Global Seminar Series

The Centre organises seminars and lectures on China-related issues relevant to a New Zealand audience.

2026

2025

2024

  • "Stabilisation" with China in a Trump World: Feasible or Fantasy?
  • Interesting Times: New Zealanders in Republican China

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2026

1 April 2026 — International Climate Cooperation Under Strain: How Middle Powers Can Bridge Geopolitical Divides
Dr Patrick Schröder, Chatham House

14 April 2026 — The Ancient Historian, the Communist Party and an American YouTuber – How Propaganda Works in the PRC
Linda Jaivin

22 April 2026 — How Chinese Citizens View the World Today and What It Means for New Zealand’s Engagement with China
Professor Reza Hasmath, University of Alberta

15 July 2026 — Does Playing a Hit Chinese Video Game Change Attitudes Towards China?
Associate Professor Jonathan Hassid

5 August 2026 — China and the Russia-Ukraine War
Dr Dima Romanenko

2025

12 February 2025 — A Conversation with Sophie Richardson, Co-director of Chinese Human Rights Defenders
Dr Sophie Richardson

26 March 2025 — Through the Past Darkly: Culture & Practice of the Chinese Communist Party
Professor Anthony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School

19 June 2025 — Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China
Linda Jaivin

30 September 2025 — China, Trade, and Geopolitics: What It Means for New Zealand Business?
David Mahon

2024

19 June 2024 — Interesting Times: New Zealanders in Republican China
Chris Elder

11 December 2024 — “Stabilisation” with China in a Trump World: Feasible or Fantasy?
James Curran

2023

6 June 2023 — China’s Multipolarity Discourse and US-China Rivalry
Associate Professor Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago

13 July 2023 — China and the Liberal International Order (1978–2018)
Professor Xiaoming Huang, Victoria University of Wellington

10 August 2023 — How Does US-China Decoupling Impact Businesses in Third Markets? Corporate Responses in the Semiconductor Industry
Associate Professor Hongzhi Gao

29 September 2023 — Southeast Asia Between China and the United States
Professor Natasha Hamilton-Hart

13 October 2023 — The Water Issue in China-India Relations and Its Impact on the US Indo-Pacific Strategy
Dr Antonina Luszczykiewicz and Dr Patrick Mendis

19 October 2023 — State vs Market Tensions in Australian Economic Statecraft
Dr Darren Lim, Australian National University

14 November 2023 — Looking South: Imperial China’s View of a Leading Regional Neighbour
Dr Peter Harris

2022

29 March 2022 — Foreigners in the Chinese Criminal Justice System
Dr Lili Song

12 April 2022 — My Experience as a Chinese Kiwi Journalist
Portia Mao

26 April 2022 — From Positive to Negative History: The Shifting Use of History in China’s Diplomacy
Dr Nicholas Ross Smith

4 May 2022 — Albany: An Ethnoburb to Study Subethnicities of New Chinese Immigrants from China in New Zealand
Dr Langni Sally Liu

27 July 2022 — China’s Diversity (and Why We Need to Hear More About It)
Linda Jaivin

18 August 2022 — A Lily in the Barnyard of Politics: The Institute of Pacific Relations in China, and the New Zealand Economists Who Were Brought to Central Roles Through Shameless Cronyism
Chris Elder

14 September 2022 — China (Re)learns Sanskrit: Alexander von Staël-Holstein and Comparative Philology in Peking, 1917–1937
Professor Brian Moloughney

18 October 2022 — Recreating Beijing: A Changing City and Citizenry, 1914–1984
Professor Paul Clark

17 November 2022 — Truth Still Matters: Cinema and the ‘Ethical Frame’ in and out of China
Professor Paola Voci

2021

25 March 2021 — Modern Art for a Modern China: A Chinese Intellectual Project
Professor Yiyan Wang

9 April 2021 — The Trump Administration and the United States’ China Post-1972 Engagement Policy
Associate Professor Nicholas Khoo

