OxCRG Hilary Term Card 2025

Ox.C.R.G. OXFORD CHINA READING GROUP

Fridays Hilary Term 2025, 2pm - 4pm

Lucina Hoo Room, China Centre (except week 5)

All welcome

Please see pdf Term Card here.

Ox.C.R.G.

OXFORD CHINA READING GROUP

Period

Late Imperial to Modern

Convenors

Duanran Feng Pak Hei Hao Simon Lam Alexander Yen

Time/Location

Fridays @ 1400-1600 @ Lucina Ho Room, China Centre (exc. W5)

Week	Topic and Readings
HT1	Chinese Religion Tam, ‘Communal Worship’ in Palmer (ed.), Chinese Religious Life. Goosaert, The Taoists of Peking, introd. and optional chap. 6.
HT2	Religion and the Public Sphere in Modern China Duara, ‘Religion and Citizenship in the Chinese Diaspora’. Madsen, The Sinicization of Chinese Religions, introd.
HT3	Mao-Era Chinese Intellectuals and Imaginations of Utopia Zhang, ‘The Magic of Hope’ (Chinese, optional). Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind, chap. TBC.
HT4	Education and Success in Post-Reform China Bregnbaek, Fragile Elite, chapter 6. Wu, ‘Toward a Different Kind of Social Distinction?’.
HT5	Curing the Fifth Week Blues: Pub Social Join us at the Royal Oak on Woodstock Road for a mid-term break!
HT6	English in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong Evans, ‘The Introduction of English-Language Education’. Law, ‘Cultural Coloniality’ in Collaborative Colonial Power.
HT7	The Discourse of Poverty in China Lu, Street Criers, chap. 1. Chen, Guilty of Indigence, chap. 3.
HT8	The Disintegration of Postwar China, 1945-49 Mitter, 'Relocation and Dislocation'. Van de Ven, China at War, chap. 12.