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Past Events: California
China-related panel and signings at the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
China-related panel and signings at the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
The Society of Asian Art presents Pam Najdowski. Her talk will focus on the unique textile traditions of the ethnic minority peoples living in the mountainous areas of Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan Provinces of China.
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University presents a talk by Professor Jean-Pierre Drege on Paul Pelliot's archeological expedition to Turkestan and China at the beginning of 20th century.
Professor Pieter Keulemans of Princeton University gives a talk on an early Chinese erotic.
The East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California will host a Taiwanese documentary series.
The UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive present Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" as part of its film-lecture course, Film 50.
Wei Shang-Jin, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank and professor of finance and economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, gives a talk on Asian Economies in 2015.
The discussion will focus on the contrasting paths that China and India have undertaken to develop their economies. The two large countries have sharply different political systems and demographics. Their progress has sometimes been compared with that of a hare (China) and a tortoise (India). Which is more durable? What obstacles do the two governments face to growth and economic stability?
Lecture by Niv Horesh, Professor at the University of Nottingham, on Shanghai's pre-war stock exchange and its implications for present Chinese economy.