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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211119T080000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220131T233000
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SUMMARY:Renewal Season
DESCRIPTION:RENEW HERE \nWe would like to thank you for your support in 2021 and to ask you to renew your support for our community in 2022.  \nIt is now the time to renew your FCCC membership: your 2021 subscription ends on December 31st. We know next year will also be tough – and the Club needs you!  \nWe ask that you renew as early as possible\, as this allows us to plan for next year and organize even more speaker events and social gatherings. As a bonus\, all those who renew before November 30th will be entered into an early bird raffle to win six bottles of the finest wine available to the Club. All renewals also get a FCCC lapel pin. \nWe hope to see you again soon again at one of our upcoming FCCC-events.

 \nWith kind regards\,  \nDana\, Emily\, Javi\, Kirsi\, Koichi\, Marcelo\, Simina\, Simon\, Thomas and Yuan \n 
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/renewal-season/
CATEGORIES:Renewal Season
ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220111T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220111T190000
DTSTAMP:20260512T123621
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SUMMARY:FCCC Talk. How Beijing Won the 2022 Winter Olympics by Heather Dichter
DESCRIPTION:On February 4 the XXIV Olympic Winter Games will open in Beijing\, marking the first time a city will host both the summer and winter Olympic Games.  Politics — both within China and the Olympic movement more broadly — have been a major point of discussion\, when the International Olympic Committee selected China to host the Games as well as with more recent announcements of diplomatic boycotts of the event.  Professor Dichter will discuss how politics influenced the 2022 Olympic Winter Games selection process\, resulting in Beijing’s victory\, and how efforts to use the Olympic Games for political reasons historically have fared. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Heather Dichter is Associate Professor of sport history and sport management in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester\, UK.  She has published widely on international sport and diplomacy\, including her recent book\, Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (Massachusetts\, 2021).  Her edited book\,Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914 (Kentucky\, 2020) was shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Football Book of the Year.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-how-beijing-won-the-2022-winter-olympics-by-heather-dichter/
LOCATION:Google Meet
CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220118T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260512T123621
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SUMMARY:FCCC Talk. How to Read The People’s Daily by Manoj Kewalramani
DESCRIPTION:In his studies of Chinese politics\, Indian researcher Manoj Kewalramani felt that national reportage and discourse often overlooked the analysis of primary source materials and open source Chinese language materials. This was the impetus behind his work on reading the People’s Daily and putting it in the public domain in the form of a daily blog. He will talk about the different lenses through which he views the newspaper and what are some of his learnings from this process. And also\, why he feels it is important to develop an Indian perspective on the threats and opportunities that China’s rise brings. \nABOUT OUR SPEAKER:  Manoj Kewalramani is the Chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme at the Takshashila Institution\, a centre for public policy education based in Bengaluru\, India. His research interests range from Chinese politics\, foreign policy and approaches to new technologies to addressing questions of how India can work with like-minded partners to deal with the challenges presented by China’s rise. Manoj is the author of Smokeless War: China’s Quest for Geopolitical Dominance\, which discusses China’s political\, diplomatic\, economic and narrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining Takshashila\, he spent over a decade working as a journalist in India and China\, where he helped set up digital newsrooms and train young journalists.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-how-to-read-the-peoples-daily-by-manoj-kewalramani/
LOCATION:Google Meet
CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220120T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260512T123621
CREATED:20220112T053603Z
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SUMMARY:《冰上时刻》/ BURNING ICE Press Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \n《冰上时刻》/ BURNING ICE\nSynopsis: Ice hockey has been professionalized gradually in China since Beijing had successfully bid for the Olympic Winter Games. Qu Ruichen (Richard)\, Yu Lifan (Steven)\, and Zhai Zinan (Jason) are three nine-year-old strikers for a Beijing junior ice hockey team. While the three strikers are clenching their teeth and giving their best on the court\, their parents also stand at a crossroads: should they support their children to become professional athletes or to force them to forget their dreams?\nAward: 2019 Xining FIRST Film Festival Best Documentary Pitch\nDirector: Liu Hanxiang (刘汉祥)\nExecutive Producer: Fan Lixin (范立欣)\nProduction Company: InHope Pictures (www.inhope.net)
