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SCEN Lecture 2024 - Recording Now Available
On the 20 June 2024, we held our second SCEN Lecture. Professor Jane Duckett spoke of China’s socio – economic development trajectory over the past quarter century.
SCEN Lecture 2022 - Recording Now Available
On the 1 December 2022, we held our first SCEN Lecture in over three years, with speaker Martin McDermott reflecting on five years of representing the Scottish Government at the British Embassy in Beijing.
SCEN Web Conference: Paola Subacchi - Recording Now Available
SCEN Web Conference: Paola Subacchi - Recording Available Soon. Thursday 10 September, 7pm GMT
Business Lecture Series: New Perspectives On China - CANCELLED
SADLY THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED.
Lu Xun: A Legacy in Print
Lu Xun (1881-1936) is the pen name of the revolutionary Chinese writer Zhou Shuren.
Conference Invitation: New Perspectives on the Belt & Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) outlined by China’s President Xi Jinping in 2013 is one of the most significant and substantial investment and development programmes to come out of China in modern times.
Citizens of Nowhere?
Immersive live audio drama with food and family feuds
Presented by Chinese Arts Now and Performance Infinity. Part of FeastFest.
Venue 188 Sweet Novotel - 16 – 18, 20 – 25 August - 2 PM / 4 PM
From Shanghai with Love 2019
FROM SHANGHAI WITH LOVE - FASHION SHOW/EXHIBITION RETURN TO PLAYFAIR LIBRARY ON 23 & 24 AUGUST
Business Lecture Series – Belt & Road Initiative on Thursday 14 March 2019
It is our great pleasure to invite you to our first lecture in this year's Business Lecture Series – Belt & Road Initiative on Thursday 14 March 2019. We are honoured to have Chen Liming, Chair of IBM Greater China and Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh to open this year's series.
SCEN goes to Beijing University
SCEN chair Simon Macaulay had a meeting with a group of students - members of the international relations group - at Beijing University in early October.
Road Initiative Keynote Lectures and Conference 4 & 5 October 2018
We are delighted to invite you to join us as a guest at our upcoming keynote lectures and conference focused on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Cantonese Opera at Edinburgh Castle
This September SCEN supported a successful Cantonese Opera event over two days in Edinburgh Castle, with renowned Cantonese performers and musicians including Seto Yok.
May SCEN Lecture Review - UK-Chinese Times
nvited by the Scotland-China Education Network (SCEN), Scottish historian and writer, Dr Roger Collins, recently gave a lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the Silk Road.
Scotland’s Revised China Engagement Strategy Now Available
I am pleased to let you know that Scotland's Revised China Engagement Strategy was recently published. Thank you to everyone for contributing to its development.
Confucius Institute for Scotland: Distinguished Lecture
Join us on Thursday 15 February to hear from Professor Joan Judge of York University, Canada. Central to the political, literary and social revolutions of the 20th century was the figure of the masses:
Meeting Jack Ma and China at the Heart of Global Investment
Two challenging articles by James Anderson, Senior Partner of Baillie Gifford, world-leading investment manager, and great SCEN supporter!
News from Olivia Contini, SCEN Nanning Ambassador, in Nanning!
What a success day one in Nanning, Guangxi has been!
Our Year in China
It's been a while since my last post. I do apologise, I've been busy with my students as they prepare for their exams.
The First Lecture of the 2017 Business Lecture Series from Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the first talk in our 2017 Business Lecture Series from Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG.