This Events Calendar lists China-related events taking place around the country. Events are listed in strict date order.
All listings are free of charge. If you would like your event posted on this page, please email your information to laura.rivkin@gbcc.org.uk or phone 020 7235-6696.
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Events Calendar
Last Updated: 05 March 2010
19/12/2009 - 25/04/2010 Bath
Exhibition Cutting Edge: Untraditional Paper-cuts by Three Contemporary Artists An exhibition of contemporary paper-cuts by three artists of Chinese descent, Lo Jhy Yen, Nie Chun-Mei, and Zhang Wenqing. They are holding related events on the 6th, 14th, and 20th March. Go to their website for further information: www.meaa.info/upcoming-events and www.meaa.info/childrens-events
Venue: Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath BA1 2QL Times: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5pm, Sunday 12-5pm. Closed on Monday Tickets: adults £5 Contact: tel 01225 464-640, info@meaa.org.uk, www.meaa.info/current-exhibitions

20/02/2010 - 20/03/2010 (10:00) London, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester
Theatre Yellow Academy 2010 Could you be the British East Asian acting star of the future? Yellow Earth (UK's leading East Asian theatre company) and ALRA (The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts) are working in partnership to offer an exciting new scheme to introduce British East Asians aged 16-30 to professional acting and performing. Free actor training activities will be held in Belfast, Birmingham, London, and Manchester from February - August 2010. Activities Manchester 20 Feb Belfast 3 March London 13 March Birmingham 20 March
Times: 3pm Audition Workshop: Sat 22 May 2010, 2-6pm For details of a full programme: www.yellowearth.org/initiatives/yellow-academy/

26/02/2010 - 18/03/2010 London
Film She, A Chinese Directed by Guo Xiaolu 2009 First screened at the London Film Festival 2009, it is now on show at the ICA for a brief run. Venue: ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Times: different times for each showing, check website Tickets: £7-9 Contact: box office 020 7930-3647, http://ica.org.uk/?lid=23545
11/03/2010 - 13/03/2010 Edinburgh
Conference China Inside Out: Chinese Women Writers in Diasporas
Co-organised with Scottish PEN, sponsored and organised by the Confucius Institute. Venues: Keynote speech: Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Main programme: Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House, 1 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 5HP Location Information: www.ed.ac.uk/maps/buildings/old-collegeTickets: £3 pre-registration required Contact: tel 0131 662-2180, www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/china-inside-out/
11/03/2010 (17:30) Surrey
Lecture Strategies of Chinese medical treatment: three examples in rural Anhui Speaker: Dr Elisabeth Hsu (Oxford) Part of the Royal Holloway, Dept of History, Chinese Seminar Series Series convener: Dr Tsai (as below)
Venue: Dept of History, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Time: 5.30-7pm Contact: Dr. Weipin Tsai, tel 1784 443-752, Weipin.Tsai@rhul.ac.uk
11/03/2010 (19:00) Oxford
13/03/2010 - 26/03/2010 London
Dance SutraCollaboration between Antony Gormley, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and the Shaolin Monks Music by Szymon Brzoska Winner of the prestigious Ballettanz Production of the Year award, Venue: Sadlers Well's Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN Time: 7.30pm (running time 1 hour) Tickets: £10-£35 Contact: box office 0844 412 4300, www.sadlerswells.com/show/Sutra-2010
16/03/2010 (13:00) London
Lecture The Hong Kong branch of the Bank of China: the transition from Communist China’s merchant banker to state-owned commercial bank Speaker: Dr Damian Tobin (SOAS) Organised by the Centre of Chinese Studes, School of Oriental & African Studies Venue: SOAS, Room B102, Brunei Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Time: 1-3pm Tickets: Free public lecture, no RSVP necessary Contact: Rahima Begum rb41@soas.ac.uk, 020 7898-4892/3 or Dr Dic Lo dl1@soas.ac.uk, www.soas.ac.uk/events/event55625.html.
17/03/2010 (18:00) London
Lecture Taiwan’s Labour Movement Speaker: Yu-bin Chiu (Essex University) Part of the SOAS Centre for Taiwan Studies, Seminar Series for Term 2 2009-10 Venue: SOAS, Room 116, College Building, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Time: 5-6.30pm Tickets: Free public lecture Contact: Dr Dafydd Fell df2@soas.ac.uk, www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/events/
18/03/2010 (18:00) London
Lecture Polluted Money: Wealth and Morality in the Mongolian Gold Rush Speaker: Mette High (LSE) Organiser: SOAS, part of the "China in Context: Languages and Cultures of China and its neighbours" Lecture Series 2009-2010 Venue: Room 116, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1B 5EA Time: 6pm Contact: Dr Nathan Hill nh36@soas.ac.uk, www.soas.ac.uk/chinesestudies/events/ [but not listed on SOAS website as of 09/02/10. Check with organiser to ensure current information is correct.]
