Past Events
The University of Chicago's Center of East Asians Studies presents a workshop discussing the abolition of China's imperial examination.
The Kissinger Institute and the Counsellors' Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China present a joint symposium on how national traditions and values yield (or fail to yield) creative cultures, innovative institutions, and soft power, and what governments can do to foster or stymie such dynamism.
At Bowers Museum, Icy Smith, author, educator and publisher, East West Discovery Press, and Gayle Garner Roski, illustrator and artist, will present the book Mystery of the Giant Masks of Sanxingdui.
The Foreign Policy Association presents a talk with Dr. C. Fred Bergsten, Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Peterson Institute on International Economics.
The Kissinger Institute invites you join Professors Andrew Wedeman and Donald C. Clarke, two of America's leading experts on corruption and legal reform in China, for their read-out on the 4th Plenum and a discussion of the course of Chinese reform in 2015.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents Professor Donald Clarke. He will address questions about China's local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) through an analysis of applicable law and a sample of LGFV bond prospectuses.
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Zhu Qi about Tang poetry.
The Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents a screening of "The Epic of Everest," probably the earliest filmed record of life in Tibet.
The Smithsonian's Museum of Asian Art presents New York's Music From China ensemble, who will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary with new works for Chinese and Western instruments.
Bowers Museum presents The Lost City of Jinsha, the critically acclaimed episode of History Channel Asia's groundbreaking new series on Chinese archaeology, Mysteries of China.