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Past Events: public talk
Poetry is one of the five elements necessary for a comprehensive Chinese garden. Usually, the poetry is presented in the form of calligraphic inscriptions. Every Saturday in October at 3 PM, hear poetry come alive during readings and Q&A sessions with five prolific Pacific Northwest poets.
The East Asian Studies Center, along with the School of Global and International Studies, welcomes Klaus Mühlhahn, Professor of History and Cultural Studies and Vice President of Freie Universität Berlin to speak about China's growing presence and influence in the modern era.
The University of Washington East Asia Center presents a lecture by Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania.
The Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents a talk by Robert Weller, Boston University, as part of their Modern Taiwan Lecture Series.
The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Pauline Lee, Associate Professor of Chinese Religions and Cultures, Saint Louis University.
The Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents a brown bag lecture by Michael Schuman, Author and Journalist.
The Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Aaron Halegua, Research Fellow, NYU Law School's US-Asia Law Institute and Center for Labor and Employment Law.
Canada was one of the first Western countries to sign an agreement to provide development aid to China in 1983, and the Canadian International Development Agency invited universities to cooperate in ways that would facilitate “the multiplication of contacts at the thinking level.”
The Visualization of Dream of the Red Chamber: the Grand Prospect Garden in Nineteenth Century China
This talk from the UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies examines the ways the Grand Prospect Garden is visualized in the wood-block prints and paintings of the nineteenth-century.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents Professor John James Kennedy speaking about the supposed "gender imbalance" in the Chinese population.