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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Mid-autumn Festival from the Lau China Institute!🥮

中秋节快乐!

Mid-autumn festival falls according to the Chinese lunar calendar, when the moon is at its brightest and fullest🌕. Many people celebrate by sharing and eating moon cakes with loved ones and friends. We wish you a peaceful evening!

Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for an evening with Xiaolu Guo, discussing identity, migration, and language as she presents her new book 'Call Me Ishmaelle'.

Guo's memoir won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017 and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.

Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

#China #booktalk

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 7d

📖 @nickhopkinson.bsky.social discusses new book about Wilton Park's role in shaping #global #policy since 1946. He will also discuss how discourse around #China has evolved with @bkerrychina.bsky.social as part of #ChinaWeek2025.

📅Fri 24 Oct, 1pm | KCL Strand

🙌 Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 7d

Hi, thank you for your question. These courses are all in-person at KCL Strand campus. Hope to see you there!

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 8d

Have you ever wanted to try learning #Mandarin? Or try your hand at traditional Chinese #calligraphy?

Here's your chance!

👏You'll learn some basics of Mandarin and/or explore the art of Chinese calligraphy.

🔥Open to all. Book your free ticket: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/chine...

#ChinaWeek2025 #China

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 9d

Editor-in-Chief of @asiancha.bsky.social, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, will be reading from her collection of #poetry exploring #HongKong as a city marked by famine, protest, grief and resistance. #ChinaWeek2025

📅09:30am, Fri 24 Oct, KCL

Free to attend, book now: kcl.ac.uk/events/ghost...

#london #events

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 12d

1 week to go until our event with @josephtorigian.bsky.social who will be discussing his new book about the life of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping.

📅6pm, Fri 3 Oct, KCL Strand

Tickets are now SOLD OUT. Sign up to the waitlist: kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 13d

How do Chinese dystopian narratives interrogate #gender, #reproduction and #authoritarian power?

We're excited to welcome Editor-in-Chief of @asiancha.bsky.social, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, at #ChinaWeek2025.

🗓️ Thurs 23 Oct | 🕐 12:30pm | 📍KCL Strand

Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/bodie...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 14d

📚What difference does time make to students' #educational journeys and outcomes?

Dr @coralinglingxu.bsky.social (@durham-university.bsky.social) presents the findings of her research with youth in #China as part of #ChinaWeek2025.

🗓️10am, Thurs 23 Oct, KCL Strand

Sign up: kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 14d

As #US-China tensions continue, what does the next decade of #geopolitics look like?🌏

Sir Malcolm Rifkind and @bkerrychina.bsky.social explore China's ambitions, the future of #Taiwan and more at #ChinaWeek2025.

🗓️6:15pm, Tues 21 Oct, KCL Bush House

Book now:
kcl.ac.uk/events/talk-...

Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 15d

🎬Don't miss our screening of 'Made in Ethiopia' + Q&A w/ Director Maxim Duncan, Wing-Fai Leung, Charlotte Goodburn and chair Linda Calabrese.

🗓️6pm, 22 Oct
@thegardencinema.bsky.social

Tickets kcl.ac.uk/events/film-...

@kings-sga.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #China #Ethiopia #film

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 16d

🎙️New @kings-sga.bsky.social podcast on dust storms, cross border tensions and #environmental politics with #China.

Our academic Dr Thomas White discusses with Prof Andres Baas (KCL Geography) and host Esau Williams.

👂Listen: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/dust-storm-diplomacy

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King's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 16d

🌏 New pod: “Dust Storm Diplomacy”

When weather becomes a diplomatic storm—exploring how East Asia’s dust storms fuel cross-border tensions and environmental politics.

