SACU Internal Event

SACU/Peking University Friendship and Understanding Essay/Multimedia Awards Ceremony  takes place online. SACU members have worked with schools to encourage young people in the UK to explore and engage with Anglo-Chinese friendship and understanding. Professor Sun Hua will join from Beijing. SACU Vice President Frances Wood is chair of the judging panel and will be announcing the winning entries. SACU is grateful to Peking University in sponsoring this competition

SACU Members are invited to join this SACU ChinaChat on Thursday 25 June 2020 at 6.00pm by Zoom SACU Members ChinaChat: Discussing the Opium Wars Dr Jenny Clegg, SACU Vice President, will share her thoughts based on Stephen Platt's Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age (2018). This is a chance for us as SACU members to meet together and share our ideas and thoughts. Please be sure to use the Updated Link to the meeting - it has been emailed to all members   With the first salvos of the first Opium War in 1839, Britain […]

SACU Council (morning) and three Working Groups Meetings (afternoon). 11.00am-1.00pm: The next meeting of SACU's Council of Management takes place on Saturday 22 May 2021, 11.00am - 1.00pm by Zoom. The Agenda and papers with embedded Zoom link have been sent to SACU Council members. 2.30-4.00pm: All SACU members are invited to join SACU's Working Groups meeting by Zoom. For this meeting the three working groups will meet together to discuss and programme upcoming events. Agendas and Zoom link will be sent out to members who are involved a few days before the meeting. The three groups are: Public Education […]

All SACU members are welcome to join with the students from both the UK and China for this year's Awards Ceremony of the Essay/Art Competition, organised jointly by SACU and Peking University. The SACU/ Peking University Essay Competition began in 2015 as part of SACU’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. Now in its 5th year, the aim of the competition 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 submissions could be an essay or an artistic form, which could involve for example photography, […]

SACU Council (morning) and three Working Groups Meetings (afternoon). 11.00am-1.00pm: The next meeting of SACU’s Council of Management takes place on Saturday 31 July 2021, 11.00am – 1.00pm by Zoom. The Agenda and papers with embedded Zoom link will be sent to SACU Council members. 2.30-4.00pm: All SACU members are invited to join SACU’s Working Groups meeting by Zoom to plan the programme of upcoming events. Agendas and Zoom link will be sent out to members who are involved a few days before the meeting. The three groups are: Public Education (led by Zoe Reed) Membership Support and Development (led […]

SACU Council (morning) and three Working Groups Meetings (afternoon). 11.00am-1.00pm: This will be the first meeting of SACU’s Council of Management since the AGM and takes place on Saturday 16 October 2021, by Zoom. The Agenda and papers with embedded Zoom link have been emailed to SACU Council members. 2.30-4.00pm: All SACU members are invited to join SACU’s Working Groups meeting by Zoom to plan the programme of upcoming events and help further SACU's mission. The Agenda with embedded Zoom link was included in the October Members Newsletter, (distributed on Tuesday 12 October). The 3 Working Groups groups are: Public Education […]

SACU Reading Group on May Fourth Writers and their writing - Led by Michael Sheringham (SACU) We have been meeting online to discuss Chinese literature of the May Fourth period – roughly from the beginning of the 1920s to the end of the ‘30s - for the past 8 months. We are a small group meeting once a month to discuss stories and poems by well-known writers of the period, including Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Guo Moruo, Lin Shuhua, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun and Yu Dafu - well-known in China, but not so much overseas even among […]

We will continue to discuss the writings of Ding Ling 丁玲 based on two short stories, “Shanghai, Spring 1930 – Part 2” and “When I was in Xia Village” (1940) at our next group meeting. Ding Ling made the transition from writing about self-indulgent bourgeois women to one who observed at close hand the life of working people, particularly the peasants in the countryside. She became a feminist writer within the ranks of the communist community in Yan’an and an influential literary figure throughout her life.   New participants to the group are welcome! Please email: membership@sacu.org.uk  

Saturday 23 April 2022: SACU Council and Working groups meetings (online by Zoom) 11.00am-1.00pm, SACU Council – The Agenda with Zoom link will be emailed to Council members 2.30-4.00pm, Working Groups meeting – All members are very welcome to join one of the three working groups to help plan future events and initiatives SACU Public Education Working Group Membership Development and Support Working Group China Connections/Chinese Heritage Working Group If you are interested in joining the Working Groups meetings please contact membership@sacu.org.uk

Saturday 23 July 2022: SACU Council and Working groups meetings (online by Zoom) 11.00am-1.00pm, SACU Council – The Agenda with Zoom link will be emailed to Council members 2.30-4.00pm, Working Groups meeting – All members are very welcome to join one of the three working groups to help plan future events and initiatives SACU Public Education Working Group Membership Development and Support Working Group China Connections/Chinese Heritage Working Group If you are interested in joining the Working Groups meetings please contact membership@sacu.org.uk

SACU's 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held: On: Saturday 24th September 2022 At: 11.00a.m. In: The Wesley Conference Hotel, London (81-103 Euston Street, London NW1 2EZ) and by Zoom   To register for the AGM (members only), please use the following Eventbrite link for both in person and online attendance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sacu-agm-2022-tickets-409601277447   AGM papers have been circulated to members in a special members newsletter. Please email SACU Secretary if you have any questions related to the AGM: jacob@sacu.org.uk   The day continues with lunch and an afternoon event open to the public SACU Bridge Builders - the Gao family and […]

Saturday 22 October 2022: SACU Council and Working groups meetings (online by Zoom) 11.00am-1.00pm, SACU Council – The Agenda with Zoom link will be emailed to Council members 2.30-4.00pm, Working Groups meeting – All members are very welcome to join one of the three working groups to help plan future events and initiatives SACU Public Education Working Group Membership Development and Support Working Group China Connections/Chinese Heritage Working Group If you are interested in joining the Working Groups meetings please contact membership@sacu.org.uk

The atmosphere within which SACU seeks to promote understanding of China has deteriorated considerably in the last two or three years. How do we find our bearings during such uncertain and unpredictable times?   In SACU we know we have much to learn from China, and the Chinese approach of learning from history in order to understand the present and shape the future. In line with this idea, SACU Vice President Jenny Clegg - whose membership of SACU reaches back to the mid-1960s - will look at the trajectory of UK-China people's relations across this time period and even further. In doing so she will suggest […]