China’s economy is at a crossroads, facing its most significant challenges in recent memory. Amidst this economic turmoil, a fierce debate has emerged among leading experts: Is the current economic downturn a result of ingrained structural issues, excessive state intervention, or escalating geopolitical tensions?

Introducing Oxford Data Academy: a 5-day intensive data science bootcamp for an interdisciplinary audience happening in the heart of Oxford at Reuben College.

During Oxford Data Academy, you will learn the basics of data handling in Python (pandas, numpy libraries), data visualisation (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly libraries), statistical modelling, and machine learning (scikit-learn library). On the final day, you will solidify your newly-acquired skills in a mini-hackathon, where you’ll be working in teams to solve real-world data challenges.

Amid the Sino-Japanese and civil wars in the 1930s and 1940s, many patriotic young intellectuals joined the Chinese Communist Party out of a fervent desire to 'save the nation'. Attracted by its promises of freedom, democracy and equality, these underground party members braved arrest, torture and prison under the Nationalist government to fight for a communist utopia. After 1949, following an initial period of euphoria, they found themselves painfully struggling between their twin goals of democracy and revolution under the Mao regime.