Great Britain China Centre - Events & Notices

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 6^th, 14^th, and 20^th 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-college
Tickets: £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

Film Screenings
Going to School with Father on my Back
Directed by Chow Yau Chiu
Part of St Antony's Asian Studies Centre & Taiwan Studies Programme

Venue: Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Free public screening
Contact: Convener Dr Steve Tsang (Taiwan Studies Programme) or Dr Rachel Murphy (Asian Studies Centre), asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel 01865 274-559, www.sant.ox.ac.uk/asian/films-asc-and-tsp-ht-2010-2nd.pdf

13/03/2010 - 26/03/2010 London

Dance
Sutra
Collaboration 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

Talk
The Complexity of Difference: A Methodological Issue in Cross-Cultural Studies
Speaker: Zhang Longxi (City University of Hong Kong)

Venue: The Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House, 1 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 5HP
Tickets: Free public lecture
Contact: tel 0131 662-2180, info@confuciusinstitute.ac.uk,
www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk,
www.asianstudies.ed.ac.uk/chinese/

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

Royal Opera House
Piccadilly Revisited
is a film and music performance inspired by the life and loves of Hollywood’s first Chinese film star, Anna May Wong, and the classic British silent movie Piccadilly, in which she played a starring role.

Venue: Royal Opera House, 41 The Market, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 8RF
Times: 7.45pm
Contacts:
Box office 020 7304-4000,
www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=13551
Other enquiries: Jude Woodward: jude@chinatownartsspace.com
www.chinatownartsspace.com/index.html

08/04/2010 - 09/04/2010 Oxford

Conference
3rd CPN Annual Conference
Organised by the China Postgraduate Network (CPN)
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline 28 February 2010

Venue: Manor Road Building, University of Oxford, OX1 3UQ
Contact: Taichang Chen taichang.chen@pmb.ox.ac.uk,
www.bicc.ac.uk/ChinaPostgraduateNetwork/tabid/323/Default.aspx

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

Gallery talk
Treaures from China
Speaker: Mary Ginsburg (British Museum)

Venue: British Museum, Room 33, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Time: 13.15-2pm
Tickets: Free, just drop by
Contact: information@britishmuseum.org
www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/april_2010/treasures_from_china.aspx

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

Seminar
Domestic Sources of China's Foreign Policy
Speaker: Dr Hongyi Lai (Nottingham)

Venue: B18 Amenities Building, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham University NG8 1BB
Time: 5.15pm-6.45pm, doors open 5pm for tea/coffee
Contact: chinese.studies@nottingham.ac.uk,
www.nottingham.ac.uk/CPI/news-events/forthcoming-events.aspx

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

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