A discussion with Richard Burger, author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China, about how China’s sexual revolution took off and where it is heading. Extramarital sex has soared in China’s cities in recent years, yet many husbands expect their wives to be a virgin. Prostitution is cracked down on periodically yet is available [...]
Calendar of Events
April 11, 2013
FCCC April Happy Hour
The time has come, the FCCC board has decided, to give the monthly Happy Hours a fresh coat of paint and a bit of zip and we are starting the new season today, Thursday, April 11th, in the Press Bar at The St. Regis hotel. The bar is so named because the hotel was built on the site of [...]
“Bo Xilai: Power, Death and Politics” – A Book Talk With Jamil Anderlini
Jamil Anderlini will provide analysis of this high political drama and why it matters for the world’s second largest economy and the rest of the world. His book, “The Bo Xilai Scandal”, documents the extraordinary tale around the rise and fall of Bo Xilai, the disgraced former politician and contender for the top leadership of [...]
April 10, 2013
Etiquette in China: How to Behave, Now That We’re Rich
No other country has gone through the leap to prosperity that China has over the past thirty years. With modes of behaviour becoming blurred and options endless for China’s new rich, it’s not surprising that many of them are seeking new guides to tell them how to behave with the westernised global elite they seek [...]
March 21, 2013
China Development Bank — the most powerful bank in the world?
Few people outside of China have even heard of it, but China Development Bank may be the world’s most powerful financial institution in the world, argue award-winning Bloomberg News reporters Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe. The bank, led for the past 15 years by Chen Yuan, son of one of the PRC’s founding fathers, is [...]