Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies
The Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, later the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies was located at the University of Nottingham, England.
It was an interdisciplinary institute studying the commerce, culture, and society of China, and promoting links with that country. It had research staff and students from a wide variety of disciplines.It was officially opened on the 15 June 2000 by Ma Zhengang, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom. Its first director was Professor Yau Shujie.[1]
The institute became the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies from the 2007 academic year.[1]
The School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham was located in Siyuan Building on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham.
The building in which the School was located (International House) also houses the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute (CPI) and Confucius Institute on the floors below its administrative offices. The CPI is the UK's largest China policy think tank providing in-house policy advice on behalf of European and US policymakers on China. The CPI publishes its own blog with entries contributed by lecturing staff and PhD candidates. The University of Nottingham Confucius Institute runs Mandarin classes in the evenings for academics, students and the public with an interest in learning the mainland Chinese language and simplified script.
The school closed in 2016. In an interview given in 2023, former institute head Steve Tsang said this was done under pressure from China.[2]
External links
- Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies
- [1] Archived 2 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
References
- ^ a b "BBC China | 留学英伦 | 壮志雄心：培养新一代中国通". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
- ^ Hawkins, Amy (28 November 2023). "China influencing leading British universities, documentary claims". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 December 2025.