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Our FCC Speakers Series is a unique opportunity for our members and their guests to listen, engage and discuss the latest local and international events and trends at the Club. The talks, organized by the Club’s Professional Committee, are hosted in the FCC’s main dining room, usually over lunch and occasionally over breakfast or dinner. The speaker typically gives initial remarks for 20 minutes and then takes questions for 20 minutes. The events are on the record, and videos of them go up on the Club’s website.

Aside from organizing guest speakers, the Professional Committee plans and produces evening documentary screenings, educational workshops, debates, speed-networking opportunities and events that benefit FCC members and provide opportunities for correspondents and journalists to grow professionally. See below for a full list of all club activities.
21 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor CHEN Guangzhong Tenured Professor of China University of Political Science and Law Topic: How China Revised its Criminal Procedure Code Rule of law has seldom been more frequently in the news from China than right now. As it happens, the National People’s Congress approved on M...
17 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Hans VRIENS Managing Partner, Vriens & Partners Topic: Myanmar’s political and economic awakening What are the political and economic changes underway and the current realities on the ground in Myanmar? Following Myanmar’s recent by-elections, Aung San Suu Kyi will lead the largest oppos...
16 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Ezra F. VOGEL The Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University Topic: If Deng were alive, what would he think about China today? What are the changes in leadership style from Deng through Jiang to Hu and Xi? How would Deng look at corruption and...
9 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: YAN Lianke Author Topic: Why isn't China producing great literary works? YAN Lianke, one of China’s most prolific and controversial writers, believes Chinese literature is not short of marvelous stories and skillful writers; what China lacks, according to YAN, is writers with courage to ...
18 Apr 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: CAO Ri Director of CCTV International News Department Member of the Board of CCTV News Content Topic: CCTV’s global expansion: where does it go from here? Mr. CAO will talk about the strides that CCTV, China’s state broadcaster, has taken in improving its capacities in global news gather...
17 Apr 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: WANG Xiangwei Editor-in-Chief, South China Morning Post Topic: Navigating change: steering the South China Morning Post to a brighter future Throughout its 109 years of publishing, the South China Morning Post has weathered war, political and economic ups and downs and much more. With th...
12 Apr 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Christine CHOY Professor, New York University Film School Current Fulbright Fellow, Beijing Topic: The state of documentary filmmaking in China Christina CHOY will show her short documentary, “No Fifth Grade”, and use it as a basis to discuss the current state of documentary filmmaking i...
26 Mar 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Manu BHASKARAN Partner, Centennial Group Topic: Southeast Asia 2012: Positive Trends, Dangerous Details U.S.- China competition, Indonesia 's re-emergence and Myanmar 's return from the cold are among the developments that have put Southeast Asia back on the radar of investors. At the na...
20 Mar 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David YANG Zuoren Director, Shandong Confucian Business Institute Topic: Why China promotes Confucianism China's government has spent at least $500 million since 2004 establishing 350 Confucius Institutes worldwide to teach Mandarin and Chinese culture. It also funds classrooms at elemen...
19 Mar 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Lord Peter GOLDSMITH, QC
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