![London – YCW London: Lau-YCW Essay Competition Winners Presentations & CNY Drinks with Kerry Brown [Friday, February 17]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/kerrybrown_150x150.jpg "London – YCW London: Lau-YCW Essay Competition Winners Presentations & CNY Drinks with Kerry Brown [Friday, February 17]")
YCW London is delighted to announce our first event of 2017, in which we will be hosting the winners of the inaugural Lau-YCW Institute Essay Competition. The winning submission by Lauren Dickey, a PhD Candidate in War Studies at King’s
![Berlin – Social Development in China: Discussing the Phenomenon of Queer Families with Popo Fan [Tuesday, February 07]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/popo-400x350.jpeg "Berlin – Social Development in China: Discussing the Phenomenon of Queer Families with Popo Fan [Tuesday, February 07]")
In recent years, attitudes towards family structures have changed quite dramatically in China. Despite government censorship, the LGBTQ community is becoming increasingly visible and outspoken. For several years as a film maker, Popo Fan has been interviewing people regarding their
![Singapore – Young China Hand: Author Presentation with Matt Huang and Grace Hsu [Thursday, February 02]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YCH-333x350.jpg "Singapore – Young China Hand: Author Presentation with Matt Huang and Grace Hsu [Thursday, February 02]")
Recently featured in the Straits Times, Young China Hand is a thriller about a crisis-era clash between Western wits, Chinese princeling-linked financiers and Peking duck farmers. Inspired by true events and experiences between 2008 and 2013, Young China Hand combines
![Brussels – YCW Brussels: Dumplings & Divination – Chinese New Year Feast with Yu Jiao [Thursday, February 02]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/yujiao_01-750x350.png "Brussels – YCW Brussels: Dumplings & Divination – Chinese New Year Feast with Yu Jiao [Thursday, February 02]")
Come and join Young China Watchers Brussels to celebrate the start of the Year of the Rooster! On the occasion of Chinese New Year, Young China Watchers is hosting a dinner and talk, accompanied by traditional Chinese dishes, such as
![Singapore – Understanding and Securing the Belt and Road: The View From the Ground with Khong Yuen Foong, Raffaello Pantucci [Khong Yuen Foong and Raffaello Pantucci]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/khongyuenfoong_01-750x350.png "Singapore – Understanding and Securing the Belt and Road: The View From the Ground with Khong Yuen Foong, Raffaello Pantucci [Khong Yuen Foong and Raffaello Pantucci]")
Four years since President Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt in Astana the regional project has become the outline for a global vision known as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. But it is seen in a very different