23 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Dan Washburn
Journalist and Chief Content Officer, the Asia Society
In China golf was not just a barometer for the country’s rapid economic rise, the sport also allowed Washburn to examine many major issues in ...
2 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Jeannie Cho Lee
Asian Master of Wine, Professor of Wine, HK Polytechnic
How had China’s entry into the wine industry, both as a major consumer and producer, encouraged the black market for fake wines? How prevalent was cou...
29 Jan 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, January 29, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Lawrence Brahm
Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, PRC
Author, Chief Economist of the New Earth Institute
Mr. Brahm will outline the severity of China's climate change crisis and the pathways t...
29 Oct 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Bill Hayton, Author/Reporter, BBC
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
How long can the United States remain a ‘resident power in Asia' in the face of China’s rise? Are Southeast Asian countries destined to become satellite states of Beijing? It’s incre...
15 Oct 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David Eimer
Author/Former Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
China’s frontiers have never been more volatile. In western Xinjiang, terrorist attacks by the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority native to the region have increase...
1 Sep 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Philip Wickeri
Adviser to Anglican Archbishop on Theological
and Historical Studies
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Protestant Christianity in China has been much in the news in recent months, everything from the forced removal of crosses in Wenzhou, ...
27 Aug 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Li Chunhong
Director-General, Development and Reform Commission of
Guangdong Province
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2014
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Will China ship its goods by rail to southeast Asia, central Asia and Europe, or will it continue to ship them mainly by sea? Mr. Li...
18 Aug 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mike Chinoy
Former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief
Senior Fellow, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014
7:00pm – Dinner
1st FLOOR
Topic: "Assignment China: End of An Era''
The early and mid-1970s were a time of intense political drama in China. As Chair...
3 Jun 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mike Chinoy
Former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief
Senior Fellow, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014
7:00pm – Dinner
1st FLOOR
Fully Booked
Topic: "Assignment China: Tiananmen Square"
“Assignment China” is a series of television documentaries about Ame...
