6 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
BAO Pu
Publisher of Hong Kong New Century Press
Derek SANDHAUS
Chief Editor of Earnshaw Book
Topic: Empress Dowager & I
At the turn of the 20th century, a young British aristocrat, Sir Edmund BACKHOUSE was uniquely positioned to be an important eyewitness of the tumultuous birth of mode...
29 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Regina IP
LEGCO member (Hong Kong Island constituency) New People's Party
Topic: The roles of political parties and their prospect for development in Hong Kong
Mrs. IP discussed Hong Kong's party development in the context of Western political theory on the roles, functions and typology ...
23 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David MULFORD
Vice-chairman, International of Credit Suisse
Former US Ambassador to India
Topic: Emerging markets in the new global economy
The financial crisis of 2008 showed that emerging markets could be both resilient to the crisis and could recover growth relatively quickly. The lau...
21 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Steve CRAWSHAW
International advocacy director, Amnesty International
Topic: Of courage and mischief: achieving political change in surprising ways
Steve CRAWSHAW will ask if we believe too little in the power of change -- a question which now seems especially relevant in the context of ...
17 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Tony TYLER
Chief Executive of Cathay Pacific Airways
Topic: It’s au revoir Hong Kong - but never goodbye
Tony TYLER promises a not-too-corporate look over his life and times in Hong Kong.
Mr. TYLER, an FCC member, is retiring as Chief Executive of Cathay Pacific Airways on 31 March after...
15 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mina Hanbury-Tenison
Author
Topic: Wisdom of Shanghai: Feminism as defined by some women born and raised in the Pearl of the Orient
Why is Shanghai (in)famous for women who are beautiful and cunning? Mina Hanbury-Tenison will discuss her book, Shanghai Girls: Uncensored & Unsentimental, ...
14 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mick CHINOY
CNN’s former Beijing Bureau Chief and Senior Asia Correspondent
Senior Fellow of U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
Topic: “Assignment : China” – A documentary film on the first American reporters in the PRC
It was 1979. The U.S. and China had just establ...
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...
