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This blog post cites the content presented in article by an organisation called WildChina on Green Initiatives in China’s cities ...
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A street side local noodle restaurant in Yunnan In this week’s blog I’d like to open up a discussion in ...
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清明上河圖, Qīngmíng Shànghé Tú, ‘Going along the river during Qing Ming’. Currently there is a cultural event in China, which ...
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Sing in the Beijing Spring If three years of studying literature at Cambridge University taught me anything at all, it ...
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Grassroots football in Guizhou, south-west China Let’s talk football! As I write this article I can hear the familiar shouts ...
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The bright lights of the Shanghai Bund Shanghai has thrust itself back to the forefront of international news in two ...
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The author makes a new friend at the San Ta or Three Pagoda temple in Dali, Yunnan Province. In the ...
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Dragon Year Blessings The SACU mission is to tell stories of people to people friendship between Britain and China. I ...
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(Article developed from an original idea by Michael Crook) Dragon on a Beijing roof tile At this time all over ...
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Happy New Year! Author – 周尚, Zhou Shang New Year – a time for Family Reunions The scenery outside the ...
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Heshun Town – 立春 – Li Chun, the first day of Spring, 2024 As I write this, it’s a day ...
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Original art by painter Liu Liyong The Chinese New Year or Lunar Festival or Spring Festival is one of the ...
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Laba Kuai’le! Happy Laba Festival! Here in Beijing there are the earliest signs of Spring. The extreme cold weather of ...
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Arron Van Rompaey and Chinese speaking friends In this Chair’s Blog I want to give a platform to our talented, ...
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A shared love of poetry One of the key things that drives me in my work for SACU is the ...
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Let’s look ahead to working together in 2024 to build even more bridges of understanding between the people of Britain ...
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Zhang Zhongjing invented dumplings by wrapping mutton and Chinese medicine in dumpling dough Can you solve this Christmas conundrum? The ...
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Yi Xing Renmin University of China, Master of Journalism, Class of 2014 China Daily Reporter in London Find out more ...
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The author joins Sichuan Opera First of all let me send festive good wishes to us all. I thought I’d ...
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Weien Zong Master of Global Media Industries, King’s College London Bachelor of Communications, South China University of Technology Freelance Media ...
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The ‘Changing Faces’ show, from Sichuan Opera For the last week I have travelled with Grade 9 and Grade 10 ...
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Winter arrives in Beijing My phrase of the week in my rather limited Chinese has been ‘ni leng bu leng? ...
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The author outside his Beijing suburb home In this blog I will talk about the sheer, simple ordinariness of my ...
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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 ...
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李佳琦, Li Jiaqi, ‘the lipstick king’, a very successful and sometimes controversial live-streaming celebrity. Double Eleven! One of the most ...
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Chinese Labourers at the Western Front, 1917 On the eleventh day of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour, Britain ...
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Pu Songling’s Dark Frontier. This week it has been Halloween in the UK. The origins of Halloween are seasonal. It ...
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Living in an Extended Family I talk all the time to the Chinese teachers in my school about the things ...
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An Autumnal Chrysanthemum This Friday, 27th October, all of the students in my school in Beijing with all of their ...
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SACU members Iris Yau, Richard Poxton, Ros Wong (membership secretary), Zoe Reed (former Chair) and Frances Wood at the ‘Journey ...
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Belt and Road Railway track in Kenya, July 28, 2022. If in Britain we think about the Belt and Road ...
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The Goddess – 神女 – 1934 This is considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made in ...
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The 24 Solar Terms Today is the ninth of October. The Chinese international school where I work has just put ...
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The China~Europe railway, a bridge for trade and cultural understanding These days of course we are increasingly used to the ...
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First published in China Eye (79) Autumn 2023 pages 5-7 3 OCTOBER 2023 | Walter Fung Democracy; Definition The Western ...
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First published in China Eye (77) Spring 2023 pages 20-23 3 OCTOBER 2023 | Walter Fung In 2001, UNESCO made ...
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Autumn’s moon cries, her ice tear of Jade, of harvest, opens this ringed nocturnal door to worlds lost within you, ...
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四海之内皆兄弟 – sìhǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōngdì Within the four seas we are all one family. 22 SEPTEMBER 2023 | ...
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4 SEPTEMBER 2023 | Chris Nash This year is the 80th celebration of the Flying Tigers. A major ceremony has ...
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14 AUGUST 2023 | Chris Nash At SACU we are looking for innovative ways to grow our mission of better ...
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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 ...
