VENUE: The Bookworm DATE: today, Friday, Feb 3 TIME: 6:30-10:30pm ENTRANCE: Free. Non-members very welcome as always. DIZZY DRINKS DISCOUNT: for FCCC members on Carlsberg and Yanjing draught beer; bottled Tsing Tao, house wine and mixed drinks.
Calendar of Events
January 18, 2012
Chinese Cities: In Search of Identity
This event is for members only. China’s cities have been subject to thirty years of Soviet-style modernization, followed by thirty years of American style modernization. From an architectural point of view, it may be the worst of two worlds. Yet Chinese cities are increasingly affirming their own underlying “spirit”. Join a talk with Professor Daniel [...]
January 6, 2012
New Year Happy Hour
Happy New Year! Look out 2012 – The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is Ready! So why not prepare to breathe some fire into the forthcoming year of the dragon by joining fellow FCCC-types and their friends for the first Happy Hour of 2012 at the Bookworm*? Enlightened Zhongguo tong discourse will be as free-flowing [...]
December 15, 2011
The Chessboard of Geopolitics in Eurasian Seas
The divisions of Cold War area studies are collapsing: rather than the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, and so on, we will have an organic continuum of competition, trade, and conflict encompassed by the Greater Indian Ocean world. China and India compete for rights to natural gas fields in Iran and Burma, [...]
December 14, 2011
Book Talk: Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance
“February 2021. It’s a cold blustery morning in Washington. The newly inaugurated president of the United States is on his way to the office of the Chinese managing director of the IMF to sign the agreement under which the IMF will provide 3 trillion dollars in emergency financing to the U.S. and the conditionality to [...]