Meet the Chilli Bean Paste Clan: An Evening with Yan Ge and Nicky Harman
Guanghwa Bookshop 112 Shaftsbury Avenue, London, United KingdomSet in a fictional town in West China, the novel, The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s 80th birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to juggle the demands of his mistress and his wife, the biggest surprises of all come from Gran herself… Join the author Yan Ge and the translator Nicky Harman on the evening, and catch a […]
SACU Council and Programme Group Meetings
St Columba's Church of Scotland Pont Street, London, United KingdomSACU's quarterly Council meeting will be held in the Library of St Columba's Church, 11.30am-3.30pm. The Programme Group will meet immediately afterwards, 3.30pm-5.00pm. Agendas will be sent out in due course.
China and the Korean Nuclear Crisis
Hulme Hall University of Manchester Hall of Residence Oxford Place, Manchester, United KingdomChina and the Korean Nuclear Crisis by SACU Manchester and University of Manchester Politics Society China and North Korea have been described in the past as being as close as ‘lips and teeth’ but in recent decades relations have come under strain over North Korea’s nuclearisation. What role has China played with regard to the Korean nuclear crisis? And what does this tell us about the kind of new superpower China is becoming? Glyn Ford, author of Talking to North Korea (Pluto, 2018) and North Korea on the Brink (Pluto, 2007) will be in conversation with Dr Jenny Clegg, Vice-President […]
Chinese Labour Corps: Exhibition at Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham, 1 February 2019
CCC-B 99 Bradford Street, Birmingham, United KingdomChinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Men of World War I: Exhibition at the Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham Friday 1 Feb to Friday 8 Feb (not Sunday 3 Feb) The Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham is going to stage the first exhibition in the West Midlands about the Chinese Labour Corps in February 2019, coinciding with Chinese New Year. In November 2018, Britain commemorated the end of World War I with events across the country. One group that has been consistently overlooked is the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) – volunteers from mainland China who were sent by the Chinese government to support […]
Chinese Labour Corps: Exhibition at Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham, 2 Feb 2019
Chinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Men of World War I: Exhibition at the Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham Friday 1 Feb to Friday 8 Feb (not Sunday 3 Feb) The Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham is going to stage the first exhibition in the West Midlands about the Chinese Labour Corps in February 2019, coinciding with Chinese New Year. In November 2018, Britain commemorated the end of World War I with events across the country. One group that has been consistently overlooked is the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) – volunteers from mainland China who were sent by the Chinese government to support […]
Chinese Labour Corps: Exhibition at Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham, 4-8 Feb 2019
CCC-B 99 Bradford Street, Birmingham, United KingdomChinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Men of World War I: Exhibition at the Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham Friday 1 Feb to Friday 8 Feb (not Sunday 3 Feb) The Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham is going to stage the first exhibition in the West Midlands about the Chinese Labour Corps in February 2019, coinciding with Chinese New Year. In November 2018, Britain commemorated the end of World War I with events across the country. One group that has been consistently overlooked is the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) – volunteers from mainland China who were sent by the Chinese government to support […]
Happy New Year of the Pig!
Here is our list of Chinese New Year 2019 celebrations around the UK (plus NYC and Sydney). Happy New Year! 新年快乐! London ...............https://londonist.com/…/chinese-new-year-in-london-events-c… Manchester...........https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and…/chinese-new-year… Liverpool.............. https://liverpoolexpress.co.uk/celebrations-for-chinese-ne…/ Cardiff.................. https://cardiff.carpe-diem.events/…/9215152-chinese-new-ye…/ Macclesfield...........https://www.macclesfield-tc.gov.uk/celebrating-chinese-new…/ Bangor................ https://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/…/17354591.chinese-y…/ Sheffield................https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/confucius/events/cny Birmingham............https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/…/chinese-new-year-2019-wh… Southampton.........https://www.ukshaolintemple.com/event/chinese-new-year-2019/ Newcastle...............https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/…/chinese-new-year-2019-wha… York........................https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinese-new-year-2019-at-york-… New York...............https://www.cityguideny.com/article/Chinese-New-Year-NYC… Leeds.....................https://www.visitleeds.co.uk/whats-on/chinese-new-year.aspx Sydney..................https://www.sydney.com/…/chinese-new-year-celebration-year-…
The Meridian Society’s Chinese New Year Celebration
Saturday 9th February The Meridian Society's Chinese New Year Celebration SACU's partner organisation The Meridian Society invites you to join them for their Chinese New Year celebration:- "Firstly we will be going to BFI Southbank for the documentary triptych by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni depicting life in 1970s China. Afterwards we will be going for a Chinese new year meal at Taste of China in Bloomsbury. The two can be booked separately or together." Times 13.30pm for 13.40 at BFI Southbank (website for directions) 17.45 for 18.00 at Taste of China, (googlemaps for directions) As places are limited please e-mail to reserve your place early. The deadline for booking is extended to Wednesday 30th January with payment no later than Friday 1st February. Priority […]
Chinese Labour Corps: Library of Birmingham Exhibition
Library of Birmingham Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham, United KingdomThe Chinese Community Centre-Birmingham is commemorating the contribution of the Chinese Labour Corps in World War I. In November 2018, Britain commemorated the end of World War I with events across the country. One group that has been consistently overlooked is the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) – volunteers from mainland China who were sent by the Chinese government to support the British and French armies on the Western Front. While hostilities ceased in November 1918 and troops returned home, the CLC remained behind to clear battlefield debris into 1919 with the final units not leaving until September 1920, almost two […]
SACU ChinaCafé with Jessica Darling (SACU members event)
Bush House, King's College London Strand Campus 30 Aldwych, London, United KingdomOur 2019 series of SACU ChinaCafés is set to begin on Tuesday February 19th, from 6 pm to 8 pm at Bush House, King’s College London, Strand Campus, and is co-hosted by the Lau China Institute. Our theme this year is historical and present health care here and in China. The first session will feature Jessica Darling who spent her childhood in China with her father, surgeon Dr Joshua Horn, author of ‘Away With All Pests: An English Surgeon in People’s China 1954-1969’. She subsequently returned to the UK to earn a nursing degree and then went back to Beijing where she […]