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The 57th Annual General Meeting of the Scotland–China Association will be held on Saturday, 1 June 2024, at the Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House, 1 Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 5HP. The business meeting will begin at 11am, with coffee and tea served from 10:30am. Non-SCA members are welcome to join us in a non-voting […]

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SCA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: “Two World Wars and One Gold Medal: The Chinese Labour Corps, the 1924 Olympics, and Eric Liddell” Time: 11 January 2022, 19:15 L Roy Peachey is the author of six books, including The Race (Cranachan, 2021), a dual-narrative children’s novel about Eric Liddell and a young Chinese-British

WE hope it will be given early in 2022. 

If you missed Betty Yao’s talk to the SCA on the John Thomson Collection, here is a chance to catch her interview with the ASI: Asia: Through the Lens of John ThomsonThursday 9 December 2021 – 12:00pm GMT / 8:00pm HKST Legendary Scottish photographer and travel writer John Thomson (1837-1921) set off for Singapore in 1862, and in the next

From the Scottish Centre for China Research Seminar Programme – University of Glasgow Wednesday 17 November 2021, 4–5.30pm      Title: “Covid-19 communication on Weibo: China state media’s strategy” Speaker: Dr King-Wa Fu, University of Hong Kong Registration: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qc-CurjopE9L8m9MdFgcrHD0IPYfCqR53 Wednesday 1 December 2021, 4–5.30pm Title: “Community Prevention and Control: The Policies and Politics of a Principal Component of China’s Covid-19

Scotland–China Association Zoom talk, Tuesday, 9 November, 7:15pm.  Speaker:  Frances Weightman, Leeds University Subject:  “Contemporary Chinese literature – engaging UK-based readers” As discussions of Chinese politics, economy and culture are becoming increasingly mainstream in the UK, what about Chinese literature? What kinds of literary works are being written (and read) in China today, and how do we

Forthcoming webinars (free – optional donation requested): Thursday, 14 October, 4:00pm BST “The Wake Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West – and how to fix it”, with John Micklethwait, Bloomberg editor-in-chief To register:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-the-pandemic-has-exposed-the-weakness-of-the-west-and-how-to-fix-it-tickets-172630692047?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=8578be59dd&mc_eid=664d8ce8fc Thursday, 28 October, 9:00am BST “Asia’s Global Financial Centre: Hong Kong in the 21st century”    with a

Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 4–5:30pm Taking on China Big Tech and Entrepreneurs: Will the Party shackle innovation and future growth?  Speaker: Professor Stephen Morgan, University of Nottingham Registration required: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqfuCtpj8qHtHGCF_fln-oXYS0ixWAvavc Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 4–5:30pm Green Shoots of Revival: Political Leadership and the Differentiation of Space in a “Zero Pollution Village” in Rural Zhejiang Speaker: Dr

Future SCA talks on Zoom: Tuesday, 9 November  “Engaging readers in the UK with Chinese writing”  Speaker: Dr Frances Weightman, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies School of Languages, Cultures & Societies, Leeds University  Tuesday, 14 December  “Reviving an imperial and classical imaginary of China’s authentic cultural past: the Hanfu movement and young adults in China”