Welcome to our on campus Chinese new year celebration for students! Feb 2nd and Feb 16th at the Chaplaincy There will be Chinese new year food such as dumplings for Chaplaincy Wednesday meals on 2nd Feb and 16th Feb. It starts at 6pm and it’s free drop in. Pop over to feel the festive joy and enjoy a taste […]
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Year of the Tiger Is Just Around the Corner – Book Your Event NOW!
Congratulations – we made it to another Chinese New Year! We send you our warmest greetings, and we are delighted to invite you to our exclusive Year of the Tiger programme. Despite the challenges that came with this year, we are happy to slowly come back to our usual Chinese New Year celebrations. This year, […]
China Now Dialogues This Thursday: Cultural Infrastructure
Cultural Infrastructure: How it Supports the Development of Cities in China The speed at which cultural infrastructure is developed in China is no new story. Though the lasting legacy of the pandemic on the scale and type of cultural infrastructure is still unknown, China has contributed a handful of new projects in 2020 to the growth […]
Why the Chinese New Year Is Called Spring Festival?
Unsure why an event typically happening in winter is called ‘Spring Festival? Our team member, Junyu Li, sheds light on the origins of the name: Li Junyu: The Spring Festival is the largest and most important festival in China. It has a history of more than 4,000 years. Like all Chinese traditional festivals, the date […]
Interesting Facts about Chinese New Year
2022 Chinese New Year, which is also called the Spring Festival, starts from 1st February 2022. Our team pulled up some fun facts related to the celebration of the Chinese New Year. · 春运(chūn yùn) Spring Festival Travel Rush During the Chinese New Year, no matter where Chinese people are, they all try their best […]
British Council Just Launched Online Internships in China!
This programme run by British Council welcomes students who are over 18 and currently enrolled at, or graduated in the last two years from, a university in the UK. A great opportunity for our students to gain relevant experience while learning more about Chinese language and culture. Why apply? Whatever your ambitions for the future, an […]
Christmas Greetings from our China & East Asia Team
Season’s greetings from Heriot-Watt’s China & East Asia team in Beijing! We would to thank our colleagues for making such a warm video with their Christmas wishes to our team. This is what they said: 2021 has been a challenging year and we are not able to meet in person. But we work together in […]
China Ready! Chinese for Hospitality and Tourism
About this event We are supporting our colleagues at Confucius Institute for Business London, who are hosting the webinar “China Ready! Chinese for Hospitality and Tourism”. About the event China Ready! prepares students and independent learners to work in the hospitality and tourism industry for high-value tourism business coming from China to English-speaking countries. During this […]
CEA Annual Conference: Outcomes
On the 4th December 2021, the CEA annual conference was thrilled to have Mr. Ma Qiang (Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Edinburgh), Professor Peter Mathieson (Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh), Professor Richard A Williams (Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University), and Professor Yu Xiong (CEA UK/Europe president) […]
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
A new volume by the Made in China journal is now available! Since its announcement in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become the main lens through which both observers and stakeholders trace China’s global footprint. Whether cheered on as a new engine of economic development in a fraught and increasingly unequal world […]