Our aims
Our Aims
Promoting Understanding of the Chinese Economy, Governance & Politics, Society and Culture
- to foster high-quality social science research on China and promote multidisciplinary research collaboration among centre members
- to build strategic research capacity in the social sciences of China for Scotland and the UK
- to promote understanding of China by disseminating research and making expertise on contemporary Chinese economy, politics & governance, and society accessible to the wider community
- to develop and support research links with Chinese scholars, universities and research institutes
The Scottish Centre for China Research brings together scholars doing research on China across a range of arts and social science disciplines in Scottish universities. Its members include researchers at the Universities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh and Dundee as well as Glasgow.*
We are based in the University of Glasgow’s School of Social & Political Sciences, in the College of Social Sciences.
*If you are a scholar or student at a Scottish University doing research on China you are welcome to join our Centre. Please contact us.
Events
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19 Jan“Four Poems and a Funeral: A Global Approach to the Chinese Boxer Crisis of 1900”. by Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine
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12 Jan
Seminar programme 2020—21 Semester 2
A list of seminars and roundtable discussions this term. Full details including abstracts to be posted later. -
12 Jan
Seminar 20 January 2021
“Pandemics and Politics in Mao’s China: The Rise of the Emergency Disciplinary State”. by Dr Xiaoping Fang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore -
05 Oct
Seminar 18 November 2020
"Undogmatic Commitment: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in post-Mao China". by Dr Jerome Doyon, University of Oxford