SACU/Peking University Essay Competition Launched at Oundle School, Wednesday 29th January 2020

We launched this year’s Essay Competition at Oundle School on Wednesday 29th January at the invitation of Ms Shuling Russo-Lai, Head of Chinese, and we thank the school for their hospitality. SACU has close links with Oundle School because our founder Joseph Needham attended the school and SACU’s Archives are stored here.

 

Interested students gave up their lunchtime to come along to SACU’s presentation in the Modern Languages Building. Zoe Reed, SACU Chair, talked about Joseph Needham’s wartime support of China’s scientists and how he sponsored a young K.C. Sun to study textile engineering in the UK. K.C. Sun became Zoe’s father and Zoe knew Joseph Needham all her life.

 

SACU member and Essay Competition Co-ordinator Wang Fang followed by telling us about how the China Center for Edgar Snow Studies came to be established in Peking University, named to honour Edgar Snow who was one of the first western journalists to report about the progress of the Communist Party of China in his book Red Star over China in 1937. Professor Sun Hua, Director of the China Center for Edgar Snow Studies, was going to join us for the launch but unfortunately was unable to attend.

 

Zoe then introduced the theme of this year’s Essay Competition: “Overcoming the cultural gap between China and the West”. The aim is to help young people learn about the development of friendship and understanding between the UK and China, and to consider how this might be further promoted.

 

THE THEME OF THE ESSAY COMPETITION

Students are encouraged to consider any aspect of differences between China and the West and suggest how building understanding and friendship might help close the cultural gap. The historical development of China seems very different to that of the UK and other European countries, and relations have often been strained. But the growth of modern China has arguably brought countries closer together especially through trade and tourism. Chinese goods are found all over the world but increasingly the USA in particular seeks to impose trade barriers at the same time as welcoming growing numbers of Chinese students and visitors.

 

What can history teach us about moving forward in a spirit of friendship and understanding? How can we bridge the cultural gap that can be seen in attitudes to work and leisure, relations with authority, arts, sport and social life and so on?

 

The competition seeks responses from wide ranging perspectives, looking for considered views, grounded analysis and imaginative responses.

 

Whilst continuing to welcome written submissions in essay form we also wish to encourage more visual responses by still art or video: this could involve photography, other visual art, or choreographed dance. We suggest essays should be a maximum of 2,000 words and videos no longer that 5 minutes.

 

ENTRIES

Entries will be considered in two age groups: 16 years and above; Under 16s. The closing date for submissions for judging will be the end of May 2020.

 

THE ENTRY PROCESS

There is still time for SACU members to be involved. If you have a connection with a school in your area you can introduce the Essay Competition to the school this term. Each school will run its own internal process in order to select up to 3 entries (in each category) to the general competition. There will be an awards event in London in late June hosted by SACU. Prizes of £100 first prize, £50 second prize and £25 third prize in each category, generously donated by Peking University, will be presented by Professor Sun Hua. The judging panel, chaired by Dr Frances Wood, SACU Vice President, will give their views on the entries. All entrants will also be offered a one-year complimentary student membership of SACU.

 

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Wang Fang as Essay Competition Co-ordinator will be happy to talk through the entry process with any SACU members interested in becoming a school link and she can make school visits to introduce the competition.

Please make contact by email: membership@sacu.org.uk

 

Ros Wong
SACU Membership Secretary
31 January 2020

 

China at 70: Looking Back; Looking Ahead

On 16th October 2019 SACU held a panel discussion to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China with an evening reflecting on China’s past achievements and future challenges. More than 70 SACU members, friends and King’s College London students joined us for a stimulating evening of presentations and discussion with our expert panel.

Panel of speakers:

Minister Counsellor Wang Qi: we were honoured to have him join us from the Chinese Embassy
View summary of his presentation here

Dr Jenny Clegg: SACU Vice President, independent writer and researcher, author and China specialist speaker
View summary of her presentation here

Dr Xin Sun: Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business at King’s College London
View summary of his presentation here

Professor Martin Albrow: SACU member and eminent sociologist and author of many books including China’s Role in a Shared Human Future
View summary of his presentation here

 

Chair of the Panel:

Dr Frances Wood: SACU Vice President, former Head of the Chinese Collections at The British Library and renowned expert on China who has written many books

 

Photo Display: We also showed a special exhibition of rolling photos from SACU’s Archives which was prepared by SACU member Dr Linxi Li. We are currently seeking funding to develop and research SACU’s unique archive.

