Martin Jacques
Writer and Columnist
British Embassy Residence
15 Guanghua Lu
英国大使住宅光华路15号
Yingguo Dashi Zhuzhai 15 Guanghua Lu
Please note this event will take place on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.
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Will China rule the 21st century the way the United States ruled the 20th? First published in 2009, Martin Jacques' groundbreaking book, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of a New Global Order, overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, thereby transforming the world as we know it. In its greatly expanded and fully updated paperback edition, When China Rules the World (Penguin Press, 2012) explains the deeper meaning of China’
Uli Sigg
Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors
Ringier Media Group, Zurich
Embassy of Switzerland
Sanlitun
3 Dong Wu Jie
瑞士大使馆三里屯东五街3号
Ruishi Dashiguan 3 Sanlitun Dong Wu Jie
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Uli Sigg first traveled to China in 1980 as a young businessman for the Schindler Elevator Company. Fifteen years later he became Swiss ambassador to China (1995 to 1998). Thirty years later he holds one of the world’s most substantial collections of contemporary Chinese art.
Michael Pettis
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Embassy of Mexico
Sanlitun
5 Dong Wu Jie
墨西哥大使馆三里屯东五街5号
Moxige Dashiguan 5 Sanlitun Dong Wu Jie
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Rock music started in China in the mid-1980s, and from the beginning it was an important way for many young Chinese to express a sense of freedom and rebellion. It was not until the past decade, however, that the music scene became of more than sociological interest, when the internet suddenly made available to Chinese musicians the whole history of European and North American rock, avant-garde classical, experimental and underground music—and a group of ferociously talented young musicians, Beijing-based for the most part, emerged to develop a scene that has become one of the mo
