A unique public day long conference on Chinese and Western Approaches to Military Ethics: Ethics Education, Decision Making and Scholastic Traditions will run at the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh on Saturday 31 October 2015.
The conference is an open event for which registration is required. The programme for this can be downloaded here as a Military Ethics Conference Programme
Approaches to military ethics are undergoing review in Chinese and Western academies, faced with common or comparable problems: changes within the armed forces and within society; new educational, technological and professional demands placed on the military; and developing debates over the relationship between contemporary ethical initiatives and the intellectual resources offered by historic Chinese and Western just war theories.
Expanding contact through international missions, particularly for peacekeeping purposes, has lent further impetus to the drive for greater mutual understanding within both military and diplomatic institutions.
The academic literature comparing Chinese and Western approaches stretches from works suggesting great similarities to essays focused on perceived differences, historical, conceptual, political, and strategic.
This conference will bring Chinese, British, American and other academics together with non-academic interlocutors with specialist interests in comparing approaches to military ethics and to professional ethics education.
Please see the downloadable PDF for full details. To register please use this Eventbrite booking link.
It’s Only Words – a comedy show in Chinese for people who don’t speak any Chinese at all! 
Returning to the Fringe three years after first delivering Hong Kong style humour and with over 100 performances around the world this non verbal physical comedy features five actors- a Chinese opera performer, a comedian, an acrobat, a drummer and a dancer.
The integration of the oriental opera body movement and Western modern music. The two contrasting styles combine in a performance that explores ideas of collectivity… ‘Not you and me, only us’.
Inspired by autistic children, 
From Puppet Beings Theatre, a children and families double bill exploring the storytelling power of ordinary paper.
Incisive contemporary dance from Taiwan this satirical post-modern work from Tjimur Dance Theatre explores self, art, sexuality and the traditions of female chastity among indigenous Paiwan and Rukai people.
Based on ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ US-based theatre company, Theatre Movement Bazaar and Chinese-based Beijing TinHouse Productions present this piece. heightened physicality, dance, humour, and an original text create this intense, touching and steamy fusion between East and West. In Mandarin with English super-titles.
From Shanghai’s Hand in Hand Troupe, a famous young artists’ association in China, this show ranges from joyous Han dance, to classical, and from Dai minority dance to Uyghur minority dance.
11 Aug The Charming Oriental City
13 Aug: Legend and Modern
13 Aug: Wild Zebra (Ballet with orchestral accompaniment)
Eddie McGuire,former Chairman of the Musicians’ Union (Scottish Region), and classical zheng performer Dong Yi celebrate the 10th year of their collaboration by giving a presentation with bamboo flutes, classical flutes and Chinese zheng (zither), on the music of the two nations in comparative perspective.
Featuring fast moving physical theatre, puppetry and original music. ‘Dragon’ tells the story of Tommy whose life, since the death of his mother, has gone from bad to worse. Created by Vox Motus, the National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin Children’s Art Theatre. Best Show for Children & Young People at UK Theatre Awards 2014.
Beijing Student’s Golden Sail Art Troupe was founded in 1987, and comprises thousands of students from 80 primary and high schools in Beijing.
Classical Zheng performer, Yi Dong, now on her 14th visit to Edinburgh will take her audience on a musical journey through the spirit of China.
TAO Dance Theatre has taken the dance world by storm. Choreographer and founder Tao Ye’s ritualistic aesthetic combines with the rigour and exploration of contemporary expression to create hypnotic and mesmerising works that represent the cutting edge of creativity.
While China partially relaxed its One Child policy in 2013, its legacy is apparent as China is full of ‘little emperors’ – cosseted single children in whom the hopes of the nation now rest. Now a Guardian Journalist, Xinran left China in 1997. The story of China’s one-child generation is told in Buy me the sky, a startling glimpse of a country in rapicd transition.
The history of Chinese folk music has a long lineage. In this show traditional instruments such as the bangdi, liuqin and zheng, are introduced to the audience via a piece entitled “An Instrumental Guide to the Traditional Chinese Orchestra” followed by nine more pieces.
Classical zheng performer and one of only five soloists who has performed in the Great Hall of the people, Dong Yi returns to Edinburgh for the 14th time with music of love stories and poems.
New musical from award-winning director Zhao Miao. Lee is 88 and loves her husband very much. During 50 years of marriage, they regularly cruise the world, but then her husband unexpectedly dies. A lonely Lee sells her assets to take a cruise again, on her own, determined to start a whole new journey… China’s leading physical theatre company interweaves traditional Chinese philosophy with Western theatrical traditions.
Edinburgh’s first ever Chinese Arts and Cultural Festival featuring a traditional Sichuan opera, authentic singers, a spectacular troupe of young drummers and more all set alongside a three day interactive celebration of authentic Chinese arts and culture. Price includes multiple shows on each day.
Poetry and pyrotechnics, intensive and introspection, Lang Lang is a global star. While his solo Festival concert on 21 August is sold out he is performing Bartok’s Piano concerto No 2 on 19 August with the Philharmonia Orchestra. For info on the concert on 19 August 
Premièred at the National Theatre in Taipei in 2013 this sell out show later toured Taiwan. Based on the script ‘Mountains and the Seas’ by Gao Xing-Jian the show features integrated theatre, rock music and visual effects describing events from the beginning of the world to the first emperor.
WeAct is the premier amateur theatrical drama group in China, and in 2014, was the first company to bring Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ to the stage in China. By leveraging the oriental thinking and elements, the bloodiness and the tyrannical story of Titus Andronicus is played out with implicit aestheticism.
Pipa and erhu are commonly nicknamed as Chinese lute and Chinese violin. Jing-hua Gao and Zhi-qin Zhu, graduate students of the China Conservatory and multiple prize winners since childhood, make their UK debut in a concert on these two characteristic Chinese musical instruments. Both historical and contemporary works will be played. Part of the sixth Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival.
1938, during the Sino-Japanese War, a worn-out young Japanese lieutenant unexpectedly saw a beautiful face that was familiar yet distant. As the night fell on the Green Willow Hotel, fate had also befallen… ‘Qiuzi’, based on a true story, is the first modern grand opera in China. Seventy-three years after its premiere, student performers from Nanjing University of the Arts are recreating this epic opera in a 90-minute concert to yearn for peace and humanity.
Prof Yang Huilin, Renmin University of China
Lauren Pfister,