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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.
After the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party last November, a decision was made to convene a working group to develop a new set of regulations for managing religious activities. Questions and commentary about the new approaches to Christianity will be offered by several American scholars and representatives of religious organizations engaged 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.
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents their acclaimed Chinese painting collection with over fifty works dating from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries
Summer Trees Casting Shade celebrates BAMPFA’s acclaimed Chinese painting collection with over fifty works dating from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries.
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.
Society for Asian Art hosts a demonstration and performance of the Chinese opera style Kunqu.
MVC adds its own unique imprint and mirrors the societal and cultural achievements of the local Asian community to its presentation of “The Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story”, with contributions from local artists Hiroko Yoshimoto, Tiger Huang, Virgil Cardinez, Bijian Fan and Katherine Chang Liu are featured in this exquisite presentation of fine art and Asian culture and traditions, old and new.
USC Pacific Asia Museum hosts a special evening viewing of the new exhibit, Royal Taste.