Postgraduate Research
Some key research areas are 
- Chinese nationalism and transnationalism
- Chinese social and business networks
- China 's interactions with its Asian neighbours and the West in the modern era
- relationship between the state and intellectuals after 1978
- changing images of China in the world
- gender and sexuality in contemporary China
- Chinese foreign policy
- history and theory of translation from Chinese into European languages from the 18th to the early 20th centuries
- relationship between translation and social discourses
- crime fiction in Chinese and English
- privatisation and economic regulation in Chinese industries
- foreign direct investment in infrastructure industries
- regional development disparity
- spatial, visual and material culture of urban China
- aesthetic exchanges between China and the West.
To find the individual research interests of members of staff, please see the staff pages.