Past Events
The United States Studies Centre presents a screening of "Assignment: China - Tiananmen Square", followed by discussion and Q&A with the film's reporter and narrator Mr Mike Chinoy.
American-born photographer Michael Cherney, who has lived and traveled in China for more than 20 years, uses a camera to capture the images as he prints and mounts them as traditional Chinese scrolls.
The Way We Dance is a 2013 Hong Kong film directed by Adam Wong Sau Ping and produced by Saville Chan.A Part of the series 19th Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival.
These three short films bring us back to the buzzing discontent of the workers and farmworkers on the portal docks, in the farming fields and on the streets and zoom in on the lined faces, calloused hands of the unsung heroes in China, Taiwan and Delano, CA. A part of the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.
Shanghai Blues is a Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark, which had its premiere on September 1984.
Filmmaker Tenzin Choklay crafts an intense and touching documentary about contemporary Tibetans' unwavering longing for their homeland and dreamland. A part of the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.
FRED HO'S LAST YEAR captures the unapologetic Fred Ho in an unbelievable year as he fights cancer, leads orchestras, holds lectures, leads protests, publishes books, and even produces his magnum opus: an elaborate, manga-inspired samurai opera on a New York stage. A part of the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.
Eric Liu, Founder and CEO, Citizen University will discuss what it means to be a Chinese American in this grand moment for China and the United States and how each generation throughout America's kaleidoscope of migration and acculturation has changed this country.
The final film of the late director Wu Tianming, charts the life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona (a Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument) apprentice who goes on to form his very own suona troupe at a time when the presence of traditional instruments declines in Chinese society. A part of the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.
A TIME IN QUCHI follows a boy's coming of age during his summer vacation in the rural Quchi. A part of the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival in New York City.