CNY 2025 celebration at Mishcon de Reya
We are delighted to invite our members on behalf of our wonderful hosts, Mishcon de Reya, to a joint Chinese New Year celebration at their stunning offices in Africa House. For those unfamiliar with this Grade-II listed building and its history, it is an architectural jewel, both inside and out, and it is a rare privilege for us to share this with you.
Date: Thursday 20th February 2025
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Venue: Africa House
HK Society Chinese New Year Dinner 2025
We are thrilled to announce that the Society’s Chinese New Year Dinner will be held at the world-renowned Hakkasan Chinese Restaurant, famous for its modern Cantonese cuisine and dramatic design.
Date: Wednesday 26th February 2025
Venue: Hakkasan Hanway Place
Time: 6:30pm for 7.00pm
Gloucestershire Spring Lunch 2024
Spring Lunch to Welcome the Year of the Snake
According to the Chinese calendar, on 29 January the Dragon cedes pride of place to the wise and transformational Snake. However, not all changes are wise, and sometimes we would do well to embrace the tried and tested! Thus, what could be more appropriate than a return trip (for many of us) to the Golden Mountain Restaurant in Cheltenham – deemed a big success last year?
Date: Wed 26 March 2025
Venue: Golden Mountain Restaurant, Cheltenham
Society's 3rd Annual HK Book Fair
We are thrilled to have confirmed so far two very well-known China figures and authors for our Annual HK Book Fair - Michael Sheridan and Paul French who cover two different and fascinating people: Xi Jinping and Wallace Simpson.
Venue: Oriental Club, London
Cost: £40 (HKS members); £50 (non-members) price includes a welcome drink and 7 delicious canapés
Timings: 18.00 - 20.30
An Evening with Martin Barrow CBE
In the run-up to The Year of The Snake, we are delighted that The Scottish Region of The Hong Kong Society, together with the Scotland-China Association, will host its first ever joint-venture, and we very much hope this will be the first of more such ventures!
Date: Tuesday 21 January 2025
Time: 7 p.m.: reception, with refreshments (Chinese tea and biscuits); 7.30 p.m.: presentation, followed by Q&A and discussion; 9 p.m.: close
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh
Peninsula Tour (11 Nov)
We are delighted to announce a third private tour of the stunning Peninsula London.
Date: Monday 11th November
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Peninsula London
Peninsula Tour (7 Nov)
We are delighted to announce a second private tour of the stunning Peninsula London.
Date: Thursday 7th November
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Peninsula London
Guided Tour of Sotheby's auction of Chinese art & artefacts
We are delighted to announce this free guided tour of highlights of Sotheby’s upcoming auction of Chinese art and artefacts, led by Gordon Lo, Sotheby’s Head of Sale for Chinese Art.
Date: Saturday 2nd November
Time: 14.20 for 14.30 start
Venue: Sotheby’s
Tour of the Peninsula
We are delighted to announce a private tour of the stunning Peninsula London.
Date: Wednesday 30th October
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Peninsula London
HK Society Annual Dinner 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Thursday 10th October is the date for this year’s HK Society Annual Dinner and that former Society Chairman Clinton Leeks has accepted our invitation to be the Guest Speaker for the evening.
Gloucestershire Region Mid-Autumn Festival Lunch
We are delighted to be able to let you know that the next Gloucestershire Region lunch – a slightly belated Mid-Autumn Festival celebration - will take place on Wednesday 2 October.
Date: Wednesday 2nd October 2024
Time: 12.30 - 2.30
Scottish Region Mid-Autumn Festival Lunch
THE HONG KONG SOCIETY, SCOTTISH REGION
MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL LUNCH
TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2024
12.30 for 1 p.m.
THE EMPEROR RESTAURANT, Edinburgh
HK Business Update
This annual seminar is designed to provide an up-to-date picture of the current business scene in Hong Kong and prospects for the year ahead.
Date: Tuesday 2nd July 2024
Time: Seminar 7pm – 8pm; Q&A 8pm; Reception 8.15pm – 9.30pm
HCC Dragon Boat Festival Networking Seminar
Panel discussion on the effects of climate change and innovative solutions to combat the negative impact
Date: Thursday 13th June
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Tea-tasting at Fortnum and Mason
The HK Society is delighted to collaborate with the International Wine & Food Society (IWFS), established in 1933 (https://www.iwfs.capital/) on this exclusive opportunity to have the art and history of tea-tasting explained by renowned tea expert Will Battle to mark the launch of the publication of the 2024 IWFS Monograph – Tea, authored by Will.
