Join author Stewart Lee Beck, co-founder of China Simplified, for an entertaining, fast-rewind journey through 5,000 years of Chinese history to better understand the modern nation.
Stewart will highlight China Simplified’s 18 must-know historic characters – from the “Heroic Historian” and the “Artist Emperor” forward to the “Floating CEO” and the “Fashion Icons” – whose lives continue to exert a profound influence on 21st-century Chinese culture and its mindset.
In the desolate Altai mountains of western Mongolia, where the winters are brutally cold, live the last of the men who hunt with eagles. Kazakh nomads have been grazing their livestock in this isolated region for hundreds of years and only the toughest survive here.
Fascinated by the special bond that develops between man and eagle, award-winning photographer Palani Mohan spent four years documenting the burkitshi, as the hunters are known in Kazakh. But this is a culture under threat. There are no more than fifty to sixty “true” hunters left and each winter claims a few more. His images are an enthralling and timely record of these noble men and their magnificent eagles in a dramatic and unforgiving part of our planet.
Who is more dangerous, “Little Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un or “Mentally Deranged Dotard” Donald Trump? Is the North Korean leader crazy or rational? Is Pyongyang the biggest threat to world peace or could the American president be the one pushing the region and the world towards nuclear Armageddon?
Join Jamil Anderlini, Asia Editor, and six of the FT’s leading journalists as they debate this vexing issue.
Participants:
Peter Spiegel, News Editor
David Pilling, Africa Editor
Pilita Clark, Business Columnist
Emily Feng, Beijing Correspondent
Tom Mitchell, Beijing Bureau Chief
Bryan Harris, Seoul Bureau Chief
Jamil Anderlini, Asia Editor
American novelist and poet, Paul Beatty, took the literary world by storm after winning the 2016 Man Booker Prize for The Sellout, a scathing and hilarious novel on racism in America. Join us for this year’s headline reading and Q&A with Paul Beatty, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize.
Moderated by Aaliyah Bilal, a fiction/non-fiction writer and an Islamicist.
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