Chinese Frustrations: My Rightist Mobility, My Leftist Hypocrisy

By Flair Donglai Shi, World Literatures in English (MSt) at University of Oxford. (Caution: the words “rightist” and “leftist” are used in the vaguest/broadest sense possible in this article, which is full of generalising languages and assuming discourses that the reader is welcome to deconstruct) My British dustbin is my best friend. It always sits …

Will Chinese trains come to Britain?

By Dr Yuefan Xiao Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. The internationalisation of China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) has gone a long way since 2010 and it epitomised China’s soft power as an ascending nation not only of great growing but innovative potential. Recent months have seen a sequence of international endorsements of China’s …

A Moving Display

By David O’Brien, Assistant Professor School of the Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. As President Xi Jinping received the warmest of warm royal welcomes in Britain some eyebrows were raised back in Beijing when a 800 year document limiting the power of the British monarch was quietly moved. The Magna Carta, …

Understanding Chinese Students’ Decision-making in Participating in Higher Education in the UK: A Bourdieusian Perspective

By Jingran Yu, MSc Culture and Society, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent decades have witnessed Chinese students’ widening participation in higher education in the UK, which has raised wide-ranging academic interest in attributing for the causal powers underneath. In addition to existing literature, this short essay intends to provide …

Changing Misperceptions and Easing Misgivings

By Dr David O’Brien, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Britain this week hoping to boost trade, strengthen cooperation and in his own words “change misperceptions and misgivings“. Premier Li arrived on Monday for a three day visit – the first by …