Global China Research Centre
The rapid expansion of China and its increasing appetite for internationalisation need to be understood through the perspective of cultural diversification and global interaction. Currently there are University of Exeter faculty members in several departments who are involved in China-related research. There are also growing numbers of faculties who are developing research connections with scholars working in China. The centre aims to establish UoE as a hub of scholarly exchange. It will, first stimulate new interdisciplinary research within the realm of humanities, arts, and social sciences; and second, channel the existing works of UoE scholars in these areas to the large Chinese-speaking audience.
The centre has paradigm-shifting potential. With the growing connection between the UK and China, more British universities have introduced Chinese studies programmes and research centres. However, almost all of them have taken the conventional approach of area studies. By proposing the concept of “Global China”, the centre will provide an innovative perspective of seeing China not only as a geographic region, but more importantly as a non-European epistemology. It will mobilise UoE’s academic strength and serve as an incubator for scholarly innovation, which transcends the conventional boundaries of area studies and stimulates the construction and reconstruction of knowledge in general.
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Centre Director
General enquiries
Email: Y.Zhuang@exeter.ac.uk
News and events
The Global China Research Centre organises a variety of seminars, talks, conferences, workshops, lectures and symposia. Our upcoming events are displayed below. Seminars will usually take place between 3 and 4pm, unless otherwise stated. Locations may vary.
Forthcoming seminars
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Past seminars
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GCRC aims to first encourage interdisciplinary research about China. It also facilitates scholarly exchanges between University of Exeter and Chinese institutes in order to encourage joint research activities on other subjects within the border area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Recognising the growing connection between UoE and Chinese institutes, we have established GCRC in order to serve as:
- A hub for scholarly exchange
- An umbrella organisation which accommodates scholars and postgraduates with research interests in and about China.
- An incubator for creative interdisciplinary research published in both English and Chinese
- A stage to inspire a paradigm-shifting new approach to Chinese Studies
- An outpost to promote Exeter scholars in China and attract Chinese students to pursuit postgraduate studies
Our people
Management Board
Dr Yue Zhuang
Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Art History and Visual Culture
01392724274 Y.Zhuang@exeter.ac.uk Exeter
Postgraduate and ECR Seminar Co-convenors
Affiliated members
| Postgraduate affiliated members | |
|---|---|
| Zhangmei Tang | PhD student in Politics |
| External members | |
|---|---|
| Dr Bruce Currey | |
| Dr Catherine Owen | Assistant professor in Xi’an International Studies University |
| Dr Junqing Wu | Past & Present Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| International fellows | |
|---|---|
| Dr Han Liu | International Fellow |
| Professor Yongle Zhang | Associate Professor of Legal History, Peking University |
The Centre has partnerships with institutes and universities the world over.
The Centre for Studies in Politics and Law, Peking University
The vice director of the Centre for Studies in Politics and Law at Peking University, Prof Zhang Yongle was invited to the University of Exeter in 2014. He gave a talk in the Global China lecture series during his visit. Prof Zhang is an international affiliated fellow of the Global China Research Centre. Dr Zhiguang Yin has also been a fellow of the Centre for Studies in Politics and Law since 2015. Prof James Devenney, Dean of Exeter Law School, visited the centre and gave a talk in October 2015. The two centres are now discussing a summer school programme.
Consilium Research Institute, Chongqing University
Dr Zhiguang Yin is a fellow in the Consilium Research Institute.
Dujia Media network
Dujia Media is a growing Chinese new Media company. One of the students in Modern Languages Department, Chris Sargent, who is currently (2015-16) conducting a year abroad in China appears as a guest host in one of their programmes, sharing his observation of living in China as a foreigner. The Global China Research Centre is currently discussing further collaborative projects with Dujia Media.
National Institute of Strategic Communication, Peking University
Dr Zhiguang Yin gave a talk in the National Institute of Strategic Communication lecture series in 2015. NISC also hopes to host a series of collaborative conferences with Global China Research Centre.