18/03/2010 (18:45) London
Talk Lu Xun and China’s Dissident Authors
Julia Lovell (Birkbeck) in conversation with author Ma Jian, author of award-winning novels Beijing Coma and Red Dust Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP Time: 6.45pm Tickets: Booking necessary, £10, Concessions £6, Asia House Friends £5 Contact: tel 020 7307-5454, enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk, www.asiahouse.org/net/Events.aspx
22/03/2010 (18:00) Edinburgh
23/03/2010 (20:00) London
Film God Man Dog Dir. Singing Chen, Cert. 15, 119mins, Mandarin with English subtitles (Taiwan 2007)
A special screening of modern Taiwan’s changing customs and society. (Terracota Distribution) Organised by Asia House Venue: Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus Time: 8pm Tickets: £12, Asia House Friends & Concs £8 - All bookings through Apollo Cinema, see below. Contact: for tickets contact Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus, 19 Lower Regent Street, London SW1Y 4LR www.apollocinemas.com/asiahousefilmseries.aspx , tel 0871 220-6000. General Asia House enquiries - www.asiahouse.org/net/Events.aspx
24/03/2010 - 28/03/2010 Cambridge
Graduate Workshop Research Training in Old Chinese: History and Historiography Series Convener: Dr Dirk Meyer (Oxford) Organised by Cambridge University, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Venue: Cambridge Contact: Dr Mark Strange ms527@cam.ac.uk[no other information made available as of 3/11/09]
25/03/2010 (17:30) Surrey
Lecture Dynamic Hybridisation: the case of Japanese subsidiaries in China & the European arms purchase by Chinese Ministers in late Qing Dynasty Speakers: Zheng Yu (Royal Holloway) & Ren Yanxiang (Peking University) Part of the Royal Holloway, Dept of History, Chinese Seminar Series Series convener: Dr Tsai (as below)
Venue: Dept of History, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Time: 5.30-7pm Contact: Dr. Weipin Tsai, tel 1784 443-752, Weipin.Tsai@rhul.ac.uk
30/03/2010 - 31/03/2010 London
08/04/2010 - 09/04/2010 Oxford
08/04/2010 - 10/04/2010 Germany
Conference Seventh Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline 29 November 2009 Organised by the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Venue: Tübingen, Germany Contact: http://eats-taiwan.eu/annual-meeting or Dafydd Fell df2@soas.ac.uk.
15/04/2010 (18:00) London
Lecture The Chinese Emperor's New Copper Plates: Art and Politics in the Late 18th Century Speaker: Dr Laura J. Newby (Oxford) Venue: The Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way (Euston), London NW1 2HD Time: 6pm Tickets: Free to Fellows of the Society. Those who are not fellows should contact the Executive Officer, email address below. Contact: tel 020 7388-4539, www.royalasiaticsociety.co.uk , cl@royalasiaticsociety.org
16/04/2010 - 12/06/2010 Manchester
Exhibition Lanwei / Decaying End Artist: Stanley Wong The exhibition features a number of haunting large-scale photographic prints of abandoned, incomplete building projects from across Asia. Venue: Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Manchester M4 1EU Times: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Mon & Sun Closed, Bank Holidays Closed. Contact: tel 0161 832-7271, info@chinese-arts.centre.org, www.chinese-arts-centre.org press enquiries: 0161 832-7271, ying.kwok@chinese-arts-centre.org
23/04/2010 - 24/04/2010 Dublin
Conference ACSI Third Annual Conference Theme: China and Ireland, Old Countries, New Dreams Organised by the Association for Chinese Studies in Ireland Hosted by Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at UCD & UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline 22 March 2010 Venue: University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Contact: Francis Kane francis.kane@icd.ie or china@icd.ie, www.ucd.ie/china/news/news_17-02-10.html
27/04/2010 (20:00) London
Film 24 City Dir. Jia Zhang-ke, Cert. 112mins, Mandarin with English subtitles (China 2008) A special screening of a film chronicling the thunderous fall of a state-owned munitions factory and its conversion into a luxury high-rise apartment complex. (New Wave Films) Organised by Asia House
