Online Religion in Contemporary China
Mengyuan Tian, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 recipient, with guest host Professor Astrid Nordin
9 July 2025, 14.00 BST Online
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How to build a city, fast: life in one of China’s ‘new areas’
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou Many of us in the UK are familiar with the trope of a old man taking his grandson for a walk and saying, ‘all this was fields when I was a boy’. In many parts of China, it could do with a…
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Faxian and China’s Efforts to Court Sri Lanka
Marcus Andreopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and a Subject Matter Expert with the Global Threats Advisory Group at NATO’s Defence Education Enhancement Programme Having elected a new president and government at the end of last year, Sri Lanka looks set to chart a new course in its approach to foreign policy. Since…
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Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire
Raffaello Pantucci
11 December 2024 14.00 GMT
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The Invention of Everything: Joseph Needham and the Rediscovery of Chinese Science
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou In 1620, the great polymath Francis Bacon published his magnum opus, the Novum Organum. Among an early draft of the scientific method, he considered three inventions that had, in his own lifetime, turned the world upside down. ‘It is well to observe…
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The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island will Dictate the Global Future
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. He is the author of the newly published book The Taiwan Story. In mid-October 2024, the second occurrence of military exercises around the coast of Taiwan, which the Chinese call `Joint Sword’, have apparently just concluded. The…
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The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power
Professor Kerry Brown
1 October 2024 14.00 BST
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China Rising, Latin America Swooning
Professor Chris Alden (Director of LSE IDEAS) and Professor Alvaro Mendez (Director of the LSE Global South Unit) co-authored China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics The rising fortunes of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the last decades launched an economic and social transformation every bit as consequential as the onset of…
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Less Than a Decade to Decide What to do about Hong Kong?
Matthew Hurst is a doctoral student at the University of York researching the Sino-British negotiations over the future of Hong Kong during the 1980s and ’90s. The past can be a poor indicator of the future. Anyone looking to history books as if they were a crystal ball is likely to find themselves disappointed. In…
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China has yet to prove itself a sea power, just look at the Red Sea
Andrew Ward is a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy and is currently a Hudson Fellow at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Centre where he is researching the early Cold War and its relevance for today’s power dynamics at sea. Building a navy is insufficient to become a sea power. By some measures, the People’s…
