As The Economist notes, Harvard, along with our peer institutions, are revitalizing student programs and academic engagement with China.  A new Harvard Summer School is being launched in cooperation with Fudan University in Shanghai. economist.com/china/2024/05/…

📢 President Xi Jinping recently visited #Serbia.🇷🇸 🌍 What links Beijing and Belgrade across decades and what does this visit tell us about #Chinese #nationalism today? 🎙️ MCI Director, Peter Gries discusses this with Cindy Yu for The Spectator World.⬇️ audioboom.com/posts/8504418-…

Last Friday, our #Friendship #Programme students🇬🇧🇨🇳 enjoyed a special afternoon tea party at Annies.🫖🍰 What a fantastic year it has been, fostering friendships between British and Chinese students The University of Manchester through shared cultural experiences.🌏🥂

Pleased to share my review of Liping Wang's latest book "The Imperial Creation of Ethnicity: Chinese Policies and the Ethnic Turn in Inner Mongolian Politics, 1900–1930" in the latest edition of the journal, Inner Asia: brill.com/view/journals/…

🎉 Exciting news - the winning and finalist entries from our #UK-#China #Photo #Competition are now exhibited in Zhengzhou!🇨🇳 📸 We're delighted to have had Dominic McAllister, British Consul General in Wuhan, visit the exhibition located at the Shang Dynasty Ruins Museum.🏛️

📣 Our #Friendship #Programme students are gearing up for the #Dragon #Boat #Race at Salford Quays this Saturday!🐲🛶 🥇Come cheer them on and enjoy various cultural performances by talented Chinese artists.🎉✨ 🔗 Event details: dragonboatfestival.uk

Fieldwork in Manchester. Found very useful archives at City Library & had chance to see the Great Manchurian exhibition there REDEFINE_ERC Giles Mohan Manchester China Institute #sister-cities#Chinese community in Manchester #local identity#Manchester-China relations

📣Last Friday, Lorelei Baciu and MCFP student Ernestina Zhu shared insights on our work with UoM students at the #BeePart #Workshop.📚🐝 🎙️They discussed intercultural engagement on campus and beyond, drawing from our Friendship Programme & International Photo Competition.🇬🇧🇨🇳

🎉 Our Universally Manchester Festival kicks off today! Come and join us for four jam-packed days of performances, exhibitions and celebrations 🪩💜   👉 View the full lineup and plan your weekend: universallymanchester.com

🎬 Throwback to our unforgettable experience at the #Dragon #Boat #Race in Salford Quays last month!🔙 🙌 Our Manchester-China Friendship Programme students 🇬🇧🇨🇳 had a blast paddling and competing with more than 40 other teams.🐲🛶 youtu.be/pSMynVFF1ug?fe…

Today I will present our ongoing research Filippo Boni REDEFINE_ERC Manchester China Institute for delegations from Jiangsu Province at UCL. I will illustrate factors contribute to the continuity & adaptability of MANCHESTER-Wuhan sister city relations

*FULLY FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER* We’re looking for PhD student applicants working on ‘Soft Power and Disinformation’ or ‘Opposition, Human Rights and Resistance in Exile’. DEADLINE: AUGUST 19 findaphd.com/phds/project/s…

📢 TOMORROW: Prof Zhihao Xu from Tsinghua University joins us in person to discuss military officer defections during the Second Sino-Japanese War.🇯🇵🇨🇳 🗓️ Thursday, 25 July; ⏰ 2:00-3:00 pm BST; 🏛️ MCI Conference Room; 🎟️ Free entry (RSVP at [email protected])

Over the summer, we're hosting several visits from prospective student groups across China.✈️🌏 They have great enthusiasm for a rich studying-abroad experience at UoM, both academically and socially. They're also eager to join our #Friendship #Programme and research events.🇬🇧🇨🇳

It is a great pleasure to be invited to deliver lectures for the Intercultural and Innovation Management Programme hosted by Manchester China Institute So happy to see the young people grow and learn!

Welcome to the MCI, Yannan!🎉 As our newly-appointed Institute Manager, Yannan will be leading MCI's programming, events, and day-to-day operations. She has extensive experience in the UK's HE sector and holds an MBA from University College London. manchester.ac.uk/about/news/new…

📢 We've partnered with Social Responsibility to fund Dr Nan Zhang to lead a project on #civic #engagement with local #Chinese #communities, alongside leading scholars The University of Manchester specialising in ageing, health, well-being, digital tech, and China studies.🤝 manchester.ac.uk/about/news/mci…

🔔WHY CHINA MATTERS🔔 📣The University of Manchester students: This fully #online #course offers flexibility, so you can study anytime, anywhere. You'll dive into a range of fascinating topics, learning from leading scholars of #China in a dynamic format. 📚ENROL NOW: college.manchester.ac.uk/units/?year=20…

🚨NOW HIRING: MCFP ASSISTANTS🚨 We're looking for two enthusiastic The University of Manchester students or recent grads to help us deliver exciting intercultural events for the #Friendship #Programme🇬🇧🇨🇳 and promote cultural integration on campus.🐝 📄Learn more: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?D…

🎉NEW PUBLICATION: Congrats to our visiting scholar, Dr Xiaomeng Li, for publishing a new article on China's fandom culture in the Journal of Popular Culture.✍️ 📄Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…