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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