The University of Oxford China Centre joins together academics from across the whole University, co-ordinating activities in all areas. Academics from across the four Divisions of the University of Oxford are represented at the China Centre.

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Jennifer Altehenger (Faculty of History profile) – Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History, Associate Professor of Chinese History
  Research interests: social and cultural history of modern China
• Gordon Barrett – Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics
• Paul Bevan (Oriental Institute profile) – Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
  Research interests: impact of Western literature and art on China during the Republican Period (1912-1949), particularly with regard to periodicals, newspapers and magazines
• Nicholas Bunnin – Director of Philosophy Project
  Research interests: Chinese and Western philosophy
• Jun Cao  – Senior Development Executive, Saïd Business School
• Robert L. Chard (Oriental Institute profile) – Associate Professor of Classical Chinese
  Research interests: Chinese popular religion; early medieval Chinese history and the use of literary compositions for political purposes; the Confucian ritual canon and its implementation in the state cults of the Imperial period; modern martial arts novels (wuxia xiaoshuo).
• Craig Clunas (History of Art profile) – Emeritus Professor of the History of Art
  Research interests: Ming and contemporary Chinese art and material culture
• Jérôme Doyon – China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School
  Research interests: Chinese domestic policies; Party-State apparatus; elite politics; political youth organizations; the management of ethno-religious minorities
• Matthew Erie – Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
  Research interests: Law and development; legal implications of Chinese outbound investment; intra-Asian law
• Giulia Falato – Department Lecturer in Chinese
• Jing Fang (Oriental Institute profile) – Instructor in Chinese
• Rosemary Foot (St Antony’s College profile) – Professor of International Relations
  Research interests: China’s relations with Asia and the West
• Xiaolan Fu  (Department of International Development profile) – Professor of Technology and International Development, Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development.
  Research interests: innovation, technology and development; trade and foreign investment
• Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government profile) – Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Policy)
• Todd Hall (DPIR profile) – Professor of International Relations; Director, University of Oxford China Centre
• Henrietta Harrison (Oriental Institute profile) – Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
• Anke Hein (School of Archaeology profile) – Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology
  Research interests: cultural contact, borders, identity, ethnicity, human-environment interaction, spatial analysis, contextual archaeology, ethnoarchaeology
• David Helliwell (Oriental Institute profile) – Associate member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies
• Margaret Hillenbrand (Oriental Institute profile) – Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
  Research interests: modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Modern Japanese Literature, East Asian comparative literature, Chinese cinema
• Philip Howard (Programme on Democracy and Technology profile) – Professor of Internet Studies
  Research interests: Science and technology studies, internet, society, politics
• Elisabeth Hsu (Faculty of Oriental Studies profile) – Professor of Anthropology
  Research interests: premodern China
• Bo Hu (Oriental Institute profile) – Instructor in Chinese
• Pamela Hunt (Oriental Institute profile) – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
  Research interests: Postsocialist Chinese literature and film, mobility, masculinity
• Paul C. Irwin Crookes (OSGA profile) – Associate Professor, Contemporary China Studies
  Research interests: EU-China relations; foreign policy; technology and innovation; military; cross-Taiwan Strait relations
• Maria Jaschok (OSGA profile) – Senior Research Associate of the Contemporary China Studies Programme in OSGA
  Research interests: gender studies; Muslim women
• Coraline Jortay (The Queen’s College profile) – Laming Junior Research Fellow, The Queen’s College
  Research interests: Sinophone literature, literary translation, gender
• Shio-yun Kan (Oriental Institute profile) – Senior Instructor in Chinese,
  Programme Director of the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
• John Knight (Department of Economics profile) – Professor of Economics
  Research interests: well-being, education and poverty; rural-urban migration
• Peiying Lin (Oriental Institute profile) – Associate of the Sub-Faculty of East Asian Studies
• TaoTao Liu (Oriental Institute profile) – Retired University Lecturer, Modern Chinese
• Anna Lora-Wainwright (OSGA profile, School of Geography and the Environment profile) – Director of Contemporary China Studies; Professor of the Human Geography of China
  Research interests: environment and health, rural population and local development
• Dirk Meyer (Oriental Institute profile) – Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy
