Looking ahead - Nov 8

Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Lagging high-tech sector under microscope

The Lau China Institute at King's College London is presenting Andrew Tylecote's lecture China's Challenge in High Technology on Wednesday at the Lucas Lecture Theatre on the Strand Campus in London. The talk will discuss the notion that the nation's fast industrial growth and its rapidly strengthening science base, as well as its R&D breakthroughs and patent portfolio have overshadowed its less spectacular performance within the high-tech sector.

Snapshot offered into photography's past

A panel of experts will discuss China's early photographic studio practices and traditions at an event at the China Exchange on Thursday. Traditions of Photography in China will be held at 32a Gerrard Street, London. The discussion is being held alongside the China Exchange's exhibition of historical photography, Life in Qing Dynasty Shanghai: The Photographs of William Saunders. Participants in the discussion will include Michael Pritchard, director general of the Royal Photographic Society, Betty Yao, managing director of Credential International Arts Management, contemporary photographer Grace Lau, and Stacey Lambrow, curator of the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection.

Relationship with Mexico subject of lecture

The London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting a lecture on Thursday by Professor Enrique Dussel Peters titled Mexico and China: Socioeconomic and Policy Challenges in 2016. The talk will be held in the Thai Theatre within the New Academic Building in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Peters works out of the Graduate School of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.