Past Events
The Minneapolis Museum of Art presents the finest private collection of Japanese and Korean art of its kind outside Japan.
The Huntington Library presents a symposium on the literary and artistic themes inspired by "Record of the Peach Blossom Spring," a story which has resonated for generations of artists and poets in China, as well as Japan and Korea.
The Ohio State University's Institute for Chinese Studies presents the "China and the International Mediasphere" Lecture Series with a lecture by Dr. Jane DeBevoise.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Asia Center presents a symposium on China's rapid urbanization.
Meet Jeremy Haft for a discussion of his second book on China entitled, “Unmade in China: The Hidden Truth about China's Economic Miracle." Jeremy will share his insights on their economy and relate it to the media coverage of President Xi Jinping’s visit to DC this month.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a symposium which seeks to critically reassess Shen Congwen’s contribution to modern Chinese cultural, ethnic, literary and art history, hoping not only to critique the strengths and limitations of prevailing trends in Shen Congwen Studies, but also to explore the possibilities of reading Shen Congwen in a dialogical light and reposition Shen as an interface between modern Chinese literary and cultural studies capable of enabling fruitful comparisons.
China Institute is joining with New York Review Books to celebrate the publication of Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton’s lively translation of K’ung Shang-jen’s The Peach Blossom Fan. In his first lecture at China Institute’s new downtown home, Senior Lecturer Ben Wang will speak about this masterpiece of Chinese literature, a vast dramatic composition that combines the range and depth of a great novel with the swift intensity of film.
The University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China will host Sida Liu, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss the feminization of judges in China.
Part of Colombia's lecture series Social, Demographic, and Political Development of China Today, this talk with Xueguang Zhou will discuss Chinese bureaucracy.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents a talk by Robert Sutter.