29 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Eswar PRASAD
The Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University
Topic: Will the Renminbi Rule the World?
Professor PRASAD, previously Chief of the International Monetary Fund’s China Division, will evaluate the steps China has taken to promote the international use of the ...
23 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sophie RICHARDSON
China Director, Human Rights Watch
Topic: “Beat Him, Take Everything Away”
At this lunch, Sophie RICHARDSON, will launch Human Rights Watch’s first China report for 2012, “Beat Him, Take Everything Away”: Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police. Since its founding in 19...
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...
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...
