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4 July 2025 | Christ Church College, University of Oxford
Welcome! This is the website of the conference 'History of South China: Sources, Methods, and New Approaches', to be held at the University of Oxford on 4 July 2025. Please click here to see the full programme and to register to attend.
On 3 July at 14:00, we will be holding a screening at the China Centre, Canterbury Road, of the documentary film Metamorphosis of the Bay Area, produced by a group of senior scholars of South China, including Professor Liu Zhiwei, Professor Helen Siu, and Professor Ching May Bo. This will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Ching. Attendance is free and all are welcome. Please click here for details.
Keynote speaker: Professor Ching May Bo (程美寶)
'Why South China? (And Why Not?)'
Professor Ching May Bo is Head of the Department of Chinese and History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong, and the 'Distinguished Professor of the Pearl River Scholars' of Guangdong Province (Sun Yat-sen University). She has published extensively on a variety of subjects relating to social and cultural history of modern China. Her book Regional Culture and National Identity: the shaping of “Guangdong Culture” since the late Qing discusses changes in the articulation of regional identity against the rise of nationalism at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. In recent years, she has been examining how the regional culture of South China took shape in a trans-regional context in terms of sound, colour and tastes from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Organisers:
Jacob Fordham (Department of Government, LSE)
Simon Lam (Faculty of History, University of Oxford)
Paul Napier (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford)
This event is supported by the British Academy’s Global Convening Programme 'Chinese Global Orders'.
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