18 May 2021 — National Correspondent
Lucy Craymer

16 September 2021 — Taiwan and U.S.-P.R.C. Relations: A Former Practitioner’s Views
Ford Hart Jr.

30 September 2021 — Living in Dangerous Times: Huang Zongxi and his Friends
Duncan Campbell

14 October 2021 — Power and Authority? People’s Daily Writing on the US-China Trade Dispute
Associate Professor Jason Young

28 October 2021 — The Problems of Gung Ho: Rewi Alley and the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC) Movement, 1938–2021
Dr Pauline Keating

18 November 2021 — The Chinese Diaspora in New Zealand: Conditions and Contestations of Cultural Citizenship
Professor Yiyan Wang

2020

20 May 2020 — Carson Chang on a Chinese Republic of Federated Provinces: Semi-Presidentialism as a Novel Type of Democracy
Dr Elaine Peng

16 June 2020 — Give Nothing to Racism: A Conversation with Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon
Meng Foon

16 July 2020 — China’s Covid-19 Response: Of Powers and Punishments
Dr Ruiping Ye

3 September 2020 — Reflections on Rewi: A Conversation with David Mahon
David Mahon

16 October 2020 — The Invention of the Chinese Nation
Bill Hayton, Chatham House

2019

5 March 2019 — Europe’s Changing Debate on China
Dr Gudrun Wacker, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

13 March 2019 — Fighting with China
Richard McGregor, Lowy Institute

27 March 2019 — China’s Rise: Prosperity, Power, Pushback
Associate Professor Jane Golley and Dr Lili Song

15–16 May 2019 — The Gate of Heavenly Peace, 30 Years On
Emeritus Professor Geremie R. Barmé

28 May 2019 — Balancing Justice and Speed: Dilemmas in Reforms to Prosecution of Minor Crime in China
Professor Sarah Biddulph, University of Melbourne

19 August 2019 — Chinese Revolutionary Culture: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism
Professor Wendy Larson, University of Oregon

21 August 2019 — Uyghur Activism in the Interwar Middle East
Dr David Brophy, University of Sydney

11 September 2019 — Caring for “Lonely Children”: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Orphan Welfare in China
Dr Anna High, University of Otago

10 October 2019 — Power, Shared Ideas, and Order Transition: China, the United States, and the Creation of the Bretton Woods Order
Dr Amy King, Australian National University

2018

22 February 2018 — Examining Perceptions of Chinese Influence in New Zealand and the Future of the International Order
Travis Gidado

11 May 2018 — “Chinese Influence” as a “Wicked Problem”: Lessons from History and Elsewhere
Dr Gerry Groot, University of Adelaide

5 June 2018 — The Art of Business: A History of Chinese Commerce
Dr Greg Clydesdale, Lincoln University

29 June 2018 — Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies in Oceania
Associate Professor Hu Shaohua

26 July 2018 — New Zealand Trade with China in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Multi-lateral (re)view
Dr Nick Gouth

10 August 2018 — The Development Potential of China’s Direct Investment in New Zealand
Dr Han Meng

24 October 2018 — The New NAFTA Confronts China: The ‘Non-Market’ Clause in USMCA and the Future of Canada-China Economic Relations
Hugh L. Stephens

2017

30 March 2017 — ‘What Needs the Bridge Much Broader than the Flood’: China and Europe along the Belt and Road
Marc Lanteigne, Massey University

5 April 2017 — A Signal of Policy Change? Exploring China’s Foreign Aid and Triangular Aid Cooperation in Asia-Pacific
Denghua Zhang, Australian National University

18 May 2017 — China and TPP: Rule Making and Trade Gains
Professor Yang Liqiang

15 June 2017 — Leader Cults: Propaganda or Ritual?
Dr Xavier Marquez

27 July 2017 — Toward a Yin-Yang Perspective of Relational (Guanxi) Gatekeeping in China
Dr Hongzhi Gao

17 August 2017 — ‘Geo-developmentalism’: Theorising China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative
Professor Gerald Chan

28 September 2017 — New Zealand–China FTA: Definition Matters
Dr Ruiping Ye

18 October 2017 — The Bronze Drum Culture of the Li and Lao and Ethnic Relations in Early South China (200–750 CE)
Dr Catherine Churchman

