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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…

Saturday 22 January 2022: SACU Council and Working groups meetings 11.00am-1.00pm, SACU Council – The Agenda with Zoom link has been 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 meeting please contact membership@sacu.org.uk

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,…

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…

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

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