Past Events
UCLA Film & Television Archive presents the retrospective, “Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien,” which will screen through Saturday, June 20 at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village.
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford presents Tamara Chin. She will introduce the modern idea of the Silk Road as a term first coined by a German geographer in 1877, and then address the idea of Silk Road studies as an academic field.
The Society of Asian Art presents David Wong, who will talk and perform on the Guqin, a seven-stringed instrument which is one of China's oldest string instruments and has long been associated with scholars.
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations presents Michael Meyer, speaking about his book, "In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China." "In Manchuria" is a combination of memoir, reportage, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's northeast.
David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University, gives a talk on China's modern reform challenges.
The University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies presents Jeff Snyder-Reinke giving the Wallace S. Johnson Memorial Lecture titled, "Bones, Babies, and the Politics of Burial in Late Imperial China."
Lecture by Rian Thum, Dept. of History, Loyola University, New Orleans on Uyghur history.
Lan Su Garden joins with the National College of Natural Medicine to present a weekly series throughout April on the study of Classical Chinese medicine.
Linda Neuhauser, Public Health, UC Berkeley, gives a talk on the wellness of the Chinese labor force.
Please join the Wilson Center for a discussion of how wariness of Western values is related to anti-corruption, the CCP’s economic and legal reform programs, Xi Jinping’s personality cult, and China’s policy toward the United States.