Venue: Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus Time: 8pm Tickets: £12, Asia House Friends & Concs £8 - All bookings through Apollo Cinema, see below. Contact: for tickets contact Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus, 19 Lower Regent Street, London SW1Y 4LR www.apollocinemas.com/asiahousefilmseries.aspx , tel 0871 220-6000. General Asia House enquiries - www.asiahouse.org/net/Events.aspx

29/04/2010 (13:15) London
29/04/2010 (17:30) Surrey
Lecture Small Mercies: Poverty/Charity, State/Market, and the Provision of Social Welfare in Urban China Speakers: Professor Vivienne Shue (Oxford) Part of the Royal Holloway, Dept of History, Chinese Seminar Series Series convener: Dr Tsai (as below) Venue: Dept of History, Room Win 0-05, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Time: 5.30-7pm Contact: Dr. Weipin Tsai, tel 1784 443-752, Weipin.Tsai@rhul.ac.uk
18/05/2010 (17:00) Nottingham
26/05/2010 (13:15) London
Lecture China's Environmental Meltdown Speaker: Mr Robert Gifford (NPR - National Public Radio) Venue: Royal Society for Asian Affairs, 2 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PJ Tickets: The RSAA has a strict members only policy. For membership details go to their website. Contact: tel. 020 7235-5122, info@rsaa.org.uk www.rsaa.org.uk/lecture.htm
12/07/2010 - 13/07/2010 Oxford
Conference 21st Annual Conference of the Chinese Economic Association (CEA) "The Role of China and Other Emerging Economies"
Organisers: CEA, Oxford Dept of International Development, Oxford China Centre, and Oxford Dept of Economics CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline 15 February 2010 Venue: Oxford University Contact: www.ceauk.org.uk, cea2010oxford@yahoo.com
08/09/2010 - 09/09/2010 Bristol
Conference BACS annual conference 2010 Keynote speakers: Jonathan Spence (Yale), and Niu Dayong (Bejing) Organised by the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS), with support from the Centre for East Asian Studies, Bristol University. CALL FOR PAPERS 2010 - deadline 30 April 2010 Venue: University of Bristol Contact: Programme information Tim Wright: president@bacsuk.org.uk Conference Administration: daniel.holloway@area.ox.ac.uk www.bacsuk.org.uk, www.bristol.ac.uk/ceas
24/11/2010 - 28/11/2010 Basel, Switzerland
Conference 15th International CHIME Conference Theme: The music of China and East Asia, Theory versus Practice Organised by the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research and the Swiss festival "Culturescapes" CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline 15 May 2010 Venue: Basel, Switzerland [no other venue information made available as of 2/2010]. Contact: CHIME, tel 071-5133974 / 5133123, chime@wxs.nl, http://home.wxs.nl/~chime
Notices
Xinhua bookstore opens in London
Xinhua have opened a book store in northwest London, address: Unit 4, 55-57 Park Royal Road London NW10 7LR no other details at this time 2/2010.
Online Chinese Language Teacher Directory
This is an educational resource of schools and teachers for anyone wanting to learn Chinese. They are encouraging lecturers, teachers and Chinese schools of every level to list their details here. www.chineselanguage teacher.com.
Charity seeks committed board members
The Good Rock Foundation is a UK-founded charity working in Xinjiang Province with orphaned and abandoned children. They wish to recruit new board members in the UK - people with a variety of skills, a knowledge of China and a strong interest in social welfare issues. For more information and expressions of interest contact Jacqui Shurr at info@goodrock.org.uk, www.goodrock.org.uk. UK Registered Charity: 1089611 Hong Kong Registered Trust: 124
Percival David Foundation
Closure of Gallery and Library since the end of May 2009 the PDF building is closed to all except builders. It is expected that refurbishment works will take 18 months. During that time the PDF library will not be accessible even by appointment. The future of the PDF library etc. after refurbishment is not known.
New association for non-native Chinese speakers
"Association of Speakers of Chinese as a Second Language" www.chinesespeakers.orgThis new association is affiliated to BACS and is open to anyone who has a minimum of UG degree level (or alternatively HSK level 6 or above, or FCO extensive level) in Chinese as a second language.
If you would like your event posted on this page, please phone us for the appropriate
email address.
Phone: 020 7253-6696
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