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Session One: Depictions of Foreign and Peripheral Lands in Chinese Historical Writing
Session One: Depictions of Foreign and Peripheral Lands in Chinese Historical Writing
Date: 15 January 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Zoom)
Papers
Papers
Perceptions of Foreign Civilizations among Yuan-Dynasty Chinese Literati: A Study of the Customs of Cambodia
Yaohan Wei (Capital Normal University)
From the "Western Regions" to the "Western Ocean": Knowledge Transformation and Conceptual Change in Chinese Extraterritorial Writings (Tang-Song to Ming-Qing)
Xinle Chen (City University of Hong Kong)
Imperial Encounters in Yunnan: Peripheral Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Chinese and French Knowledge
Ziang Dong (Hokkaido University)
Discussant
Ruisen Zheng (King's College of London)
Host
Shunran Tu (University of Exeter)
Session Two: Transcultural Poetics and the Circulation of World Literatures
Session Two: Transcultural Poetics and the Circulation of World Literatures
Date: 06 February 2026 (Friday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
Li Po and Chinese Cuisine: Derek Walcott’s Chinese Experience and the Making of Caribbean Culture
Chenlong Li (Nanjing University)
Towards Chinese-Arabic Comparison as Method: Lin Shu, Muṣṭafá Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī, and the Translation of Modernity
Haodong Bai (University of Cambridge)
The Ecological Materiality of Chinese Landscape Literature and Its East Asian Resonances: From Xie Lingyun to Matsuo Bashō
Xinping Wei (Renmin University of China)
Discussant
Dr Ye Tian (University of Leeds)
Host
Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)
Session Three: The Production of Knowledge and Scholarly Identity among Chinese Intellectuals in Contexts Shaped by Western Discourse
Session Three: The Production of Knowledge and Scholarly Identity among Chinese Intellectuals in Contexts Shaped by Western Discourse
Date: 27 February 2026 (Friday)
Time: 13:00–14:30 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
Historical Narratives Across Boundaries: Paradigmatic Shifts in the History of “China” in the United States during the Long Twentieth Century
Peinan Cheng (University of Southampton)
“History Originates from Ritual”: Negotiating Time and Modernity in Liu Yizheng’s Philosophy of History
Haifeng Weng (University of Goettingen)
Forging Chinese Antiquity: How Catholic Missionaries Interpreted the “Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars” During Ming-Qing Transition
Kang Li (Wuhan University)
The New Interpretation on Zhu Xi’s “Study the Nature of Things” (Gewu) in Late Qing During Ming-Qing Transition
Xinyu Wang (Nanjing Normal University)
Discussant
Zhijian Sun (National University of Singapore)
Host
Shunran Tu (University of Exeter)
Session Four: Transnational Narratives and the Politics of Representation
Session Four: Transnational Narratives and the Politics of Representation
Date: 13 March 2026 (Friday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
Chinese Cultural Subjectivity and International Communication of ‘National Narrative’ Films: A Perspective from the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
Shiyu Wang (University of Exeter)
Imagined Encounters and Circulating Narratives: China as Method in Transnational Lala Self-Labelling
Tianyi Han (University of Strathclyde)
Identity Crisis and Taiwanese intellectuals: Taking Orphan of Asia as an example
Yuhong Li (Nanjing Normal University)
Jinghong Zhang (Hunan First Normal University)
The Positive Presence: Westerners in Chinese Films on the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Zhuojun Huang (City University of Hong Kong)
Host
Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)
Session Five: Negotiating Authenticity in Chinese Heritage: Performance, Ritual and Architecture
Session Five: Negotiating Authenticity in Chinese Heritage: Performance, Ritual and Architecture
Date: 26 March 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
Staging Authenticity: The Changing Visibility of Stagehands in Chinese Opera
Chengjin Su (Zhejiang University)
Between Faith and Heritage: Negotiating Authenticity and Modernity through a Food Offering Ritual in Coastal China
Mengping Liu (Seoul National University)
Architecture as Mass Media: Mediated Pastness and Public Reception at Luoyang’s Reconstructed Heritage Site
Hanchun Li (University College London)
Discussant
Dr Yue Zhuang (University of Exeter)
Host
Yining Fu (University of Exeter)
Session Six: The circulation, reception, and transformation of Chinese knowledge and images in Europe and beyond since the Early Modern period
Session Six: The circulation, reception, and transformation of Chinese knowledge and images in Europe and beyond since the Early Modern period
Date: 30 April 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Papers
Papers
China as Method: Rethinking Encounter and Knowledge in Marco Polo’s Travels
Xinyao Zhang (University College London)
Cultural Encounters between China and the Nordic Region since the Late 17th Century: An Approach through Selected Culturally Resonant Elements
Dongning Zhang (Fudan University)
From Bencaogangmu to Historia naturalis Sinarum: Chinese Knowledge and Natural History in Hans Sloane’s Collection
Siqing Sun (University of Leeds, Beijing Normal University)
“Chinese Columbianites” in The China Foundation
Sally Chengji Xing (Nankai University)
Discussant
Yizhou Wang (Hong Kong Chuhai College)
Chuanyou Zhou (University of Exeter)
Host
Shunran Tu (University of Exeter)
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