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Past Events: California
China’s heady accomplishments over the past four decades have been grounded in a set of norms and policies - political, economic, and ideological – established in the late 20thcentury. These are now unraveling.
UC Irvine presents a symposium focusing on the mixture of excitement and anxiety that has been triggered by China’s recent economic boom, increased enmeshment in international structures and systems, and growing geopolitical clout.
The Pacific Asia Museum presents The Peony Pavilion, performed by the Kun Opera.
Prof. Nattier will examine some of the indigenous religious terminology used during the first two centuries of Buddhist translation activity in China and show that the actual pattern of usage is much more complicated--and much more interesting--than the simplistic picture of the early appropriation, and subsequent abandonment, of "Daoist" terminology would suggest.
The Society of Asian Art presents Pam Chun, sharing her 10-year hunt through the legends and records in China and England to write her historical novel, "The Perfect Tea Thief."
Dr. Yuxin Pei, a current Fulbright visiting scholar at USC's school of social work, gives a talk on gender and sexuality issues in China.
Professor of Rhetoric Winnie Wong specializes in the history and present of artistic authorship, with a focus on interactions between China and the West. Her book, Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade (University of Chicago Press, 2014), explores contemporary art in the world's largest production center for oil-on-canvas painting, Dafen village, China.
One of the first works from Harvard’s acclaimed Sensory Ethnography Lab was this riveting study of the never-ending cycle of construction and destruction in booming modern China, in this case the western city of Chengdu. On a massive construction site, laborers in shirtsleeves smoke, joke, and slave away, dwarfed by the machinery and landscapes that surround them. As time goes on, they also begin to notice the camera that’s filming them, and “that man from Harvard” who is always there. A document on labor, modernity, and cinema, Demolition offers a primer on both China and the documentary form.
Professor Ruth Toulson of the University of Wyoming considers what prompts emergent Buddhization of Chinese religion.
The UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) presents Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako, speaking on the distinctive historical trajectories that have led Italian entrepreneurs to China and that have shaped Chinese entrepreneurs' encounters.