Dr Hongxiang Li Research area: Modernity, mobility and identity : a qualitative study on intimacy and intergenerational care of ethnic minority families in western China. Date of appointment: January to December 2023
China's Path from Poverty to the Gilded Age Over the last four decades, China has undergone a great transformation - from impoverishment to a Gilded Age of rapid growth paired with corruption and inequality. What lessons of development should the world learn from this mixed outcome?
Heidi Pauwels - The Yogi in Sufi Romances: Lovelorn Seeker or Laughing Stock? This paper evaluates the evidence and provides historical depth through comparison of the best-known and most frequently cited, Malik Muḥammad Jāyasī’s mid-16th-century Padmāvat, with its earliest-known model, Maulānā Dāʾūd’s 14th-century Cāndāyan.
Philip Deslippe - Researching the Early History of Yoga in the United States: Dissimulation and the Archive In this talk Deslippe will discuss sources and methods in the early history of yoga in the United States and how rare and obscure archival materials can allow for radical new understandings of particular yoga teachers as well as modern yoga itself.
Tim Liang and School of Arts PhD Scholarships in Chinese Art Department of Politics and International Studies Studentships
Missing home? How to survive (and thrive) as a student living in London Being a student away from home can be difficult. Here are my tips to help you settle into student life in London.