Past Events
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University presents a talk by Ambassador Nirupama Rao on Sino-Indian relations.
This evening course is an introduction to the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea, with special emphasis on the arts and ideas that have driven the development of these three countries today.
Professor Khor Boon Eng, a preeminent trilingual scholar of Malaysian literature, compares how Malaysian authors who write in Malay and those who write in Chinese respond to the dominant discourse of ethnocracy in Malaysia.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University presents a film screening on labor organizing in China, with a Q&A featuring the director Huang Wenhai and China Labour Bulletin's Han Dongfang.
Demonstrating The Ringling’s continuing commitment to the study of Asian art, Eternal Offerings showcases nearly 100 Chinese bronze objects from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. (Exhibition dates: June 9 – Sepetember 10, 2017)
The Huntington Library will be hosting an afternoon of traditional Chinese music highlighting classical Chinese string instruments. The program includes solos by Meiye Ma on pipa, Hejia Gao on guzheng, and Yunhe Liang on erhu, as well as works performed by the Spring Thunder Music Ensemble.
The Ringling Museum presents an exhibition from June 9 to September 10, 2017 displaying Chinese bronze statues. (Exhibition dates: June 9 - September 10, 2018)
The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a memorial symposium honoring the legacy of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo.
The Huntington will host a lecture by Richard Pegg, Asian art curator of the private MacLean Collection in Chicago, who will discuss the similarities and differences in representations of space, both real and imagined, in early modern maps created in China, Korea, and Japan.