 

Our event was held with the Lau China Institute at King’s College London in the Strand and SACU is grateful for the support of the Lau China Institute for the provision of the venue and refreshments.

 

The Panel and Chair l-r: Dr Xin Sun, Professor Martin Albrow, Dr Frances Wood (Chair), Dr Jenny Clegg, Minister Counsellor Wang Qi

 

View a summary of all the presentations here

 

See the report published by the Chinese Embassy here:
http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/EmbassyNews/t1710195.htm

 

Living history in Babaoshan: Our SACU pilot event in Beijing, China

We are delighted to report on the first event of SACU’s newly formed SACU Beijing Chapter. This report has been written by SACU member Tamara Treichel, cosmopolitan and creative writer, based in Beijing: 

 

A tour of Beijing’s Babaoshan Cemetery given by Michael Crook on October 12, 2019

 

Our Babaoshan guided tour, Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU) Beijing chapter’s first event, given by SACU member Michael Crook, a British expat in Beijing, was a big hit! Michael did the heavy lifting, and he was the perfect person to give the tour because he knew some of the foreign friends buried at Babaoshan personally. SACU member Tamara Treichel helped Michael organize the event in the form of suggestions and notes.

 

The foreigners interred at Babaoshan had helped China’s cause by being involved in the building of a new China that eventually led to the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949 either by supporting the cause politically, giving favorable coverage to China during that era in history, or providing medical or some other form of assistance.

 

Michael’s mother Isabel Crook, 103, was in attendance as well and also knew some of the foreigners who had found a final resting place at Babaoshan. Isabel, a Canadian anthropologist who made a lot of contributions to the founding of New China in 1949, won the prestigious Friendship Medal awarded by the Chinese government in the Great Hall of the People on September 30 this year.

 

Isabel still has incredible stamina for her age. She occasionally requested to get up from her wheelchair and walk several steps during our tour and placed some white chrysanthemums that had been made available to us in front of the headstones. It was a delight for all to have her participate in this event. A Chinese woman called Fu Han, who had made a touching documentary about Isabel’s life called Isabel Crook: Childhood Memories from Bailuding,  also joined our tour, as did Israel Epstein’s widow, Huang Wanbi.

 

Isabel Crook laying a flower on Israel Epstein’s grave (12 October 2019)

There were over a dozen participants from various countries on the tour — Britain, the United States, Germany, Brazil and Poland, next to of course China. From retirees such as Tony Boyle, a British expat whose wife Helen runs the Migrant Children’s Foundation, to Fritz Beck, a German exchange student  from the University of Heidelberg who came to Beijing Foreign Studies University to pursue his Sinology studies, various ages and backgrounds were represented.

 

Group photo at Agnes Smedley’s grave (12 October 2019)

Michael walked us from tombstone to tombstone, introduced Babaoshan’s foreigners to us and regaled us with tales about their lives. I had made my article from the SACU Autumn 2016 issue available to him, in which I introduce several of those foreigners, and he augmented it with some Brits, e.g. Rose Smith, a journalist and activist, and Joshua Horn, a doctor.

In a columbarium, Michael took out the beautifully carved box containing British surgeon Dr. Joshua Horn’s ashes, and told us his story and how he had contributed to health care in China. Horn, Michael said, could also quote poetry and was once even called upon to help a giraffe in China who had injured a limb (medicine was not so advanced in China at the time and the giraffe was a precious animal in a Chinese zoo).

 

l-r, Epstein’s widow Huang Wanbi, Isabel Crook and Michael Crook in the Babaoshan Columbarium (12 October 2019)

 

The tombstones we visited belonged to Israel Epstein, one of few foreigners to acquire Chinese citizenship and become a member of the Communist Party of China and editor-in-chief of the magazine China Reconstructs (later China Today), Hans Mueller and George Hatem, a German and U.S. doctor respectively, who contributed to healthcare in China, Agnes Smedley and Anna Louise Strong, two American activists and journalists/writers who helped New China’s cause with their favorable coverage of the country, Eva Siao (née Sandberg), a woman of German Jewish origin whose unposed photographs of ordinary Chinese citizens became famous, and Douglas Frank Springhall, a British Communist activist.

