21 January, Started teaching Mandarin in the curriculum to over 50 students in Year 4, at Cutteslowe Primary School in Oxford.
30 January, Held Tai Chi, tea ceremony, calligraphy, handcraft and graffiti art workshops for students from four local schools at Oxfordshire, followed by a Chinese New Year Welcoming Performance by students both from the UK and from China’s MangoTV Little Ambassador programme.
18 February, Hosted a Chinese New Year Festival Show at Oxford Playhouse, with a full house of over 600 audience members enjoying the acrobatic performance from Kaifeng Acrobatic Group.
12 March, Co-organised the launch ceremony for the first four titles published in the academic book series Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture (English Edition), a joint project between Springer Nature and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP).
11 May, Hosted the Chinese Language Teacher Development Day at Oxford Brookes University, in collaboration with Macmillan Education, on the topic of “Teaching Chinese through Creative and Innovation Approaches”.
12-25 August, Organised the first Young Publishing Professionals Trip to China, with 12 attendees from 10 publishing companies and institutions in the UK joining the trip to Shanghai and Beijing, meeting over 100 Chinese publishers and editors from over 30 publishing houses in China.
14-26 August, Organised the Publishing Students’ Summer Camp for the second time. This time, the publishing students went to Beijing to attend the Beijing International Book Fair and visited Shaolin Temple in Henan Province.
18 August, Co-organised the “Belt and Road” 2019 Academic Publishing Symposium with Beijing Normal University, held at Beijing Normal University, China.
1 October, Launched exhibition titled Flowers and Volcanoes: An Artistic Tale of Two Post-80s Chinese Artists at the Glass Tank of Oxford Brookes University, a joint exhibition of two contemporary Chinese artists Heilichee and 19Van.
14 October, Hosted its very first academic lecture event by inviting Professor Weiwei Zhang, Director of the China Institute at Fudan University, to give a talk on The Chinese Way and the Belt and Road Initiative: a Civilizational State Perspective and have a dialogue with Professor Rana Mitter from the University of Oxford and Martin Jacques, author and senior fellow at the University of Cambridge.
XinhuaNet: Experts discuss China's development, BRI in Oxford
People’s Daily: “中华文化讲堂”在牛津布鲁克斯大学举行
26 November, Held Understanding Peking Opera Workshop and Performance at the Oxford High School, in partnership with China National Peking Opera Company and Sinolink Productions.