  Research interests: palaeography of early manuscripts, Warring States period
• Christopher Mittelstaedt (Oriental Institute Profile) – Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies
  Research interests: Modern Chinese history, in particular the Cultural Revolution and the reform era
• Rana Mitter (DPIR profile) – Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China
  Research interests: nationalism; Sino-Japanese War and its legacy
• Natalie Mrockova (Faculty of Law profile) – Supernumerary Fellow in Law
  Research interests: inter-relation of law, finance and economic development; the role of property in corporate law; the interaction of law on paper (‘black letter’) and law in practice (enforcement)
• Rachel Murphy (OSGA profile) – Professor of Chinese Development and Society
  Research interests: internal migration; education; population policy
• Hongping Annie Nie (Oriental Institute profile) – Associate Faculty Member
  Research interests: nationalism, foreign relations and diplomacy, educational and cultural development in modern and contemporary China
• J.P. Park (Department of History of Art profile) – June and Simon Li Associate Professor in the History of Chinese Art
  Research interests: early modern Chinese and Korean art, print culture, cartography, literary criticism, post-globalism in contemporary East Asian art
• Fernanda Pirie (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies profile) – Associate Professor in Socio-Legal Studies
  Research interests: Tibet; law
• Hamsa Rajan (OSGA profile) – British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Research interests: sociology, anthropology, gender studies, social policy
• Dame Jessica Rawson (Oriental Institute profile) – Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology
  Research interests: material culture of premodern China
• Vivienne Shue (St Antony’s College profile) – Emeritus Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary China Studies
  Research interests: state, politics and society; local government
• Ewan Smith (Faculty of Law profile) Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College
• Stephen A. Smith (All Souls College profile) – Senior Research Fellow
  Research interests: the histories of modern China and Russia; comparative Communism
• Yang Song (Oriental Institute profile) – Shaw Instructor in Chinese
• Mamtimyn Sunuodula – Head of East Asia and HD Chung Chinese Studies Librarian
• Marc Szepan (Saïd Business School profile)
  Research interests: strategic management of global businesses, leadership of technology-intensive and digital businesses, leadership development, safety management, business in China, and the aviation industry.
• Tian Yuan Tan (Oriental Institute profile) – Shaw  Professor of Chinese
  Research interests: Pre-modern Chinese literature, with emphasis on drama, fiction, and poetry in the later dynasties; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; cross-cultural interactions between China and other countries
• Patricia Thornton (Merton College profile, OSGA profile) – University Lecturer in Politics of China
  Research interests: politics and society, popular contention, Chinese cyberspace, consumerism in China
• Eric Thun (Saïd Business School profile) – Peter Moores Lecturer in Chinese Business Studies
  Research interests: industrial development; globalization of Chinese firms
• Shelagh Vainker (Oriental Institute profile) – Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Curator of Chinese Art, Ashmolean Museum
  Research interests: material culture of the northern Song dynasty; modern Chinese painting and graphic arts
• Denise van der Kamp (OSGA profile) – Associate Professor in the Political Economy of China
  Research interests: comparative politics, political economy and environmental politics
• Stuart J. Wright (OSGA profile) – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
  Research interests: anthropology, sociology, development studies, education studies
• Chigusa Yamaura (OSGA profile) – Junior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Japanese Studies
  Research interests: contemporary Japanese and Chinese society, including gender, marriage, cross-border marriage, family, life course expectations, motherhood, reproduction, fertility, as well as migration, colonial memory and transnationalism in East Asia.
• Mimi Zou (Faculty of Law profile) – Director of Studies in Law, Regent’s Park College
  Research interests: Chinese private law, Chinese foreign investment law, international economic law, comparative law and legal institutions

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

• Andrew Goudie (School of Geography and the Environment profile) – Emeritus Professor in Geography
  Research interests: dust storms in the Chinese desert regions, climatic change, management of Geoparks (Zhangjiajie)
• Mike Searle (Department of Earth Sciences profile) – Professor of Earth Sciences
  Research interests: mountain building processes (Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibetan Plateau regions), Red River fault zone (Yunnan Province and Vietnam)
• Derek Siveter (Museum of Natural History profile) – Professor of Earth Sciences
  Research interests: geology/paleontology, fossil invertebrates especially anthropods
• Troy Sternberg (School of Geography and the Environment) – Research Associate
  Research interests: the Gobi desert, Chinese drylands, Mongolia, natural hazard impact on landscapes and society

Medical Sciences