China Events Bulletin February 2007 onwards (#2)

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China Events Bulletin February 2007 onwards (#2)

Chinese New Year is the 18 February.

Friday 2 February 2007, London
Poetry Lecture (in Mandarin)
Appreciate Classic Chinese Poetry
Speaker: David Su
Organised by The Meridian Society & SOAS Chinese Cultural Society.
How to appreciate classic Chinese poetry in terms of the concept of Yin and Yang, harmony of rhyme and rhythm, the musicality of long and short sentences and repetition.

Venue: Brunei Gallery B102, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG
Time: 6.15pm for 6.30 start
Contact: themeridiansociety@gmail.com, tel. 020 7831-0989

Saturday 3-25 February, London
Acrobats and variety show
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, on 3 February, 7.30pm.
For further venues around London, go to link for venues and dates
http://www.chineseculturalcentre.org.uk, listing is on the home page.

5 - 22 February – first screening 5th Feb
London Chinese Film Festival
For venues and dates go to http://www.chineseculturalcentre.org.uk/blogsection/Chinese_Film_Society/
Nostalgia, dir.Shu Haolun 2005
Season of the Horse, dir. Ning Cai 2005
Grain in Ear, dir.Zhang Lu 2005
Loach is Fish Too, dir.Yang Yazhou 2005
Shanghai Story, dir.Peng Xiaolian 2005
Uproar in Heaven (animation) dir.Wan Laiming
Rainclouds over Wushan, dir.Zhang Ming 1996
Before the Flood (documentary about 3 Gorges), dir.LI Yifan & Yan Yu 2004

Tuesday 6 February, Cambridge
Seminar
Mongolia's Development: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Ambassador Dalrain Davaasambuu
Part of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Research Seminar Series, Cambridge Uni
Venue: Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 4.30pm - 6pm
Contact: tel. 01223 334-690, eaup2@cam.ac.uk, www.innerasiaresearch.org.

Tuesday 6 February, Cambridge
Art Lecture
‘A Mountain Tomb and Writing in Memory of a Crane’
Speaker: Professor Robert Harrist (Columbia University, New York)
No. 3 of 8, in the Slade Lecture Series entitled ‘Reading Chinese Mountains: Landscape and the Power of Writing’
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 5pm
Contact: Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, djh1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Further lectures on: 13, 20, 27 Feb, 6 & 13 March; see below under date.

Wednesday 8 February, London
Lecture
Sweet Mandarin: a true story of 3 generations of Chinese women and their journey from East to West
Part of the China Media Centre and the Centre for Chinese Studies seminars series
Speaker: Helen Tse
Venue: SOAS, Khalili Theatre, Main Building, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1
Time: 5pm
Contact: wt@soas.ac.uk or js64@soas.ac.uk, 020 7898-4892, www.soas.ac.uk/centres/

Tuesday 13 February, Cambridge
Art Lecture
‘Writing and Representation on Cloud Peak Mountain’
Speaker: Professor Robert Harrist (Columbia University, New York)
No. 4 of 8, in the Slade Lecture Series entitled ‘Reading Chinese Mountains: Landscape and the Power of Writing’
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 5pm
Contact: Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, djh1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Further lectures on: 20, 27 Feb, 6 & 13 March; see below under date.

Tuesday 13 February, London
Lecture
The Secrets of the Gobi
Speaker: John Hare
Organised by Asia House
John Hare, the founder and Chairman of the Wild Camel Protection Foundation, will recount two expeditions made to search for the wild Bactrian camel in the Gobi desert which led to two unexpected discoveries: several mummies from the 1500 BC in a remarkable state of preservation and 84 drums of potassium cyanide brought into the desert by illegal miners in their search for gold.
Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
Time: Doors 6.30pm, Lecture 6.45-7.45
Tickets: Asia House members and concessions ?4, Non-members ?7
Contact: enquiries@aisahouse.co.uk, www.asiahouse.org, tel. 020 7307-5433 (direct), 020 7307-5454.

Wednesday 14 February, London
Lecture
Land Conflicts and Rural-Rural Migration in China
Part of the China Media Centre and the Centre for Chinese Studies seminars series
Speaker: Dr Rachel Murphy (Bristol)
Venue: SOAS, Room B102, Brunei Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1
Time: 5-7pm
Contact: wt@soas.ac.uk or js64@soas.ac.uk, 020 7898-4892, www.soas.ac.uk/centres/

15 February – 15 March 2007
China in London
(Sponsored by the Mayor of London)
For a complete listing of events go to www.visitlondon.com/china

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16-18 February 2007, London
Performances
The Circle: British East Asian Dance, Drama and Music
Part of the Chinatown Arts Festival 2007, organised by the Chinatown Arts Space in association with the Linbury Theatre

Venue: Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Time: 7.30pm
Contact: tel. 07850 101-717, info@chinatownartsspace.com, www.chinatownartsspace.com or the Royal Opera House box office 020 7304-4000.

