for our student blog, Boyang Liang, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds @sspatleeds.bsky.social, writes about the cultural imagination of ren (endurance) in neoliberal China oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/r...

for our student blog, Weiyu Yuan, a PhD candidate in Chinese Studies at the School of modern Languages and Culture, writes about the "decline" of the family and changing perceptions of parent-child relationship oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...

In this piece originally published in @initiummedia.bsky.social and translated by Yiwen Liu, Lee Wai Kwan describes how, in the wake of the HK fire, strangers came together through grassroots relief efforts to contribute their time and talents, before the authorities imposed their own bureaucracy.

Ferran Perez Mena, our assistant professor in international relations of East Asia, joins BRI dialogue to discuss transnational elite connections between Chinese and Western non-state actors and their impact on world politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Np...

Join us for our next research seminar! The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China presented by @coralinglingxu.bsky.social 🗓 03 December | 🕐 1:00–2:00 PM

Join us for a guest lecture by @kevinyangmx.bsky.social on the grassroots Marxists in the 1978-81 Chinese democracy movement! 📅 Thursday 11 December 2025 🕔 11:00 - 12:30 📍 TLC039 (Teaching and Learning Centre)

🚨new open-access article!🚨 what do drastically different representations of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony on Chinese social media tell us about competing narratives of civilization & transversal alignment in digital reactionary politics? academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

In this new paper, Renu Singh, an assistant professor in comparative politics at SGIA, and co-authors Pengyu Zhu, Zining Wang, and Xinying Tan investigate how China's multi-level EV policies enabled "technology leapfrogging" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Chinese-language sister publication Tian Jian (田間), specializing in reporting on issues related to global Chinese-language media, just went live with their website. Check it out here: tian-jian.org

📝New blog post! Helene Bode writes about the rise of divorce parties, drawing on her Master's research on discursive re/production of female subjectivities on Chinese social media. oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/f...

📝New blog post! Soumya Ranjan Gahir writes about square dancing 广场舞 as an everyday practice that reclaims urban space, asserts gendered visibility in a society that often sidelines older women, and adapts creatively to the rhythms of digital culture. oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation." For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

Did you know that a new exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Palace Museum in Beijing is now free to visit at Durham's Oriental museum? jointly organised by the Palace Museum & the Oriental Museum @durham-university.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...

How do Dongbei crime dramas draw on Dongbei’s marginality to envisage alternative femininities? check out our new blog post by Min Xu: Sister in furs: female gangsters in northeastern Chinese crime dramas 穿貂皮的姐：东北悬疑剧里的女性黑帮形象 oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/h...

we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome! oddchinaout.wordpress.com

Huge congratulations to Dr Qiandong Zhou who passed her viva with flying colours on 29 Aug 2025! Dr Zhou was supervised by Prof Julie Rattray & Dr @coralinglingxu.bsky.social ! We express our deep gratitude to examiners Drs @chengyongtan.bsky.social & Jasper Roe for an engaging viva!

Excited to give my book talk at King's China Week @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social, in conversation with Dr @yanranyao.bsky.social, book your place soon for this in person event! See you on 23 Oct! @sunypress.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

Join us either online or in person-an exciting seminar by Professor Shibao Guo! @chiedmobilities.bsky.social @uofg-glacier.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social @yiminzhao.bsky.social @chenchenzh.bsky.social

Join us for our next seminar: Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World: Hypermobility, Hyperdiversity and Hyperconnectivity by Dr Shibao Guo, University of Calgary, Canada Scan the QR code below for more details! 📍Confluence Building CB-1017 📅04/06/25 🕑13:00-14:00

Had a blast at my keynote @BPCS @sunypress.bsky.social & @uoe-sps.bsky.social! Overwhelmed by kindness &friendship! Numerous touching moments when strong resonance was shared & tears were shed. Unequal time is real; friendship is real too! Together we are stronger!

I’m so honoured to be able to have this interview talking about my research. This is also a great opportunity for myself to look back and reflect on the trajectory.

Proud supervisor moment: Tong Meng just published her 1st article on UK-based female Chinese intl students’ racial preferences in partnering on mobile dating applications (MDAs): @drannallewellyn.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social

ICYMI, We'll be hosting a talk by Dr Yanran Yao and Prof Astrid Nordin @astridnordin.bsky.social this Friday on their project on supporting Chinese diaspora communities. all are welcome!

It has arrived! Holding 'The Time Inheritors' in my hands feels wonderful. Pre-order w/ promo code 'SNWS25' @sunypress.bsky.social (sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...), get 30% off. Out on 1st April (hardcover) and 1st October (paperback) 2025! #time #China #internationalstudents #Migration #rural #urban

we look forward to hosting this talk on illiberal state feminism by @zhouyunyun.bsky.social 📅 Tuesday, 25 February ⏱️2-3:30pm 📍W414 Geography