Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Dreams of Shanshui: Negotiating Landscape Aesthetics in China's Environmental Modernization
UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies hosts a talk with Andrea Riemenschnitter
When:
April 4, 2016 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
Where:
Speaker: Andrea Riemenschnitter, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich
Panelist/Discussant: Pheng Cheah, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Environmental China Colloquium 5
In the spring of 2015, a series of shanshui landscapes by early modern cartoon artist Feng Zikai decorated official China Dream posters in conjunction with slogans to protect the environment. Appropriated by the government, Feng's post-traditional sceneries are meant to assist China's project of environmental modernization. Hailing national values and citizen participation, the official take on landscape as shanshui aesthetics possibly opens up a space for the renegotiation of core issues in China's state ideology. Yet a monumentalizing approach threatens to neutralize both, Feng's and contemporary literary and artistic trajectories. While attempting to ease new anxieties with ancient wisdom, the posters as well as other official materials are haunted by this same wisdom's cultural memory of collective violence and vision of anarchic freedom. In this lecture, Shanghai artists' participation in the making of an environmental China Dream will be investigated by looking at several ongoing exhibitions. It will be argued that, by greening and aestheticizing the official China Dream, Xi Jinping strives to harmonize society by incorporating narratives of ecocultural contestation and appeasing any kind of opposition to rampant industrial pollution and heritage demolition. Furthermore, the government attempts to popularize the national policy of environmental modernization, and to maintain ideological control over proliferating demands for change with respect to political participation and economic development. The cultural sphere, on the other hand, defends its critical position by taking the government's tampering with traditional ethico-aesthetic standards at its word.
Event Contact: ccs@berkeley.edu, 510-643-6321
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