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📘 Author Talk: Barbara Demick – Separation and Reunion in China (📍🇬🇧 Edinburgh) 📅 Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM BST 📍 Location: Venue NW, Edinburgh International ...

Award-winning historian Paul French uncovers the untold story of Wallis Simpson’s transformative year in 1920s China. Drawing on new research, Her Lotus Year traces how her time in Shanghai and beyond ...

Join translator Annelise Finegan and author Paul French in London on August 13 for a discussion of My Sister’s Red Shirt by Tie Ning—an iconic reform-era novella newly released in English. Part of ...

🏰 Author Talk: Paul French – China, the Roaring Twenties & the Making of Wallis Simpson (Bangor, UK) 📅 Date: Saturday, August 9, 2025 🕒 Time: 1:00 PM (Doors open at 12:30 PM BST) 📍 Location: The ...

📘 Book Talk: Her Lotus Year with Paul French (📍🇬🇧 London) 📅 Date: Saturday, July 19, 2025 🕒 Time: – TMS Annual General Meeting: 2:00 PM BST – Book Talk: 3:30 PM BST 📍 Locations: – AGM: Caffè ...

Chun Wai Chan, the first Chinese principal dancer in New York City Ballet’s 74-year history, takes the stage for a live performance and conversation on ballet, identity, and storytelling. From Huizhou ...

🇨🇳 China Week 2025: Understanding China’s Global Role (London) 📅 Date: Monday–Friday, October 20–24, 2025 📍 Location: Hosted by the Lau China Institute, King’s College London 🌐 Organizer: Lau ...

🌏 Jewish Journeys to the Far East – China (🌐 Online) 📅 Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025 🕐 Time: 1:00 AM – 2:00 AM CEST 📍 Location: Online 🌐 Organizer: Walnut Street Synagogue, Chelsea, MA Languages ...

🗓️ Global Digital Economy Conference 2025 (GDEC 2025) Date: July 2–5, 2025 Time: All-day sessions (check official program for times) Location: China National Convention Center, No. 7 Tianchen East ...

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