by admin | May 13, 2021
The discovery of a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Chinese poet Ai Qing in the 1950s became the starting point of research by Dr Bárbara Fernández Melleda, Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures,...
by admin | May 12, 2021
When Professor Fu Hualing – Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities – was first approached to succeed Professor Michael Hor as Dean of Law, he hesitated. He was not from a common law jurisdiction (although he studied and worked in Toronto for seven...
by admin | May 12, 2021
Shenzhen, located just across Hong Kong’s border with southeastern China, has been described variously as a modern metropolis, Asia’s Silicon Valley, an economic hub and an overnight city. Forty years ago it was viewed as a rural backwater, until Deng Xiaoping named...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
A new approach to ruling has emerged in recent decades that is shaking up the relationship between the state and society. Governments in diverse areas of the world have been mobilising citizens to execute and give legitimacy to their policy aims, in the guise of a...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
In 1956 a giant iron and steel factory opened in Wuhan that was so important Mao Zedong visited it twice. Tellingly, the plant was situated in the centre of the city – an example of socialist city planning that places factories and giant squares at the centre of civic...
