使命 | Mission: Research, students, social responsibility, and inclusion
The Manchester China Institute (MCI) promotes mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples through research, students, social responsibility, and inclusion.
MCI advances research excellence in China studies across the Humanities. Impact and equality are central to MCI's research mission:
- Impact - To foster socially responsible research with impact beyond academia, MCI champions knowledge production and exchange.
- Equality - MCI seeks to create a more equal world, incubating research on racial, gender, economic, and other inequalities both within China and between China and the world.
MCI supports teaching and learning about China across The University of Manchester. It also promotes student wellbeing through programmes that seek to reduce prejudice and improve the Chinese and British student experiences on campus.
Through civic engagement, knowledge exchange, and bespoke programmes, MCI fosters understanding and empathy between the British and Chinese publics. Manchester was the first - and remains the only - British university to set social responsibility as a core goal. We make the world a better place!
A common stereotype about Chinese in the Anglophone world is that they are smart but standoffish. In this view, they neither need nor deserve help. This attitude can lead to both passive neglect and the active exclusion of Chinese communities. MCI, therefore, works hard to create spaces where our Chinese students and staff feel included in the life of the University. MCI is a majority BAME institute.
Given Britain’s past experience as a colonial power in China, MCI is particularly keen to help educate the British and Chinese publics about their shared past, and to oppose both Orientalist and Occidentalist knowledge production about China and Britain. While embracing differences, therefore, we celebrate our common humanity: British or Chinese, all deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Learn more about MCI's mission and activities:
In December 2017 Dr Lee Kai Hung donated £5 million to the University of Manchester to promote mutual understanding between the British and Chinese peoples.
In May 2018, the Manchester China Institute was formally opened in the newly dedicated Lee Building on Oxford Road. See:
- Visionary gift endows new Manchester China Institute, 14 December 2017.
- Mobike debate launches University’s new China institute, 4 May 2018.
- 曼徹斯特中國研究院：如何看中國創新－摩拜單車入駐曼徹斯特, 3 May 2018.