Past Events
Pure summer magic: the astonishing Yuja Wang plays jazzy classics by Ravel and Gershwin conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel.
Danielle Chang, founder of LUCKYRICE, brings night markets, grand feasts, and dumpling-making sessions to America’s biggest cities.
The film will be followed by a Q&A with actors Kara Wai and Carlos Chan.
Asia Society Texas Center presents a mid-summer family film screening of one of the earliest U.S.-created animated features with a focus on China.
Ms. Sara Velas, President of the International Panorama Council will present a lecture as an overview of 20th & 21st century panoramas in Asia, with a focus on the panoramas of China. Enjoy the gardens and exhibits of the Velaslavasay Panorama before and after this lecture. Ambient Folk & Classical Chinese music will be performed in the garden after the presentation by musician Susien Cheng.
The Getty Center hosts a discussion with renown composer Tan Dun following a performance inspired by Dunhuang.
Author and Art Deco Society of California Preservation Director Therese Poletti will give an illustrated presentation on Chinese motifs as a form of exotica in architecture and design in the Golden State.
Kara Wai won her first Hong Kong Film Award for her effervescent performance in this delightful kung fu comedy. She plays a young student who marries her dying teacher to keep his inheritance away from his untrustworthy relatives.
"The Way of the Dragon" stars Lee as Tang Lung, a martial arts expert recruited to protect his relatives’ Chinese restaurant from gangsters in Rome. The film broke Hong Kong box office records, outperforming The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, Lee’s earlier cinematic successes.
Kara Wai gives a powerful performance in the world premiere of Andy Lo’s directorial debut. In her role as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s, she takes under her wing an aimless young man (Chan) who has come to Hong Kong to look for the father who abandoned him.