This workshop will explore the place of China in global history. It is intended as an informal workshop, to which everyone is welcome (regardless of whether you work on either Chinese or global history!).

Part 1, from 2 to 3, will consist of brief introductions by Chen Hao (associate professor of History, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai) and Anne Gerritsen (professor of Chinese history). There are three readings for those interested in some more background.

1. Dominic Sachsenmaier, Chapter 4 "Another world? Thinking globally about history in China", in Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 172-231.

2. Zhang Xupeng, Chapter 13 "National Narratives in Chinese Global History Writing", in Stefan Berger et al. ed., Analysing Historical Narratives on Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past, New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2021, pp. 259-181.

3. Chen Hao, "Staging Global Publics : A Tentative Interpretation of the Rise of Global History in China", Storia della Storiografia 83/84(2023), pp. 83-100.

After a brief break, we will hear from several postgraduate students based in History at Warwick. These include the following:

Feng Lu, "A Riverine Conception of the World"

Judy Law, ‘Zhangzhou Ware: Chinese Porcelain for Intra-Asian Trade during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries’

Han Qianye, "British Tea Trade in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries".

Guo Mianji, ‘Remounting for the Empire: Horse Breeding and Trading in South Asia during the British Raj’

Dai Xianxian, Memory, Identity, and Power: Constructing and Mobilising the Historical Memory of the Sanyuanli Incident in China, from 1841 to the Present.

Jeremy Goh,  ‘Globalising from the Periphery: Ethnic Chinese Banking and the Making of Trust in British Malaya and China (1900–1950)’.

Pan Luchen, ‘The Dynamics of Law and Commerce: British and Chinese Merchants in the Malay Peninsula, 1750–1850’

We will end with a group discussion of the methodological aspects of working with global historical methods in and around the history of China.