Past Events
The second installment of IU-Bloomington's EASC Film Series takes place Wednesday, March 11, with a screening of hallowed Chinese filmmaker Te Wei’s特偉 Animated Shorts.
Tibet House US presents Tenzin Choegyal with Jesse Paris Smith and friends. In this concert, "For Tibet with Love," he will sing his original compositions and perform on dranyen (lute) and lingbu (flute), accompanied multi instrumentalist Jesse Paris Smith and friends.
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a talk by Professor Lu Ye from the Fudan University on how locals in Shanghai understand visual expressions of their urban culture, and how their personal experiences shape what people take away from these images of the city.
UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies presents a screening of "Touching the Tigers" and a discussion afterwards.
The UCLA Confucius Institute presents a talk by Zheng Hong, Principal of the Dandelion School in Beijing & a talk by Liang Xiaoyan, Secretary-General of the Beijing Western Sunshine Foundation for Rural Development.
Attend a special information session to learn about the opportunity to collaborate with a student from Communication University of China in making a short documentary about Los Angeles.
UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies presents a documentary screening of "Sunflower Revolution".
Zhu Jiangang (Professor of Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University) explores the civil associations, community movements and practices of the local government in a Shanghai lilong neighborhood named Pingmin.
China formally announced its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in January. At first blush, it's an unusual proposition: Chongli, the proposed site for the Olympic Village and Nordic skiing events is 150 miles from Beijing, and Yanqing, the town suggested for Alpine competitions, gets about two inches of snow annually. Join Susan Brownell, a world-renowned authority on Chinese sports and the Olympics, as she discusses the significance of the bid for China, what it says about China and about the rest of the world.
Wei Shang-Jin gives a presentation on Asian economies in 2015.