This week brought upsetting news of more conflict and chaos in areas of the world that were once integral to ...

A new start for partnerships between China and the UK? I’m sure that all SACU members will join me in ...

St Cuthbert and an ancient East-West connection Here in Beijing, a significant academic conference has just come to a close ...

Aldi stores are becoming a familiar presence in Shanghai One of the undoubted changes in the UK over the last ...

Lanterns guiding ghosts home during Zhōngyuán Jié, Chinese Ghost Festival Superstitions are a deep part of the roots of every ...

The rhubarb pioneers of China! Blame it on the rhubarb! In this blog I want to look at the more ...

2024-10-09 15:22:00Source：China TodayAuthor：staff reporter ZHOU LIN Chris Nash (sixth from right) organizes an exchange activity for Chinese students with their ...

Joseph Needham As you know from my previous Blog, this October is the 75th anniversary of the New China which ...

Beijing illuminations start the National Day holiday! Starting this weekend the people of Beijing and visitors to the city will ...

Wishing you a Healthy and Tranquil Mid-Autumn Festival! This year the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival will take place on Tuesday ...

Dreaming of pursuing their education in Britain For my Grade 12 students in Beijing, this has been the worst and ...

Dianne receives her OBE for services to China -UK relations, 2020 In the Chair’s Blog this week I present an ...

Niúláng and Zhīnǚ Cultural travellers in China will know that the seventh day of the seventh month according to the ...

In recent Chair’s Blogs I have been delighted to share with you Award winning entries for this year’s Annual Essay ...

The author with Dr Cheng Yu of the UK Chinese Music Society and Director of the London International Chinese Music ...

Professor Sun Hua of Peking University with prizewinners Olivia Phillips (Highgate School) and Desmond Zee (King’s College School Wimbledon) In ...

Ella Mae’s self-introduction: The ‘star flower’, commonly use in Traditional Chinese Medicine to restore harmony to the body. I am ...

Shenzehn in south China shows the current emphasis on ‘harmony’ in Chinese economic thinking What are some important differences and ...

Lv You, her mother and her Headmaster celebrate her prize-wining essay SACU is dedicated to supporting each new generation of ...

A view of Wúxī by night One of the benefits of working for a Chinese International Education company as I ...

zhāocáimāo – the beckoning cat I wonder if like me you’ve always been intrigued by the cat figures that can ...

Dragon boat race in southern Guangzhou I’m sure you’ve all noticed that Dragon Boat festival has arrived. We can look ...

Wang Xiao Yu at UCL As we all know education exchange is one of the best ways to grow friendship ...

The author at Black Dragon Pool, Lijiang I have lived and worked in China since 2013, during which time I’ve ...

Guangzhou Garden, Bristol Did you know that the city of Bristol has its own garden dedicated to expressing the connections ...

Nurturing the Tree of Life together! It’s exam time here in Beijing! For students and teachers alike, it’s the same ...

As I write this it’s May First, a national holiday in China which is known as 劳动节, Láodòng Jié or ...

In this Chair’s Blog I want to encourage you if at all possible to visit an exhibition being held from ...

This blog post cites the content presented in article by an organisation called WildChina on Green Initiatives in China’s cities ...

A street side local noodle restaurant in Yunnan In this week’s blog I’d like to open up a discussion in ...

清明上河圖, Qīngmíng Shànghé Tú, ‘Going along the river during Qing Ming’. Currently there is a cultural event in China, which ...

Sing in the Beijing Spring If three years of studying literature at Cambridge University taught me anything at all, it ...

Grassroots football in Guizhou, south-west China Let’s talk football! As I write this article I can hear the familiar shouts ...

The bright lights of the Shanghai Bund Shanghai has thrust itself back to the forefront of international news in two ...

The author makes a new friend at the San Ta or Three Pagoda temple in Dali, Yunnan Province. In the ...

Dragon Year Blessings The SACU mission is to tell stories of people to people friendship between Britain and China. I ...

(Article developed from an original idea by Michael Crook) Dragon on a Beijing roof tile At this time all over ...

Happy New Year! Author – 周尚, Zhou Shang New Year – a time for Family Reunions The scenery outside the ...