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31 July 2023 | Chris Nash Firstly I’d like to thank SACU members,  Lead Curator Bryan Sitch and Project Assistant ...
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13 JULY 2023 | Chris Nash Throughout the summer and until October 8th there is an exhibition at The British ...
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Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, has been undergoing its hello future development including a new Lee Kai Hung Chinese ...
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SACU President Michael Wood OBE was interviewed for China Today by staff reporter ZHOU LIN. “Unless you understand China, you ...
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There are differences between East and West as discussed below but we have a lot in common with the East ...
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President Joe Biden has described the American evacuation from Kabul as, ‘one of the most difficult airlifts in history’. Since ...
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This article was first published in China Eye, Issue (71) Autumn 2021. The CPC has been in governance for 72 ...
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Living and teaching in Beijing in the 1970s  Michael Sheringham  Michael is a regular contributor to China Eye. He was ...
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This interview with Professor Michael Wood, SACU President, on Du Fu and China, was published in Chinese Social Sciences Today (a Chinese ...
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Misunderstanding between China and English-speaking countries is well illustrated by the term “gung-ho”. It is one of the few phrases ...
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“The gift that only the patron can give”, is the way a Chinese Han lacquer cup was described in BBC ...
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Filming of “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” has taken place in China but they are not happy to release it, nor ...
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Filming of “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, the Liu Cixin trilogy directed by Fanfan Zhang, and starring Feng Shaofeng and Zhang ...
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Dr. Li Yan, one of the 40,000 Chinese doctors who went to help during the lockdown in Wuhan gave an ...
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Did China make up the numbers? Did it waste precious time before getting information out to the world? Belgian writers ...
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Belgian writers Ng Sauw Tjhoi and Dirk Nimmegeers point out that the only thing much worse than possibly holding racist ...
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Book cover of A Bridge Between Hearts: Anglo-Chinese Friendship and Understanding  by Zoë K. Reed, SACU Chair This book review ...
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Covering up: Covid-19 and the face, by Elizabeth Gasson, 10th April 2020 Having spent seven years in China, our SACU ...
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Tamara is a member of SACU who has already contributed a number of articles for China Eye on a variety ...
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Steve Bale lives in central Beijing and on the north Norfolk coast. He first travelled to China in 1988 and ...
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Climate Change and China by Walter Fung This short article summarises the current policy of China on climate change and ...
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A book review by Dirk Nimmegeers.  Dirk is a member the Belgium-China Friendship Association and also of SACU. He edits ...
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Tom Harper is a SACU member and joined SACU Council in September 2019. He is a doctoral researcher at Neijiang ...
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Walter Fung gives a survey of the Chinese communities in the UK. The article first appeared in SACU's China Eye ...
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This is a historical article from an early issue of China Now magazine. Jenny Clegg tells the story of Britain's ...
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Cyril Cannon worked in the printing industry before moving to academia, undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the London School ...
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China's introduction to Europe was a bewildering experience. R.G. Tiedemann, a lecturer at "S.O.A.S. University of London" ➚ describes how ...
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Martin Lynn recounts the experiences of Robert Hart employed by the Chinese in the dying phases of the Qing Dynasty ...
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Alice Roberts describes the fascinating life of a committed American friend of China : Agnes Smedley, the article first appeared ...
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Tony Simpson is the editor of ‘The Spokesman’, the quarterly journal of The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. In September 2015, ...
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Walter Fung tells the story of Britain's Chinese community. A version of this article (BBCs-Who we are, where we came ...
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This article from SACU's China Now magazine in 1988 surveys how the English viewed China one hundred years ago. 'Solicitously ...
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Sophie Taylor explores the ambiguity in being labelled - 'half-Chinese'. This article was first published in SACU's China in Focus ...
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Tim Zachernuk has been living in China since 1995 working on rural development and poverty alleviation projects. Starting in 2000 ...
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Our Chair, Zoë Reed was on holiday and visiting family in China in October 2017. Zoë and her husband, Richard ...
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Shortly after arriving in Wuhan in 1935 to teach English at the university there, Julian Bell, the nephew of Virginia ...
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Jenny Clegg is a Vice-president of SACU. She was a Senior Lecturer in International Studies, and a China Specialist at ...
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There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when travel to China by Westerners was very limited. At this ...
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To mark SACU’s golden anniversary this article by Rob Stallard looks back to the events leading up to its foundation ...
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This article by Derek Bryan, SACU’s First Secretary, recounts the events leading up to the formation of SACU in 1965 ...
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Before SACU was set up in 1965, there had been a series of organisations concerned to develop closer understanding between ...
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