Global Seminar Series
The Centre organises seminars and lectures on China-related issues relevant to a New Zealand audience.
2026
- International climate cooperation under strain: How middle powers can bridge geopolitical divide
- The ancient historian, the Communist Party and an American YouTuber - how propaganda works in the PRC
- How Chinese Citizens View the World Today and What It Means for New Zealand’s Engagement with China
2025
- China, Trade, and Geopolitics: What It Means for New Zealand Business?
- Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China
- Through the Past Darkly: Culture & Practice of the Chinese Communist Party with Professor Anthony Saich
- A Conversation with Sophie Richardson, Co-director of Chinese Human Rights Defenders
2024
- "Stabilisation" with China in a Trump World: Feasible or Fantasy?
- Interesting Times: New Zealanders in Republican China
2023
- China’s Multipolarity Discourse and US-China Rivalry
- Southeast Asia between China and the United States
- China and the Liberal International Order (1978-2018)
- How does US-China decoupling impact businesses in third markets? Corporate responses in the semiconductor industry
- The Water Issue in China-India Relations and Its Impact on the US Indo-Pacific Strategy
- State vs Market Tensions in Australian Economic Statecraft
- Looking south: imperial China's view of a leading regional neighbour
2022
- Truth still matters: cinema and the 'ethical frame' in and out of China
- Recreating Beijing: A Changing City and Citizenry, 1914-1984
- China (Re)learns Sanskrit: Alexander von Staël-Holstein and Comparative Philology in Peking, 1917-1937
- 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.
- China's diversity (and why we need to hear more about it)
- Albany- An ethnoburb to study subethnicities of new Chinese immigrants from China in New Zealand
- From positive to negative history: The shifting use of history in China’s diplomacy
- My experience as a Chinese kiwi journalist
- Foreigners in the Chinese Criminal Justice System
2021
- The Chinese Diaspora in New Zealand: Conditions and Contestations of Cultural Citizenship
- The problems of Gung Ho: Rewi Alley and the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC) Movement, 1938 – 2021
- Power and Authority? People’s Daily Writing on the US-China Trade Dispute
- Living in Dangerous Times: Huang Zongxi and his Friends
- Taiwan and U.S-P.R.C. Relations: A Former Practitioners Views
- Hong Kong, The Best China, the survival of the civilised Chinese literature of leisure and sentiment, the biji tradition
- National Correspondent
- The Trump Administration and the United States’ China post-1972 Engagement Policy
- Modern Art for a Modern China: A Chinese Intellectual Project
2020
- The Invention of the Chinese nation
- Reflections on Rewi: A conversation with David Mahon
- China’s Covid-19 Response: Of Powers and Punishments
- Give Nothing to Racism: A Conversation with Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon
- Carson Chang on a Chinese Republic of Federated Provinces: Semi-Presidentialism as a Novel Type of Democracy
2019
- Power, Shared Ideas, and Order Transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the
- Caring for "Lonely Children": A Socio-Legal Analysis of Orphan Welfare in China
- Uyghur Activism in the Interwar Middle East
- Chinese Revolutionary Culture: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism
- Balancing Justice and Speed: Dilemmas in Reforms to Prosecution of Minor Crime in China
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace, 30 Years on
- China’s Rise: Prosperity, Power, Pushback
- Fighting with China
- Europe's changing debate on China
2018
- The new NAFTA Confronts China: The ‘non-market’ clause in USMCA and the future of Canada-China economic relations
- The development potential of China's Direct Investment in New Zealand
- New Zealand Trade with China in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Multi-lateral (re)view
- Taiwan's Diplomatic Allies in Oceania
- The Art of Business: A History of Chinese Commerce
- "Chinese Influence" as a "Wicked Problem": Lessons from History and Elsewhere
- Examining Perceptions of Chinese Influence in New Zealand and the Future of the International Order
2017
- Activist-Networks-in-China
- The Bronze Drum culture of the Li and Lao and ethnic relations in early South China (200-750 CE)
- New Zealand - China FTA: Definition Matters
- ‘Geo-developmentalism’: Theorising China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative
- Toward A Yin-Yang Perspective of Relational (Guanxi) Gatekeeping in China
- Leaders Cult: Propaganda or Ritual?
- China and TPP: Rule Making and Trade Gains
- A Signal of Policy Change? Exploring China's Foreign Aid and Triangular Aid Cooperation in Asia-Pacific
- 'What Needs the Bridge Much Broader than the Flood' China and Europe along the Belt and Road
2016
2015
Contemporary Industrial Relations of China - A Contest for the Hearts and Minds? Chinese Public Diplomacy meets African Public Opinion
- Immigrant and urban China
2014
- Old Wine in a New Bottle? China's Approach to Human Security
- Ethnic Minority Films in 21st Century China
- The Tale of Two Cities: The Unlikely Symbiosis of Shanghai and Yiwu
- Chinese Economic Diplomacy towards the Oceania Island States in the 21st Century
- China's Rise and the Question of Emerging Neutralism in New Zealand Foreign Policy
- Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block: The Impact of Chinese OFDI's Compressed Development on the State
2013
- Building Trade Infrastructure with China and Asia Pacific Countries: VAT/GST Challenge for Business, Government and Researchers
- Shame on those who wallow in luxury, extravagance, pleasures and leisure”: President Hu Jintao’s Crusade Against Consumerism
- Entry Into China: Do Small Firms Do Better and Why?
2012
- The Challenges of Building the Social Sector in China
- Preserving Stability in China: The Ritualistic Quality of Political Discourse
- Film Industry in China: Development and Opening-up
- US-China Relations: Two Double Games
- Environmental Protection and Citizen Mobilization in China
- NGO Development in China: Challenges and Opportunities
2011
- Local Government Debt and Reform of Public Sector Financing in China
- Cultural Change and Influence among Ethnic Groups in Kang District, Tibet
- Theoretic Mediation on the Relationship Between International Finance Crisis and Neo-Liberalism
- Cracking China: Don't leave Export Knowledge to Chance
- The Chinese Economy: Patterns and Trends
2010
- Asia's security and China's Power
- Sino Trade Agreements: Is China's Bilateral Strategy Different from that of the European Union or the United States?
2009
- China and East Asian Regional Architecture
- Energy Saving and China's 'Going Out' Strategy
- Developing a Legal Framework for the Socialist Market Economy in China
- Guilt by Association: How Do Consumers Make Their Intuitive Judgments of Foreign Brands During a Food Safety Crisis in China?
- The Political Economy of Maoism and China's Living Standards, 1956-1976
- Cooperatives and Rural Reconstruction in China in the 1930s: Lessons for the 21st Century
- Pacific Perspectives on the Rise of China