You are cordially invited to attend the talk on “The 19th Party Congress: What will Xi Jinping use his Power for?” by Professor LAM Wo Lap Willy. It will be held on Wednesday, 1 November 2017, at 4:00 pm in University Bookstore (YIA101), 1/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park.

Join us for the discussion: "Part Tiger, Part Monkey: Mao Zedong & China's Destiny" Using Mao’s famous self-commentary “part tiger, part monkey,” Prof. Alain Roux will tell us how Mao, an ambitious young man, grew from a rebel to a revolutionary, and later a tyrant during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Based on his lifetime research of Mao and 20th-century Chinese history, Prof. Roux will offer a reliable, convincing, and sophisticated biography of Mao, and share with us his perspectives on China today. Speakers: A well-established China expert, Prof. Alain Roux is Emeritus professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in France. He has been studying Chinese history and politics for half a century since he first visited Beijing as a foreign student in 1965. His major publications in French include Chiang Kai-shek: Mao’s Great Enemy, China in the 20th Century, Shanghai Workers’ Movement in the 1930s, and The Chinese Puzzle. Discussants: Prof. Jan Kiely is Professor and Associate Director at the Centre for China Studies, CUHK; historian of modern China and author of The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901–1956 Prof. Michel Bonnin is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for China Studies, CUHK; author of The Lost Generation: The Rustication of China’s Educated Youth, 1968–1980 Date: 6th November 2017 Time: 16:00–18:00 Venue: Cho Yiu Conference Hall, University Administration Building, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Host: Dr. Eric Florence (Director of The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China) Welcome addresses by Prof. Leung Yuen Sang (Dean of Faculty of Arts, CUHK) and Mr. Eric Berti (Consul General of France in Hong Kong & Macau) Language: French with English simultaneous interpretation Please visit: https://goo.gl/forms/2Nx6BVEFD4XqRGvH2 for registration. (Free admission on a first come, first served basis.)

Third and final screening of this Fall's CCS' screening series! A ROLLING STONE (2012) A Rolling Stone (2012) represents Taiwanese documentary film at its most honest and realist. End of A Century: Miea’s Story is adapted from a short story “Fin-de-siècle Splendor” by Chu Tien-wen, a veteran collaborator of Hou Hsiao-hsien. This term’s screening series sets out to provide a taste of different styles of Taiwanese cinema and create an implicit dialogue between films, genres, media, periods, places, and ultimately, between filmmakers and the audience. Monday 25 September, 19:00 Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), Lecture Theatre 4

You are cordially invited to the International Research Workshop on Urban Ethnography in China: Theory and Practice: Date: October 20 Time: 3:00PM Venue: Room 702, Mong Man Wai Building

Join us for the talk on “Is Your Daughter Leftover?’: Gender Equality and China’s Recent History” by Professor Matthew GUTMANN. It will be held on Thursday, 19 October 2017, at 4:00 pm in Room 1118, 11/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park. Please refer to the attached poster for more details.

You are cordially invited to attend the talk on ‘When the Past is More Than Just Scarce Resource: A Reflection on the Ethnography of Space, Place, and Hope in Urban Shanghai’ by Dr. Non ARKARAPRASERTKUL. It will be held on Tuesday, 17 October 2017, at 4:00 pm in Room 1118, 11/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park. Please refer to the attached poster for more details.

CCS' screening series continues! WINDS OF SEPTEMBER (2008) The screening of Winds of September (2008), a cruel specimen of youth films (qingchun pian), should be compared with Hong Kong director Heiward Mak Hei-yan’s High Noon (2008). Both films as well as a mainland one are based on the same script and produced by Eric Tsang. This term’s screening series sets out to provide a taste of different styles of Taiwanese cinema and create an implicit dialogue between films, genres, media, periods, places, and ultimately, between filmmakers and the audience. Monday 25 September, 19:00 Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), Lecture Theatre 4

Check out 'Returning to No Home: Educational Remigration and Displacement in Rural China', a study that examines the often-neglected reverse movements of second-generation migrant youth to their registered places of origin in rural China for educational purposes, by Dr. Ling Minhua, Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies.

Please, feel free to join us in the new edition of CCS' screening series! DRAGON INN 龍門客棧 (King Hu, 1967, 111 min) . The first screening of the series is King Hu’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn (1967), a film that anticipates Taiwan-based Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang’s homage Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), which screens Dragon Inn in a soon-to-be demolished theater with the original cast Shih Chun and Miao Tien as audience members. This term’s screening series sets out to provide a taste of different styles of Taiwanese cinema and create an implicit dialogue between films, genres, media, periods, places, and ultimately, between filmmakers and the audience. Monday 25 September, 19:00 Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), Lecture Theatre 4

Check out this brief 'Introduction to Chinese Foreign Policy' by Dr. Tim Summers, Lecturer at the Centre for China Studies:

Please, feel free to join us in the new edition of CCS' screening series! DRAGON INN 龍門客棧 (King Hu, 1967, 111 min) The first screening of the series is King Hu’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn (1967), a film that anticipates Taiwan-based Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang’s homage Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), which screens Dragon Inn in a soon-to-be demolished theater with the original cast Shih Chun and Miao Tien as audience members. This term’s screening series sets out to provide a taste of different styles of Taiwanese cinema and create an implicit dialogue between films, genres, media, periods, places, and ultimately, between filmmakers and the audience. Monday 25 September, 19:00 Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), Lecture Theatre 4