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/11366/
LOCATION:北京市朝阳区工体东路6号中国红街大厦1号楼F9\, 北京市朝阳区工体东路6号中国红街大厦1号楼F9
CATEGORIES:Events,In-person Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220121T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220121T100000
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SUMMARY:FCCC Talk. The Pursuit of Soft Power Through Sport Mega-Events: Lessons from China by Susan Brownell
DESCRIPTION:Since the end of the Cold War\, Olympic Games have entered a new era in which governments see the games as a form of “public diplomacy” and non-governmental organizations target the games in publicity campaigns. The Chinese leadership intended the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to serve the pursuit of “soft power.”  In the leadup to the Beijing 2022 Olympics\, what has changed and what has stayed the same since 2008\, and what are the lessons going forward for China and other nations strategizing to increase their “soft power” through hosting sport mega-events? And how should the members of the media see their role in this process? \nAbout our speaker: Susan Brownell is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and a former nationally-ranked track and field athlete in the U.S. She has been researching sports and Olympic Games in China since she won a gold medal in the 1986 Chinese College Games while representing Peking University.  In 2007-08\, she joined Chinese colleagues collaborating with BOCOG and the municipal government\, and she also had rare access to internal decision-making at the International Olympic Committee.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-talk-the-pursuit-of-soft-power-through-sport-mega-events-lessons-from-china-by-susan-brownell/
LOCATION:Google Meet
CATEGORIES:Events,Online Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220127T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220127T220000
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CREATED:20220124T112248Z
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SUMMARY:FCCC Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join the fellow FCCC members for drinks at the Jing-A microbrewery in the Kerry Center from 6:30 pm this Thursday\, January 27th. This event is also open to friends and colleagues of FCCC members\, no need to register.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-happy-hour-3/
LOCATION:JingA Kerry Center\, Beijing Kerry Center\, North Tower 1\, Beijing\, China
CATEGORIES:Events,Happy Hour
ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220128T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220128T173000
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SUMMARY:FCCC in-person Talk. Sporting Superpower: An Insider’s View on China’s Quest to be the Best by Mark Dreyer
DESCRIPTION:As Beijing prepares to become the first city in history to host both a Summer and a Winter Olympics\, the eyes of the sporting world—and beyond—will be on China come February 2022. Despite international calls for a boycott due to human rights violations\, Beijing is determined to show that it has conquered COVID-19 and can host another spectacular Olympics. But behind all the politics and the soft power\, China’s sports industry has changed dramatically since those first Games in 2008:\n• A drive to promote soccer with the ultimate goal of winning the World Cup has already gone through both boom and bust.\n• International leagues such as the NBA\, the WTA and the English Premier League now must tread through a minefield of nationalistic fervor.\n• Sportswear companies like Li-Ning and Anta have ridden a wave of domestic support in an ongoing bid to topple Nike and Adidas in the world’s largest consumer market.\n• Ski resorts have sprung up across the country as the winter sports market takes off.\nWeaving together the parallel threads of sports\, business and politics\, internationally-renowned China-based sports journalist Mark Dreyer—the China Sports Insider—who first moved to Beijing to cover the 2008 Olympics\, takes us on the rollercoaster ride of China’s burgeoning sports industry. Through a series of tales from industry insiders\, Dreyer not only paints a picture of China’s quest for dominance in yet another sector\, but also sheds light on the growing pains and global implications of China’s modernization. \nAbout the author: Formerly a football reporter with Sky Sports in the UK\, Mark Dreyer has been covering sports around the world for close to 20 years. A veteran of three Olympic and Paralympic Games (Beijing\, Vancouver\, London 2008-12)\, where he was an accredited journalist\, he has also been a reporter and producer for both Fox Sports and AP Sports in the US. A multi-sports specialist who has reported on sports events in five different continents\, his first love is football and he has previously interviewed stars including Pele and David Beckham. He has worked with a number of media outlets in China and is regularly asked to comment on the Chinese sports industry for BBC\, CNBC\, Bloomberg\, Financial Times and many others. He runs the China Sports Insider website and co-hosts the China Sports Insider Podcast on the Sinica Network. Mark has been based in China since 2007.
URL:https://fccchina.org/event/fccc-in-person-talk-sporting-superpower-an-insiders-view-on-chinas-quest-to-be-the-best-by-mark-dreyer/
LOCATION:Embassy near Sanlitun\, Beijing\, China
CATEGORIES:Events,In-person Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="FCCC":MAILTO:fcccadmin@gmail.com
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