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Welcome to the Year of the Dragon 2012! 龙年快乐! 恭喜发财,万事如意!

Knowledge sharing, networking, cultural exchange
and debate!
共享知识,建立和扩大社交网络, 文化交流,辩论!

Picture: Celebrating the Moon Festival
Celebrating the Moon Festival

The Chopsticks Club is the UK's unique network for China-related professionals.
 

Its members represent a culturally rich and diverse network of professionals engaged with China. Our activities are designed to appeal to both the Chinese and British communities, to enhance our knowledge and understanding of China, to stimulate debate on key issues and to provide excellent networking opportunities.

筷子俱乐部是伦敦独一无二的中国关系网络俱乐部,其成员均为具有多元文化背景,并与中国有联系的各类专业人士。我们组织各类活动以满足中英两国社团的需求,增进大家对中国的了解。


Join the Club before the 29 February and win TWO RETURN CLUB CLASSIC tickets between London and HK*

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*To enter this fantastic prize draw you need to be a current Chopsticks Club paid up Member. 
Please email Theresa on china.t@btinternet.com indicating 
1) why you will be using the tickets and 
2) how regularly you travel to China/HK   

If you are not a Member and wish to enter the draw please download and complete the attached Membership form, (CLICK HERE) complete the standing order form (CLICK HERE) and return both by email or in the post before 29 February.

Please note that the Winner will be responsible for taxes and fuel surcharges (approx. £350 as of today but subject to change due to currency fluctuation)  and Passengers must depart London by 31st March 2012 and return within 3 months. Tickets are non-refundable, non-transferrable and date change not permitted

About HK Airlines:
From 8th March 2012,  HONG KONG AIRLINES
WILL BE LAUNCHING AN INNOVATIVE NEW DAILY ALL CLUB CLASS SERVICE FROM LONDON TO HONG KONG.
  The new service to London is the world’s first all Club Class wide body long-haul scheduled service between London and Hong Kong.  The airline has ordered three Airbus A330-200 aircraft for the new route, configured with just 116 seats in an exclusive all Club Class offering; Club Premier and Club Classic.  The services are tailored to meet the needs of the UK business community, corporate & SMEs, and also the luxury leisure market. 


Chinese New Year Celebrations 2012 - come and join the Club

Picture: Tempting the Dragon
Tempting the Dragon














LONDON: Music, food and performance with celebrity chef & musician, Guo Yue, 24 February

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with us in the company of talented performers for this unqiue evening including musical entertainment, readings and food. Click here for tickets and information....


BRISTOL: Networking reception and dinner with entertainment with Bristol China Partnership, Wednesday 29 February

Picture: Dragon Event 29 Feb 2012
Dragon Event 29 Feb 2012

Join the Chopsticks Club and other China experts for this New Year celebration in the Southwest. Dignitaries include the Mayor of Bristol and media presenter, Susan Osman. Click here for tickets and information...


Win a Chinese Collins Mandarin Chinese-English dictionary and verb app

Picture: Collins App
Collins App

Collins are offering the Chopsticks Club FIVE Chinese Collins Mandarin Chinese-English dictionaries and verb app. To enter the draw again you need to be a paid up Member of the Chopsticks Club. 

Please email HJ Colston on hjcolston@chopsticksclub.com with your name and email address. If you are not already a Member, please complete a Membership form (CLICK HERE) and standing order form (CLICK HERE). The draw will be made on Friday 2 March.

The Chinese Collins Mandarin Chinese-English dictionary
and verb app is to commemorate the Year of the Dragon, and is worth £20.99. It includes:

  • Over 75,000 translations
  • Conjugates thousands of Mandarin Chinese and English verbs and hundreds of usage notes and examples
  • Smart search functionality helps users find alternate forms of a word and catches misspellings
  • Number to text translation into Simplified Chinese and English
  • No internet connection required so you can still use whilst you’re offline  
  • Search in Chinese using characters or pinyin keyboard options

    For more detail of Collins products, go to www.collinslanguage.com


At our Chopsticks Club Dinner Speaker event with Tim Luard on 31 January, Collins also offered a hamper of books. The lucky winner was Liz Martinez-Gray. Congratulations to Liz. The books included:

  • Chinese dictionary
  • Chinese Essential dictionary
  • Chinese Gem dictionary
  • Wild Swans
  • Chinese Food Made Easy
  • What does China Think?


