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UPCOMING EVENT: Oxford Debate – Will East Asia Lead the Way Beyond This Pandemic?

SPECIAL OFFER: Join today and benefit from 14 instead of 12 months membership.

SEMINAR: How To Understand Contemporary China

Intensive Seminar for Executives

WATCH VIDEO: Is Thailand Ready for Reforms?

WINTER READING 2020: 10 Book Recommendations

by Speakers, Friends, and Asia Society Global Staff

Asia Society Goes Digital: Check out Our Global Online Programs
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Gen A 2021

Gen A 2021

Asia Society Switzerland's one-year guided program, which will enable the next generation to engage with Asia on eye-level and build a community of young Asia-curious people in Switzerland.
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Seminar: How to Understand Contemporary China

This intensive seminar featuring international and Swiss experts will provide you with the tools to analyze China’s rise and identify the opportunities that come with it.
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Browse past events and webcasts on our global YouTube channel, and profit from key takeaways on our most important events of this year.
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Open Call for Young Curator Residency in Hong Kong

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The End and The Beginning - Season 1

A webcast series on the big shifts we see in the world, and the beginnings they enable.
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Oxford Debates

With Oxford Debates we are addressing ‘big’ questions that have no one answer or solution but are inviting many conflicting views. Four renowned experts in the field form teams of two, one team arguing for the motion, the other against it.
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Gen A 2020

Gen A 2020 is the first iteration of Asia Society Switzerland's yearly guided program intended enable the next generation to engage with Asia on eye-level and build a community of young Asia-curious people.
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The Coming Tech Topography

Today, it’s clear that digital technology is one of the main areas in which the intensified competition between global powers is playing out. In a series of events, Asia Society Switzerland will explore different aspects of this topic.
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China's Social Credit System

Transparent citizens, police state, totalitarian rule: China's Social Credit System (SCS) is the talk of the town. We set out to find out what it is all about, in an interview series, in a fact sheet, and in an event: a live taping of a Sinica Podcast.
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The Belt and Road Initiative

All of Asia Society Switzerland's content on China's Belt and Road: videos from the conference, our interview series, and reading recommendations.
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Our Week With Jeong Kwan

Whoever has been to Seoul before knows how hectic South Korea can be. Our week with Jeong Kwan, Korean Buddhist nun and cook, showed us a different side of her home country.
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Remaining True To Our Mission

On March 20, 2020 in response to the Corona crisis in Switzerland, the Federal Council announced that all events or meetings over 5 people were prohibited. At Asia Society Switzerland we continued to be committed. Find out how right here.
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Annual Review

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Taste Asia in Zurich

Explore the diversity, the colors and the irreplaceable of Asian food and ingredients in Zurich.
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Oxford Debate: Will East Asia Lead the Way Beyond This Pandemic?

02 Mar 2021
12 - 1 p.m.
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In this Oxford Debate we are debating whether East Asia's pandemic responses will prove their success beyond this pandemic.
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The Asia Society Book Salon – Earthlings

10 Mar 2021
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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[MEMBERS ONLY]
Join our Book Salon where we read and discuss Asian books. This time: "Earthlings" by Sayaka Murata
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Global Members Event: A Conversation With Evan Osnos

16 Mar 2021
1 - 2:30 p.m.
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Journalist and author of recently published Biden biography will talk Asia and the president in this members-only global event.
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Executive Roundtable: Free Trade in Asia

16 Mar 2021
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
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A Conversation with Wendy Cutler and Patrick Ziltener.
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Art over Lunch: Drawing Shanghai’s Old Town

26 Mar 2021
12 - 12:45 p.m.
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After opening of the country, Shanghai became the ‘head of the dragon’. Its iconic skyline contrasts with Shangai’s Old Town which is now slowly being demolished – and nobody seems to care. A discussion of nostalgia and the act of looking.
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Talk at the Library: Following Domestic Workers from Indonesia to Malaysia

07 Apr 2021
12 - 1 p.m.
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Let’s follow the path of domestic workers from Indonesia to Malaysia with Dr. Olivia Killias and Anne Semadeni George. Join live in Zurich or online on Zoom.