全英中国学生学者联谊会国庆晚会招聘启示

After the G20 summit: China on the international stage

The Meridian Society/BBCN are holding a public talk in association with the CSSA of The School of Oriental and African Studies, Imperial College and London School of Economics. The lecture talk will be delivered by Ms Jenny Clegg.

Whether a success or failure, it is generally agreed that the G20 London summit marked a turning point in international affairs – a multipolar world future is beginning to take shape. China in particular is emerging as a pivotal world player, developing a more assertive international stance. But what kind of world power will China be? Jenny Clegg will consider China’s multipolar strategy, and argue that it is an essentially peaceful power which is starting to play a greater role in the promotion of a fairer and more stable world order.

The speaker, Jenny Clegg is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies and Course Leader in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her specialist interest is in China. She first visited China in the 1970’s and has followed developments closely ever since. Her latest book China’s Global Strategy: Towards a Multipolar World has just been published by Pluto Press in 2009. A long-time member of the Society of Anglo-Chinese Understanding, she is also active in the peace movement in Britain.

Admission is free and tickets are not required, but you are urged to RSVP to reserve a seat.

CSSA END OF YEAR BOAT PARTY

Coverage of Social Issues on Chinese Television

Time:	18:30 – 19:30, 27th Feb,2009
Venue:	Room U8, Tower One, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),
	Houghton Street,
	London, United Kingdom

	Contact info: 07973796866
	themeridiansociety@gmail.com

Description:

The Meridian Society will be hosting a talk on Friday 27th February, 2009 in association with the CSSA of The School of Oriental and African Studies, Imperial College and London School of Economics. The lecture will be delivered by Ms Peng Wenlan, new Chair of The Meridian Society.

COVERAGE OF SOCIAL ISSUES ON CHINESE TELEVISION

Television in China, as with radio and the press, comes under tight state control and continues to be used as a propaganda tool to project a bright, positive and inspiring view of life. “Issues” or anything mildly negative or critical, are deemed to be unconstructive, even seditious. In recent years, however, social problems have been covered with greater regularity and openness on the Chinese media, but the language remains didactic and judgmental.

The speaker, Peng Wenlan, is an independent television producer and will be basing her talk on her observations in China, where she worked from 2006-7 as the BBC’s Documentary Consultant on a project to train documentary filmmakers in west China. The talk, which is the same given at Asia House last year, will be illustrated with a short film from the project. Entitled School on the Cliff, this film was shown in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide on the BBC’s international channel in August 2008 and was rated most popular documentary in the week that it was shown.

Time and Venue
Date: Friday, 27th February, 2009
Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Room U8, Tower One, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Transport: The nearest tube stations are Holborn and Temple (both are 5 mins walk)
The nearest Main Line stations are Waterloo and Charing Cross (both are 10 mins walk)
Alternative: For more options please go to:
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en

Admission is free and tickets are not required, but you are urged to RSVP to reserve a seat.

Tel: 07973796866 or Email: themeridiansociety@gmail.com
Note: This talk will be conducted in English

FILM & MEET THE DIRECTOR

Cape No. 7 (Hai Jiao Qi Hao)

Directed by Te-Sheng Wei

Taiwan, 2008, 129 minutes, cert PG

Saturday 21 February at Asia House

Film showing 2.30pm followed by Q&A

with Te-Sheng Wei and reception.

First time director Te-Sheng Wei’s Cape No. 7 is Taiwan’s most successful film of all time and the

official Taiwanese entry for the 2009 Oscars.

After ten years of striving to become a singer in a band in Taipei, Aga returns home to the small southern coastal town of Hengchun, his dream unfulfilled. Tomoko is a Japanese model who is asked to put together a local warm-up band for a forthcoming beach concert by a Japanese superstar singer.  Recruiting the band members proves to be impossibly difficult and so – together with five other ordinary Hengchun residents with

no hopes of fame – Aga and Tomoko form an extraordinary band.

Meanwhile, a cache of undelivered love letters dating from the Japanese occupation of Taiwan is discovered, sent from a Japanese teacher to the Taiwanese woman he leaves behind when he is extradited from the island in 1945. Can these seven letters act as a catalyst for another inter-cultural love affair seventy years later?

Reception sponsored by the Taipei Representative Office in the UK.

Asia House Friends & Concs £5

Others £8

For booking:

Tel: 020 7307 5454

Email: enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk

Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP

www.asiahouse.org