#1. Upcoming Event: Identity with Hilary Chung
Want to learn more about balancing your identity from one of New Zealand’s leading experts?
Join us in exploring identity, diversity and the impacts of diaspora on a city with Dr Hilary Chung, the founding director of UoA’s Global Studies programme!
This is a useful event for anyone interested in exploring their own identity - we all balance multiple roles in life. Better yet, all profits for this go to charity! We can’t wait to see you there!
Tickets and more info here. Facebook event here.
Date / Time
Tuesday 6th August 2019
5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Location
Decima Glenn Room,
Level 2, Owen G. Glenn Building (OGGB),
The University of Auckland,
12 Grafton Road
Price
FREE for Members
$2 for Students/Non-members
#2. Upcoming Initiative: YA Coffee Roulette
Keen to meet some other like-minded people interested in Asia?
A cappuccino (or bubble tea) sprinkled with some insight into the industry is the latest opportunity we hope to offer!
At the YA we are launching something new (and tasty): our YA Coffee Roulette!
Sign up by Thursday 8th of August and you will be paired with a different coffee partner, every fortnight for eight weeks! That’s four rounds of first dates; four opportunities to learn, connect and make a meaningful connection.
Sign up here.
#3. Business Desk: China's Relationship with the World is Changing
McKinsey's latest research report has turned to China, examining the changing relationship between China and the world.
China's economy, which was once fueled by industrialisation, investment and trade, is now largely driven by spending at home. This means that China is becoming less dependent on the rest of the world. But at the same time, with China now the world's largest trading nation in goods, the world is becoming more exposed to China.
This article examines how $37 trillion of GDP (15-26% global GDP) could be at stake in 2040 depending on how we engage with China in five areas, and offers insight into how businesses can respond and adjust their approach in the face of a more uncertain relationship between China and the world.
Read it here.
#4. Culture Desk: Jean Teng's Food Writing in Metro!
Food. We all eat it. Sometimes (or if you're me, most times), we even take advantage of Auckland's beautiful diversity and eat Asian food. Yet for ages, our mainstream food publications had writers who clearly didn't understand Asian food.
Which is why it's been such a breath of fresh air reading Jean Teng's food writing in Metro these past few months. Jean's writing has breadth, ranging from longform-ish chef profiles to Yum Cha listicles. Yet for me, her best stuff is when she writes on things that I (and most other Asians) know to be true, yet rarely see in mainstream publications. Things like the inconvenience of Asian flush, or the wonder of Asian bakeries. It's great, and every week, she's churning out more content for us to devour.
Metro, which publishes Auckland's Top 50 restaurants, is important. Yet, its never really "got" Asian food. Its Cheap Eats (aka ethnic food) list has often been full of what can only be described as "white-people Asian". So it's heartening to see Jean's presence on their masthead; its a sign that things are changing in the media, one bite at a time. (p.s. shoutout to @eatlitfood as well)
Read her Yum Cha guide here.