![Shanghai – Even Closer China-Africa Community? with Eric Olander [Thursday, October 11]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/eric-olander.jpg "Shanghai – Even Closer China-Africa Community? with Eric Olander [Thursday, October 11]")
As the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the triennial official forum between China and all the African states with the exception of Eswatini, took place in Beijing in early September 2018, YCW Shanghai invites Eric
![London – Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China with Leta Hong Fincher [Monday, October 08]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/leta_hong_fincher_headshot_0.jpg "London – Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China with Leta Hong Fincher [Monday, October 08]")
Feminism poses the greatest threat to China’s authoritarian regime. That is the central argument of journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher in her new book Betraying Big Brother. The feminist movement in China has been spearheaded by five activists who
![New York – Dinner discussion: Jason Pau, Senior director at Alibaba and Chief of Staff International to Mr Jack Ma with Jason Pau [Tuesday, September 25]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/J_Pau1.jpeg "New York – Dinner discussion: Jason Pau, Senior director at Alibaba and Chief of Staff International to Mr Jack Ma with Jason Pau [Tuesday, September 25]")
Alibaba, one of China’s tech giants, established and transformed e-commerce and mobile payments in a previously cash-based society in well under a decade. It is now branching out into many more initiatives and markets overseas that potentially sets the stage
![New York – YCW NY: Zak Dychtwald – “Jiu Ling Hou: Exploring the Lives of Chinese Millennials ” (Tue, Aug 7th ) with Zak Dychtwald [Tuesday, August 07]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/zak_pic1-686x350.jpg "New York – YCW NY: Zak Dychtwald – “Jiu Ling Hou: Exploring the Lives of Chinese Millennials ” (Tue, Aug 7th ) with Zak Dychtwald [Tuesday, August 07]")
China’s Jiu Ling Hou or Post-90’s generation is sometimes referred to as the Net-generation, Me-generation, or Strawberry Generation for their inability to bear hardship or “eat bitterness.” In this conversation with Zak Dychtwald, millennial and author of Young China, Zak
![New York – NY: Julian Gewirtz – “Searching for Ideas to Remake a Nation” (Tue, July 10th ) with Julian Gewirtz [Tuesday, July 10]](http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/julian_gewirtz1.png "New York – NY: Julian Gewirtz – “Searching for Ideas to Remake a Nation” (Tue, July 10th ) with Julian Gewirtz [Tuesday, July 10]")
Join Young China Watchers in marking the 40th anniversary of “reform and opening,” with Julian Gewirtz. We’ll sit down to dinner with Julian to hear insights from and discuss his book, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making