SACU ChinaChat: Discussing the Opium Wars
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 meeting
SACU Council meeting takes place by MS Teams. A calendar invitation will be sent to SACU Council members. Minutes of the last SACU Council meeting and Agenda for this meeting will both be available on Teams. 2.30pm: The main Council meeting will be followed by a planning meeting of the Public Education Working Group.
SACU ChinaChat: Discussion on Hong Kong
SACU Members are invited to join this SACU ChinaChat on Hong Kong on Sunday 23 August at 3.00pm. The discussion will be led by SACU members Andrew Hicks and Barnaby Powell on Zoom. Andrew Hicks has lived in Chinese-influenced communities in Asia for over twenty years, first lecturing at the University of Hong Kong from 1976 to 1983. Now based in England, he has returned there and to China many times since then, watching them with great affection and recently concern as tensions build in Hong Kong. From his four decades of observation he will offer some broad subjective thoughts and insights of […]
SACU Public Event: UK-China Relations: Finding the way forward for cooperation in difficult times
Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding SACU Public Event US-China relations are deteriorating alarmingly, and the UK government has allowed itself to get drawn into the growing crisis. Yet over recent decades, relations of cooperation between the UK and China have grown firm roots, building interdependencies across many fields, to the great benefit of both sides. SACU has invited a panel of speakers with differing areas of expertise, but all with long-standing experience of working with Chinese counterparts, to discuss their experiences and their views on the value, the challenges and the benefits of cooperating with China, as well as the prospects, […]
SACU AGM Saturday 10 October 2020 and afternoon workshops for members
11.30 – 13.00 -- SACU AGM 14.30 – 15.30 -- Join one of SACU’s 3 Working Groups All SACU members are warmly invited to attend the AGM which will be conducted over Zoom. The day will consist of the Annual General Meeting 2020 in the morning and three working groups sessions in the afternoon. In the afternoon, instead of a ‘live’ public event as in previous years, we will use Zoom to hold afternoon workshops where members can learn more about SACU and its activities, organised around our three working groups. Members are invited to choose one of the three working groups: UK […]
SACU Council meeting
SACU Council meets on Saturday 14th November 11.30am-1.30pm. This is the first Council meeting after our AGM held 10th October 2020. Council will be meeting on Teams - Agenda and links have been sent to Council members.
SACU & HSBC Joint Event with online talk by Michael Wood, SACU President
SACU is delighted to hold a joint event with HSBC China Connect (HCC) when SACU President Michael Wood will present his insights and experiences of China and Chinese life, as well as introducing his new book, The Story of China. This is a members-only event held on Zoom. The Zoom link and password have recently been sent out in our November eNewsletter. Please email questions to membership@sacu.org.uk HSBC China Connect (HCC) Connecting colleagues to Chinese business, culture and language
The Early Years of SACU: SACU ChinaChat by Zoom
"The Early Years of SACU" with Graham Perry in conversation with SACU Archivist Linxi Li. Graham Perry has made over 70 visits to China as a businessman, negotiating with China's trade corporations. He is Visiting Professor of Dispute Resolution at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. An early member of SACU, he has also been an active Vice-Chairman of SACU. Graham Perry, early SACU member This is the first talk in the SACU ChinaChat series "Your Stories with China". SACU ChinaChats are informal meetings for members only. The Zoom link for member registrations was included in our November […]
Paper Ambassadors from China: Richard Morel, Curator, British Library’s Philatelic Collections
Paper Ambassadors from China: The Life & Stamp Designs of Mrs Lu Tianjiao (1954-2001) A talk for the opening ceremony of SACU-PKU Essay/Art Competition 2020-2021, on 5th December. Join Dr Frances Wood, SACU Vice President, and hear Richard Morel, Curator, British Library's Philatelic Collections, talk about the first woman to design stamps in China. Time: Saturday 5th December, 3.00pm Please join us at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85889028173?pwd=dE9IMEIybXJRdXVxaEpXaWlIeTlWUT09 SACU's Essay/Art Competition This event launches the 5th year of SACU's Essay/Art Competition held jointly with Peking University each year since SACU commemorated its 50th anniversary in 2015. The aim of the competition is to help young people […]
The May Fourth Movement and its Cultural Impact: a SACU ChinaChat
SACU ChinaChat online event for SACU members: The May Fourth Movement and its Cultural Impact, a discussion led by Rob Stallard and Michael Sheringham, Thursday 21 January, 6.00-7.00 pm An online presentation and discussion on the May Fourth Movement, the patriotic protests at the end of WW1 and the literary/cultural movement that accompanied it. Rob Stallard, SACU Vice President and a long-standing member of SACU, has written many articles for China Eye and produces his own series of online histories of China and aspects of Chinese life and culture. Michael Sheringham has also been a long-standing member of SACU and regularly contributes […]