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​Talks

William Lindesay is available to speak at societies, educational institutions, corporate events, dinners, and literary lunches. Please contact William directly if you are interested in hiring him as a speaker to discuss the needs for your specific audience.

William has been making presentations about his China life and work to audiences since 1986. Over the decades he has made presentations in China, the UK, the US and Japan, Some of the best known venues he has spoken at include the American Association of Archeology (San Francisco), The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Carleton College (Minnesota), The Explorers Club (New York), The Asia Society (Hong Kong), The Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong), The Foreign Correspondents Club (Hong Kong), The Royal Society for Asian Affairs (London), The International Academic Forum (Tokyo), The Terracotta Warriors Exhibition at the World Museum, Liverpool and the Society of Antiquaries (Newcastle University).

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Post-covid, since the start of 2023, William has spoken to audiences from YPO (Young Presidents Organisation), EO (The Entrepreneurs Organisation), The Royal Asiatic Society (Beijing Branch).

William’s presentations are engaging, personal, entertaining, educational and all richly illustrated with only his own photographs and videos. His presentation list includes:

 

  • My Great Wall Life

 

  • The Great Wall: One Journey, Different Directions

 

  • The Wall of Two Williams

 

  • Expeditions in Mongolia: My Search for ‘Great Wall Outside China’

 

  • The Great Wall: The Greatest Views (screening and the background story to film and producing the first internationally-broadcast TV documentary to show the Great Wall from at the air.

 

  • In the Footsteps of Sir Aurel Stein

 

  • 5,000 Years of Chinese History in 50 Minutes

 

  • The Silk Road: In Search of Footprints

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  • Marching with Mao: A Biographical Journey

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