Chinese Rollercoaster Taste in Wine
It is only in the last decade, however, that wine has begun to be imported into the country. Now the Chinese are starting to cultivate more ...
Shandan Bailie in October 2014
Next month the mayor of Shandan will be visiting Auckland, keeping the links between this area and NZ strong.The weather is unpredictable at...
Book Review: The Fat Years
by Chan Koonchung - Translation: Michael S. Duke (Doubleday, 2011, ISBN: 13: 9780552776974)This book by Chan Koonchung, the Shanghai-born a...
Remembering Robin Brown 1930 – 2014
28th Sep (2014) in the Huangshi Garden, NelsonAt this time, our thoughts turned to commemorating Robin Brown's contribution to the developme...
Book Review: Daughter of the River – an Autobiography
By Hong Ying (New York: Grove Press, 1998. 278 pp. ISBN 0–8021–1637–x)Stories of growing up in China are becoming more and more common. Wil...
China’s global position on Hong Kong, October 2014
At the last meeting of Auckland branch, Sunday, October 19 2014, Consul Mr Zhang Heqing stood in for Consul General Niu who had ...
New Zealander dies in Chinese train crash??
This is a story about a train crash that happened in China in 1988 and became known as the “January 24th Incident” in which many people di...
Christchurch branch Yunnan Earthquake appeal raises $5770
Congratulations Christchurch branch, in your efforts to raise money for victims of the Yunnan earthquake, Aug 2014.Chris Goodwin...
Our ‘writer in Shanghai’ sends her first report
Award-winning novelist and poet Alison Wong was chosen as our writer to travel to Shanghai as a guest of the Shanghai Writers Association to...
Our DVD ‘Inside Red China’ is making waves already!
'Inside Red China', a 1958 film by then-Society members, Rudall and Ramai Hayward, will be relaunched tomorrow evening at a reception to ma...
Shandan Bailie School SPORTS WEEK, Sep 2014
It was School Sports week at Shandan Bailie School recently and Jane Furkert, our teacher there, has described the event below:Rewi’s...