Past Events
The Memorial Foundation for Children Teaching Gallery, located in the MWV Art Education Center, has been transformed into an interactive exhibition where visitors can explore daily life in imperial China. In contrast to the world of the emperor on display in Forbidden City, this hands-on exhibition provides a glimpse into the home of a merchant-class family who lived in the 18th century.
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a vivid and insightful portrait of China today, as featured on NPR’s This American Life, from the acclaimed author of "The Last Days of Old Beijing."
The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) is hosting a Chinese Language Film Festival, March 2-6, 2015. The Film Festival consists of three film screenings, a Chinese Language Film Salon, and a symposium on Chinese language cinema and the 4th Newman Prize laureate Chu T’tien-wen.
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley presents a colloquium with Susan Whitfield on the International Dunhuang Project, an international collaboration to make art from Dunhuang Road freely available on the Internet.
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is currently hosting Exquisite Nature, an exhibition presenting masterpieces from some of China's most influential painters of the 14th-18th centuries.
Exquisite Nature presents masterpieces from some of China’s most influential painters of the 14th–18th centuries. These rarely seen paintings include variations on popular subjects such as landscape, birds-and-flowers, country life and historical stories. Though differing in style and geographical representation, each artwork offers a unique take on a shared theme: humankind’s celebration of the natural world.
Cuilan Liu, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Harvard; Yang Minghong, Sichuan University and China Tibetology Center; Ryosuke Kobayashi, Columbia
Cuilan Liu, Documentary Filmmaker, Harvard University
Moderated by Robert J. Barnett, Director of Modern Tibet Studies Program at Columbia University
[CAS Speaker Series] Keynote addresses this year will be given by both Professor Ding Xiang Warner of Cornell University and Professor Michael Emmerich of the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Warner will give her presentation on the topic “When Stone Speaks: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-century Sinology” from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. on Friday, February 27th and Professor Emmerich will present his topic "World Literature as The Tale of Genji" from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, February 28th.