A new documentary – a collaboration between University of Bristol historian Professor Robert Bickers and director, Jeremy Routledge of Bristol media company Calling the Shots – gets its London premiere today at the British Academy.
The epic story of foreign impact on China from the early 19th century to the start of the First World War is told in a new book by Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol, published today.
Gareth Jones, Professor of Biological Sciences, works on the ecology and behaviour of bats. He has been visiting China for seven years, during which time he has seen a staggering change occur in Chinese science.
Professor Ka Ho Mok, Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies, explored the changes in social stratification and mobility from migration of rural labourers into cities and towns.
Fed by nostalgia for the pre-revolution era, China is undergoing an ‘old photographs’ fever, with many being destroyed during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution.
Developing links with China’s universities will be a key focus when leaders and academics from the University of Bristol travel to China next month for the Graduation Celebration in Beijing.
New geological fieldwork in China has changed our understanding of a famous dinosaur fossil site. Up to now, the site at Lujiatun, in Liaoning Province, northeast China, was called the ‘Chinese Pompeii’ because it was assumed the animals had been killed by volcanic gases and buried at the same time under clouds of ash from erupting volcanoes.
China’s growing economy and its presence in Africa will be the focus of a public lecture taking place at Bristol University on Monday [5 December].
China’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Xiaoming Liu, commended Bristol’s ‘exceptional scientific research’ during a visit to the University on Thursday [7 February].
One of the largest online collections of historical photographs of China is launched at the University of Bristol today. The Visualising China project, a unique virtual archive of Chinese life, gives users the opportunity to explore and interact with more than 8,000 digitised photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.
