fellows’ China Day in the Webb Library on Thursday 29 November 2018. The event provided an opportunity to appreciate the wide range of activities involving academics of the College and their counterparts in China.
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International Workshop on China and the World Economy: Transition and Challenges
The China Centre, , organised a joint workshop with the Development Research Centre (DRC) of the State Council of China on 9-10 June 2018.
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