Past Events
Yang Xiao from Kenyon College will speak on moral politics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.
Former University of Texas professor Edward Rhoads gives a lecture on his new book Stepping Forth into the World about the fascinating history of the first 120 Chinese students to study in the U.S. at the end of the 19th century at the Henry Luce Foundation in New York City.
How do we explain the unexpected longevity of the Chinese Communist political system? One answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. She will speak at UC Berkeley.
Dr. Carla Nappi, Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia will speak at University of Pennsylvania on the topic of translating bodies in Early Modern China.
Michael Hunter, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, will speak on the Analects at the University of Pennsylvania.
Echoes of the Rainbow will be screened at the University of Chicago.
University of Colorado, Boulder holds their annual "Asia Day".
The Smithsonian will screen Empire of Silver, a sweeping historical epic that delves into the secret world of merchants who once controlled China's finances in much the same way that Wall Street bankers operate today.
Shi Jie, a Ph. D. candidate in the Art History Department at the University of Chicago will speak about the Western Han Princely Tombs.
The Rubin Museum of Art presents important works of art from the Himalayas spanning a period of over one thousand years.