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'The Political Thought of Xi Jinping' by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung will be available from 9 January 2024.
You can get 30% off if you purchase it directly from OUP using the discount code ASFLYQ6 👉 global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Read Professor Steve Tsang’s new article on “What the West fails to grasp about China’s strategy to lead the world”, written for the Autumn issue of ‘The World Today’ at Chatham House chathamhouse.org/publication…
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Podcast: Family and Relationship Trends in China — Across generations, across the urban-rural divide with Prof Jieyu Liu @JieyuLiu3
Available on Apple, Spotify and more: soas-china-institute.buzzspr…
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Rowan Simons, author of the book Bamboo Goalposts, and chairman and founder of Club Football Beijing joins us to discuss the state of Chinese #football, and whether the country’s #WorldCup dream might ever become a reality.
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Book talk "Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Public Opinion Management in China" w/ Prof. Lynette Ong
🗓️Next Mon 15 June, 5pm
📌Room R201, SOAS
More details and registration: tinyurl.com/4vjuacvv
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Melinda Liu, veteran Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek magazine, and Professor Steve Tsang, director of the #SOAS China Institute, discuss who got the most out of a summit described by President Trump as 'very successful' and by President Xi as ‘historic’.
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China In Context Ep208: Did China trump Trump? — After the Beijing summit
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By preserving the underlying structures of the Leninist political system, Deng Xiaoping set the stage for the emergence of Xi Jinping’s strongman rule, observes @SOAS_CI’s Steve Tsang.
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Jonathan Fulton, professor of international relations at Zayed University and senior fellow at the @AtlanticCouncil, joins us to assess how recent events in the Middle East will affect China in the longer term.
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On this #SOAS China Institute podcast Todd Hall, director of @ox_chinacentre and Hannah Bailey @Hannah_LSBailey, assistant professor at @cmist_cmu join us to discuss China’s global ambitions.
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Seminar on 'Smashing Statues as Posthumous Punishment in Imperial China' with Dr Desmond Cheung @SOAS @SOASHistory
🗓️Mon 20 Apr 2026 |5.15pm
📍Room RB01, SOAS
All welcome, but registration is required:
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Thank you for having us!
On this #SOAS China Institute podcast Todd Hall, director of @ox_chinacentre and Hannah Bailey @Hannah_LSBailey, assistant professor at @cmist_cmu join us to discuss China’s global ambitions.
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Evelyn Cheng @chengevelyn, senior correspondent for @CNBC in Beijing, and Christopher Mittelstaedt @jcmittelstaedt, Professor of Chinese politics at the University of Zurich @UZH_en, discuss China's Five Year Plan and the ethnic unity law.
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On this podcast Andy Rothman @RothmanAndy, senior China fellow at the @AsiaSociety Northern California, discusses China’s economic prospects — and the challenges for consumer confidence and private enterprise.
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Tomorrow, join us from (5–7pm) for “A New Global Order? Implications of the US-Israeli Attacks on Iran for the Middle East, China, & Southeast Asia”. Co-hosted by @SOAS_MEI, @SOAS_CI, & the Centre of South East Asian Studies. For registration & details:soas.ac.uk/about/event/new-g…
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🎙️New episode: SOAS Global Developments Podcast
How is China shaping Africa’s industrial future?
In our first video episode, @estariade (Carlos Oya) joins @nomhossain (Naomi Hossain) to unpack the opportunities, challenges & labour dynamics of China’s engagement in Africa, drawing on his new book "China for Africa’s Industrialization?"
▶️ Watch the full episode here: soas.ac.uk/soas-global-devel…
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On this podcast we talk to @JosephTorigian, a specialist on Chinese politics at American University @AmericanU in Washington DC, who offers an unusual insight into Xi Jinping’s backstory in his new book, 'The Party’s Interests Come First'
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Analysts say Xi is unlikely to try to launch an attack on Taiwan just because of the U.S. war on Iran. “Xi has not in the last 13 years demonstrated a tendency towards recklessness,” said Steve Tsang, director of the @SOAS_CI in London.
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