29 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Eswar PRASAD
The Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University
Topic: Will the Renminbi Rule the World?
Professor PRASAD, previously Chief of the International Monetary Fund’s China Division, will evaluate the steps China has taken to promote the international use of the ...
23 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sophie RICHARDSON
China Director, Human Rights Watch
Topic: “Beat Him, Take Everything Away”
At this lunch, Sophie RICHARDSON, will launch Human Rights Watch’s first China report for 2012, “Beat Him, Take Everything Away”: Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police. Since its founding in 19...
22 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Ashley ALDER
Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission
Topic: Some Aspects of Securities Regulation in Hong Kong
Ashley ALDER will cover briefly three aspects of the SFC's work : First, its approach to enforcement against market misconduct, including the significan...
21 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor CHEN Guangzhong
Tenured Professor of China University of Political Science and Law
Topic: How China Revised its Criminal Procedure Code
Rule of law has seldom been more frequently in the news from China than right now. As it happens, the National People’s Congress approved on M...
17 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Hans VRIENS
Managing Partner, Vriens & Partners
Topic: Myanmar’s political and economic awakening
What are the political and economic changes underway and the current realities on the ground in Myanmar? Following Myanmar’s recent by-elections, Aung San Suu Kyi will lead the largest oppos...
16 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Ezra F. VOGEL
The Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University
Topic: If Deng were alive, what would he think about China today?
What are the changes in leadership style from Deng through Jiang to Hu and Xi?
How would Deng look at corruption and...
9 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: YAN Lianke
Author
Topic: Why isn't China producing great literary works?
YAN Lianke, one of China’s most prolific and controversial writers, believes Chinese literature is not short of marvelous stories and skillful writers; what China lacks, according to YAN, is writers with courage to ...
18 Apr 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: CAO Ri
Director of CCTV International News Department
Member of the Board of CCTV News Content
Topic: CCTV’s global expansion: where does it go from here?
Mr. CAO will talk about the strides that CCTV, China’s state broadcaster, has taken in improving its capacities in global news gather...
17 Apr 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: WANG Xiangwei
Editor-in-Chief, South China Morning Post
Topic: Navigating change: steering the South China Morning Post to a brighter future
Throughout its 109 years of publishing, the South China Morning Post has weathered war, political and economic ups and downs and much more. With th...
12 Apr 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Christine CHOY
Professor, New York University Film School
Current Fulbright Fellow, Beijing
Topic: The state of documentary filmmaking in China
Christina CHOY will show her short documentary, “No Fifth Grade”, and use it as a basis to discuss the current state of documentary filmmaking i...
