Events 2009
- 29 January: Lecture by Professor Michael Puett, Harvard University, ‘Connecting the World: Ritual Theory from Early China’.
- 24 February: Lecture by Professor Natascha Gentz, ‘The Birth of Tragedy in China: Global Routes of a Local Genre’.
- 10 March: Lecture by Professor Natascha Gentz, ‘China’s First Nobel Laureate: Gao Xingjian’.
- 28 April: Lecture by Han Dong, Chinese poet and novelist, ‘New Words, New Roads: Chinese Literature in the World’.
- 11 September: Lecture by Professor Liu Xinming, Fudan University, ‘Understanding Chinese Grammar’.
- 11 September: Lecture by Professor Tan Zheng, Fudan University, ‘Wang Xiaobo- Contemporary Chinese Writings’.
- 14 September: Lecture by Professor Fan Ke, Nanjing University, ‘Muslim Communities in China’.
- 7 October: Lecture by Professor Rana Mitter, Oxford University, ‘How China’s Wartime Past is Changing its Present and Future’.
- 13 October: Lecture by Dr Jiemian Yang, President of Shanghai Association of International Relations, ‘Chinese Diplomatic Thought & Foreign Policy’.
- 14 October: Lecture by Professor Paul Bailey, University of Edinburgh, ‘The 1950s in China: New Wine in Old Bottles’.
- 19 October: Lecture by Professor Christoph Harbsmeier, Oslo University, ‘Wit & Humour in Confucius’.
- 21 October: Lecture by Professor Natascha Gentz, University of Edinburgh, ‘Repercussions of the Cultural Revolution on the 1980s’.
- 29 October: Lecture by Professor Jane Duckett, University of Glasgow, ‘The China Challenge: Models, Visions & Global Futures’.
- 4 November: Lecture by Professor Ian Taylor, University of St Andrews, ‘China’s Rise in Africa’.
- 4 November: Lecture by Professor Natascha Gentz, University of Edinburgh, ‘The Influence of Confucianism on China & the Modern World’.
- 11 November: Lecture by Dr Felix Boecking, University of Edinburgh, ‘Understanding China’s Economic Transformation’.
This article was published on Jan 10, 2012