Past Events
This talk presents work-in-progress associated with the research project “Reconfiguring the World: China. Art. Agency 1900s to Now” which examines twentieth century Chinese art from an international perspective.
The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the "China in Transition" Lecture Series with Li Guo, Associate Professor of Language, Philosophy, and Communications Studies at Utah State University.
The first Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium speaker, Du Heng from Harvard University, will be giving a talk entitled "What was writing for? Transmission Scenes in Warring States Excavated Manuscripts."
EABW is designed to give graduate students/advanced undergraduate students a chance to have a scholarly discussion with authors of scholarly work on East Asia.
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University will present a talk with Ling Zhang, Assistant Professor of History at Boston College.
The Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute will host a workshop that seeks to familiarize researchers with local and unconventional and sources that reveal Maoist society at the margins.
The lecture will explore, how stone inscriptions were used in meditation, how with these inscriptions holy sites were transferred from India and recreated on the Chinese mountains, and how colophons guided the thoughts of the faithful and established a politico-religious context.
Analyzing visual representation of Chinese women in the popular media over a span of 60 years, this talk explores the concealed and erased history of socialist state feminist endeavors in socialist revolution and demonstrates drastic changes in gender norms and practices in the state’s embracing of global capitalism.
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies will host Qing Zhang to discuss language and social change in contemporary China.
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk by Stein Ringen. In "The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century," Stein examines how China’s distinctive governmental system works and where it may be moving.