 

Michael Crook and Isabel Crook in front of Dr George Hatem’s grave (12 October 2019)

 

When prompted, Michael also talked about foreign friends who are not interred at Babaoshan, e.g. Joan Hinton, an American nuclear physicist who contributed to China’s agricultural development. He said Joan was a “firebrand” and liked to play violin. Michael remembered being at her 80th birthday celebration, which was attended by many prominent guests.

 

Michael’s anecdotes all brought us closer to these remarkable foreigners, and at the end of the event, it felt as if we had met them personally. Despite the solemn venue, we did seize the opportunity to take some photos and had a couple of laughs… Truly an unusual and rewarding experience for all!

 

If you are a SACU member based in Beijing or visit on occasion and would like to join future activities of SACU’s Beijing chapter, please email membership@sacu.org.uk and we will put you in touch with Tamara and Michael.  

Read more by Dr Tamara Treichel in Beijing on her websitehttp://tamaratreichel.com/chinese

From Old London to New Milton Keynes: Chinese Identities in Britain

On Saturday 20thJuly 2019, following our morning AGM, we held an afternoon event jointly with our partner The Meridian Society, in St Columba’s Church in Knightsbridge. Our event included talks and a film, timed to coincide with the Lao She symposium held earlier this year in Beijing to commemorate the 120thanniversary of the birth of novelist and playwright Lao She. He was one of 20thcentury China’s most significant literary figures who came to London in 1924 to teach Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS). Out of the four years he lived here, came his novel Mr. Ma and Son: Two Chinese in London (Er Ma, 1929), based on his own experiences of London Chinese life.

 

Lao She (1899-1966)

 

Dr Amy Matthewson: Loitering through London with Lao She

SACU member Dr Amy Matthewson told us about her exciting new project which she proposes to develop in conjunction with the Museum of London Docklands. This project is to develop an app which visitors could use as they walk round Limehouse and Bloomsbury, areas familiar to Lao She, when he lived in London in 1920s, and mentioned by him in his novel Mr. Ma and Son. The app will include items from the museum’s permanent collection to evoke the London that Lao She knew. It will also enable visitors to engage with the broader issues and experiences of the Chinese community in London at that time of anti-Chinese sentiment and fear of the ‘Yellow Peril’.

 

Dr Frances Wood: A Blue Plaque for the Silent Traveller

SACU Vice President Dr Frances Wood told us about Chiang Yee who came to London in 1934 to escape from the difficulties of serving as an official in the warlord era in China. He left his family behind, intending to study at LSE. With the Japanese invasion, he found himself unable to return to China and struggled to survive until he found his voice in a long series of books, beginning with The Silent Traveller in Lakeland. His 15 year stay in Oxford was commemorated in June this year with the unveiling of a Blue Plaque.

 

Title page of The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh by Chiang Yee

 

Nicola Clayton: Silk Gauze Audio

SACU member and audiobook producer Nicola Clayton introduced her new audiobook imprint, Silk Gauze Audio www.silkgauzeaudio.com which is focused on English translations of modern Chinese fiction. Nicola is combining her knowledge of China with her experience as a producer to help English speakers discover and have access to China through fiction. By coincidence this month the website features Lao She.

 

Michael Ho: From HK to MK (film, 2017)

Michael’s father Gabriel Ho came from Hong Kong to Britain over 50 years ago to train as a dentist in Liverpool, where he met Michael’s mother. He settled and practiced in Milton Keynes which was then a new town, planned by ambitious and idealistic developers. Gabriel was happy to settle in a new town where everyone was an outsider in the early days. Michael explores how his father feels about the city now and Gabriel’s identity as Chinese and British. The short film prompted questions and discussion about perceptions and identity. We were delighted that Michael could refer some questions about his father to him because Gabriel was in the audience!

You can view Michael Ho’s film on BFI Player:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-from-hk-to-mk-2017-online

The Story of China with Professor Michael Wood

We were delighted that Professor Michael Wood could join us on Friday 15 March to talk on ‘The Story of China’. Illustrated with film clips, Michael reflected on some of the themes in his recent highly-praised series on Chinese history. He also gave us a preview of his forthcoming film on the 40th anniversary of Deng’s Reform and Opening up.

SACU is grateful to EY (Ernst & Young) for their generous support of this event at their prestigious offices in Canary Wharf.

