The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies hosts a poetry reading with Vera Schwarcz that blends her own work with that of contemporary Chinese poets.

The Renwen Society at China Institute and the Confucius Institute for Business at SUNY Global Center jointly present an illustrated lecture by Margaret Stocker on a book she is writing: "Saving China’s Art: The Heiress, the Diplomat and the ‘American Emperor’."

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents exhibits seventy works by thirty-five contemporary artists active in China and abroad during the past three decades.

This conference seeks to explore meta-disciplinary perspectives around such topics as academies, print, landscape, gardens, fashion, canons, and the language of art itself.