The Year of the Dog!! In London, the main event, with many accompanying activities, is the spectacular Parade on Sunday the 18th. London claims its celebration is the largest outside Asia. http://tinyurl.com/ycjecs2g Manchester will stage its biggest and best New Year celebration yet starting on Friday the 16th and culminating on Sunday the 18th with fireworks and the Dragon Parade. http://tinyurl.com/y9ax6e8o Newcastle kicks off its celebration with a launch event on Friday 16th. The city’s biggest ever (and newly ‘crowdfunded’) parade starts in Chinatown on Stowell Street on the 18th. http://tinyurl.com/yc5padw6 In Liverpool, between the 16th and 18th, “a three-day […]

Celebrate the Year of the Dog with this special family day. Learn how to ribbon dance, try your hand at traditional calligraphy, listen to traditional Chinese stories, watch a lion dance and much more. What better way to start the new year? Free drop-in. Every year since opening in 2003, the museum has hosted a celebration at the museum to mark the Chinese New Year. This is in recognition of the Chinese community in the area, and the cultural significance of Limehouse to the area.

Date and Time: 16th February (Friday), 7pm - 10pm Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HE Tickets: £46 per head for a four course dinner including a glass of wine. Cash bar available on the evening. Guest Speaker: Rt Hon Lord Tom McNally PC, who will share with us his thoughts on the ever evolving UK-China diplomatic and trading relations. The Imperial College of London Lion Dance Team will be performing at 7pm at the Foyer. Guests to be seated in the Lloyd George Room by 7.30pm. RSVP: info@chineselibdems.org.uk  Please advise us of any dietary restrictions.

The Meridian Society invites all to join their Chinese New Year celebration. First they will be going for a Chinese new year meal at The Bamboo Flute where owner, Guo Yue, will be host with delicious food and good company. Afterwards the group will be going to BFI Southbank for the documentary 'China's Van Goghs' about Zhao Xiaoyong, a peasant-turned-painter whose family business has produced over 100,000 copies of Vincent Van Gogh artworks. The two can be booked separately or together. Times: 14.45 for 3pm at The Bamboo Flute 5.45 for 6.00pm at BFI Southbank As spaces in both venues […]

Details of meetings to follow. Change of venue confirmed (NOT Zizzi's this time): 2.30-4.00 pm SACU Recruitment Group 4.00-5.00 pm George Hogg Fundraising Group 5.00-6.00 pm Executive Committee

Researching the Chinese Labour Corps: How it started and what I found Speaker Brian Fawcett worked in the Far East for many years and was an active member of the Royal Asiatic Society.  It was at the request of the RAS that he, with the help of his wife Claudine, began a period of in-depth research into what was then, and to a large extent still is, a relatively unknown story.  Brian’s findings were published in the journal of the Hong Kong branch of the RAS and have been an important resource for subsequent researchers. This free talk is part […]

Access rarely seen posters from the Archives of the University of Westminster and learn about happiness and health in China under high socialism. Meet the Archivists who will be on hand to talk about the work, and learn about research on Chinese conceptions of happiness and Chinese migrants' mental health conducted in Soho. Led by Anna McNally, Senior Archivist at the University of Westminster, Gerda Wielander, Reader in Chinese Studies and Cangbai Wang and Derek Hird, both Senior Lecturers in Chinese Studies, in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. The event forms part of the University's Difference Festival. "Although […]

Join China Exchange for the opening event of their China in Context festival with best-selling contemporary Chinese writer Yan Geling 严歌苓. Author of many novels, novellas and short stories, including The Lost Daughter of Happiness, The Uninvited, The Flowers of War, Little Aunt Crane and White Snake and Other Stories, Ms Yan’s works have been adapted for the screen by internationally acclaimed directors, such as Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, Chen Kaige 陈凯歌 and Feng Xiaogang 冯小刚. Ms. Yan will be in conversation with two of her translators, Nicky Harman and Lawrence Walker, discussing the impact of her acclaimed novels, translating from Chinese into English, and […]

Join Guanghwa Bookshop to discover how it is single women who are the most powerful force in ushering the world’s next superpower into a new future. Across the globe, young women are re-writing the rule book for their early adult years and relationships, delaying marriage and children to pursue education and careers, driving economies forward. Despite the enduring social stigma behind being ‘leftover’, Chinese women are no exception. Roseann Lake joins the China in Context festival to discuss how women having greater control over their careers, finances and fertility, is the key to a successful economic future, be it in […]