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Past Events: California
Lou Ye (China, 2000). (Suzhou He). In this atmospheric noir thriller, which doubles as a city symphony to Shanghai's eternal mysteries, a videographer searches for work, and for a lost love. (83 mins)
University of Chicago's Judith Zeitlin and Margaret Francesca Rosenthal of the University of southern California examine and compare courtesan culture and its representation in Qing dynasty China and Renaissance Italy.
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley presents a talk with Nathan Sivin who will discuss the whole spectrum of health care in Eleventh-Century China, and explore the interactions of ritual medicine with other kinds.
The 4th annual China 2.0 conference will be held at Stanford University. The event will feature keynote speakers, panels, and interactive sessions followed by a networking reception.
Arman Zand, Head of Technology and Finance at SPD Silicon Valley Bank in Shanghai, will analyze China's policies toward interest rates and some of the highs and lows of doing business in a fluctuating economic environment.
Dai Wei, associate professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, will perform and discuss the instrument guqin, its music, and history.
Yuan Muzhi (China, 1937). (Malu Tianshi). Arguably the finest example of Shanghai's Golden Age, Street Angel is an intoxicating blend of Chinese leftist populism, Hollywood pizzazz, song numbers, French poetic-realist doom, comedic slapstick, and city symphony. (94 mins)
The Society for Asian Art presents a talk with Robert Mowry on the development of Chinese painting from the Tang (618-907) through the Qing (1644-1912).
A one-day symposium at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
The Republican period in Chinese history saw wars on multiple fronts, with invasions from without and civil strife from within. The period was shaped by wars that traumatized and transformed society. Papers by scholars from China, the US, and Europe, including work informed by new archival materials and interdisciplinary in approach, analyze the issue of "militarization" and look into the way wars, and the institutionalization or routinization of violence, might have shaped the culture of Republican China.