The film team from China Minutes interviewed Michael just before his talk:-

Here is a short introduction on Facebook (3 minutes):

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2055636974734094

See the full interview on YouTube (23 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtW71bR_J6k

Jessica Darling speaks at SACU ChinaCafé

2019 SACU ChinaCafé Series is underway:

SACU ChinaCafe 1 took place on 19 February 2019. The theme of this year’s three café-style meetings is ‘Health and Wellbeing’, co-hosted by the Lau China Institute, King’s College London (KCL) at Bush House, Strand Campus. SACU and the Lau are working in partnership to create a UK-Chinese understanding of Health and Wellbeing with a particular focus on supporting KCL students and their mental health needs.

Our first session featured Jessica Darling who spent her childhood in China with her father Dr Joshua S. Horn, author of Away with All Pests: An English Surgeon in People’s China 1954-1969. He made a great contribution to improving the health of impoverished people. Jessica undertook all her education in China, and in Chinese, and returned to UK when she was 21. After completing her nursing training, she returned to China and completed an acupuncture apprenticeship course in Beijing. She set up an Acupuncture Centenaries in London and also worked on an innovative project offering complementary medicine in a hospital outpatients department taking referrals from hospital consultants and local GPs. Jessica also offers Chinese Herbal Medicine and nutrition to her patients.

Jessica was therefore ideally placed to start this series on the theme of ‘Health and Wellbeing’ and help us think about English-Chinese cultural understanding of health and wellbeing.

The second and third SACU ChinaCafés are set to develop this theme with the students. Dates will be confirmed in our eNewsletter and social media channels. Our Chair, Zoe Reed, is also able to draw upon the support of her professional colleagues at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (which specialises in mental health).

SACU ChinaCafés are small, informal meetings with the room laid out in café-style, with refreshments, so that conversations with other participants about the theme are relaxed and easy. They are membership-only spaces with newcomers very welcome to join at the first SACU ChinaCafé they attend. All student non-members pay £8 which entitles them to a year’s membership of SACU and free attendance at all future SACU ChinaCafé meetings as well as the other benefits of membership.

SACU ChinaCafés give younger people a chance to be involved in SACU. These café-style discussions also give SACU the opportunity to pursue that part of our mission which is to educate and support Chinese people about Britain when they are in the UK. Of course, longer-standing members of SACU are also most welcome to come along and will have a valuable contribution to make.

 

 

Joseph Needham SACU / Peking University Essay Competition Awards 2018

And the winner is …! On Tuesday 4 December the Awards Ceremony of the ‘Joseph Needham China / UK Friendship and Understanding SACU / Peking University Essay Competition’ took place at Oundle School in Northamptonshire.

 

Oundle School is the former school of Professor Joseph Needham of Cambridge University who founded SACU, with others, in 1965. SACU is proud to be associated with Professor Joseph Needham and has a longstanding relationship with Oundle School which houses SACU’s archives.

 

SACU and Peking University jointly sponsor the annual essay competition on the theme of friendship and mutual understanding between the peoples of the United Kingdom and China. This was the third year of the competition which Professor Sun Hua again generously sponsored on behalf of the China Center for Edgar Snow Studies, Peking University. This year’s competition formed part of the activities of the 25thanniversary celebrations of the China Center for Edgar Snow Studies.

 

The students were asked to write an essay entitled: “Global Citizens of the future: to be successful, global citizens need to promote friendship and understanding between all peoples”. Students were invited to write an essay drawing on someone from Britain or China, past or present, who has contributed to Anglo-Chinese understanding and friendship. The essay should draw out some lessons from their approach and behaviours which are pointers for young people seeking to become successful global citizens. The essay competition was open to all senior students at Oundle School.

 

The judging panel was chaired by Dr Frances Wood, SACU Vice President, and included Professor Sun Hua, Peking University, Wang Fang, University of Westminster, and Annabel Hurley, Head of Chinese, Oundle School.

 

Annabel Hurley, Head of Chinese, welcomed SACU visitors and students to the Adamson Centre, the school’s modern languages building, for a guided tour of the building, lunch and the prize-giving. Annabel opened the ceremony and Zoe Reed, SACU Chair, talked about SACU’s mission to promote understanding and how we are looking to younger people to carry on this work. Dr Frances Wood, as head of the Judging Panel, then announced the winners.

