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A lunchtime lecture on 1 July will examine the role of village doctors in primary health care in Central and Western China.

The seminar will be given by Dr Zheng Xie who is a medical sociologist and Lecturer at the Department of Global Health at Peking University Health Science Centre. Dr Zheng has more than 10years of experience in conducting public health research in China and aboard. Her research interests include the evaluation of China`s health system reforms and disease control policies and programs. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in these areas as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods. More recently, she has expanded her research collaboration to African countries including Nigeria and Kenya. She has been a consultant for the Ministry of Health in China as well as bilateral and multilateral organisations such as the World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, UK DFID, and AUSAID, and has contributed to the World Health Organization`s Commission of Social Determinants of Health final report of 2008.

Chen Liming, President BP China will deliver a special lecture on Wednesday 11th June in the University of Edinburgh`s Business School on the topic `Climate Change from a China perspective: why we care after all.`

In 2013 Chen Liming gave a lecture as part of the Confucius Institute for Scotland annual Business Lecture Series. Following on from this he was made an Visiting Professor within the school of Literature, Languages and Cultures. This lecture is his first as a visiting professor.

Chen Liming became President of BP China in November 2008 and also serves as Chairman of BP (China) Holding Company. Prior to joining BP he was Executive Vice President of Sasol China, an integrated energy and chemicals company. His career began in 1994 with the CONDEA Group which was subsequently acquired by Sasol. Prior to his career advancement Chen Liming was a senior researcher in Singapore Institute of Standards & Industrial Research in charge of scientific research and negotiation on joint ventures. His holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Shihezi University, Xinjiang, PRC and his Masters degree in Science is from Cornell University. He has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

His visit is organised by the Confucius Institute for Scotland and this lecture is jointly hosted by the Institute and the Business School.

DATE: Wednesday 11th June 2014
TIME: Registration with tea and coffee 18.00
LECTURE: from 18.00 to 19.30 including Q&A
RECEPTION: from 19.30-20.15
VENUE: University of Edinburgh Business School
BOOKING: Please click here to register via the Business School

The penultimate talk in the Research Seminar Series will take place on Wed 19 March 2014 when Dr Konrad Lawson, University of St Andrews will discourse on the topic From Executions to Education: Traitor Elimination Work in Shandong Province, 1938-1947.

This talk will take place from 5.15pm – 7pm in Room G.15, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School on Wed 19 March. Advance booking is not required.

The final talk in this series by Prof Dominic Sachsenmeier, University of Bremen which was scheduled to take place on Wed 2nd April has regretfully been cancelled.

Join us on Tues 28 January for the inaugural lecture by the Handa Chair in Japanese-Chinese relations, Prof Urs Matthias Zachmann.

His lecture, which is open to the public, will take place in Old College Lecture Theatre 183 starting at 5.30pm. It will be followed by a reception.

Synopsis

The history of Japanese-Chinese relations since the mid-nineteenth century can be interpreted as a series of negotiations and contestations what Asia really stands for and how the concept relates to the western world. Especially from the Japanese perspective, the concept of Asia was highly unstable and oscillated between connotations of the particular and the universal, the backward and the visionary, the model and the dismal. Although these fluctuations were politically motivated and followed the progress of Japanese-Chinese relations, they also had an intrinsic logic of their own and reveal underlying constants that can be felt even today. This lecture is an inquiry into the political changes and cultural constants of the concept of Asia in the history of Japanese-Chinese relations and their implications for East Asia and the study of its relations today.

Speaker

Urs Matthias Zachmann received his MA (2000) and PhD (2006) in Japanese Studies from the University of Heidelberg. In 2010, he completed his Habilitation in Japanese Studies at the University of Munich. For his theses, he conducted extensive research at Waseda University, Harvard University, the University of Tokyo and Seikei University. He is also qualified as an advocate in Germany (first and second legal state exam, 1998 and 2002).

In 2006, Zachmann became Assistant Professor at the Japan Center of Munich University, followed by an appointment in October 2010 as Acting Full Professor at the Institute of Japanese Studies of Heidelberg University. He assumed his position as Handa Chair in Japanese-Chinese Relations in October 2011.

A book launch workshop Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought: Contributions to a Global Discourse? will take place from 5.30pm to 7pm, Friday, 29th November 2013 followed by a drinks reception at the Confucius Institute for Scotland. All welcome.

The topic of this recently published book is not about the diversity of Chinese religions but rather how the various religious traditions of China in pre-modern, modern, and contemporary times have reflected on and reacted to the fact of religious diversity.

The event will be introduced by Dr.Steven Sutcliffe (Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh)and contributors of the book chapters will speak at the event.
Prof. Barend Ter Haar (Chair of Chinese at the University of Oxford)
Dr. Adam Yuet Chau (University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China at the University of Cambridge)
Prof. Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Head of the Centre for Religious Studies and Inter-faith Theology at the University of Glasgow until 2009, and now Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Muenster, Germany)
Prof. Joachim Gentz (Junior professor in Religious Studies at Goettingen University until 2006, and now Reader in Chinese at the Asian Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh).

The book is already out of stock but we will have copies available at the launch event at 30 pound per copy (50% off from the original price).

A book launch workshop Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought: Contributions to a Global Discourse? will take place from 5.30pm to 7pm, Friday, 29th November 2013 followed by a drinks reception at the Confucius Institute for Scotland. All welcome.

The topic of this recently published book is not about the diversity of Chinese religions but rather how the various religious traditions of China in pre-modern, modern, and contemporary times have reflected on and reacted to the fact of religious diversity.

The event will be introduced by Dr.Steven Sutcliffe (Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh)and contributors of the book chapters will speak at the event.
Prof. Barend Ter Haar (Chair of Chinese at the University of Oxford)
Dr. Adam Yuet Chau (University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China at the University of Cambridge)
Prof. Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Head of the Centre for Religious Studies and Inter-faith Theology at the University of Glasgow until 2009, and now Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Muenster, Germany)
Prof. Joachim Gentz (Junior professor in Religious Studies at Goettingen University until 2006, and now Reader in Chinese at the Asian Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh).

The book is already out of stock but we will have copies available at the launch event at 30 pound per copy (50% off from the original price).

Lord Clement-Jones CBE, London Office Managing Partner, China Desk Chairman, DLA Piper and Deputy Chairman of All-Parliamentary China Group will give a public lecture on Thursday 21st November 2013 at Abden House. Lord Clement-Jones CBE will talk about China, Britain and the Creative Industries

This lecture is the final lecture of Confucius Institute for Scotland`s 2013 Autumn Business Lecture Series. The lecture will start from 6pm to 7:30pm and a networking drinks reception will follow the talk and Q&A.

The event is free but booking is essential. Please email: info@confuciusinstitute.ac.uk to reserve your place.

For further information of the talk or our forthcoming lectures, please visit our Microsite for the series.