tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69230871101650006402024-03-12T21:57:13.327-07:00CDS Film ScreeningUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-29281041590560442542008-11-24T16:55:00.000-08:002008-11-24T16:56:04.146-08:00Film Screening and Discussion: Fearless 霍元甲 (2006)Date: Friday 21st November, 2008<br /><br />Time: 18:30pm<br /><br />Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway<br /><br />Plot Summery:<br />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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-37230591122039272112008-11-24T16:52:00.001-08:002008-11-24T16:52:17.873-08:00Film Screening: Hero (2002)Date: Friday 14th November, 2008<br /><br />Time: 18:30pm<br /><br />Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway<br /><br />Director: Zhang Yimou (Director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony)<br />Plot Summery:<br /><br />Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the movie is loosely based on the legendary Jing Ke.<br />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<br /><br /> DRINKS AND SNACK WILL BE SERVED!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-58078840514378709072008-11-06T15:04:00.001-08:002008-11-06T15:04:56.244-08:00Chinese DebateDate: Thursday 6th November 2008<br />Time: 6-8pm<br />Venue: G212<br />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<br /><br />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.<br /><br />*The event is conducted in Mandarin.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-46566915619164235432008-11-06T15:00:00.000-08:002008-11-06T15:01:17.966-08:00Film Screening: The Road Home (1999)Date: Friday 7th November, 2008<br />Time: 18:30pm<br />Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway<br />Director: Zhang Yimou (Director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony)<br /><br />Plot Summery:<br />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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-29559592428400267592008-11-06T14:52:00.000-08:002008-11-06T14:54:34.936-08:00Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)Date: Friday 31st October, 2008<br />Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)<br />Date: Friday 31st October, 2008<br />Time: 18:30pm<br />Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway<br /><br />Plot Summery:<br />During the height of the <a title="https://exchange.lse.ac.uk/wiki/Cultural_Revolution Cultural Revolution" href="https://exchange.lse.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://exchange.lse.ac.uk/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" target="_blank">Chinese Cultural Revolution</a> 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.<br />they never imagined.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-87462360484843184462008-10-15T04:48:00.000-07:002008-10-15T04:49:03.866-07:00Reflections of a Working life in Asia on Conglomerates and the Transport and Logistics SectorDate: Wednesday Oct 16th, 2008<br />Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm<br />Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House<br />James Hughes-Hallett is chairman of John Swire & Sons Ltd and a director of Swire Pacific, Cathay Pacific Airways and HSBC Holdings.<br /><br />This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.<br /><br />This Lecture is organized by Confucius Institute For Business LondonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923087110165000640.post-70182559048002736342008-10-15T04:47:00.000-07:002008-10-15T04:48:02.508-07:00LSE Public Lecture---China and Financial ReformDate: Wednesday 15 Oct 2008<br />Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm<br />Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building<br />Speaker: Howard Davies<br />Chair: Professor Danny Quah<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0