Date: Friday 21st November, 2008
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Plot Summery:
Jet Li's Fearless is a 2006 Chinese martial arts film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li. It is loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, a legendary Chinese martial artist who challenged foreign fighters in highly publicised events, restoring pride and nationalism to China at a time when Western Imperialism and Japanese manipulation were eroding the country.
Monday 24 November 2008
Film Screening: Hero (2002)
Date: Friday 14th November, 2008
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Director: Zhang Yimou (Director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony)
Plot Summery:
Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the movie is loosely based on the legendary Jing Ke.
A group of assassins: Flying Snow, Broken Sword, and Long Sky, have sworn to kill the Emperor of Qin, and Nameless(Jet Li) comes to the royal capital to claim the reward offered for their defeat. The movie tells the story of his conversation with the King of Qin, and through a series of flashbacks depicts the journey he took to earn the honor of sitting before the emperor. Zhang Ziyi stars as Broken Sword's servant Moon
DRINKS AND SNACK WILL BE SERVED!
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Director: Zhang Yimou (Director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony)
Plot Summery:
Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the movie is loosely based on the legendary Jing Ke.
A group of assassins: Flying Snow, Broken Sword, and Long Sky, have sworn to kill the Emperor of Qin, and Nameless(Jet Li) comes to the royal capital to claim the reward offered for their defeat. The movie tells the story of his conversation with the King of Qin, and through a series of flashbacks depicts the journey he took to earn the honor of sitting before the emperor. Zhang Ziyi stars as Broken Sword's servant Moon
DRINKS AND SNACK WILL BE SERVED!
Thursday 6 November 2008
Chinese Debate
Date: Thursday 6th November 2008
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: G212
Topic: 传承中华文化, 书刊比试听产品更有效 vs 传承中华文化, 试听产品比书刊更有效
Chinese Debate Team will present their first round of debate towards the end of this week. We warmly welcome you all to come and enjoy this two hours session of exciting and fascinating debate.
*The event is conducted in Mandarin.
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: G212
Topic: 传承中华文化, 书刊比试听产品更有效 vs 传承中华文化, 试听产品比书刊更有效
Chinese Debate Team will present their first round of debate towards the end of this week. We warmly welcome you all to come and enjoy this two hours session of exciting and fascinating debate.
*The event is conducted in Mandarin.
Film Screening: The Road Home (1999)
Date: Friday 7th November, 2008
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Director: Zhang Yimou (Director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony)
Plot Summery:
City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting that all the traditional burial customs be observed, despite the fact that times have changed so much, and that it involves many people carrying his father's body back to the village - the road home. As Yusheng debates the complications involved in organising such a big feat, he remembers the magical story of how his father and mother first met and got together.
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Director: Zhang Yimou (Director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony)
Plot Summery:
City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting that all the traditional burial customs be observed, despite the fact that times have changed so much, and that it involves many people carrying his father's body back to the village - the road home. As Yusheng debates the complications involved in organising such a big feat, he remembers the magical story of how his father and mother first met and got together.
Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Date: Friday 31st October, 2008
Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Date: Friday 31st October, 2008
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Plot Summery:
During the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1971, the sons of two allegedly reactionary doctors are sent to a remote village on the fictional mountain Phoenix of the Sky to be 're-educated' by hard work and peasant living. There, the two characters meet the local tailor's daughter (the Little Seamstress) and discover a collection of various translated Western novels hidden by another city boy sent to the country for re-education, Four-Eyes. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.
they never imagined.
Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Date: Friday 31st October, 2008
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway
Plot Summery:
During the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1971, the sons of two allegedly reactionary doctors are sent to a remote village on the fictional mountain Phoenix of the Sky to be 're-educated' by hard work and peasant living. There, the two characters meet the local tailor's daughter (the Little Seamstress) and discover a collection of various translated Western novels hidden by another city boy sent to the country for re-education, Four-Eyes. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.
they never imagined.
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Reflections of a Working life in Asia on Conglomerates and the Transport and Logistics Sector
Date: Wednesday Oct 16th, 2008
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
James Hughes-Hallett is chairman of John Swire & Sons Ltd and a director of Swire Pacific, Cathay Pacific Airways and HSBC Holdings.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
This Lecture is organized by Confucius Institute For Business London
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
James Hughes-Hallett is chairman of John Swire & Sons Ltd and a director of Swire Pacific, Cathay Pacific Airways and HSBC Holdings.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
This Lecture is organized by Confucius Institute For Business London
LSE Public Lecture---China and Financial Reform
Date: Wednesday 15 Oct 2008
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Howard Davies
Chair: Professor Danny Quah
Howard Davies sits on the International advisory councils of the China banking and securities regulatory commissions. In the fourth lecture of an annual series he reviews the progress of reform in china’s financial markets, and the implications for the rest of the world.
Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to this, from 1997-2003 he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the single regulator for the UK financial sector, which was created under his leadership from nine separate regulatory agencies. From 1995-1997 he was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Howard Davies
Chair: Professor Danny Quah
Howard Davies sits on the International advisory councils of the China banking and securities regulatory commissions. In the fourth lecture of an annual series he reviews the progress of reform in china’s financial markets, and the implications for the rest of the world.
Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Prior to this, from 1997-2003 he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the single regulator for the UK financial sector, which was created under his leadership from nine separate regulatory agencies. From 1995-1997 he was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
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