Public Event
Three Years in Wuhan – 3 documentary films by Wenlan Peng
A series of documentary shorts on two small and medium sized businesses in Wuhan and how they confront challenges throughout a three-year period, including the recent lockdown, are being shown on BBC World News and BBC News Channel. They were made by Wenlan Peng, film maker and former Chair of The Meridian Society. Click here for BBC iPlayer link with more about the documentaries and transmission times. Below are the dates and times worldwide of Episode 1, which starts Saturday 23 May 2020; episodes 2 and 3 will be shown at the same times and on the same days of […]
SACU Public Event: UK-China Relations: Finding the way forward for cooperation in difficult times
Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding SACU Public Event 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 has 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, the challenges and the benefits of cooperating with China, as well as the prospects, […]
Standing Up To Sinophobia: from Fu Manchu to Bat Soup
The increase in hate crime against Chinese people is alarming. As an organisation with the mission to build friendship and understanding between the peoples of China and the UK, it is important that we provide a platform and facilitate dialogue that will help understand this terrible feature of British society and work with others to tackle it. Dr Jenny Clegg SACU Vice-President will open the event with a presentation on Fu Manchu. A distinguished panel will look at the distinctive nature of Sinophobia and how we might tackle it: Dr Diana Yeh Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Culture and the Creative Industries and […]
Education as a Bridge to Anglo-Chinese Understanding: SACU Panel Discussion
SACU Panel Discussion - SACU's Public Education Working Group has assembled an excellent speaker panel to cover multiple aspects of this vital collaboration. The Expert Panel will discuss education about China in the UK as a 'Bridge to Anglo-Chinese Understanding'. Panel: Tim Clissold is a well-known writer on China, author of Mr China: a Memoir (2005); China Rules (2014); and most recently Cloud Chamber (2021). He is a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge University China Centre and a champion of introducing the study of Chinese civilization in schools. Professor David Law is Academic Director, Global Partnerships, at Keele University […]
Railways and Reunions – SACU Public Event
Wesley Hotel Euston 81-103 Euston Street, London, United KingdomThis year our AGM will be preceded by a public event which we are delighted to have jointly organised with the Manchester Consul General of the Chinese Embassy. In brief we are planning a joint event which we will host to mark the 110th Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. We will bring together family members of Sun Yat-sen and James Cantlie who played such a critical role in helping Sun Yat-sen when he fled to London in 1896. The event will include: video film of the Chinese locomotive now located in York Railway Museum Reunion by Zoom between members […]
1921 (film) – SACU Co-Sponsors Special Online Screening
This is a special online screening of '1921', a full length feature film produced to mark this year's centenary of the Communist Party of China. It is set against the background of the intense class struggle waged by the young Chinese working class in Shanghai in particular. The action also takes us to Moscow, Paris and elsewhere. Key early Chinese communists like Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping all feature in this not to be missed film. A review by Friends of Socialist China co-editor and SACU member Keith Bennett can be read online. Please note the film is […]
The Case for Cross Cultural Dialogues: Webinar Discussion on Literature and Art – SACU in Partnership with Blackfriars Oxford and Georgetown University, USA
In this webinar U.K. historians Professors Michael Wood and Kerry Brown (both SACU members) will discuss their enthusiasm for Chinese literature, art, and performance with Kathryn Temple of Georgetown University and Tong Ping, a native of Chengdu—a city famed for its pandas but also as an intersection of differing Chinese cultures. The discussion will be co-chaired by Michael Scott, who has held fellowships at two Chinese universities and published a book in China on the stories of King Arthur (and SACU member), and Barnaby Powell, SACU Council member, a veteran of development banking in East Asia and co-author of three books […]
China Week 25-29 October 2021 – SACU partners the Lau China Institute, King’s College London
King's College London, Strand Campus Strand, London, United KingdomWe are delighted to take part as partners for the Lau China Institute's China Week, a flagship series of events on China, climate change and the environment. The inaugural China Week will be held from 25th-29th October, the week prior to the UN COP26 in Glasgow, as a forum for discussion on China’s role in addressing the greatest global challenge of our time. We invite you to join us for a week of high-level panel discussions, film screenings, book launches, photography exhibitions, and much more, featuring special guests and leading China experts from the UK and across the globe. Our audience will be […]
Shakespeare and the Sinophone World – SACU and Partners Online Event
Asian Embodiment of a White Canon: Shakespeare and the Sinophone World: This event is part of the China and the West: Cultural Dialogues series, sponsored by Georgetown University's Future of the Humanities Project (a partnership with Campion Hall, Oxford, and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford) in cooperation with SACU. Shakespeare’s tragedies have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The tragedies have been reimagined as political theatre, feminist operas, Buddhist meditations, and even comedies and parodies... Featured: Alexa Alice Joubin writes about race, gender, and cultural globalization. Her latest book, Shakespeare and East Asia, was […]
China, Climate Change, COP26 – What Comes Next? SACU Panel Discussion
SACU has assembled an excellent speaker panel to discuss China and the post COP26 period. This is a free online event on Wednesday 8th December, 5.30pm-7.00pm (GMT) About this event SACU's Expert Panel will discuss what comes next for China and the world following COP26, with a focus on addressing the following questions: How should China’s involvement in COP26 be assessed and what role will it play in tackling climate change post COP26? What opportunities or challenges does China face in adhering to its green pledges? Is it doing enough in terms of policymaking and implementation, and grass roots mobilisation? […]