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Programme 9: Monday 4th August 2008

China Comes to Ireland by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Irish Times journalist.

Programme 8: Monday 28 July 2008

Oscar Wilde's Chinese Sage by the consulting editor of the series, Dr. Jerusha McCormack, Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Programme 7: Monday 21 July 2008

Ireland and China : Musical Meetings, East and West by Dr. Hwee-San Tan, Ethnomusicologist, University College, Dublin.

Programme 6: Monday 14 July 2008

From Patsy O' Wang to Fu Manchu: Ireland, China and Racism by Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times Journalist, critic and author.

Programme 5: Monday 7 July 2008

China's Economic Boom: Mega- Cities and their Planning by Pauline Byrne, Strategic Planning Officer, Treasury Holdings.

Programme 4: Monday 30 June 2008

Doing Business in China: Piercing the Veil by Richard Barrett, CEO, Treasury Holdings.

Programme 3: Monday 23rd June 2008

Early Irish Botanical Expeditions to China: Three Generations of the Earls of Rosse of Birr Castle by Brendan Parsons, Seventh Earl of Rosse.

Programme 2: Monday 16th June 2008

Empires at Odds: The Qianlong Emperor and Lord Mc Cartney's British Mission by Dr. Shane Mc Causland, Curator of Chinese Art, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

How many people know that the first British trade mission to China was led by an Antrim man named Lord McCartney? Or that over the past 100 or so years, the Irish Earls of Rosse have been importing rare Chinese plants to the gardens of Birr Castle? How many who have read Oscar Wilde know about his excitement in discovering the "excessively dangerous" thinking of Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher of the 4th century BC? Or have wondered how The Chieftains were able to perform with their counterparts in 1986 Beijing - or that an Irish entrepreneur could make his fortune in developing Chinese real estate?

Programme 1: Monday 9th June 2008

Ireland Through a Chinese Mirror by Dr Jerusha Mc Cormack, Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University and consulting editor of the series.