Monthly Archives: 6 月 2014

PEN Atlas Q&A – Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling

Posted November 29th, 2012 by Tasja Dorkofikis & filed under Pen Atlas.
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to critically acclaimed writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of English PEN Award winning title The Sound of Things Falling, translated by Anne McLean. Vásquez visted the UK Continue reading

Decoding China’s Emerging “Great Power” Strategy in Asia

CHRISTOPHER K. JOHNSON, ERNEST Z. BOWER, VICTOR D. CHA, MICHAEL J. GREEN, MATTHEW P. GOODMAN06.01.14
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The course charted by China’s reemergence as a great power over the next few decades represents the primary strategic challenge for the U.S.-Japan security alliance and for the East Asian security landscape writ large. Continue reading

Dr Diana Yeh writes about her Penguin Books China Cultural Engagement Partnership

Posted on 2 April 2014 by Robert Bickers

As a scholar working on the Chinese in Britain, I was excited to embark on BICC’s knowledge exchange partnership with Penguin Books China, researching Penguin’s UK back catalogue Continue reading

Three documentary videos and discussion

Posted on 9 June 2014 by Robert Bickers

 

Time: June 16, 2014 from 3-6.30pm

Place: London School of Economics, St Clements Building, STCS.75

 

Sponsored by the British Inter-university China Centre (BICC). Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Continue reading

CHARLES WRIGHT IN THE NEW YORKER

JUNE 12, 2014
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We’re delighted by the appointment of Charles Wright Continue reading

Minitrue: “I Can Massacre the City, You Can’t Say a Word”

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Continue reading

Q. and A.: Anson Chan on Beijing’s Pressure Tactics in Hong Kong

By MICHAEL FORSYTHE JUNE 12, 2014 6:01 AM

Anson Chan, former chief secretary of Hong Kong.
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Anson Chan served as the No. 2 official in Hong Kong in the last years of the Continue reading

An Interview With Xi, Long Before He Was China’s Leader

By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 12, 2014 4:41 AM
China’s president, Xi Jinping, belongs to the “sent-down” generation of urban youths assigned to labor in the countryside during the radical fervor of the Cultural Revolution, and while many of his peers rue that era as a lost decade, Continue reading