 

Thomas Caskey receives £100 prize and certificate

Thomas Caskey won the competition for his essay on Deng Xiaoping as a global citizen. Dr Frances Wood commended his discussion of the concept of ‘global citizenship’. Professor Sun Hua and Zoe Reed presented Thomas with a £100 prize and a certificate. Professor Sun Hua awarded prizes and certificates to runners up, William Crane who wrote on Li Hongzhang, nineteenth century diplomat, and Rohan Scott on his forebear A.C. Scott, who introduced traditional Chinese theatre to the west. Professor Sun Hua also presented the other entrants with certificates. In congratulating all the entrants, Professor Sun Hua encouraged them to continue to pursue their Chinese studies.

 

Some of the entrants and prize winners at Oundle School

 

SACU would like to thank Oundle School for hosting the competition and awards ceremony and Peking University for generously sponsoring the event. Special thanks to all Oundle students who took part. We are planning another essay competition next year, which we will announce in due course.

 

Professor Sun Hua, Zoe Reed and Frances Wood at Oundle School

George Hogg SACU / Peking University Essay Competition Awards 2018

 

It is Awards Season again! On the evening of Wednesday 28thNovember, the Awards Ceremony of the ‘George Hogg China / UK Friendship and Understanding SACU / Peking University Essay Competition’ took place at St George’s School in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

 

George Hogg (1915-1945) grew up in Harpenden and attended St George’s School. He was a journalist reporting in wartime China and a vocational teacher who ran a school for war orphans. He is celebrated in China for his work in the wartime co-operative movement with a museum and memorial to him in rural North West China.

 

SACU and Peking University jointly sponsor the annual essay competition on the theme of friendship and mutual understanding between the peoples of the United Kingdom and China. This was the third year of the competition which Professor Sun Hua again generously sponsored on behalf of the China Center for Edgar Snow Studies, Peking University. This year’s competition formed part of the activities of the 25thanniversary celebrations of the China Center for Edgar Snow Studies.

 

The students were asked to write an essay entitled: “Global Citizens of the future: to be successful, global citizens need to promote friendship and understanding between all peoples”. Students were invited to write an essay drawing on someone from Britain or China, past or present, who has contributed to Anglo-Chinese understanding and friendship. The essay should draw out some lessons from their approach and behaviours which are pointers for young people seeking to become successful global citizens. The essay competition was open to all senior students at Harpenden schools.

 

The judging panel was chaired by Dr Frances Wood, SACU Vice President, and included Professor Sun Hua, Peking University, Wang Fang, University of Westminster, and David Waters, Assistant Head, St George’s School.

 

Professor Sun Hua at St George’s School, Harpenden

The Awards Ceremony took place in the Old Library where a splendid buffet had been set out. David Waters welcomed the students who had taken part, their families and several SACU members. Zoe Reed, SACU Chair, talked about SACU’s mission to promote understanding and how we are looking to younger people to carry on this work. The winner in the Upper School category was Catherine Beavis, and Isabelle Kinghorn was runner up. Sam Pesez won in the Middle School category. Professor Sun Hua and Zoe Reed presented the prizes and certificates. Prof Sun Hua congratulated these students on taking part and submitting such interesting and varied essays. He expressed his hope that the students who took part would be inspired to continue with their Chinese studies.

 

Essay Competition winners in Harpenden  (l to r) Sam Pesez, Isabelle Kinghorn and Catherine Beavis with Professor Sun Hua, Dr Frances Wood, Zoe Reed, Chair SACU, and David Waters, Assistant Head, St George’s School

SACU would like to thank St George’s School for hosting the competition and awards ceremony and Peking University for generously sponsoring the event. Special thanks to all St George’s students who took part. We are planning another essay competition for Harpenden next year, which we will announce in due course.

ICCIC Delegation visit UK, 26-30 September 2018

 

SACU welcomed an ICCIC delegation for their short stay, 26th-30th September, which they made as part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives – Gung Ho movement. For this trip the delegation wanted to follow in the footsteps of George Hogg. ICCIC stands for the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Co-operatives (Gung-Ho-ICCIC) (www.gungho.org.cn) which has been helping people establish member-owned co-operative enterprises since 1937. In an extremely short trip the delegation managed to visit all the main British sites associated with George Hogg (1915-1945), journalist, vocational teacher and key player in the wartime Gung Ho co-operative movement in China’s North West.

