Past Events
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens presents John E. Wills Jr., emeritus professor of history at the University of Southern California. Professor Wills will discuss how Britain's success in smuggling tea plants out of China in 1840 led to the birth of India's great tea industry.
The Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies presents a documentary screening by Matthew Torne on "Lessons in Dissent," which tells the story of a generation of Hong Kongers dedicated to creating a new more democratic Hong Kong.
Peter Brack, veteran media executive and now a venture capitalist, will discuss lessons learned in two decades launching and running media enterprises in China and the rest of Asia.
This exhibition features the most recent works of art donated to the Crow Collection of Asian Art at the bequest of Margaret Doggett Crow (1919-2014). Highlights of this final gift to the Museum include fine examples of Asian export porcelain, jade vessels with delicately carved auspicious imagery, and Japanese ivorynetsuke. As a collection, these works tell stories from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century, including the interweaving of Daoist, Shinto, Buddhist, and folk traditions with the worlds of Qing dynasty Confucian scholars, Edo period merchants, and the collector’s eye for quality and beauty.
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford presents photojournalist David Butow. In this collection, Butow decided to explore the parallels of his craft with some of the Buddhist concepts he'd been studying such as empathy, compassion and awareness of the present moment.
A Dean's Roundtable Series event at UCSD presents a talk by ambassador Christopher Hill on his life as an American diplomat in some of the most dangerous outposts of democracy.
Tibet House US presents Professor Robert Thurman, leading a short intensive course in two sets of three and four classes. In February he will be introducing the basic concepts and practices of the tradition called “Tibetan Buddhism,” offering a glimpse into the advanced arts and sciences of the tradition; in April, he will be focusing on a study of the present global expansion of the tradition.
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Kapil Raj from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, focusing on Joseph Needham and the history of Chinese science.
Bowers Museum presents a unique evening centered around the exhibition titled China's Lost Civilization: The Mystery of Sanxingdui.