East Asian cultural workshops continue in Westminster April-May. See the Chinatown Arts Space website.

Saturday 17 February 2007, London
Family activities
Victoria & Albert Museum Chinese New Year activities
Venue: V&A, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL
Time: 11am – 5pm
Contact: www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/community, tel 020 7942-4000.

Saturday 17 February 2007, London (and see listing immediately above)
Performance
Jingju Opera Performance of ‘Parting at the Kiln’
Part of the Chinatown Arts Festival 2007 ‘Chinese Festival: The Circle’ series of performances, organised by the Chinatown Arts Space in association with the Linbury Theatre performed by the London Jing Kun Opera Association.

Venue: Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Time: 7.30pm
Contact: box office 020 7304-4000, www.roh.org.uk or jih-wen@chinatownartsspace.com, www.londonjingkunopera.co.uk

Saturday 17 February, London
Family Day at National Portrait Gallery
Dance, storytelling and mask making
www.npg.org.uk/whatson, tel. 020 7306-0055

Sunday 18 February, London
Chinatown New Year Festival
The traditional Lion Dance parade starts at the Waterloo Bridge end of The Strand at 11am and heads towards Trafalgar Square and up Charing Cross Road and into Chinatown.
http://www.chinatownchinese.co.uk/EventInfo2007.htm or www.visitlondon.com/china

Sunday 18 February, London
Lecture
Images of Empress Wu: Celebrity, Sleaze and Spin in Medieval China
Venue: National Portrait Gallery
Time: 3pm
Contact: www.npg.org.uk/whatson, tel. 020 7306-0055

19-23 February 2007, London
Chinese New Year Family events every day for a week
Venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, WC1B 3DG
Times: 11.00 -16.00
Contact: Katharine Hoare, khoare@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk, tel. 020-7323-8124 or Learning and Information Department, tel. 020 7323-8510/8850, switchboard 020 7323-8000, www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/index.html

Tuesday 20 February 2007, London
Family activity
Opera Face-painting
Organised by the London Jing Kun Opera Association
Venue: The Polka Theatre, The Broadway, Wimbledon SW19 1SB
Time: 10am-4pm
Contact: box office 020 8543-4888, www.polkatheatre.com, or www.londonjingkunopera.co.uk

Tuesday 20 February, Cambridge
Art Lecture
‘Monumental Sutras and the Creation of Sacred Space’
Speaker: Professor Robert Harrist (Columbia University, New York)
No. 5 of 8, in the Slade Lecture Series entitled ‘Reading Chinese Mountains: Landscape and the Power of Writing’
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 5pm
Contact: Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, djh1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Further lectures on: 27 Feb, 6 & 13 March; see below under date.

Monday 26 February, Oxford
Lecture
From Marx to Confucius: Changing Political Discourses in China
Speaker: Professor Daniel Bell (Tsinghua)
Venue: The Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Time: 5-6.30pm
Contact: Dr Mark Rebick or Dr Steve Tsang asian@sant.ox.ac.uk tel. 01865 274-559

Monday 26 February, Bristol
Lecture
The Rise of China: Implications for Asia
Speaker: Professor Joseph Cheng (City Uni / Hong Kong)
Part of the Centre for East Asian Studies Seminar Series Bristol University
Venue: Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Room 2E4, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN
Time: 4-5.30pm
Contact: ceas-admin@bristol.ac.uk, tel. 0117 331-8007

Tuesday 27 February, London
Lecture
Evolution of Hose-Husbandry in Central Eurasia and China
Speaker: Dr Marsha Levine (Cambridge Uni)
Dr Levine will explore the origins of horse domestication in the central Eurasian steppe-lands and China from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age.
Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
Time: Doors 6.30pm, Lecture 6.45-7.45
Tickets: Asia House members and concessions ?4, Non-members ?7
Contact: enquiries@aisahouse.co.uk, www.asiahouse.org, tel. 020 7307-5433 (direct), 020 7307-5454.

Tuesday 27 February, Cambridge
Art Lecture
‘Writing and Rulership on Mt. Tai’
Speaker: Professor Robert Harrist (Columbia University, New York)
No. 6 of 8, in the Slade Lecture Series entitled ‘Reading Chinese Mountains: Landscape and the Power of Writing’
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 5pm
Contact: Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, djh1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Further lectures on: 6 & 13 March; see below under date.