Heshun Town – 立春 – Li Chun, the first day of Spring, 2024 As I write this, it’s a day ...

Original art by painter Liu Liyong The Chinese New Year or Lunar Festival or Spring Festival is one of the ...

Laba Kuai’le! Happy Laba Festival! Here in Beijing there are the earliest signs of Spring. The extreme cold weather of ...

Arron Van Rompaey and Chinese speaking friends In this Chair’s Blog I want to give a platform to our talented, ...

A shared love of poetry One of the key things that drives me in my work for SACU is the ...

Let’s look ahead to working together in 2024 to build even more bridges of understanding between the people of Britain ...

Zhang Zhongjing invented dumplings by wrapping mutton and Chinese medicine in dumpling dough Can you solve this Christmas conundrum? The ...

Yi Xing Renmin University of China, Master of Journalism, Class of 2014 China Daily Reporter in London Find out more ...

The author joins Sichuan Opera First of all let me send festive good wishes to us all. I thought I’d ...

Weien Zong Master of Global Media Industries, King’s College London Bachelor of Communications, South China University of Technology Freelance Media ...

The ‘Changing Faces’ show, from Sichuan Opera For the last week I have travelled with Grade 9 and Grade 10 ...

Winter arrives in Beijing My phrase of the week in my rather limited Chinese has been ‘ni leng bu leng? ...

The author outside his Beijing suburb home In this blog I will talk about the sheer, simple ordinariness of my ...

行万里路胜读万卷书 (xíngwànlǐlùshèngdúwànjuǎnshū) Lusheng Festivals of the Miao Community in Guizhou For this week’s Chairs Blog let’s get our hiking boots ...

李佳琦, Li Jiaqi, ‘the lipstick king’, a very successful and sometimes controversial live-streaming celebrity. Double Eleven! One of the most ...

Chinese Labourers at the Western Front, 1917 On the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour, Britain ...

Pu Songling’s Dark Frontier. This week it has been Halloween in the UK. The origins of Halloween are seasonal. It ...

Living in an Extended Family I talk all the time to the Chinese teachers in my school about the things ...

An Autumnal Chrysanthemum This Friday, 27th October, all of the students in my school in Beijing with all of their ...

SACU members Iris Yau, Richard Poxton, Ros Wong (membership secretary), Zoe Reed (former Chair) and Frances Wood at the ‘Journey ...

Belt and Road Railway track in Kenya, July 28, 2022. If in Britain we think about the Belt and Road ...

The Goddess – 神女 – 1934 This is considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made in ...

The 24 Solar Terms Today is the ninth of October. The Chinese international school where I work has just put ...

The China~Europe railway, a bridge for trade and cultural understanding These days of course we are increasingly used to the ...

First published in China Eye (79) Autumn 2023 pages 5-7 3 OCTOBER 2023 | Walter Fung Democracy; Definition The Western ...

First published in China Eye (77) Spring 2023 pages 20-23 3 OCTOBER 2023 | Walter Fung In 2001, UNESCO made ...

Autumn’s moon cries, her ice tear of Jade, of harvest, opens this ringed nocturnal door to worlds lost within you, ...

四海之内皆兄弟 – sìhǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōngdì Within the four seas we are all one family. 22 SEPTEMBER 2023 | ...

4 SEPTEMBER 2023 | Chris Nash This year is the 80th celebration of the Flying Tigers. A major ceremony has ...

14 AUGUST 2023 | Chris Nash At SACU we are looking for innovative ways to grow our mission of better ...

7 AUGUST 2023 | Chris Nash 樊迟问仁子曰爱人问知子曰知人 “ Fan Chi asked about Goodness. The Master replied, “Care for others.” He ...

31 July 2023 | Chris Nash Firstly I’d like to thank SACU members,  Lead Curator Bryan Sitch and Project Assistant ...

13 JULY 2023 | Chris Nash Throughout the summer and until October 8th there is an exhibition at The British ...

Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, has been undergoing its hello future development including a new Lee Kai Hung Chinese ...