 

The ICCIC delegation was led by Michael Crook, Chair of ICCIC and included:

Xu Fenghua, Standing Committee Member of ICCIC; Wu Haili, Vice Secretary General of ICCIC; Liu Guozhong, Deputy Secretary General of ICCIC; Fan Minggang, Member of ICCIC; Li Jinguo, Standing Committee Member and Vice Secretary General of ICCIC; Mao Lijun, Standing Committee Member of ICCIC; Yu Xiaohong, Supervisor of ICCIC.

 

Outline of their packed programme:

27 September (morning) St George’s School, Harpenden, accompanied by George Hogg’s niece Vanessa Dingley and great nephew Peter Jarvis, who is SACU’s webmaster. David Waters, Assistant Head of St George’s, and Miss Helen Barton, Headmistress, welcomed the delegation and gave a brief tour including the Old Library where George Hogg and other members of his family are listed on the oak panelled walls. There was a display of papers from the school’s George Hogg Archive. Rosemary and Gavin Ross of Harpenden Local History Society then led the delegation to see ‘Red Gables’, the first family home of the Hogg family in Harpenden and where George was born, and ‘Wayfarings’ where the family later moved to, nearby.

ICCIC Delegation at St George’s School Harpenden

 

27 September (afternoon) Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. John Moffett, Librarian of the Needham Research Institute, welcomed the delegation and showed them round the purpose-built Institute, opened in 1991 and now permanent home for Professor Joseph Needham’s research collection. John introduced the delegation to Professor Mei Jianjun, the NRI Director, and then displayed various photos and archives of Joseph Needham in wartime China.

 

ICCIC at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge

 

28 September (morning) Rochdale

After an overnight stay in Manchester and accompanied by Jenny Clegg, SACU Vice President and Walter Fung, China Eye Editor, the delegation went to Rochdale Pioneers Museum, birthplace of the modern co-operative movement.

 

28 September (afternoon) Co-operative College in Manchester. The delegation visited the Co-operative College where CEO Simon Parkinson gave an introduction followed by a discussion between co-operative colleagues and the delegation on experiences of the development of co-operatives in Britain and China.

 

28 September (evening) Dinner at a London hotel’s dining room: joined by Frances Wood, SACU Vice President, SACU members Reg Hunt, Michael Sheringham and his wife Susu, and Nikki Crook.

 

29 September Visit to Wadham College, Oxford University, George Hogg’s former college, before heading back to Heathrow for the flight home.

 

Michael Crook commented, “The ICCIC will continue to work to promote Sino-British friendly exchanges”. Follow this link for ICCIC’s own account of their visit: http://www.gungho.org.cn/en-info-show.php?infoid=1224

 

This was a great opportunity for SACU members to meet ICCIC members who have exceptional experience in organising self-help activities and training in co-operative business in the poorer areas of China. It was also a chance to learn more about new developments in the latest reforms to ‘revitalise the rural areas‘.

 

You can read about the activities of the ICCIC here: http://www.gungho.org.cn/en-index.php

 

SACU’s relationship with the ICCIC through the George Hogg Education Fund is explained here: https://sacu.org/george-hogg-fund.html

 

You can see Harpenden Local History Society’s report of the delegation’s visit here:

http://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/page/following_the_george_hogg_trail

Team SACU raises money for the George Hogg Education Fund

Congratulations to Team SACU! SACU Treasurer Yuan Gao and SACU Council member Cai Chen teamed with friends She Zhou, Yunxi Xu and Amally Ding to run the Music Fun Run on Saturday 21 April 2018, raising £60 for the George Hogg Education Fund. The SACU team ended in 27th position out of 48 teams in the Team Relay with a total team time of 50.35 minutes.

CUKRUN is a not-for-profit Chinese community running club in London which generously offered to help SACU’s fundraising at this running event by donating the team’s registration costs to the George Hogg Education Fund.

The George Hogg Education Fundhas been launched by the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU) to support a programme of vocational training of people to work in co-operatives in rural North West China: https://sacu.org/george-hogg-fund/

Well done to all – and on the hottest day of the year so far!

Team SACU
Team SACU on the podium

See the results here: http://innovationsports.co.uk/race-results-2018/