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Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 19:00

My Great Wall Life - Seven Peaks in 35 Years

William Lindesay

When COVID struck in 2020 William Lindesay decided to spend his time writing about his life at the Great Wall. Fresh from completing his quarter-of-a-million word memoire, Mr Lindesay will recount seven of his most significant experiences at the Great Wall between 1986 and 2021. During his presentation, illustrated with a vivid collection of photographs and quality videos, Mr Lindesay will take the BIS audience on a Great Wall odyssey back into China’s ancient past, back to the China of the 1980s that he encountered...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 19:00

Building United Family Healthcare against the Backdrop of Four Decades of Healthcare Reform in China

Roberta Lipson

Roberta Lipson, a single American woman arrived in China in 1979 at the age of 24. She found a China very different from what we know today. Since then, life expectancy in China grew by 10 years and maternal and Infant mortality improved by a factor of almost 10. During that time, in addition to finding true love, and raising a family, wanting to somehow make an impact, Roberta started a company which supplied much needed medical equipment to Chinese hospitals. Roberta also founded United Family Healthcare, which grew from one small hospital serving the international...
Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 19:00

Chinese Contemporary Art - Past, Present, and Future

Xin Dong Cheng and Caroline Puel

The history of contemporary Chinese art begins three decades ago, with the opening of China to the world and to numerous influences. With Chinese painters travelling to Europe, Japan, and the United States, there was a tremendous evolution of millennium traditional culture. The Soviet influence introduced “social realism” in the Fine Arts Institutes, which while previously used as a tool for propaganda, began to be used with modern techniques to revitalise art. In the 1980s, a radical, avant-garde contemporary art movement appeared in China. In...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 19:15

Creating a sustainable future for Asia – the role of the AIIB

Sir Danny Alexander

We are thrilled to announce a talk from AIIB Vice President Danny Alexander, on the bank’s drive to put environmental sustainability at the heart of its agenda. Founded in January 2016, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is the first multilateral development bank to be based in China. With 103 members and a remit to support sustainable infrastructure across Asia, the AIIB has an influential role in supporting projects that can deliver local environmental improvements. Climate change continues to...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 19:00

Unwrapping the Puzzle

Jörg Wuttke

We are delighted to resume our lecture series with a talk from the President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China and BASF’s Chief Representative, Jörg Wuttke. Having lived in Beijing for more than three decades, he shares with us his insight on the changes he has witnessed as well as his perspective on China’s political and business landscape.  Jörg Wuttke first came to China in 1982 onboard a midnight train from Germany through Mongolia to learn about the country that he felt, like Russia to Churchill, was “a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma.” From...