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Art
Pursuit of Immortality: Did the First Emperor Succeed in His Ambition?
The Society for Asian Art presents a lecture with Dr. Jay Xu about the finding of the tombs, and how they have played a part in our knowledge of that period of history..
Journey To Dunhuang: Buddhist Art Of The Silk Road Caves
The Seattle Art Museum presents an exhibition of art inspired by the cave art along the Silk Road at Dunhuang in remote Western China.
East Asian Garden Lecture - “How Can I Disdain…this Carving of Insects?”: Painters, Carvers, and Style in Chinese Woodblock Printed Images
The Huntington presents Associate Professor Suzanne Wright as she discusses the partnerships between Chinese painters and woodblock carvers who worked together to produce prints of exquisite beauty in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits of Tibet
The Rubin Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring early Tibetan portraits of the Buddha.
Court Ladies or Pin-Up Girls? Chinese Paintings from the MFA, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents images of women by Chinese artists from the 11th through the 20th century.
Blue & White: A Ceramic Journey
The Denver Art Museum presents a collection of "blue-and-white" ceramics.
The Vase Project: Made in China - