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Past Events: California
The UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies will host the event "Understanding Taiwanese History by Reading LGBT Literature."
The UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies will host the conference "The Quest for a Voice: Revisiting Asia's Democratic Revolt."
This talk will cover the evolution of the image of female stars from the 1920s to the early 1950s as reflected in their representation as "cover girls" from the 1920s (and the birth of Chinese movie "goddesses") to their makeover after the Communist victory in 1949. The talk will include many slides of images from the Fonoroff Collection, now held at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library.
DHAsia Presents | Transforming the Archives of Chinese Religion and Medicine, by Michael Stanley-Baker.
This panel discussion with Lydia Liu and Rebecca Karl, co-authors and co-translators, will focus on their book, The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, a volume of English translation of writings by possibly the first Chinese feminist author He-Yin Zhen (1884-1920?) on issues of gender in relation to imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.
The Asian Art Museum presents "A Billion Buddhas," a collection of five Tibetan paintings illuminating the countless roles that Buddhas play in Himalayan religious thought and practice.
In conjunction with the exhibition Chinese Ceramics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), a series of programs and workshops will be offered from February through July at the Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles Library, and Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library.
Join the Society for Asian Art at the home of Fr. Richard Fabian to study how to look, how to “see", how to contextualize, and how to cultivate an attentive mind, so the painting reaches us with maximum impact aesthetically, emotionally, and intellectually.
Pomona College presents Haiming Liu giving a talk entitled, "The Changing Menus of Chinese Restaurants in the U.S."
The UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies will host Ou Ning from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University to discuss the Bishan Project.