Talks and conversations on China,
and on Xi Jinping.
Lucy speaks to corporate or academic audiences, book clubs and classrooms, drawing on her new biography of Xi Jinping and two decades of reporting from China. Available for keynotes, fireside chats, panels, and moderated conversations, in person or virtually.
Understanding Xi Jinping
Drawing on her forthcoming biography, Lucy explores Xi Jinping's career and mindset — how a provincial official from an elite family became China's powerful leader, and what that trajectory reveals about his priorities today.
China Today
Is the 21st Century China's century? Grounded in her two decades living and reporting on China's economy and society, Lucy takes the audience through the policies and considerations that turned China into a "self-sufficient" industrial behemoth that is still deeply dependent on global capital and markets. She explores where China is headed and what it means for the rest of the world.
Lucy Hornby lived in China for two decades, reporting for the Financial Times and Reuters. She is the author of The Last Man: A Biography of Xi Jinping.
Interested in having Lucy speak at your event?
Get in touch with the event details — audience, format, and dates — and Lucy will respond within 2–3 business days.
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National Committee on U.S.-China Relations & Center for East Asian Studies, University of ArizonaEvolving China-US Relations: Perspectives from Arizona
Oct. 11, 2023
2023 CHINA Town Hall, following a national address by Ambassador Nicholas Burns
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Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityChina's New Politics: What Have We Learned from the 20th Party Congress?
Nov. 8, 2022
Panel discussion with Joseph Fewsmith of Boston University, and Tony Saich, Yuhua Wang and Mark Wu of Harvard University
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Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Unpacking the 20th Party Congress
Oct. 25, 2022
Panel discussion with Jude Blanchette, Scott Kennedy and Bonny Lin of CSIS, David Finkelstein of the Center for Naval Analyses, and Dan Rosen, Rhodium Group founding partner
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John F. Kennedy Library FoundationUS Foreign Policy and China
June 1, 2020
Panel discussion with MIT's Yasheng Huang and Harvard's Tony Saich
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The Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth CollegeAfter the Coronavirus: China and the U.S.
May 6, 2020
“Rocky Watch” talk and “Rocky Talk” podcast
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Sinica PodcastShadow Banking, P2P Lending and Pyramid Schemes: Lucy Hornby on China's Gray Economy
Nov. 15, 2018 · Podcast
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U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern CaliforniaSoil Pollution: China's $1 Trillion, 100-year Task
April 2018
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Sinica Podcast
China's Environmental Challenge: Overfishing, Toxic Soil and Unbreathable Air
Aug. 31, 2017 · Podcast
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Asia SocietyThe End of China's Economic Miracle?
April 20, 2016
Panel discussion with George Soros, Orville Schell, and then-Financial Times journalists Richard McGregor and Jamil Anderlini
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