8 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jeffrey WASSERSTROM
Chair Professor, History Department, University of California, Irvine
Topic: "Media and Revolution from SUN Yat-Sen's Day to the Present"
Professor WASSERSTROM will move between the Chinese events of 1911 and the North African events of 2011 with a focus on how breakt...
8 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Baizhu CHEN
Faculty at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Academic Director, Global Executive MBA in Shanghai
Topic: The RMB, labour costs and implications for China-based enterprises
With the shift of China’s strategic economic focus, and mounti...
2 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Andrew LANG
Director / Producer
Topic: "Sons of Cuba"
Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba un...
23 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Artem VOLYNETS
CEO of En+ Group; Member of the board for EN+ Group, UC Rusal EuroSibEnergo
Topic: “Russian Power fuelling Chinese and global growth”
As China’s economy expands rapidly, its dependence on power generation increases its reliance on the use of fossil fuels such as oil and ga...
22 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Murong Xuecun
Author
Topic: Absurdities of China’s censorship system
Celebrated for his darkly funny novels of contemporary urban Chinese life, Murong Xuecun had prepared to use the occasion of receiving the People’s Literature Prize in China to make a speech calling for a more relaxed a...
10 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Humphrey HAWKSLEY
BBC Foreign Correspondent
Topic: “HELLO, GOODBYE - AND HAVE A NICE LIFE - with all conversations in between on how Bin LADEN and Steve JOBS changed the world”
Mr. Humphrey HAWKSLEY has been invited to Hong Kong, courtesy of IQ2. From Africa to Latin America to the Middl...
24 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jing ULRICH
Managing Director & Chairman, China Equities & Commodities, J.P. Morgan
Topic: China in 2011: cultivating sustainable growth
Jing will discuss China’s rapidly changing policy environment and examine potential risks: 1) How will policymakers address the risk of rising inflatio...
18 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Peter G de KRASSEL
Author and analyst on Sino-US relations
Topic: Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle
Mr de KRASSEL introduces his new book: Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle. In his view, through its misguided foreign and fiscal policies and alliances, America has allowed China to prosper at ...
3 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Norman PEARLSTINE
Chief Content Officer, Bloombery L.P
Chairman, Bloomberg BusinesWeek
Topic: The U.S. political scene and its implications for Asia - 2011 and beyond
Norman PEARLSTINE joined Bloomberg L.P. in June 2008 as Chief Content Officer, a newly-created position. In this role, Pe...
15 Dec 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Club book launch: An Eastern Saga
An Eastern Saga is a memoir of Marvin FARKAS’s life in Hong Kong and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. The book describes Marvin’s experiences of events ranging from the Malaysian independence to the early years of the Vietnam War, as well as encounters with key figur...