9 November 2017 — Activist Networks in China
Dr Stephen Noakes

2016

7 March 2016 — The Future of China: Status Quo, Reform or Chaos?
Roger Garside

2015

19 February 2015 — Immigrant and Urban China
Professor Wei Shen, Lancaster University

23 April 2015 — A Contest for the Hearts and Minds? Chinese Public Diplomacy Meets African Public Opinion
Floor Keuleers, University of Leuven

4 June 2015 — Contemporary Industrial Relations of China
Professor Zhao Zuping, China Institute of Industrial Relations

2014

15 July 2014 — Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block: The Impact of Chinese OFDI’s Compressed Development on the State
Dongkun Li

22 July 2014 — China’s Rise and the Question of Emerging Neutralism in New Zealand Foreign Policy
Dr Marc Lanteigne

12 August 2014 — Chinese Economic Diplomacy Towards the Oceania Island States in the 21st Century
Professor Yu Changsen

26 August 2014 — The Tale of Two Cities: The Unlikely Symbiosis of Shanghai and Yiwu
Dr Alison Hulme

23 September 2014 — Ethnic Minority Films in 21st Century China
Dr Vanessa Frangville

7 October 2014 — Old Wine in a New Bottle? China’s Approach to Human Security
Dr Wenwen Shen

2013

29 July 2013 — Entry into China: Do Small Firms Do Better and Why?
Professor Marshall W. Meyer

8 August 2013 — “Shame on those who wallow in luxury, extravagance, pleasures and leisure”: President Hu Jintao’s Crusade Against Consumerism
Thomas Boutonnet

6 September 2013 — Building Trade Infrastructure with China and Asia-Pacific Countries: VAT/GST Challenges for Business, Governments and Researchers
Associate Professor David White

2012

29 March 2012 — NGO Development in China: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr Dongfang Wang

17 May 2012 — Environmental Protection and Citizen Mobilization in China
Professor Yu Zhangbao

21 May 2012 — US-China Relations: Two Double Games
Professor Fei-Ling Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

2 August 2012 — Film Industry in China: Development and Opening-up
Dr Kang Xuejun

13 September 2012 — Preserving Stability in China: The Ritualistic Quality of Political Discourse
Professor Maurizio Marinelli, University of Technology Sydney

13 November 2012 — The Challenges of Building the Social Sector in China
Professor Andrew Watson, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Adelaide

2011

28 February 2011 — The Chinese Economy: Patterns and Trends
Professor Wang Tongsan

12 May 2011 — Cracking China: Don’t Leave Export Knowledge to Chance

1 July 2011 — Theoretic Mediation on the Relationship Between International Finance Crisis and Neo-Liberalism
Professor Yingqiu Liu

29 September 2011 — Cultural Change and Influence among Ethnic Groups in Kang District, Tibet
Dr Siwen Tao

27 October 2011 — Local Government Debt and Reform of Public Sector Financing in China
Dr Dongfang Wang

2010

26 July 2010 — Sino Trade Agreements: Is China’s Bilateral Strategy Different from that of the European Union or the United States?
Professor Peter K. Yu

14 October 2010 — Asia’s Security and China’s Power
Edward Carr

2009

1 May 2009 — Pacific Perspectives on the Rise of China
Michael Powles

31 July 2009 — Cooperatives and Rural Reconstruction in China in the 1930s: Lessons for the 21st Century
Dr Pauline Keating

17 August 2009 — The Political Economy of Maoism and China’s Living Standards, 1956–1976
Professor Kent Deng

24 September 2009 — Guilt by Association: How Do Consumers Make Their Intuitive Judgments of Foreign Brands During a Food Safety Crisis in China?
Dr Hongzhi Gao

22 October 2009 — Developing a Legal Framework for the Socialist Market Economy in China
Professor Zhang Zian-Chu

5 November 2009 — Energy Saving and China’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy
Dr Zhao Hong

25 November 2009 — China and East Asian Regional Architecture
Professor Han Feng