Coincidentally, another ‘intercultural dialogue’, worthy of the name, was held on the 17th April at the 2012 London Book Fair with China as the Market Focus. It is entitled ‘Dialogue on Public Diplomacy and Intercultural Communication — Zhao Qizheng’s English Version Book Release’ , together with other publishing seminars for professionals. Approached by relevant people, CCPN was involved in the arrangement of inviting UK China experts acting as speakers, honorary guests or participants in a numbers of events. This can be seen as a practise of CCPN’s public engagement.

There are many interesting events in the London Book Fair: China the Market Focus 2012, from 16 to 18 April, at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, London, UK, SW5 9TA.

Selected events

(in chronological order) 

16th April, Monday
9:15-10:15   The English Edition Book Launch of Innovation in China: The Chengdu Triangle, by Mr and Mrs John Naisbitt   [Piccadilly Room]
9:30-12:30 “The Great China Wave”: Discussions on the China Developmental Model
[Hampton Room] Download Programme
13:30-14:30 Publishing and Culture Dialogue  [Market Focus Pavilion]
14:30-17:15 China and Europe Publishing Forum [Conference Centre Room 1]
***16:00-17:00  Why and How the CPC Works in China?(book launch for the revised English version) [Piccadilly Room]
16:00-17:00 A Female Perspective  [Whitehall Room]

17th April, Tuesday
***9:00-10:00 Public Diplomacy Dialogue and Intercultural Communication:Zhao Qisheng’s Book Release of English Version, by Zhao Qizheng, etc. [Piccadilly Room]
9:30-12:15 China-UK-Digital-Forum   [Thames Room]
9:30-10:30 Publishing & Economics Dialogue [Market Focus Pavilion]
14:00-17:00 CLT & ELT Publishing Dialogue [Thames Room]
***16:00-16:50  Academic Activities on Global Economic Imbalances and China’s Economic Development, by Social Science Academic Press, CASS [Piccadilly Room]
17:00-17:50 Launching of the e-Contemporary China Series, by GVRL and the Contemporary China Publishing House, CASS. [Piccadilly Room]
16:30-17:30 Publishing and Copyright Protection Dialogue [Market Focus Pavilion]

18th April Wednesday
9:30-11:00 Understanding China’s Education System [Hampton Room]
11:30-12:30 MBA Cases of Chinese Enterprises  [Piccadilly Room]
11:30-12:30 Urban Landscapes  [Whitehall Room]
14:30-15:30 China’s Opportunities and Challenges in Globalization  [Hampton Room]
15:30-16:30 Rural China  [Whitehall Room]
16:00-17:00 Face to Face: the Thriving Development for University Publishers in New Challenges   [Hampton Room]

Links of related info:

• http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/
• http://news.cntv.cn/special/londonbookfair/shouye/index.shtml
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/04/120402_london_book_fair.shtml

*** CCPN collaborates with the three events (in reverse order)

EVENT III

Academic Activities on Global Economic Imbalances and China’s Economic Development
Time: 16:00 – 16:50, 17th April, Tuesday
Venue: Piccadilly Room
Chair: Mr Xie Shouguang, President of Social Sciences Academic Press
Speakers:

• Mr Wu Shulin, vice Minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP)
• Professor Li Yang, vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Panellists:

• Prof Li Yang, vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
• Prof Li Peilin, Director of the Institute of Sociology, CASS
• Prof Zhang Yuyan, Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, CASS
• Prof Gao Peiyong, Director of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, CASS

Organiser: China Social Science Press
Co-organizers: Paths International;
China in Comparative Perspective Network, LSE
Language: English and Chinese with translation
Launching books:

1. Annual Report on China’s Financial Development, editor Li Yang, Wang Guogang, eds., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International Cooperation Publishing
2. BRICS and the Global Transformation, Li Yang ed., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International
3. The Chinese Society: Change and Transformation, Li Peilin, ed. Copublished by SSAP and Routledge
4. Chinese Perspective on Society, Li Peilin ed., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and Brill
5. China’s Climate Change Policies, Wang Weiguang, Guoguang Zheng,Pan Jiahua eds., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Earth Scan
6. Budgeting the Carbon published for Equity and the Sustainability, Pan Jiahua ed., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International
7. Annual Report on International Politics and Security, Li Shenming, Zhang Yuyan. eds., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International

Notes:

1. Paths International donated 30 books to the participants. They are 10 copies of each as the following (the rest of the books are in print):

• BRICS and the Global Transformation, Li Yang ed., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International
• Annual Report on China’s Financial Development, editor Li Yang, Wang Guogang, eds., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International Cooperation Publishing
• Annual Report on International Politics and Security, Li Shenming, Zhang Yuyan. eds., co-published by Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) and the Paths International

2.  CCPN co-organised thisevent. Dr Xiangqun Chang acted as the chair at this seminar due to Mr Xie Shouguang failure in obtaining a visa in time.