Chopsticks Club Mandarin Moon Festival – another unique event

Picture: Winner of speaking competition, Esuna Dugarova
Winner of speaking competition, Esuna Dugarova

The Chopsticks Club’s Moon Festival event on 13 September drew in guests inspired to speak mandarin all evening. The event included a Chinese (and English) Tongue Twister Challenge for non-native speakers and a mandarin speaking competition. And, of course, a Chinese meal. The official language of the night was mandarin in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Club’s Mandarin Practice Sessions(普通话交流角成立10周年会). Celia Wigley, who attended the event, said, ”The Chopsticks team did such a great job…the club is very professional and the range of people has broadened with more younger members…to have an event all in Chinese was a brilliant idea. I really enjoyed chatting away in mandarin!” Find out more about the evening and our mandarin classes...


Latest JOB vacancies 

IT, Marketing and International Management Positions with HSBC and an INTERN position. CLICK HERE


SHELL International Ltd

Specific Job Vacancies - CLICK HERE    Do let your friends and colleagues know.


China  Recruitment & Networking Event, 29 June  - GREAT SUCCESS

Picture: Job seekers at FCO stand

"If students want to use their Chinese in their career then I would say that this is the only fair they need attend!" Such was the positive response to our China skills recruitment event by one happy graduate from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield currently looking for work!

Generously sponsored by Shell International Ltd and Mayer Brown International LLP - this  "buzzing" event attracted 12 companies actively looking for employees with China-related skills, including, Shell, Mayer Brown, HSBC, Polo Ralph Lauren, China Daily, Equity Trust, Linklaters, Crowe Clark Whitehill and the FCO. More than 250 job seekers with China Skills came to the event....click here to find out more

Chopsticks Club takes platform at China-EU Youth Forum

Picture: China-EU Youth Forum, 05 May
China-EU Youth Forum, 05 May

The Chinese Embassy in London held a special event here in London as part of a platform for dialogue between UK organisations with China links and the Chinese government. Held on 06 May, this was an interesting opportunity for both sides to talk about their values, their development, their interests. Importantly, the event was about perception and where greater dialogue enables better understanding. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming's speech can be read here in English. More in Chinese on the Embassy website here.


Club Director, H-J Colston, was invited to draw upon her 20+ years of eye witness experiences to talk about China's development, growth and change. Young people and professionals working for organisations with China Links, including Young Labour, Chopsticks Club and Young Fabians were in attendance. The event was part of a wider initiative with Chinese embassies hosting similar events in other European countries.


Reaching out into the Southwest: Chopsticks @ Salisbury Arts Festival

Chopsticks Club was delighted to work with the Salisbury Arts Festival to produce an event that would be a delightful mix of stimulating and educational content with a literary basis. Mixing the 25 years of 'old China hand' experience and insight of author and businessman, Adam Williams, with the in-depth analysis of former Ambassador to China, Sir Christopher Hum, the two created an excellent hour of conversation to which the 70 members of the audience were priveleged to eavesdrop, as it were.


Picture: In conversation about China's past, present & future
In conversation about China's past, present & future

The discussion flew across the centuries touching on the humiliating times of the Opium Wars; the relationship between China, its neighbours and other countries; China's understanding of itself and the government strategy and the huge importance of 'wending', or internal stability, to ensure continued and steady growth. The conversation was at times serious, at times filled with laughter and certainly showed an empathy and understanding of China, its achievements and its challenges.

A huge thanks to Sir Christopher and Adam Williams for creating a dynamic and fascinating event for all those who were lucky enough to hear it! Adam's historical fiction novels about China include 'The Temple of Heavenly Pleasures' and 'The Emperor's Bones'. They are an excellent, pacey read good for hand luggage on any long-haul flight to China!


