Past Events
Tai Chi 0 tells the story of Yang Luchan, a young genius who, tired of being picked on, travels to Chen Village to learn the art of Tai Chi.
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, a screening of LACUNA, a romantic comedy of a Hong Kong boy and Mainland girl trying to uncover the events that lead them to wake up together in a deserted department store.
Harvard University presents a discussion with Hao Jian on the current state of Chinese independent documentary filmmaking focusing specifically on the documentaries produced by artist Ai Weiwei, complemented by a screening of Ai Weiwei's new film, So Sorry.
Join Philip Hu, associate curator of Asian art and curator of Plants and Flowers in Chinese Paintings and Ceramics, for a discussion on the depiction of botanical subjects on two- and three-dimensional objects in Chinese art.
The USC U.S.-China Institute will screen the new segment of "Assignment: China" focusing on the generation of American journalists who reported on China during a period of revolution, famine, and upheaval.
The UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies presents a talk on the gold seal considered the first material object to pass between representative governments of "China" and "Japan," and one of the first instances of Chinese characters making their way to the archipelago from the mainland.
The New America Foundation presents a discussion on the potential of China to become an innovation superpower.
the UCLA Confucius Institute announces the inaugural China Onscreen Biennial on October 12th, 2012.
The fourth in a series of exhibitions curated by the renowned Tibetan scholar David Jackson, The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles in Tibetan Painting explores the four distinctive provincial artistic styles of Tibet as well as those of Bhutan, Mongolia, and Qing-dynasty China.
The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art, Freer/Sackler, present the Shanghai Quartet, playing Schubert's Quartetsatz; Bartók's Quartet no. 4; Beethoven's Quartet op. 132; and new arrangements of Chinese folksongs by Yi-Wen Jiang.