9 Jun 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jasper BECKER
Author & Managing Director, Legend Strategic Consultancy
Topic: The City of Heavenly Tranquility
What does the destruction of old Beijing tell us about attitudes to history and China's great cultural legacy? Mr.Jasper BECKER will discuss the efforts to resist the demol...
4 Jun 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Bao PU
Editor
Topic: Prisoner of the State - The Secret Journal of Premier ZHAO Ziyang
How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a first person look into the secret inner worki...
1 Jun 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Cardinal Joseph Ze-kiun ZEN S.D.B.
Topic: ‘Though there seemed no hope, he hoped and believed...’ (Romans 4:18)
Cardinal Joseph ZEN will share his thoughts 3 days before the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
Cardinal ZEN was born in Shanghai on January 13, 1932. In July 1948 he came...
26 May 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Martin MERZ
Topic: Translating Chinese Literature - New stories from China
There are almost a billion readers just across the border, but who outside China has any idea what they read? China's literary world is vibrant and enormous, and major western publishers are clamoring for a piece ...
25 May 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Laurence J. BRAHM
Political Economist / Global Activist
Topic: The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club: a manifesto for a peaceful revolution
The world as we know it has changed and a new economic order that prioritizes environmental protection, human rights, ethnic and cultural diversity ...
27 Apr 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Ben SIMPFENDORFER
Chief China Economist
Royal Bank of Scotland
Topic: The New Silk Road: how a rising Arab World is turning away from the West and rediscovering China
Ben SIMPFENDORFER will discuss the rise of the Arab world and its strengthening relations with China. He has spent the pa...
9 Apr 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Jake VAN DER KAMP
Journalist
David WEBB
Editor of Webb-site.com
Topic: WEBB v Jake: An FCC debate on Hong Kong's controversial extension of the blackout period on share trading by company directors
Two of Hong Kong's leading market commentators, David Webb and Jake VAN DER KAMP, will de...
30 Mar 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Yasheng HUANG
Professor, Political Economy and International Management
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Topic: Rethinking reforms: Chinese economy facing global challenge
Professor HUANG will explain the roots of China’s economic success and the reasons why it is facing substantial chall...
24 Mar 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Cameron DUECK
Yachtsman / Assistant Editor, The Financial Times
Topic: Open Passage Expedition: Sailing the Northwest Passage – Summer 2009
Climate change has brought the Arctic back into the public consciousness as warmer temperatures reveal new shipping channels and open the door to na...
23 Mar 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Albert HO
Chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group
Elected Member of Legislative Council
Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong
Topic: Charter 08: The Dawn for a Civil Rights Movement in China?
In early December 2008, 303 mainland public intellectuals signed on the Cha...
