Book Talk: Mark Logan announced as speaker for an evening with world-leading China author

Former Member of Parliament and buddying sinologist Mark Logan has been announced as the key speaker at the Lau China Institute evening with the world-famous China specialist: Professor Kerry Brown.

Please register for the event here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-talk-the-great-reversal

Starting from the UK and China’s first contact over four hundred years ago, The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power by Kerry Brown charts Britain and China’s important and consequential relationship using archival research and hundreds of separate studies.

Current UK-China relations have encountered increased turbulence, making it more important than ever to understand their rich and complex joint history. Despite their differences, Britain and China have profoundly shaped and formed each other, and the surrounding world. Sino-British relations are, in many ways, the story of modernity.

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. From 2012 to 2015 he was Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012, as Senior Fellow and then Head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section. He previously graduated from Cambridge University and has a PhD in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University. He is the author of 20 books on modern Chinese politics.

Mark Logan is a former Member of Parliament (2019-24), was a Vice-Chair on the All Party Parliamentary China Group, holds two advanced degrees in China-related studies, and speaks fluent Mandarin with a splash of Shanghai dialect. Before entering politics he served in China with the Foreign Office, and has a number of years experience in the private sector, again within East Asia. He is a consultant and learning Japanese, the obsession with Kanji/Chinese characters never dies.