Writers Alec Ash and Rob Schmitz discuss diversity in modern China and the great ‘Chinese dream’.

A talk offering fresh perspectives of China in the 21st century. While the media regularly focuses on Xi Jinping and his dream of China’s great renewal, this talk will instead use personal narratives collected for their books to give the common man in China a voice that is rarely heard.

A Q&A will follow and copies of both books will be available to buy at the event. Rob Schmitz is author of Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road and Alex Ash Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China.