Articles tagged with 'manchester-china-institute' | University of Manchester

It will explore the birth of modern Sino-African relations, when the Qing Chinese government agreed to a deal with Britain to transport some sixty-thousand Chinese workers to labour in gold mines in South Africa’s Transvaal colony between 1903-1910.T...

The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) has awarded Manchester China Institute (MCI) research associate Dr Aoife Cantrill the 2023 Best Doctoral Thesis Award.Aoife’s thesis, titled “Translating Kōminka: Shaping Narratives of Japanese Rule ...

Charlotte is bilingual in English and Mandarin, and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. Her academic career started as a Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding at Nottingham Trent University. Charlotte later worked in various commercia...

The European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) has awarded Manchester China Institute (MCI) research fellow Dr Tao Wang, a former PhD student at the Department of Politics, the 2023 Taiwan Studies Young Scholar Award (1st Prize).The winning paper,...

Run by the Manchester China Institute (MCI) and Creative Manchester at The University of Manchester, the competition uses amateur photography as a visual way of overcoming linguistic divides and highlighting the common humanity of China and the UK. M...

After four years of running the day-to-day operations of the Manchester China Institute (MCI), Manager Will Kirkby has left the University to move to Bangkok. MCI promotes excellence in China studies and mutual understanding in UK-China relations.Wil...

On June 5-6, 15 Chinese and American diplomats met in La Jolla, California for the 13th annual US-China Young Diplomats Dialogue, co-hosted by Professor Peter Gries of the Manchester China Institute.The retreat involved formal sit-down discussions of...

曼彻斯特中国研究院(MCI)和Creative Manchester于5月3日星期三在曼彻斯特联盟商学院(AMBS)启动了2023中英国际摄影大赛的展览。展览展示了由参赛者们用智能手机拍摄的照片，并附有以“传家宝”为主题的双语短篇故事，跨越语言的界限，关注我们共同的人性，促进中英文化的相互理解。本次展览所展示的作品是今年中英国际摄影大赛的前30个作品，从数百个国际投稿中选出。参展作品和最终获奖作品由Michael Wood教授(曼彻斯特大学)、张海博士(云南大学)、朱晓闻(东南亚当代艺术中心)和...

A new photography exhibition has opened at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) promoting mutual understanding in UK-China relations through focusing on our common humanity.The Manchester China Institute (MCI), in partnership with Creative ...

The Lee Kai Hung Chinese Culture Gallery is the first permanent gallery devoted to Chinese culture in the history of Manchester Museum. Its aim is to promote empathy and understanding between the people of the UK and China.The celebration event gathe...

On April 17, the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Donna Ludford, hosted a fruitful discussion with our Manchester-China Friendship Programme (MCFP) students and organisers at Manchester’s Central Library. The event was an opportunity for MCFP stu...

The MCI have appointed Lorelei Baciu, a Politics and Sociology graduate from the University of Manchester, with a wide expertise in the public relations and marketing sectors as their new Engagement and External Relations Officer.Lorelei worked as as...

The competition is now open, with smartphone owners in the UK or China invited to submit photos on the theme of ‘family treasures’ by the evening of Wednesday 12 April.An expert panel of judges will name the winners for the best UK, China, and Under-...

Nine successful Manchester-based students each received £1000 after applying for our Travel Fund grant in September 2022. The students will all be studying the Chinese language.The awards were made possible by MCI benefactor, Dr. Lee Kai Hung. In 202...

Professor Gries discusses the economic challenges China faces as Xi Jinping heads into his third five-year term.

Dr Wang obtained his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Manchester in 2021 with his doctoral research focusing on how the informal rule of guanxi affects political representation in Taiwan. After completing his Ph.D. in the 2021-2022 academic y...

MANCHESTER 6 July 2022 – A tender moment between an older couple captured the hearts of voters for this year’s People’s Choice Award for the UK-China International Photography Competition.After whittling down several hundred entries, the top 30 submi...

The Manchester China Institute, Creative Manchester and School of Arts, Languages and Culture have returned to collaborate on a fourth instalment of the UK-China International Photography Competition.The winners of the this year’s competition were re...

On Tuesday, 26 April 2022, the School of Social Sciences and the Manchester China Institute celebrate the launch of ‘Pure and True: the everyday politics for China’s Hui Muslims’ the new book from Lecturer in Chinese Politics, David R. Stroup.In his ...

Dr. Han-Wu-Shuang (Bruce) Bao 包寒吴霜 received a BSc degree in psychology from Beijing Normal University and subsequently a PhD in social psychology from Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests range from social cognition to cultural psychol...

The UK-China International Photography Competition, run by the Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester, is back for the fourth consecutive year.The competition, which promotes mutual understanding in UK-China relations through the celebrat...

The Manchester China Institute (MCI) Director, Prof. Peter Gries, has contributed to a successful bid for a British Council grant designed to strengthen UK-China institutional partnerships through academic collaboration. MCI partnered with the Univer...

In 2020, Dr. Lee Kai Hung generously donated £100,000 to match other charitable gifts, creating a fund to support University of Manchester students and staff who wish to fly to the Chinese speaking world to conduct research about Greater China.Covid-...

The Manchester China Institute (MCI) has teamed up with the Manchester China Forum (MCF) and UoM’s International Office on a new initiative to help integrate new Chinese students into campus life, while simultaneously enriching the campus experience ...

The conference is titled Chinese Feminism’s Publics: (Self-)Publishing in the Republic and the People’s Republic.The Hallsworth Conference Fund seeks to fund 4-6 landmark events each year that have emerging importance to the Humanities, exploring a w...

Hundreds of entries were reduced to a shortlist of 30 – including two overall winners selected by an esteemed judging panel including Michael Wood (Broadcaster and Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester).The 30 shortlisted photog...

Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester recently staged a China-based awards ceremony for this year’s International Photography Competition, which marked the 35th anniversary of Manchester’s twinning with Wuhan. Hundreds of caring-themed s...

Promoting mutual understanding in UK-China relations, this year’s International Photography Competition – presented by Creative Manchester and the Manchester China Institute – celebrates the 35th anniversary of Manchester’s twinning with Wuhan, the c...

The Manchester China Institute is delighted to announce the recruitment of two new student interns through the Q-Step Program to join a study of how gendered stereotypes shape patterns of racial prejudice, discrimination, and aggression against Asian...

曼彻斯特和武汉于1986年正式结为友好姐妹城市。同年，中国驻曼彻斯特总领馆成立。几十年来，华人对曼彻斯特的影响和文化促进了这一伙伴关系的建立，时至今日，形成了庞大的华人社区，以及曼彻斯特市中心著名的中国城。去年的经历人们依然历历在记，并给予了2021年的结好纪念更多意义，强调了在历史联系的基础上，武汉和曼彻斯特两市更应继续巩固这一友谊。“2021年中英国际摄影大赛”作为其中的一个环节，旨在鼓励持续的文化交流和观点交流，促进两市和中英两国之间积极的联系和更多的文化理解。今年摄影大赛的主题是“何谓关...