🎙️ With Dr Thomas White & Prof Andreas Baas
Listen now: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/dust-storm-diplomacy

Podcast - Dust Storm Diplomacy

Storms don’t respect borders, and neither do the politics they stir up. So will China’s green soft power bring genuine cooperation - or just export its authoritarian model?

kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 16d

📖Nick Hopkinson discusses new book, 'The Policies and Power of Public Diplomacy', about Wilton Park's role in shaping global policy since 1946. He will also discuss how discourse around #China has evolved with @bkerrychina.bsky.social as part of #ChinaWeek2025.

Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 19d

Two weeks to go until our event with @josephtorigian.bsky.social who will be discussing his new book about the life of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping. Chaired by Nicola Leveringhaus (KCL War Studies).

📅6pm, Fri 3 Oct
📍KCL Strand

Register to attend: kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 20d

#China and the #US are competing to shape a new world economic and technological order. Who will win? And how are other countries adapting?🌏

Experts Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Nikki Sun, James Kynge and chair, Xin Sun discuss at #ChinaWeek2025

🎟️Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/panel...

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Discover what it's like to study at the Lau China Institute - Europe's largest #China research centre.📚

Hear from academics & former students to learn more about our MSc China and Globalisation @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/study...

@kings-sga.bsky.social #study

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 22d

Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis examines the political, social, economic and environmental repercussions of the landmark investment of the #China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) in the port of #Piraeus as part of #ChinaWeek2025.

🗓️ Thurs 23 Oct, 4:30pm
📍 KCL Strand
🖋️Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/china...

Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 22d

📈📉How will China’s economic model adapt to the changing world (dis)order?

👏Join us for our #ChinaWeek2025 opening panel with Markus Chen (China Macro Group), @george17.bsky.social (SOAS) and @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social (HKUST), chaired by LCI's Dr Xin Sun.

🖋️Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/openi...

Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 23d

Delighted to welcome author Xiaolu Guo to present her new book 'Call Me Ishmaelle' - a bold, feminist reimagining of Moby Dick, as part of #ChinaWeek2025.

📅Thurs 23 Oct, 7pm, free entry
📍KCL Strand

Register to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

#KingsCollegeLondon #LauChinaInstitute #London

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 26d

👏Delighted to announce the closing keynote of #ChinaWeek2025, Kaiser Kuo @kaiserkuo.bsky.social, host of the Sinica podcast.

Kaiser will be in conversation with Dr Elizabeth Ingleson @lizingleson.bsky.social to discuss #China and the #US.

Register to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/china-week

#KCL #London

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · 27d

Our opening keynote for #ChinaWeek2025, Sir Vince Cable, joins us to discuss his new book on 'superstates' #China & #India and what their rise means for the global economy and its governance.🌏

🗓️6pm, Mon 20 October, KCL Strand

Book your tickets: kcl.ac.uk/events/openi...

@manchesterup.bsky.social

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 29d

Tickets on sale now!

Don't miss author and economist Sir Vince Cable giving the opening keynote at this year's @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #ChinaWeek, chaired by Kerry Brown, Director of the @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social.

Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/openi... #China #London

Opening keynote: 'Eclipsing the West - China, India and the Forging of a New World' | King's College London

Sir Vince Cable delivers the opening keynote of China Week 2025 with an analysis of China and India's rise and what it means for the global economy and governance.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士 @coralinglingxu.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to share 'The Time Inheritors'
@lauchinainstitute.bsky.social China Week on 23 October 2025! Join me and Dr @yanranyao.bsky.social 4 an in-depth discussion! Just in time for the paperback edition release in early Oct! Register: @sunypress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...

Book talk: The Time Inheritors by Dr Cora Lingling Xu

Dr Cora Lingling Xu presents her book 'The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China'.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Lau China Institute, King's College London @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social · Sep 8

Registration for #ChinaWeek2025, ‘China and the new world order’, is OPEN!

Join us as we explore #China's rising influence in the world with keynotes from Sir Vince Cable and Kaiser Kuo. View the line up and register to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/china-week

#KingsCollegeLondon #LauChinaInstitute

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