Tuesday 6 March, Oxford
Lecture
Taiwan’s Ideological and Institutional Changes in the 1950s: The Origins of Taiwan’s Political and Economic Transformation

Speaker: Dr Ramon Myers (Hoover Institution)
Venue: The Deakin, Room Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Time: 5-6.30pm
Contact: Dr Steve Tsang asian@sant.ox.ac.uk tel. 01865 274-559

Tuesday 6 March, Cambridge
Art Lecture
‘Elegant Graffiti’
Speaker: Professor Robert Harrist (Columbia University, New York)
No. 7 of 8, in the Slade Lecture Series entitled ‘Reading Chinese Mountains: Landscape and the Power of Writing’
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 5pm
Contact: Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, djh1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Further lectures on: 13 March; see below under date.

Tuesday 6 March, Cambridge
Seminar
Tibetan-Mongolian Research: New Life from Old Books
Speakers: Hidegard Diemberger, Stephen Hugh-Jones & Karma Phuntso (Cambridge)
Part of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Research Seminar Series, Cambridge Uni
Venue: Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 4.30pm - 6pm
Contact: tel. 01223 334-690, eaup2@cam.ac.uk, www.innerasiaresearch.org.

Wednesday 7 March 2007, London
Lecture
The Forgotten Women in an Uncertain Entity
Part of the SOAS Centre for Taiwan Studies seminars
Speaker: Chen Ming-hui (Loughborough Uni)
Venue: SOAS, Room B104 Brunei Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1
Time: 5.30-7pm
Contact: df2@soas.ac.uk, 020 7898-4892, www.soas.ac.uk/centres/

Thursday 8 March 2007, London
Lectures / Workshops
Women’ Voices
A day-long series of events taking, place on International Women’s Day, will provide an open forum for women to share concerns about women’s issues across Asia and beyond.

Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
Contact: enquiries@aisahouse.co.uk, www.asiahouse.org, tel. 020 7307-5433 (direct), 020 7307-5454.

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until 11 March 2007, London
Exhibition
Cherish: Chinese Families in Britain
An exhibition exploring the lives of Chinese families in Britain today. There will be a series of events and workshops from 1 October onwards.

Organised in partnership with the Chinese Arts Centre.
Venue: National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2H 0HE
Opening Hours: daily 10am - 6pm
Contact: tel 020 7312-2463, www.npg.org.uk.

Tuesday 13 March, Cambridge
Art Lecture
‘Vision, Imagination, and Names on Stone’
Speaker: Professor Robert Harrist (Columbia University, New York)
No. 8 of 8, in the Slade Lecture Series entitled ‘Reading Chinese Mountains: Landscape and the Power of Writing’
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 5pm
Contact: Deborah Howard, Professor of Architectural History, djh1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk

Tuesday 13 March, Cambridge
Seminar
Revolutions, Lamas and Soup: The Oral history of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Speaker: Christopher Kaplonski (William Paterson University)
Part of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Research Seminar Series, Cambridge Uni
Venue: Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Time: 4.30pm - 6pm
Contact: tel. 01223 334-690, eaup2@cam.ac.uk, www.innerasiaresearch.org.

19-20 March, Durham
Conference
Made in China vs. Made by Chinese: Global Identities
of Chinese Business.
Organised in conjunction with Copenhagen Business School.
Contact Gordon C. K. Cheung g.c.k.cheung@durham.ac.uk or Lorraine Holmes
lorraine.holmes@durham.ac.uk for details.

Monday, 19 March, Bristol
Lecture
Constructing Cultural China in Translation
Speaker: Dr Red Chan (Warwick Uni)
Part of the Centre for East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Bristol University
Venue: Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Room 2E4, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN
Time: 4-5.30pm
Contact: ceas-admin@bristol.ac.uk, tel. 0117 331-8007

Wednesday 21 March, London
Lecture
Title to announced
Part of the China Media Centre and the Centre for Chinese Studies seminars series
Speaker: Dr Yuwen Wu (BBC Chinese Service)
Venue: Westminster Uni, Room 107, 309 Regent Street W1B 2UW.
Time: 2-5pm
Contact: cmc@westminster.ac.uk.

Friday 23 March, London
Workshop & Book Launch
Taiwan Before and After the Change in Ruling Parties: What has Changed?
Part of the SOAS Centre for Taiwan Studies seminars
Speaker: Chang Bi-yu (SOAS), Dafydd Fell (SOAS), Henning Kloter (Leiden)
Venue: SOAS, Room to be announced, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1
Time: 9am - 1pm
Contact: df2@soas.ac.uk, 020 7898-4892, www.soas.ac.uk/centres/.

Tuesday 27 March 2007, London
Debate/Panel Discussion on China's Environment
Speakers include: Dr Peter Yuen on climate change and China's weather patterns;
Robert Webb of Quiet Revolution, talking about Wind Turbines;
James Hewitt talking about forestry issues and China's timber trade;
Kerry Brown from Chatham House on China's Resource Use and impact on Climate Change.
Organised by Chopsticks Club
Venue: Huron University, Russell Square, Bloomsbury
Time: not yet announced, evening
Booking necessary
Contact: us@chopsticksclub.com, www.choptsticksclub.com.

