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On March 24th there will be a webinar with the China Institute. At the present time, China is tirelessly fighting the coronavirus. Cities are being locked down. A hospital is built in ten days. The national holiday is extended. And people are staying at home.

In spite of the current circumstances, we must ask – are there opportunities that can be generated from this epidemic? In 2020, are there new economic possibilities to be explored?

Please join China Institute and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business America for a webinar, with expert economists and investors, where we will discuss:

• How much has the hospitality industry already lost and how will they recover?
• How to seize the investing opportunities in the booming gaming and social-media industries?
• And much more

Thursday, March 26th from 12:00 to 12:30 Financial Survival--Get 

Ready to Fight.

 CUSWF has planned a series about Women and Finance for 2020. This topic has never been more relevant. 

Our first online Zoom meeting will take place Thursday, March 26th from 12:00 to 12:30 on the topic of 'Financial Survival--get ready to fight.'  

Our Exective Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt will interview Thrivent Financial Advisor Kevin Peters about the ABC's of surviving in uncharted financial waters, and take questions from the audience. 

Go to Zoom, and type in Meeting ID: 71204370182.

 We will be conducting Zoom Meetings on a regular basis. Please send us suggestions for topics that you care about. I can be reached at leslie@cuswf.org.

On Thursday, April 16th at 12:00 noon, we'll host our first online book club. 

Our first selection is Severance by Ling Ma. Published in 2018, it is a satirical science fiction novel about life before and after the Shen Fever slowly obliterates global civilization. Severance explores themes of nostalgia, modern office culture, monotony and intimate relations.

The novel, Ma's debut, won the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of the Best Books of 2018 on many prominent lists.

We'll  send an email closer to the date with details of how to join the discussion

Ling Ma was born in Sanming, China, and grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She attended the University of Chicago and received an MFA from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and an editor. Her writing has appeared in Granta, VICE, Playboy, Chicago Reader, Ninth Letter, and other publications. A chapter of Severance received the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. She lives in Chicago. Find out more about the author. 

  December 13, 2019 -- China is the only country that will have 1.6 billion smartphone subscribers by 2023. Today, it has access to 7.3 million apps in a country that is connected because 98% of China’s Internet users are mobile spending an average of 179.7 minutes per day on the mobile phone. 

Chinese publishers met in New York to learn more about ways to achieve new book awareness, increase lead generation, increase sales revenues, increase website traffic, and improve data quality with related analytics.  Our CDO who spent most of her career as a book publisher and marketer lectures on innovation in digital marketing.  

November 20, 2019 -- CUSWF supported FortuneTimes Group and the W3C's SymposiumX bringing us the latest on Financial Innovation on the Web.

Founder and CEO of micropayment platform Coil, Stefan Thomas, gave an informative overview of the issues still to be solved to make financial payments with blockchain technology more efficient and how innovations in micropayments will help creators to be paid for their content.

November 20, 2019 -- CUSWF and SoGal members celebrated at their holiday event at Macy's in New York.  Pocket Sun, the 27-year-old co-founder of multi-million dollar VC firm SoGal, wants to better gender dynamics.  

SoGal is the largest global platform for the education and empowerment of diverse entrepreneurs and investors. 

SoGal's mission is to close the diversity gap in entrepreneurship and venture capital.

November 19, 2019 -- China Institute screened the award-winning documentary China Love about the $80 billion pre-wedding photo industry by Australian documentary filmmaker Olivia Martin-McGuire. It was shown as part of a film series on the changing styles of love in China.

Following the screening, she was interviewed by Roseann Lake, a former Beijing correspondent and author of the bestselling book, “Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower.” 

November 13, 2019 -- An important panel on the business of aging in China at the China Institute. Senior citizens will account for nearly one-fifth of China’s population next year, and a third by 2050. Glenn Hassan, CFO & CBO, CANbridge, Joan Kaufman, China health expert and director for academics, Schwarzman Scholars, and Kevin Xie, president at Fosun Healthcare Holdings will explain how the aging trend is driving a massive shift in China’s economy, straining labor and healthcare resources—and fueling new businesses, from luxurious retirement communities to modern medical providers.

In November 2019, as part of our education component of the SAGE initiative, we will include financial literacy information that will empower women to take control of their finances.  In this way, women can be more resilient and better able to handle challenges. 

Issues like pay disparity, glass ceilings, parental leave need to be addressed both through laws but also by arming ourselves with knowledge and a support system. 

October 23, 2019 -- CUSWF's CDO Lisa Faith Phillips was honored to be invited to present on the latest innovations in media with visiting Chinese publishers as part of the Strategic Planning and Change Management for Publishers conference at the SUNY Global Media Center.  

She shared steps on how to build successful innovation processes, including learning from innovation in related fields and how to include the whole organization to ensure success.  

October 21, 2019 -- CUSWF joined the Yicai Global New York Autumn Forum for their always fascinating panels of experts moderated by CUSWF board member Susan Yuqing Feng on the Future of Global Economies and Financial Markets at the Harvard Club. 

The whole world needs to work together in order to survive, James Bacchus, Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs, Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida and former chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization, said in his keynote speech.

August 11, 2019 -- CUSWF was inspired by The China Europe International Business School forum on digital opportunities in China. 

Here with CEIBS Professor Byron Y. Lee who presented an exciting overview of the dynamic growth of digital and AI in China.  From case-studies we learned how students and executives can study at this top-ranked business school in Shanghai to explore the exploding digital market opportunities.

August 1, 2019 -- CUSWF attended China Institute's informative panel discussion on U.S.-China Tech Battle. Andy Purdy, Chief Security Officer, Huawei Technologies USA, and U.S. security and tech experts discussed U.S.-China tech competition, the race for 5G, and the current U.S. government policy on Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecom equipment maker and China’s largest telephone-network equipment maker.

 June 19, 2019 -- CUSWF friends and supports attended China Institute's screening of Out of Phoenix Bridge,  the groundbreaking documentary from Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentary film-makers. 

 The film follows two years in the lives of four young women from the countryside who come to Beijing for jobs. In interviews and intimate footage, Hong elicits remarkably candid and complex testimony from her subjects as they frankly discuss their work, pressures from home, and experiences with men. A remarkable achievement, this touching film is a fascinating look at the lives of women whose experiences are rarely explored.

May 14, 2019 -- The China-U.S. Women's Foundation welcomed Dr. Tia Powell to a special event at CUSWF to talk about her excellent new book Dementia Remagined. 

A special combination of smart, intimate writing that draws you in from the first pages as it moves from her powerful personal story through a riveting overview of the history and science of dementia. Dr. Powell ends with what we can do to create a better future for us and our loved ones as we all face this aging issue that will affect 50% of people 85 and over.