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Conference Deconstructed – Graphic Mobilization: The Politics of Cartoons, Comics and Animation
The Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster

Wed, 9th Dec, 12:00-14:00 (GMT)
Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
Speakers: Dr Avital Avina, Dr Nick Stember, Dr ZHUANG Muyang
Registration: The event is free to attend and open to all. . . .
Member’s publication: Emma Lupano
Emma Lupano, Between the Lines. Genres and Expression in Contemporary Chinese Journalism. FrancoAngeli, 2025

Outside China, the country’s media landscape is often depicted as a . . .
Call for Applications: Quintin Hogg Trust (QHT) Doctoral Studentships
Westminster University, London, UK
Deadline: 5th Feb 2027
The University of Westminster is pleased to announce the next round of Quintin Hogg Trust (QHT) Doctoral Studentships, supporting outstanding doctoral research across the University, with a focus on interdisciplinary and EDI. At the Contemporary China Centre, we would welcome applications grounded in Chinese studies, . . .
Call for Papers – Data as Heuristic: Toward a Chinese History of Data
Erlangen, Germany
15–16th Apr 2027
Deadline: 30th Nov 2026
Convenors: Chun Xu and Sijia Cheng
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
As “data” comes to saturate our everyday language, historians of China have begun, almost without noticing, to apply the word to the Chinese past, . . .





