Author: SACU Events

Neil Taylor was in conversation with SACU Archivist, Dr Linxi Li, talking about SACU tours to China, in the “Your Stories with China” series of SACU ChinaChats, Saturday 27 March. It was a well-attended Zoom meeting for SACU members and guests.    Neil Taylor – long-time SACU member and former Director of Regent Holidays – was in online conversation with SACU archivist and Council member, Dr Li Linxi, on 27 March. Going back to the very early days of SACU, he recounted the first problematic involvement of Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper who was engaged by SACU founder and President, Dr Joseph Needham, […]

SACU ChinaChat on The May Fourth Movement and The New Culture Movement – 21 January 2021 About 32 people participated in this online meeting. It was chaired by Ros Wong and coordinated by Wang Fang. Peter Colebourn, SACU member, reported: “The SACU January ChinaChat featured a discussion of the May Fourth Movement and the New Culture Movement. The presentation was nicely balanced as Rob Stallard in his introduction provided the historical context for the discussion. He had sourced and organised a wonderful group of graphics to illustrate his talk. Michael Sheringham then developed the discussion to focus on the New Culture […]

SACU Public Event: Tuesday 1 September 2020, 17.30pm by Zoom. This was SACU’s first webinar by Zoom and was a great success! US-China relations are deteriorating alarmingly and the UK government has allowed itself to get drawn into the growing crisis.  Yet over recent decades, relations of cooperation between the UK and China have grown firm roots, building interdependencies across many fields, to the great benefit of both sides. SACU invited a panel of speakers with differing areas of expertise, but all with long-standing experience of working with Chinese counterparts, to discuss their experiences and their views on the value, […]

Sunday 23 August at 3.00 pm (BST) by Zoom This SACU ChinaChat was a members-only discussion meeting on Hong Kong, where members shared their thoughts and experiences of Hong Kong in an informal setting. SACU members Andrew Hicks and Barnaby Powell, who both have extensive experience and knowledge of Hong Kong, introduced the discussion with their own thought-provoking ideas and perspectives. SACU members then had the opportunity to join the conversation to share their own thoughts and experiences on the topic. The recording of the discussion will be made available to all members by email.