This is a lecture series held at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute and coordinated by Dr Regina Llamas, BICC Fellow in the Language and Literature of China
March 17th
Rana Mitter
Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
“The past in China's present: wartime experience and the shaping of contemporary Chinese politics, 1937-2005.”
March 29th
Alison Hardie
Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Leeds
“Knowing about mountains: professional garden designers in early modern China.”
June 14th
John Kieschnick
Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol
“Recent trends in Chinese religion.”
July 12th
Frank Pieke
Director, Institute for Chinese Studies; Director, British Inter-university China Centre (BICC); University Lecturer, Modern Politics and Society of China
“China's New Bureaucrats."