Understanding China's views of the world
Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics
The People’s Republic of China is a major force in global power and politics, directly impacting power and politics in the UK. To gain a nuanced understanding of China’s engagement with the world, this panel will premiere two new films about how Chinese people experience the world.
Elena Barabantseva’s British Born Chinese: Ten Years On (30min) looks at how two ethnic Chinese young men from Manchester experience British society, and William A. Callahan’s The Nose Knows (15min) traces how Chinese artists and officials have imagined foreigners in terms of their “big noses” both historically and up to the present day.
After screening the films, a panel discussion will explore the visual power and politics of Chinese people’s engagement with the UK and the world in local, national, and global space, and consider how it impacts elections in the UK, USA, the EU, India, and Russia.
Meet our speakers and chair
Elena Barabantseva is a research fellow and lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
William A. Callahan is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Xiaolu Guo is a renowned Chinese British filmmaker and novelist. Her memoir Once Upon A Time In The East won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017, and her latest non-fiction books are Radical and is My Battle of Hastings.
Giulia Sciorati (@GiuliaSciorati) is an LSE Fellow in China and the Global South, in the Department of International Relations at LSE.
This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world.
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