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Eileen Chang’s Sea Burial and Special Collection at USC East Asian Library
January 17, 2019 - 4:00pmLos Angeles, CaliforniaOne of the most influential modern Chinese writers and the author of Lust, Caution, Eileen Chang passed away in Los Angeles in 1995. After her death, Dominic Cheung, Professor Emeritus at USC, took care of her sea burial in San Pedro and set up the Eileen Chang Special Collection in the East Asian Library at USC in 1997. Cheung will discuss these experiences as a part of the lecture series titled Los Angeles and Shanghai: The USC Nexus.
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Leta Hong Fincher: Betraying Big Brother
January 24, 2019 - 4:00pmLos Angeles, CaliforniaPlease join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with journalist and author Leta Hong Fincher. Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the feminist movement in China against patriarchy could reconfigure the country and the rest of the world.
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The People’s Republic of Desire, a new documentary from director Hao Wu, explores what happens when the lines between online and offline dissolve.
Join the WSCRC for a book talk with Barbara Finamore, Senior Strategic Director for Asia at the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Will China Save the Planet?
The Met draws from its' collections and private loans to create an exhibition chronicling the history of landscape paintings in China.
The Royal Ontario Museum presents an exhibition featuring various mediums, all relating back to the Chinese Lunar New Year.
One of the most influential modern Chinese writers and the author of Lust, Caution, Eileen Chang passed away in Los Angeles in 1995. After her death, Dominic Cheung, Professor Emeritus at USC, took care of her sea burial in San Pedro and set up the Eileen Chang Special Collection in the East Asian Library at USC in 1997. Cheung will discuss these experiences as a part of the lecture series titled Los Angeles and Shanghai: The USC Nexus.
Since 2012, Hao Jingban (Chinese, b. 1985) has been conducting extensive research and filming for her Beijing Ballroom project. In the two videos on view—An Afternoon Ball (2013) and Off Takes (2016)—Hao traces the present ballroom tradition in Beijing to the two waves of ballroom dancing in the early 1950s and the post-Cultural Revolution era in the late 1970s.
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with journalist and author Leta Hong Fincher. Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the feminist movement in China against patriarchy could reconfigure the country and the rest of the world.
The Richard and Karen Carpenter Center in Long Beach presents Golden Dragon Acrobats: A traditional Chinese performance.
Center for East Asian Studies and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University celebrates the year of the pig.
Collected Letters is organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This acquisition was made possible by the Society for Asian Art in honor of the Asian Art Museum's 50th Anniversary.