Past events
New perspectives on Neolithic cloth production in the Yangzi Valley, 7000 BP
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Judith Cameron
The site of Tianluoshan 田螺山, near present-day Yuyao, Zhejiang, is significant in archaeology for producing the earliest evidence for rice cultivation in the...
The Colours of Anthropology: A Visual Anthropology Exhibition
Exhibition
The Colours of Anthropology photography exhibition is an exploration of sensory ethnography with a particular focus on colour. It showcases the photographs of ANU anthropologists...
Opening Night — The Colours of Anthropology: A Visual Anthropology Exhibition
Exhibition Opening Night
The Colours of Anthropology photography exhibition is an exploration of sensory ethnography with a particular focus on colour. It showcases the photographs of ANU anthropologists...
CANCELLED — Learning to Fight a Modern War: Armed Forces in Nationalist China, 1928–1937
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Kwong Chi Man
Due to unforeseeable circumstances, this seminar has had to be cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience.This paper examines the ways in which...
Religious Groups, Varieties of Social Capital, and Contentious Collective Actions in Contemporary Rural China
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Yu Tao
Why do some religious groups in China challenge state power while others cooperate with the government? Drawing on national survey data and comparative case...
Medical Missionaries and the History of Asian Christianity: Pre-WWII Hong Kong as a case study
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Man-kong Wong
This seminar will give an account of the work done by medical missionaries in pre-WWII Hong Kong. It will show that these medical missions held...
Debt Disputes and Trade Routes: Jiaozhi Merchants in Eastern Han Changsha
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): Zhang Zhaoyang
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Jiaozhi, in present-day northern Vietnam, lay at the southern frontier of the Han Empire (206 BC-220 AD). A lack of textual...
Xinjiang: China’s troubled frontier region
ANU China Seminar Series
Presenter(s): David Brophy, Tom Cliff, Anna Hayes, James Leibold, and Michael Clarke
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The present-day region of Xinjiang has long stood in a...
Opening night: newly discovered photographs of Beijing, 1900–1902
Gallery exhibition
Presenter(s): Richard Rigby
The photographs of Beijing in this exhibition were taken in 1901 and 1902 shortly after the end of the Boxer Uprising 義和團運動. They come from an album in the...
