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Past Events: public talk
Author and Art Deco Society of California Preservation Director Therese Poletti will give an illustrated presentation on Chinese motifs as a form of exotica in architecture and design in the Golden State.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt M. Campbell, one of the chief architects of the pivot (also known as the rebalance), states in his new book, The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia, that one of the central tenets of the Obama Administration’s pivot was building relationships with emerging Asian powers.
The Energy and National Security Program and the Freeman Chair in China Studies is pleased to host Kevin Gallagher and Bo Kong to discuss the role of Chinese state financing in global energy development and to present findings from two of their recently published studies from the Global Economic Governance Initiative at Boston University.
A panel of experts from the People’s Republic and the United States will discuss the Chinese government's new regulations on religion and their implications for Christian communities, focusing on the interplay between the globalization and localization processes of Christianity in China.
This talk will feature topics such as visual aesthetics, creative techniques, and the cultural and economic significance of these objects at the time they were produced and in the modern era.
Exhibition curator Julia White offers insight into the formation and growth of BAMPFA’s outstanding Chinese painting collection over the last fifty years, touching on issues of provenance; how, when, and where the paintings were collected; and their importance to the history of Chinese painting at Berkeley.
Eve of A Hundred Midnights is the unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II a saga of love, adventure, and danger.
The Sackler Gallery presents works from the Wu School, a renowned group of Ming dynasty artists with a discussion from curator Stephen Allee.
Fudan-UC Center hosts a China Research Workshop on China's migrants' social integration and welfare institution reforms.
Guoliang Wang, the author of Old Roses of China, surveys the development of the rose in China, from the Song dynasty (960–1279) to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and beyond.