
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 ProjectResearch 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)
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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
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Andrew Goudie (School of Geography and the Environment profile) – Emeritus Professor in GeographyResearch 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
- Alastair Buchan (Medical Sciences profile) – Professor of Stroke Medicine
Research interests: neuroprotection, cell and molecular biology, acute stroke programme
- Yiping Chen (Nuffield Department of Population Health profile) – Senior Research Associate, CTSU
Research interests: clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases; major depression; sleeping disorders
- Zhengming Chen (Nuffield Department of Population Health profile) – Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: large randomized trials of widely practicable treatments for chronic diseases (IHD, stroke and cancer), environmental and genetic causes of chronic diseases, efficient strategies for chronic disease control in developing countries
- Rury Holman (Diabetes Trials Unit profile) – Emeritus Professor of Diabetic Medicine
Research interests: prevention, appropriate treatment and cardiovascular risk reduction in people with type 2 diabetes