Study at Oxford University One of the biggest changes of the twenty-first century will be in China's new economic and political role in the world.
China has the largest population of any country in the world.
It is modernising faster than any other country currently and faster than any country has ever done before. The changes in China alone are monumental. The impact of these on the wider world will also be extremely large. Oxford already has a strong Institute for Chinese Studies and is to expand its activities to meet the new challenge. Academics in post already cover a wide range of fields, which in addition to Chinese language include Politics, Economics, History, Literature, History of Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Psychology and research in the Natural Sciences, especially Medicine.