Thursday 29 March, London
Debate
China and Europe - Philosophical Encounters : What is the Relevance of the Chinese Philosophical Tradition for Contemporary European Thinkers?
Speakers: Ci Jiwei (Hong Kong Uni), Nick Bunnin (Oxford)
Part of the China Media Centre and the Centre for Chinese Studies seminars series
Venue: SOAS, Khalili Theatre, Main Building, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1
Time: 5-9pm
Contact: wt@soas.ac.uk or js64@soas.ac.uk, 020 7898-4892, www.soas.ac.uk/centres/ .

31 March – 10 June 2007, Liverpool
Exhibition
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China
Venue: The Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, L3 4BB
Contact: tel. 0151 702-7400, visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk, www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/information/
To accompany the exhibition there will be a brunch and exhibition tour on the 29 April, 11am-1pm.

Wednesday 4 April, London
Lecture
Title: to be announced
Part of the China Media Centre and the Centre for Chinese Studies seminars series
Speaker: Dr Zhang Lifen, Financial Times
Venue: Westminster Uni, Room 107, 309 Regent Street W1B 2UW.
Time: 2-5pm
Contact: cmc@westminster.ac.uk

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until 7 April, Manchester
Exhibitions & Events
Chinese Arts Centre continues its programme of exhibitions and events, including activities for families over the Chinese New Year period.

For full listing go to www.chinese-arts-centre.org, info@chinese-arts-centre.org, tel. 0161 832-7271.

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13-15 April 2007, Cambridge
Conference
Defining the Field: Themes in Contemporary China Studies
Organised by the Interdisciplinary China Studies Forum and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Venue: no venue given at this time.
Contact: Xiaoxiao Yan xy215@cam.ac.uk or Charlotte Goodburn ceg29@cam.ac.uk, www.digitalorient.org/idcsf.php.

until 15 April, Bath
Exhibition
Chasing the Unseen: Calligraphy by Zhao Yizhou
Venue: Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath BA1 2QJ
Contact: www.meaa.org.uk, museum@east-asian-art.freeserve.co.uk, tel. 01225 464-640
The Museum of East Asian Art is having a series of activities for families the week of 17 February. For a full listing of these and other, general events go to http://www.meaa.org.uk/events.htm.

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28-29 April 2007, Oxford
Weekend workshop
Chinese Approaches to Democracy
Organised by Oxford University Continuing Education in association with the Nordic Confucius Institute, Stockholm
Venue: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford
Contact: Short Courses Administrator, OUDCE, tel. 01865 270-380, ppdayweek@conted.ox.ac.uk, or nick.bunnin@chinese-studies.oxford.ac.uk.

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28 April 2007, Headington, Oxford
Tai Chi 1000: Uniting Oxfordshire
The Oxford Taichi Gongfu Institute (OTGI) is holding a series of events throughout the county in 2007 to celebrate Oxfordshire’s 1000th birthday.
Venue: The 28 April is World Tai Chi Day and there will be a day of events in South Park, Headington, as well as smaller events in Banbury, Abingdon and Witney.
Contact: Vicky Zhou, 187a Howard Street Cowley Oxford OX4 3BB, mob. 07880 980-282, tel/fax. 01865 422-408, vicky@mastergou.co.uk, www.mastergou.co.uk.

27-29 June 2007, London
BICC (British Inter-university China Centre) Inaugural Conference
There is a CALL FOR PAPERS the BICC website. You may contact the conveners in order to discuss proposals, but please submit all abstracts to biccconference@area.ox.ac.uk燽y 1 March 2007

Frank Pieke, BICC Director, University of Oxford, email frank.pieke@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Robert Bickers, BICC Co-Director, University of Bristol, email Robert.Bickers@bristol.ac.uk
Homepage: www.bicc.ox.ac.uk
No other details at this time [1/2/07].

29-30 June 2007, Cardiff
International Conference on China's Urban Transition and City Planning
Organised by the Urban China Research Centre, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, and the Urban Planning Society of China

Venue: no specific venue given at this time, 1/2/2007
Contact: Prof Wu Fulong, Cardiff School City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University CF10 2WA, tel 029 2087-6089, fax 029 2087-4845, WuF@cardiff.ac.uk, www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/ucrc/, or Dr Shi Nan shinan@china.com www.planning.org.cn.

6-7 September 2007, Manchester
BACS Annual Conference 2007 - British Association for Chinese Studies
Conference theme ‘China Rising’
Details and call for papers will be forthcoming, www.bacsuk.org.uk