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CCHH: CHINA CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND HUMANITY

中國仁康中心

• Gansu_1958: Since the period of reform and opening up China has seen both the greatest mass migration in human history and the greatest number of people lifted out of poverty. What are the implications of these for human health and can they be sustained?
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• Urban Wealth Gap: How will the growing and increasing perceived wealth gap affect the project to create a harmonious society?
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• Perspective vertical kitchen garden farms for socialising and in between spaces creating fields for livestock. CJ Lim
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• From the 1960s Mao sent Doctors and Engineers to Africa in a gesture of international socialist solidarity. The Doctors, practicing a uniquely Chinese style of integrated medicine, established a great reputation for their efficacy and benevolence. As China once again focuses on its economic and political relations with Africa how will this realign her international health diplomacy?
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• Qing Hao or sweet wormwood (artemisia annua) was for centuries known as effective for intermittent fever in classical Chinese medicine. After many years of research and trials in Asia it is now part of the leading WHO approved anti-malaria treatment.
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• 'Impossible is Nothing' was one of the slogans of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China’s great 'coming out' party. But what does China need to do to consolidate its gains and aspirations?
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• Silk manuscript from a Han Dynasty tomb (closed 168 BCE) illustrates Yangsheng (Life Nuturing) therapeutic exercise forms some of which are practiced in substantially the same manner to this day.
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The UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity takes an interdisciplinary approach to research and teaching, and is strong in the social sciences: history and culture, archaeology, the environment, law and international health and development. It is committed to UCL's Grand Challenges especially as they relate to China: global health, sustainable cities, intercultural interaction and human wellbeing.

The Confucian concept Ren 仁, the quality that makes individual and society ‘human’ or ‘humane’, is at the centre of contemporary Chinese ethical discourse and CCHH will take up this debate in relation to health. We support interdisciplinary research and education in all these aspects of China’s health, and China’s impact on world health, past, present and future.

The Centre brings together UCL’s considerable China expertise in an ambitious programme of teaching and research. We aim to develop existing connections and facilitate new collaborative initiatives with institutions in China, creating new spaces for dialogue and debate about effective and appropriate health interventions.

伦敦大学学院的中国仁康中心以中国为中心坚持本学院的四项大挑战：全球的健康，可持续发展的城市，跨文化交流，人类幸福。我们在健康的问题上进行多方面的交叉学科研究及教育，对中国在过去和现在和将来对全球健康的影响进行多方面探索。中国人康中心于2011年六月开放。我们将提供一个平台使大学学院 的不少研究中国的专家学者参与这宏伟的教育和研究的项目。 我们的目的是在发展保持过去的多方关系基础上，与中国有关机构，促进有效的对话，探讨与交流发展新的合作项目。

The Centre organises seminars, film screenings and general-interest events, which are open to all members of the UCL community and registered Friends of CCHH. To become a Friend, please fill in the online form by clicking here.