Date: Saturday, 25 May 2024
Times: Morning session: 11 am – 1 pm or Afternoon Session: 3 pm – 5 pm
Location: Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Studio
Society’s Second Annual Book Festival
After the success of our inaugural Book Fair, we are pleased to announce the date of our second Book Fair and that published author and ex-RHKP officer Simon Roberts (HK Beat) will be moderating this year.
Date: Thursday 9th May 2024
Time: From 5.30pm
Online Lecture with Nigel Johnson-Hill
Online Lecture with Nigel Johnson-Hill:
‘From Hell, With Love’ The untold story of a love that survived the horrors of the infamous Burma Railway.
Date: Tuesday 9th April
Time: From 5.45pm
Scottish Region Spring Lunch
The Scottish Region’s event, which will welcome (a little later than usual) The Year of The Dragon, will take place on Tuesday 12 March. This date has been arranged in order that those members who will attend the Society’s Chinese New Year dinner in London, at the end of February, may be able to add the Scottish celebration to their diaries!
Spring Lunch: Tuesday 12 March
The Emperor Restaurant (previously, Saigon Saigon)
Private Society evening at Hackett, Savile Row
Iconic British brand meets Oscar-winning HK art director Tim Yip (of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame)
Date: Thursday 29th February 2024
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
HK Society Chinese New Year Dinner 2024
We are delighted to announce that we have a date for our ever popular annual Chinese New Year Dinner.
Date: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Venue: China City
Time: 6:30pm Cash Bar, 7.00pm Dinner
Gloucestershire Region Chinese New Year Lunch
On 10 February, the Rabbit moves over and gives pride of place to the powerful and auspicious Dragon, so what could be more appropriate than a return trip (for many of us) to The Golden Mountain Restaurant in Cheltenham – particularly as it worked exceptionally well back in April!?
Date: Wednesday 28th February
HK Society Annual Dinner 2023
We are pleased to announce that the Society’s Annual Dinner will be held on Tuesday 28th November and even better news is that our Former Chairman Nigel Johnson-Hill has agreed to be the guest speaker for the evening.
Mid-Autumn Festival Dinner and Lecture with Simon Winchester OBE
We are thrilled to announce that New York Times best-selling author, renowned journalist and ex-HKer Simon Winchester OBE has agreed to give a lecture to Society members about his newly released book Knowing What We Know. As the talk will coincide with the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will combine this event with a Chinese dinner in Chinatown.
Date: Thursday 19th October 2023
Time: 6.30pm Cash Bar and Book Signing; Lecture 7.00pm; Dinner 8.00pm
Bath/Bristol Regional Mid-Autumn Festival Dinner
The HK Society and the Bristol & West of England China Bureau welcome members to celebrate the Moon Festival together at the delightful Wongs Restaurant.
Date: Thursday 5th October
Time: From 6.00pm
Gloucestershire Regional Mid-Autumn Festival Lunch
We are pleased to announce the Gloucestershire chapters’ Mid-Autumn Festival Lunch will host Professor Robert Bickers, the Head of the Hong Kong History Centre (which includes the Historical Photographs of China initiative) at University of Bristol.
Date: Tuesday 4th October 2023
Time: 12.00 for 1.00pm
HK Society Polo Afternoon
Please join us for the annual HK Society Polo afternoon.
Date: Sunday 10th September 2023
Time: 12 noon - 17.30
Bristol and Bath Summer Gathering
Date: Thursday 13th July 2023
Time: from 7.15pm
Venue: The Elder, Bath
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HK Society Lecture: "China's Solar Calendar - An Epic Adventure around China" by Dominic Johnson-Hill
Date: Thursday 27th April
Location: Central London
We are delighted that long term HK and China resident, Dominic Johnson-Hill, has agreed to present stories and photos of his epic journey around rural China examining how the 3,000 year old Chinese solar calendar has impacted customs and traditions throughout China and how these are still celebrated in the country today.
Regional Lunch in Gloucestershire
Date: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last year we held a rather delightful lunch to celebrate the start of the Year of the Tiger. The venue was a Chinese Restaurant in Winchcombe St, Cheltenham, which I then described thus: Pretty much everyone who’s lived in HK had a favourite small Chinese restaurant which was a block or so off a main road, neither posh (nor expensive) but with really pleasant staff, reliably delicious and relatively authentic food - a good place both to drop into after a long day and to take visitors. Well, an approximation to that favourite exists in Cheltenham.
Regional Dinner in Tunbridge Wells
Date: Friday 14th April 2023
After a 3 year hiatus, we are really pleased that the annual regional event in Tunbridge Wells is resuming.
Hong Kong Business Update
This annual seminar is designed to provide an up-to-date picture of the current business scene in Hong Kong and prospects for the year ahead.