Two public lectures, "Rethinking the study of Shanghai during the 1950s" (by Professor Zhang Ji Shun, East China Normal University) and "Zhejiang Village of Beijing and the Transformation of Chinese Society in the Past 20 years" (by Professor Xiang Biao, University of Oxford) were held on 13 January 2016 and 19 February 2016, respectively.

After Professor Xiang's lecture, Dr Yu Kwok Leung, Associate Director of the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture and Professor Ling Minhua, Assistant Professor of the Centre for China Studies, co-organised a roundtable discussion on the topic of "Participatory Action Research". Together with Professor Xiang and some other scholars, the discussion group further considered the objective of the Zhejiang Village project and problems that have been encountered. The discussion was joined by Christoph Steinhardt, Assistant Professor of the Centre for China Studies, Chen Ju-chen, Lecturer of Department of Anthropology, Mr Cheung Chi Wai, associate editor of 21st Century Bimonthly, as well as a number of Ph.D. students and Master Degree graduates.

Videos of the two lectures and news of the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture's upcoming events can be found at the following sites:

1) The Centre's website http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/rcccc/event_main.html
2) 21st Century Bimonthly Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cuhk21c/
3) 21st Century Bimonthly Weibo http://www.weibo.com/ics21c