SACU President Michael Wood OBE was interviewed for China Today by staff reporter ZHOU LIN. “Unless you understand China, you ...

There are differences between East and West as discussed below but we have a lot in common with the East ...

President Joe Biden has described the American evacuation from Kabul as, ‘one of the most difficult airlifts in history’. Since ...

This article was first published in China Eye, Issue (71) Autumn 2021. The CPC has been in governance for 72 ...

Living and teaching in Beijing in the 1970s  Michael Sheringham  Michael is a regular contributor to China Eye. He was ...

This interview with Professor Michael Wood, SACU President, on Du Fu and China, was published in Chinese Social Sciences Today (a Chinese ...

Misunderstanding between China and English-speaking countries is well illustrated by the term “gung-ho”. It is one of the few phrases ...

“The gift that only the patron can give”, is the way a Chinese Han lacquer cup was described in BBC ...

Filming of “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” has taken place in China but they are not happy to release it, nor ...

Filming of “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, the Liu Cixin trilogy directed by Fanfan Zhang, and starring Feng Shaofeng and Zhang ...

Dr. Li Yan, one of the 40,000 Chinese doctors who went to help during the lockdown in Wuhan gave an ...

Did China make up the numbers? Did it waste precious time before getting information out to the world? Belgian writers ...

Belgian writers Ng Sauw Tjhoi and Dirk Nimmegeers point out that the only thing much worse than possibly holding racist ...

Book cover of A Bridge Between Hearts: Anglo-Chinese Friendship and Understanding  by Zoë K. Reed, SACU Chair This book review ...

Covering up: Covid-19 and the face, by Elizabeth Gasson, 10th April 2020 Having spent seven years in China, our SACU ...

Tamara is a member of SACU who has already contributed a number of articles for China Eye on a variety ...

Steve Bale lives in central Beijing and on the north Norfolk coast. He first travelled to China in 1988 and ...

Climate Change and China by Walter Fung This short article summarises the current policy of China on climate change and ...

A book review by Dirk Nimmegeers.  Dirk is a member the Belgium-China Friendship Association and also of SACU. He edits ...

Tom Harper is a SACU member and joined SACU Council in September 2019. He is a doctoral researcher at Neijiang ...

Walter Fung gives a survey of the Chinese communities in the UK. The article first appeared in SACU's China Eye ...

This is a historical article from an early issue of China Now magazine. Jenny Clegg tells the story of Britain's ...

Cyril Cannon worked in the printing industry before moving to academia, undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the London School ...

China's introduction to Europe was a bewildering experience. R.G. Tiedemann, a lecturer at "S.O.A.S. University of London" ➚ describes how ...

Martin Lynn recounts the experiences of Robert Hart employed by the Chinese in the dying phases of the Qing Dynasty ...

Alice Roberts describes the fascinating life of a committed American friend of China : Agnes Smedley, the article first appeared ...

Tony Simpson is the editor of ‘The Spokesman’, the quarterly journal of The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. In September 2015, ...

Walter Fung tells the story of Britain's Chinese community. A version of this article (BBCs-Who we are, where we came ...

This article from SACU's China Now magazine in 1988 surveys how the English viewed China one hundred years ago. 'Solicitously ...

Sophie Taylor explores the ambiguity in being labelled - 'half-Chinese'. This article was first published in SACU's China in Focus ...

Tim Zachernuk has been living in China since 1995 working on rural development and poverty alleviation projects. Starting in 2000 ...

Our Chair, Zoë Reed was on holiday and visiting family in China in October 2017. Zoë and her husband, Richard ...

Shortly after arriving in Wuhan in 1935 to teach English at the university there, Julian Bell, the nephew of Virginia ...

Jenny Clegg is a Vice-president of SACU. She was a Senior Lecturer in International Studies, and a China Specialist at ...

There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when travel to China by Westerners was very limited. At this ...

To mark SACU’s golden anniversary this article by Rob Stallard looks back to the events leading up to its foundation ...

This article by Derek Bryan, SACU’s First Secretary, recounts the events leading up to the formation of SACU in 1965 ...

Before SACU was set up in 1965, there had been a series of organisations concerned to develop closer understanding between ...