23 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mark KITTO
Magazine Founder / Author
Topic: Going Quietly Cuckoo on a Chinese Mountain
In 2005, Mark KITTO was told by many people that he was mad to move to Moganshan, a remote mountaintop village in Zhejiang where he planned to set up a coffee shop with his wife and to write books. He ...
22 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. RUAN Zongze
Vice President and Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies
Topic: The World and Chinese Diplomacy in 2013
The new year brings a long list of diplomatic challenges, and as the sudden evacuation of Chinese nationals from distant Libya showed nearly two...
21 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: P. Kevin MacKeown
Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Hong Kong
Topic: Typhoons and Taskmasters: Early Meteorology in Colonial Hong Kong
In the three proposed schemes for an observatory at Hong Kong, a role for forecasting typhoon occurrences actually received little emphasis. A...
17 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Vali R. NASR
Dean of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University
Topic: The Arab Spring: Where do we go from here?
Vali R. NASR will provide a tour d’horizon of the Middle East today, with particular attention paid to Egypt, the Israel-Palestinian...
15 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Masako SAKATA
Producer
Topic: Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem
Documentary Screening
Ms. SAKATA’s husband, Greg DAVIS, passed away at age 54, with exposure to Agent Orange as a suspected cause. He was a photographer covering Asia for Time magazine.
To deal with her sadness and loneliness...
14 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Paul O’CONNOR
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topic: The Status of Muslims in the Minority Politics of Contemporary Hong Kong
Who are Hong Kong’s Muslims, to which communities do they belong, what is their history, and what ...
7 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Justice Kemal BOKHARY
Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong
Topic: Reflections on Life at the Bar and on the Bench
Justice BOKHARY was one of three permanent judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal from its inception in 1997 until October 2012, when he reached the retirement age of 65 and...
17 Dec 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sir David TANG KBE
Chevalier de I’Ordre des Arts et Lettres
Topic: What my first trip to China taught me about the future of China
Sir David TANG is one of the contributors to the new book “My First Trip to China: Scholars, Diplomats and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with...
11 Dec 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Hong Kong Noir
Dr. FENG Chi-shun,
author of local bestseller Diamond Hill,
is back with his choice nuggets of local life in
Hong Kong Noir
FENG Chi-shun, Hong Kong native, veteran FCC member and friend to many has come up with a rich collection of true Hong Kong tales. These 15 colourful stories ...
10 Dec 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Doug YOUNG
Professor, Finance Journalism, Fudan University
Former Journalist, Reuters
Topic: How New Media are changing China's social dialogue
Mr. YOUNG will discuss the rapid rise of new media in China and how those media have changed the way that news gets disseminated. Using platform...
