Past Events
The upcoming exhibition, The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China, will open on October 20 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, featuring nearly 60 Chinese paintings―many presented for this first time in the U.S.―that reveals the private world of the scholar-painters who lived during the end of Ming dynasty (c. 1600–1644) and the early years of the Qing dynasty (1644–c.1700).
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents a festival.
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, a screening of The Red Detachment of Women, in which the heroine Wu Qinghua escapes from an evil landlord and becomes the leader of a women's militia.
The USC U.S.-China Institute and School of Cinematic Arts presents a screening of "Crocodile in the Yangtze," followed by Q&A with director Porter Erisman.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk with Michael Yahuda on Sino-Japanese relations and their politicized histories, conflicting identities, and economic interdependency.
The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana presents a conference
Inaugural Conference of the Forum on Chinese Poetic Culture
Stories of Chinese Poetic Culture: Earliest Times through the Tang presented by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This symposium at UC Berkeley will explore the uses of race and religion to establish war as a strategy of political power, and the uses of war to stabilize the epistemologies of race and religion as intimately linked organizing categories of social life.
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, a screening of The Monkey Kin: Uproar in Heaven 3D presents the remastering of a Chinese animated classic from the 1960s about a playful trickster.
Michael Dunne, CEO of Dunne & Company and author of American Wheels, Chinese Roads: The Story of General Motors in China, gives a lecture on foreign businesses in China.