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27 Gerrard Street London Chinatown London W1D 6JN

3 May 2008 to 27 October 2008

British Museum WC1B 3DG

Discover the natural wonders of China at the British Museum. China Landscape is a unique partnership between the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and celebrates a shared vision to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world.

12 September 2008 to 13 September 2008

University Of London WC1E 7HU

This conference, scheduled to take place within weeks of the Olympics, aims to bring together academics, film-makers and writers from the all over the world to have the one of the most immediate discussions of the 2008 Olympics. Alongside the immediate, the conference will also attempt to locate the Beijing Games within Olympic history and to explore the challenges that lie ahead for the movement before the Games move to London in 2012.The focus of the two day workshop in SOAS will be on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics -ranging from the visual (television and film), to radio and the written word - and the meanings generated by such representations. Thus, the focus will not be on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games as international and historic events are memorialised by its observers. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a special issue of Sport in Society (Routledge) and subsequently as a book in the sport in their Global Society Series.

25 June 2008 to 21 September 2008

Barbican Art Gallery EC2Y 8DS

Considered one of China's most established contemporary artists and a well-known figure in the international art world, Huang Yong Ping's large-scale installations and sculptures symbiotically fuse the conceptual language of contemporary western art with traditional Chinese aesthetics and philosophy. A leading figure of the Chinese avant-garde movement Xiamen Dada in the 1980s, Huang's diverse practice explores ideas of cultural difference, identity, migration, history as well as institutional critique. For his first UK solo show, Huang will create a new site-specific installation in The Curve using its bow-like shape as a metaphor to investigate ideas around religion, ritual, meaning and the passing of time.

10 April 2008 to 14 September 2008

British Museum WC1B 3DG

Five billion badges were made in China during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). This movement was intended to overhaul the 'old' ideology, but brought extreme politics and chaos into everyday life. Badges were worn as part of the everyday dress code, and as an expression of loyalty to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party of China. The objects in the display include badges, posters, books and currency from the 1930s to the present day.