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 […]
Michael Sheringham: Living and Teaching in Beijing in the 1970s – SACU ChinaChat Series “Your Stories with China”
Michael Sheringham will be in conversation with SACU Archivist Dr Linxi Li on his experiences of living and teaching in Beijing. This is the latest in our series "Your Stories with China" SACU ChinaChats. Michael studied Chinese at Durham and Cambridge Universities, becoming an active SACU member in its early years after 1967. Michael joined the 1971 SACU tour and he was invited to teach English at Peking University (Beida) in 1972, staying there until 1978. This was the period of the 'Revolution in Education', which he experienced at first hand. He will illustrate his talk with his own photographs. Saturday 15th […]
SACU Council and Working Groups Meetings Saturday 22 May 2021
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 […]
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 […]
A Moral Question, A Moral Duty: SACU ChinaChat with Iris Yau
SACU ChinaChat meeting for members: "A Moral Question, A Moral Duty" - Behind the scenes with SACU member Iris Yau, Curator of the exhibition "Opium, Silk and the Missionaries in China" currently open at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS. The Exhibition: “Opium, Silk and the Missionaries in China” retells one of the largely forgotten histories of the relationship between Britain and China in the 19th Century. It draws on several collections, using artefacts to explore the history of the Opium Wars. Botanical arts and tools, historical artefacts about silk, missionary work and intercultural shared experiences in China recorded by British Missionaries throughout this period […]
SACU-Peking University Essay/Art Competition 2020-2021 Online Awards Ceremony
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, […]
Michael Crook and his mother Isabel from Beijing in Conversation with Dr Frances Wood, SACU Vice President
Join us, and the SACU-Peking University Essay/Art Competition entrants to hear the amazing story of the Crook family - Isabel is now 104 years old and has lived in China all her life, and with husband David Crook, raising her 3 sons there including Michael. This event is open to the public and follows SACU-Peking University Essay/Art Competition 2020-2021 Awards Ceremony held online for students from both the UK and China. SACU member Michael Crook, British / Canadian, was born in Beijing in 1951 of British and Canadian parents who met in China. His Canadian mother Isabel was born in Chengdu […]
SACU Council and Working Groups Meetings Saturday 31 July 2021
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 […]
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 […]
SACU AGM, Saturday 2 October – in person and by Zoom
Wesley Hotel Euston 81-103 Euston Street, London, United KingdomSACU’s 2021 Annual General Meeting will be held On: Saturday 2 October 2021 At: 12.00 noon after the preceding public event "Railways and Reunions" at the same venue In: Wesley Conference Hotel, 81-103 Euston Street, London NW1 2EZ and by Zoom SACU’s AGM will receive the Annual Report of the Council of Management and the Annual Accounts for 2020. Papers and links have been sent to all members: Minutes of AGM 2020 Annual Report of the Council of Management 2020 Annual Accounts 2020 Proposed Constitution which will become the Constitution for SACU once it is confirmed as a Charitable Incorporated […]