Past Events
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, this selection of animated shorts digitally restored by the China Film Archive offers a rare glimpse of the luminous output of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio during the 1950s-'60s and late 1970s-'80s, often considered the twin Golden Ages of Chinese animation.
Citi Foundation and the Asia Society present social activist, entrepreneur and author Claire Chiang in a conversation on corporate social entrepreneurship in Asia.
Prof. Paolo Santangelo, from the Sapienza University of Rome, leads an international research project on the textual analysis of literary and non-literary sources in Chinese culture; this textual analysis aims to collect and evaluate the expressions concerning emotions and states of mind.
Drawing from his recently published book, China: Its Environment and History, Professor Marks will highlight what he sees as some of the major themes in China's very long environmental history, as well as some of the contentious issues in its understanding and interpretation. Presented by Harvard University's Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies.
The Institute of East Asian Studies will hold a talk about the rise of the internet and its role in rumors and rumor rebuttals in China.
A Collector's Passion presents over one hundred eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Meissen porcelain figures and figural groupings from the notable Mary Hulton Phillips collection. Most of the objects will be on public display for the first time.
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, this documentary is a representation of the "mysterious chaos" of a band on the road that captures the restlessness of contemporary China.
The US-China Institute at USC presents a 2012 Screening of Student Films made in the USC-CUC Summer Documentary Workshop in Beijing.
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, the fantastical factory that is the sauna becomes a vortex of ironies, prompting both scopophilic pleasure and an uncanny catalog of the effects of China's economic divides.
The COB is proud to present for the first time anywhere the complete new work by Zhang Yuan that he has since renamed BEIJING FLICKERS. The Chinatown Business Improvement District has converted two storefronts in Chinatown's Mandarin Plaza into a pop-up gallery just for the exhibition