The event was part of the 14 day Festival which is attended by over 60,000 visitors each year. This year's cultural theme was China and involved many acts and performance artists in dance, music and drama. Incredible open air performances at Old Sarum, kite making, calligraphy, Chinese food, film showings and more ensured that the Festival was another success. Next year's theme is Brazil.   Winning Share of Stomach (James Bruce Unilever presentation)  


Vice Premier, Li Keqiang, meets Club Director, January 2011

Picture: Li Keqiang meets H-J Colston and other Chinese speakers at the British Museum
Li Keqiang meets H-J Colston and other Chinese speakers at the British Museum

During Vice Premier Li Keqiang's visit to London on 11-12 January, Club Director, H-J Colston, was invited to meet him at an exclusive reception at the British Museum. H-J had the opportunity to tell him about the work of the Club including promotion of Chinese culture and language and providing a platform for bi-lateral understanding.


Chopsticks Club makes headline news

Picture: China Daily Chopsticks story
China Daily Chopsticks story

The work of the Chopsticks Club was recognised and publicised in late December 2010 for its work in 'bridging the knowledge gap' in the UK about China. The newly launched European Edition featured the Club in its article entitled 'Food for Talk' in its third issue.
 
The article covers the Club's history, the profile of its members, the way that the Club bridges a vital gap between the Chinese and British communities here in the UK and the ton of noodles that we have eaten over the years! It also mentions the recognition of the valuable work of the Club by the Chinese authorities, including Vice Minister for foreign affairs, Fu Ying, and Ambassador Liu Xiaoming who have attended two of our high profile events. Read more...


THE ALFRED LEE COLUMN

CLICK HERE to read Chopsticks Club Member and Journalist, articles on China related subjects in London


  


'A Dialogue with the Ambassador' event - a huge success

To a room packed to capacity at the Royal Society in London on Tuesday 19 October, Ambassador Liu Xiaoming, addressed a captive audience of Chopsticks Club members and China-interested guests. His speech was very well researched and used the image of chopsticks and the knife and fork to convey the different cultures of China and the West. Both are important, he said "but the length of each chopstick is the same" He went on to describe how this reflected the need for equality in bi-lateral relations. Club Director, H-J Colston, spoke of the need to do more to educate the British public about China "in order to dispel fear and prejudice that often springs out of ignorance." She also talked of the expansion plans of the Club.

The event was kindly sponsored by Grant Thornton and Albany China


Picture: Ambassador Liu Xiaoming
Ambassador Liu Xiaoming
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China's Ministry of Education honours the work of the Chopsticks Club

Club Director, H-J Colston, has been invited as a guest of the Ministry of Education to Beijing over the National Day Holiday period in recognition of the "outstanding contribution" by the Club "to the friendship and cooperation of our two countries". H-J will be part of a worldwide delegation of 50 individuals who have studied Chinese since China first invited overseas students 60 years ago to the mainland and who have been involved in promoting bi-lateral relation during their career. "This is a great honour," said H-J, "as it reflects the value that we add to our network and members in relation to promoting Chinese understanding, the importance of our network and the support services we provide."


Chopsticks Club Monthly Events

The Club's monthly dinner/speaker events provide a uniquely informal and welcoming atmosphere in which to network and to gain insight into the changing face of China. Its topical debates air issues of interest and concern to our members and generate healthy and sensitive discussion.


筷子俱乐部每月组织一次的聚餐-演说活动给大家提供了一个特别随意和热情的气氛,在这样的环境里相互交流,建立联系,获取有关正在变化中的中国情况。演说和辩论所涉及的话题不仅符合大家的兴趣,而且也引起了与会者们健康而理性的讨论。


Many Chinese people who move to the UK find it hard to find a real "UK experience" of life whilst they are here and to find friends with similar interests. The Chopsticks Club aims to fill this gap and to be the number one destination for anyone interested in China - including those whose work involves China, Chinese people moving to London and returning expatriates providing a ready-made community of like-minded professionals. The Club's aims are simple but sincere:
 

  • knowledge sharing
  • debate
  • cultural exchange
  • networking


许多居住在英国的中国人在英国生活期间难以获得真正的'英国'经验。因此,筷子俱乐部致力于改变这种状况,把俱乐部办成一个所有对中国感兴趣或与中国事务有关人士的首选之地,为这些具有相似意向或目的的专业人士们提供一个现成的社团。筷子俱乐部的目的虽然很简单可是非常真诚:
 

  • 知识分享
  • 辩论
  • 文化交流
  • 友谊


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