Past Events
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley presents a discussion of the rise of China with Paul Heer, National Intelligence Officer for East Asia
Lingzhen Wang will examine the first Chinese socialist female film director and her most representative film: The Story of Liubao Village (1956), re-theorizing female cinematic authorship as a contingent articulation embedded within dynamic interactions among a multiplicity of historical forces.
The USC U.S.-China Institute presents a talk by Perry Link discussing China's two recent Nobel Prize winners, Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan.
Drawing on his chapter in the recently published chinadialogue book China and the Environment: The Green Revolution, Liu Jianqiang will relate the role that NGOs, news media and community leaders played in forming an environmental movement opposing a dam on the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Poet Wing Tek Lum will be reading from his book, The Nanjing Massacre, presented by the Center for Transpacific Studies
The Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley presents a discussion of China's new environmental law and justice system
The discussion explores the first disease maps of China that also present a visual history of the major transformations in modern medicine at the time
A panel discussion with Janet Yang (producer of Joy Luck Club and Shanghai Calling), Daniel Hsia (writer and director of Shanghai Calling), Bennett Pozil (Executive VP of EastWest Bank), and Chris Fenton (President of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group) on the globalization of Hollywood. A part of the Hollywood 3.0 Forum.
Shanghai Glamour explores how Shanghai women and their fashionable dress epitomized the seduction and mystery of this legendary city as it was modernizing in the early 20th century.
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) presents an exhibition that traces and celebrates the rise of Chinese American designers who decided to make their marks in New York.