Shaun Rein
Nova
Thursday, 14th January, 7pm (talk starts at 7.30pm)
Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul Geitner lead a growing chorus that says boosting domestic consumption is the key to rebalancing China's economy and reducing its reliance on exports. But even with 1.3 billion consumers, Chinese spending lags far behind other countries. Household consumption equaled 15 percent of US levels in 2008. Shaun Rein is the founder of China Market Research Group, which tracks and analyzes Chinese consumer behavior for leading multinationals. He will discuss the impact so far of government policies to stimulate consumer spending, the challenges such efforts face and trends to watch for in the year 2010.
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Cotton's
Wednesday, 16th December, 7pm-10pm
Join friends and colleagues at the Foreign Correspondent's Club for drinks and seasonal cheer. Cotton's will be serving two-for-one happy hour drinks until 8pm, and 35 kuai house drinks afterwards. In the spirit of the holidays, your first drink is on us! And you can renew your membership for 2010 too - with a free FCC T-shirt in the colour of your choice (as long as it's red, white or black) for the first five people to rejoin on the night. (Membership remains: correspondent and media members - 400 rmb; associate members - 600 rmb)
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Graham Earnshaw
1 Oz 3 (Australian Lifestyle)
Thursday, 10th December, 7pm (talk starts at 7.30pm)
Veteran China journalist and entrepreneur Graham Earnshaw’s latest venture Earnshaw Books is dedicated to reviving lost nuggets of the country’s past. Since it began publishing last year, it has released a string of books on old Shanghai, including Bridge House Survivor, Henry Pringle’s stark memoir of torture in a Japanese prison, a collection of the works of the legendary cartoonist Sapajou, and republished books including Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers and the famously louche 1930s Shanghai guidebook Shanghai – High Lights, Low Lights, Tael Lights. Other books include Tales of Old Peking and the memoir I Sailed with Chinese Pirates. Graham Earnshaw will talk about his fascination with old Shanghai, the challenges of running a publishing business from China, and his future projects.
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An evening with Mark Rowswell
The Mix at Mesa
Thursday, November 19th, 7pm (talk starts at 7.30pm)
As US President Barack Obama visits China, Shanghai’s World Expo approaches and Beijing steps up efforts to communicate with the outside world, the question of how China and the West perceive each other is increasingly important. Mark Rowswell is uniquely placed to comment. Often described as “China’s most famous foreigner,” Rowswell -- better known by his stage name “Dashan” -- has spent two decades in China as a performer, television host and cultural ambassador. He will talk about how, almost by accident, he found himself on the frontline of China’s culture wars, his current work as Canada’s commissioner general to Expo 2010, and why China and the West sometimes struggle to understand each other.
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Thomas Fuesser
ShanghART Gallery
Friday, October 9th, 6pm – 7.30pm
In 1993, the Dutch curator Hans van Dijk arranged for a group of foreign journalists and photographers to visit up-and-coming members of the then fledgling Beijing art scene. Reports on the visit, by New York Times art critic Andrew Solomon and others, played a major part in making stars of artists such as Fang Lijun, Wang Guangyi and Yue Minjun. Another participant in the trip was photographer Thomas Fuesser, who was commissioned by Stern magazine but whose pictures were never actually published. The current show at ShanghART Gallery, ‘Lost Treasures of Modern China’, features Fuesser’s ‘lost’ pictures of this crucial moment in the development of China’s contemporary art scene, along with paintings and videos by Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai which satirize the role of the western media, and other related works by Shanghai-based artists Chris Gill and Andy Hall. In this special event, Thomas Fuesser will give an introduction to the exhibition and discuss the influence of the foreign media on the Chinese art world over the past two decades.
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