How does small-town China live in the shadow of the country’s boomtown cities? How do ordinary Chinese in towns most people have not even heard of grapple with the conflicting forces of tradition and modernity? How do so many of them circumvent the one-child policy – and what does that mean for consumption trends? How do small local businesses cope with the expansion plans of the big retailers? Mr Kunal Sinha, Executive Director of Discovery, Ogilvy & Mather Greater China’s consumer insights and trends unit, will share insights from his time in field in China’s 4th to 6th tier towns, as described in the new book China Beyond.
DATE: Thursday, July 23rd
TIME: 10am
VENUE: Czech embassy, 2 Ritan Lu (opposite St Regis Hotel)
ENTRANCE: free to FCCC members, 50 rmb to non-members
SECURITY: bring passport/ID card and FCCC membership card
*RSVP to fccc.speakers@googlemail.com NOT the FCCC admin office. Include your surname, first name and organisation.*
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kunal Sinha has worked as a strategist and researcher for 20 years, mostly with companies in the WPP group, in India and China. He is a prolific author, with papers published in academic journals, business and trade media, and three books. The first two are about travel destinations in South Asia. The third, China’s Creative Imperative, is an award-winning volume on China’s potential in creativity.
Marketing and communications firm Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide is a member of WPP plc, the world’s largest advertising and communications services group.
NOTE
The FCCC admin office will be closed from Friday 3rd July to Monday 20th July inclusive, with no remote access to emails.
China’s workers are taking to the streets in ever increasing numbers – demanding unpaid wages, better working conditions and severance pay. They are angered by management abuses, and emboldened by the new Labour Contract Law and their own ability to organize.
China Labour Bulletin’s new report on the state of the labor movement in China shows how workers are taking matters into their own hands, by-passing the official trade union, and staging strikes and protests to press local governments to intercede on their behalf.
The report’s editor, Geoffrey Crothall, will launch the paper and discuss why workers are angry, why they are willing to take action, why the government is increasingly willing to listen, and why the trade union is being painted out of the picture.
Copies of the report will be available at this talk.
DATE: Thursday, 9th July
TIME: 10am
VENUE: The Australian embassy (see below for details)
RSVP to the embassy not FCCC. Daniel Fan on yu.fan@dfat.gov.au, tel: 5140 4247, fax: 5140 4230
BRING: FCCC membership card and passport/ID card
ENTRANCE: FCCC members only
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Geoffrey Crothall is the editor of China Labour Bulletin’s English language website. He has been writing about China for more than two decades, and was the South China Morning Post correspondent in Beijing from 1991 to 1996.
China Labour Bulletin (CLB) is a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization that defends and promotes workers’ rights in China. It was set up in 1994 by prominent labor rights activist Han Dongfang. It supports the development of democratic trade unions, respect for and enforcement of China’s labor laws, and the full participation of workers in civil society. It provides legal aid to workers and seeks to promote collective bargaining as an effective means of resolving labor disputes.
CLB’s reports and analysis of labour rights issues in China are available at www.clb.org.hk
Australian embassy, 21 Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Sanlitun, Chaoyang district (next to Canadian embassy, opposite A.C. Embassy Hotel)
澳大利亚驻华大使馆, 北京市朝阳区三里屯东直门外大街21号(加拿大大使馆的旁边，澳加饭店的对面)
Tel: 5140 4111
www.china.embassy.gov.au
*NOTE: The FCCC admin office will be closed from Friday, July 3rd to Monday, July 20th inclusive due to staff holidays.*
Join us for our usual monthly social evening, where FCCC members and friends get together to chew the cud and imbibe the beer. Last month, we succeeded in draining every last drop from every last keg. Well, it’s thirsty work unwinding on a Friday evening on a pleasantly breezy roof terrace.
DATE: Friday, July 3rd
TIME: 6-10pm
VENUE: The Bookworm http://www.beijingbookworm.com/
ENTRANCE: Free. Non-members very welcome as always
DIZZY DRINKS DISCOUNT: FCCC members wielding a valid FCCC membership card get the usual crazy discounts on draught Carlsberg and Yanjing, bottled Tsing Tao, house wine and mixed drinks.
PHOTOGRAPHY SLIDESHOW THEME: China Tropicana
How did an army of regular Joes (and Janes) create Wikipedia – now the World Wide Web’s no.8 site? Andrew Lih, new media and technology expert, will share the inside story from his new book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia. A contributing “Wikipedian” for the past five years, Andrew Lih will talk about the controversies, credibility crises and vandalism that come with the Wiki phenomenon.
DATE: Thursday, June 25th
TIME: 7pm
VENUE: Paddy O’Shea’s upstairs private function room (http://www.thebeijinger.com/directory/Paddy-OSheas)
ENTRANCE: free for FCCC members, 50 rmb on the door to non-members
RSVP to fcccadmina@gmail.com
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Lih is a new media researcher, consultant and technology author. After a decade in academia as a professor of journalism and media studies, he spent two years researching and writing the book The Wikipedia Revolution (Hyperion 2009).
Despite the current global financial crisis, several big Asian economies continue to grow fast. What are the critical forces shaping the Asian business and economic environment? Economics professor Ivan Tselichtchev will summarize the lessons of a new book he coauthored, Asia’s Turning Point: An Introduction to Asia’s Dynamic Economies at the Dawn of the New Century.
DATE: Tuesday, June 23rd
TIME: 7pm
VENUE: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business 长江商学院 (see bottom for full address and map)
ENTRANCE: free for FCCC members, 50 rmb on the door to non-members
RSVP: fcccadmin@gmail.com
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ivan Tselichtchev is professor at the Niigata University of Management in Japan. He graduated from Moscow University in 1979, after which he joined Russia’s leading think tank, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations before joining Niigata University in 1994. In 2005, the Committee of the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan named Tselichtchev “Seikatsu Tatsujin” (A Master of Life), which means a person with outstanding achievements and lifestyle.
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business 长江商学院
Oriental Plaza, 2nd floor, Tower E3 (Ernst&YoungTower安永大楼)
1 East Chang An Avenue, Beijing 100738, China
Tel: 010-85188552
地址：中国北京市东长安街 1 号东方广场东 3 座 2 层
English map: http://www.orientalplaza.com/eng/prime/transport.htm
Chinese map: http://www.orientalplaza.com/gb/prime/transport.htm
Cheung Kong’s website at http://en.ckgsb.com
