Activities

 

   
 
 
      

Conferences

Shanghai conference 6th - 8th November 2008

Venice conference 16th - 18th April 2009

"How to Tell the Tale: The Wartime Generation and Historical Memory in Postwar East Asia"
9:30am-4:45pm, Sunday 17 May 2009

St Antony's College, Oxford University

"Du Zhongyuan and his world" The Chinese University of Hong Kong

8rd January 2010

The "Long Arc" of Sino-Japanese Relations: Chinese Perspectives on War, Cooperation, and Conflict Across Three Eras

17th-18th June 2010

Faculty of History, Oxford University

Transnational History in a Globalized World: Past and Present Conference

9th-10th September 2010
Queen's College, Oxford University


War and Conflict in East Asia: New Approaches to Wartime China in History and Political Science
Modern East Research Centre, Leiden University

6 May 2011


Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime and Postwar China, 1937-1949

10th-11th June 2011
Oxford University

Chiang Kai-shek and World War II

Hangzhou, China

3rd-4th September

“New Approaches and Methods in the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan (1931-45)”

6-7 January 2012

http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/china/workshop/index.htm

 

China research seminars in Oxford

Research seminar with Professor Akira Iriye: New research on China's War with Japan

11am - 1pm on 18th November 2008

Trevor Roper Room in History Faculty, University of Oxford

Professor Hans van de Ven The End of the WWII and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

5:00pm on 29th January 2009

Dr Jeremy Taylor : QuJianghua: Disposing of and re-appraising the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek’s reign on Taiwan

5:00pm on 4th February 2009

Dr Aaron W. Moore: Physical Dimensions of Self: Language, Experience, and the Diary as Material Object in Modern East Asian Armed Forces

5:00pm on 17th February 2009

Dr Matthew Johnson:“Celluloid Revolutions: International Political Communication and China’s National Image-making in Historical Context”

5:00pm on 21st May 2009

Dr Aaron W. Moore: "Unsafe at Home: Four Girls’ Diaries from Wartime China, Japan, England, and the Soviet Union, 1937-1945"

5:30pm on 20th October 2009

Dr Christian Hess(University of Warwick): " From colonial port to production city: war, industrialisation and identity in Dalian, 1937-1955"

5:00pm on 22nd October 2009

Dr Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC): "Kamishibai as a Tool for Propaganda in Japan's War with China, 1931-1945"
5:00pm on 25th February 2010

Dr Frank Pieke: "The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today's China"

5:00pm on 30th June 2010

Professor Mark Selden (Cornell University): The Asia-Pacific War: Its Origins, Consequences, Mythologies and Legacies

5:00pm on 15th November 2010

Dr Toby Lincoln (University of Leicester):"Mapping the Limits of Occupation: Recovery and Re-urbanization in the Lower Yangtze Delta, 1938 - 1941"
5:00pm on 2nd June 2011

Dr. Jocelyn Chatterton (University of London): "Protestant Medical Missionaries and the Fall of Hankou"
5:00pm on 16th June 2011

Dr Sherman Xiaogang Lai will talk about his new book on “A Springboard to Victory, Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945”

5:00pm on 3rd November 2011

Institute for Chinese Studies


Dr Alessio Patalano (King's College, London): "Flying Imperial Colours’: History, Memory and Professional Identity in the Museums of the Contemporary Japanese Navy"

5:00pm 15 November 2011

St Antony's college

 

•Other lectures, seminars and conferences

Hongping Annie Nie: “China’s Resistance War against Japan (1937–1945) in Chinese History Textbooks”

 A Century of Change: China and Modernization 1900–Present Conference

17-18th  September 2009, University of Maryland and Library of Congress

Dr James Reilly's talk for the Asian Studies Seminar:The role of public opinion in China's Japan policy

5:00-6:30pm on 25th Novermber 2008

Dr Aaron W. Moore's talk at the University of Cambridge: The Crucible of Self: Diary Writing among Chinese Nationalists, Japanese and American Servicemen in East Asia and the Pacific 1937-1945

5:00-6:00pm on 19th January 2009

Prof Rana Mitter's talk at the Louise Blouin Institute: How China's wartime past is shaping its present - and future

6:30-8:00pm on 8th January 2009

Prof Rana Mitter's talk at Durham University: How China's wartime past is changing: present - and future

1:00pm on 30th January 2009

Dr Aaron W. Moore's talk at the University of Leiden: “Fact and Fiction: Analyzing Genre and Self-Representation in Japanese and Chinese Nationalist War Diaries, 1937-1945”

10th March 2009

Dr Aaron W. Moore's talk at the University of Sheffield: “Modernizing Self-Fashioning:Technologies and Techniques of Chinese War Diary Writing, 1911-1945"

20th May 2009

REVISITING THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF WAR

6pm–8pm, 29 May 2009

Prof Rana Mitter's lecture at ToChina

29 June 2009

Prof Rana Mitter's talk at The Confucius Institute for Scotland

7 October 2009

Prof Rana Mitter's talk at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

12 January 2010

Dr Aaron W. Moore's talk for School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh
20 January 2010

Prof Rana Mitter's talk at the Wellcome Trust
27 February 2010

Ms Amy King: "China and the US-Japan Alliance: Comparing 1960 and 2010"
The Crawford School of Economics & Government
1April 2010, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/media/more.php?id=672

Ms Amy King: "China in the International System:  China’s Foreign Policy towards Japan, 1959-1965"
The Networks in Chinese Society: An Interdisciplinary Faculty-Student Workshop
13-14 April 2010, Pembroke College, Oxford
http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/News/workshop-on-networks-in-chinese-society.php

Dr Tehyun Ma: "Social Investigation and Economic Mobilisation on Taiwan, 1950-1955"

The White Rose East Asia Centre

28 April 2010

http://www.wreac.org/events/all-events/details/78-social-investigation-and-economic-mobilisation-of-taiwan-1950-1955  

Prof Rana Mitter's talk for the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
6:45pm, 12 May 2010

Ms Lily Chang's talk at the Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford: "Adjudicating War: Juvenile Offenders in Wartime China, 1931-1945"

21 October 2010

Ms Lily Chang's talk for The Child’s Plaything: Literature and Creativity Workshop, University of Exeter

"Constructing Taboos and Horrors Among Chinese Children in the Twentieth Century"

5-6 November 2010

Prof Rana Mitter's talk for Kings College London

9 November 2010

Prof Rana Mitter: "How China’s wartime past is shaping its global future"
VU University Amsterdam
24 January 2011

Hongping Annie Nie:“Online Games and Re-historiography”

Communicating War in the Media and Arts Conference

Media and Politics Research Group

University of Liverpool

28 January 2011


Ms Lily Chang "The Emergence of the ‘Problem Child’ in Early Twentieth-Century China"
Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons

http://www.history.vt.edu/Jones/SHCY/Newsletter17/index.html

Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

12-13 March 2011