The University of Oxford China Centre is a new hub for various academic activities related to China at the University of Oxford, located on the premises of St Hugh’s College in the magnificent Dickson Poon Building. By bringing together superb academics and researchers from a broad range of disciplines, the China Centre will foster innovative collaborative initiatives and ensure that Oxford’s research on China produces even more substantial impact, both domestically and abroad.
Latest News
‘How to understand sincerity and authenticity in premodern Chinese literature, intellectual history and manuscript culture’ – new China Centre Conversation available to view
A new Oxford China Centre Conversation is now available to view (episode 8). The conversation, ‘What can we learn from the past when trying to …Read More »
Matthew Erie becomes a Wilson China Fellow
The Wilson Center has announced that Matthew Erie has become one of fifteen members of the Wilson China Fellowship class, 2022-23. More details can be …Read More »
ICARDC XVI’s conference on ‘Rural China under Xi’
In a span of a generation, rural China has undergone a dramatic transformation: infrastructure – ranging from roads to electricity grids – has been constructed; …Read More »
BACS Annual Conference
The BACS Annual Conference is taking place in Oxford, 31 August-1 September 2022. The programme can be found here and timetable can be found here.Read More »‘What can we learn from the past when trying to make sense of the Chinese Communist Party today?’ China Centre Conversation can now be viewed
A new Oxford China Centre Conversation is now available to view (China Centre Conversation 1, Trinity Term 2022). The online conversation, ‘What can we learn …Read More »
Research Highlights
Creating Confucian Authority: Robert Chard’s book published by Brill
Robert Chard’s book, Creating Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Learning in Early China to 9 CE, has been published by Brill. More information can …Read More »
Paul Irwin Crookes publishes piece in East Asia Forum
Paul Irwin Crookes has published a piece on ‘Beijing Papers Over the Cracks in Cross-Strait Relations’, in East Asia Forum. The article can be read …Read More »
Rosemary Foot publishes piece in East Asia Forum
Rosemary Foot has published a piece, in East Asia Forum, on ‘The UN High Commissioner’s contentious visit to China’. The piece can be found hereRead More »
Anniversary edition of International Affairs includes article by Rosemary Foot
The journal International Affairs has been running for 100 years and they are producing anniversary editions of articles published over that 100 years. For a …Read More »
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson receives prestigious Tang Prize
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson has been named as the 2022 winner of the highly-prestigious Tang Prize in Sinology for her ‘trail-blazing’ scholarship and her ‘gift …Read More »