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 risin...
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 ...
23 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Basil PAO
Photographer / Author
Topic: Great landscapes of the World
Shan Shui - Mountain and Water - is the term for the school of Chinese landscape paintings in a spontaneous ink-wash style. Basil PAO has used the three principles of Shan Shui painting - paths, threshold and heart - to...
22 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Anthony BOLTON
Author / Columnist / President of Investments, Fidelity Investment Managers
Topic: “China and Global Markets”
Almost a year ago, Anthony BOLTON announced his intention to postpone retirement and relocate to Hong Kong to manage a China fund for UK investors. At the time, he...
16 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John SAYER
Director General, Oxfam Hong Kong
Topic: China's unsung heroes
Oxfam Hong Kong routinely works with farmers, villagers and migrant workers on rural development and job-training programmes. In a recent book, China Voices, the NGO profiled various groups and individuals whose da...
11 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Frank DIKOTTER
Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong
Topic: MAO’s Great Famine - the history of China’s most devastating catastrophe
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell." Frank DIKOTTER shares his riveting chronicle of the Great Leap Forward, using previous...
10 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Guest:
Lord Peter MANDELSON
Host:
Steve VINES
Political Commentator and Broadcaster
Topic: Inside New Labour
Together, Tony BLAIR, Gordon BROWN and Peter MANDELSON were the founding architects of Britain's New Labour party. Now, Peter MANDELSON, one of the most controversial politicians of modern...
8 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jenny BOWEN
Founder & CEO, Half the Sky
Topic: China’s orphans today
How many children are still in China’s orphanages? What’s changed in recent years? How is the trafficking situation?
The Chinese government estimates it has 583,000 orphans with about 57,000 living in 290 children’...
5 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Charles LI
Chief Executive, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Topic: Hong Kong's role in the internationalization of the renminbi
Controlled internationalization of the renminbi is a landmark experiment. It has become one of the hottest topics in Hong Kong’s finance industry as it...
28 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. CHEN Xiwo
Writer, litigant and scholar of comparative literature at Fuzhou Normal University
Topic: From the front lines in the battle against censorship
In June 2007, the Fuzhou office of China Customs intercepted the galley proof of author CHEN Xiwo’s book that had been mailed to h...