Students of Yenching Academy came together to learn about hanfu culture and the art of sword dancing.
We formed a group to travel in Chengdu and research the highly acclaimed and financial juggernaut that is Nezha 2. Meeting with the animation companies and interviewing professors on the production and impact that this film has had in China, followed by pandas, art exhibitions and a whole lot of hotpot!
The Yenching Global Symposium (YGS) is one of the most competitive and influential conferences for diving into China-related topics in the world. Given the theme of fortitude, here we see what the delegates get up to after a long day of stimulating and fruitful discussions: playing games, enjoying the local culture, and making friends at the beach in the wonderful tropical island of Hainan.
A film about the elements – hurricanes and rain, the sea and the earth. About a fishing port on the north coast of Cuba which has seen better days: Caibarién, where Hurricane Irma – one of the most powerful ever to sweep the Caribbean – made landfall on 9th September 2017.
About the effects of climate across the centuries in a Caribbean island sucked into global markets for its commodity crops – tobacco, coffee and above all, sugar. How sugar changed the landscape, through deforestation and soil exhaustion.
About the collapse of sugar and the encroachment of a new commodity market – tourism.
About the growing threat from climate change, and the move towards reforestation, ecotourism and sustainable farming.