3. Xie Shouguang’s latest views on ‘Chinese social sceince go globlal’. On the 13th April 2012, Xinhua Net published an interview with Xie Shouguang, the President of the Social Science Academic Press, in the the 2012 London Book Fair together with Xie’s inscription: ‘Carefully crafted international academic disseminating platform, to promote contemporary Chinese academic work to go to the world’. Xie Shouguang believes:

• publishing enterprises should have a sense of using common global rules to discuss matters of China within the mainstream discourse system
• Introducing Chinese academic work should be a main result of China’s cultural products ‘going global’ because they will be helpful for disseminating the core values and the most advanced thinking to spread to the world
• there will be a high-speed growth period for both paper and digital publishing products because compared to developed countries in China the book price is almost six to eight times lower. Especially, as China’s urban population is more than 50%, with the expected change in consumption habits and increase in income, if book consumption increases by by 1 to 2 percent it will lead to the rapid development of the entire publishing industry.
• Editors are not eclectic, rather they are experts in different fields and, with a broad range of knowledge, publishers should be gatekeepers. Therefore, improving the quality of the entire publishing industry will automatically act to control the quality of academic products.

EVENT II

East-West Dialogue on Public Diplomacy: New Books from Zhao Qizheng
Time: 9:00 – 10:00am, 17th April, Tuesday
Venue: Piccadilly Room
Chair: Huang Youyi, Vice Director and Editor-in-chief, China International Publishing Group (CIPG)
Speakers and panellists:

• Mr Liu Binjie, Minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP)
• Professor Zhao Qizheng, the author Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Economic and Social Council of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
• Mr Willem Buiter, chief economist of the Citibank
• Professor Michael Hoey, Pro Vice-Chancellor, the University of Liverpool

Organiser: China International Publishing Group (CIPG)
Language: English (Chinese & English simultaneous translation)
Programme:

9:00-9:05 Chair to introduce the event and guests
9:06-9:10 A speech by Liu Bingjie, Minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP)
9:10-9:15 A speech by Zhao Qizheng, the author
9:15-9:20 A speech by Willem Buiter, the Citibank chief economist
9:20-9:25 A speech by Michael Hoey, Vice-Chancellor, the University of Liverpool
9:25-9:45 A dialogue between Zhao Qingzheng and Honorary Guests
9:45-9:50 Media Q & A session
9:50-9:55 Group photo

Launching books:

• Cross-Border Dialogue: the Wisdom of Public Diplomacy, Zhao Qizheng at el,
  New World Press
• How China Communicates:Public Diplomacy in a Global age, Zhao Qizheng, Foreign Languages Press

Honorary guests:

• Professor John Naisbitt, Chairman of Naisbitt China Institute Tianjin, an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies; his international bestsellers about Megatrends have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide
• Professor Doris Naisbitt, Director of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin; an observer of global social, economic and political trends, co-author of the besteller Megatrends China: Eight Pillars of a New Society; and The China Model and author of Mai-Lin My China (CITIC Press October 2010).
• Professor Michael Hoey, Pro Vice-Chancellor, the University of Liverpool
• Mr Willem Buiter, chief economist of the Citibank
• Professor Athar Hussain, Director of Asia Research Centre, LSE (illness absence)
• Dr Xiangqun Chang, Senior Research Associate and Co-Director of China in Comparative Perspective Network, LSE
• Mr. Sameh El-Shahat, Founder and President of China-I Ltd.
• Mr Raymond Li, Head of Chinese, BBC World Service

After the book launch event a signing ceremony of the New Classic Press, which bought the copyright of its English version, was held in the book stall of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG).

EVENT I

Why and How the CPC Works in China? (launch of for the revised English version)
Time: 16:00-17:00pm, 16th April, Monday
Venue: Piccadilly Room
Chair: Zhang Haiou, Editor-in-chief, New World Press
Speakers:

• Mr Wu Shulin, Vice Minister of the General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP)
• Professor Xie Chuntao, editor of the book, Deputy Director of the Teaching and Research Department of CPC History at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC.
• Dr Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, and Head of the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN).
• Mr Huang Yongjun, Director of New Classic Press

Organiser: China International Publishing Group (CIPG)
Language: English (Chinese & English simultaneous translation)
Panellists*:

• Dr Martin Jacques, Guardian columnist; author of When China Rules the World; Senior Fellow of the IDEAS and a Core Member of CCPN, LSE
• Professor Loretta Napoleoni, economist, author, journalist and political analyst., author of Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do? 
• Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster
• Lord Michael Bates, House of Lords
• Dr Frances Wood, Head of the Chinese department at the British Library
• Mr Raymond Li, Head of Chinese, BBC World Service
• Ms Xuelin Li, President of ZJUKA

Programme

16:00-16:03 Book donation to the British Library (will be received by Dr Frances Wood, Head of the Chinese department)
16:03-16:10 A speech by Wu Shulin, vice-Minister, General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP)
16:10-16:20 A speech by Xie Chuntao (the author and editor)
16:20-16:30 Introduction to the multilingual editions, by a copyright representative
16:30-16:40 A speech by Dr Kerry Brown, China expert in the UK (Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House; Head of the Europe China Research and Advice Network, ECRAN)
16:40-17:00 Q & A

Notes:

1. They were invited as Honorary Guests who made comments and asked questions at this events.

2. Dr Frances Wood, Head of the Chinese department at the British Library, being unable to attend,  Dr Xiangqun Chang received the donated books on her behalf.

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Registration

The above events provide great opportunities to meet Chinese academics and engage in discussions with them. In the first two events books will be given as gifts, and places are limited. If you are interested in any of the events please complete the registration form below. You will get a pass for a free entry to the Book Fair on a first come first served basis.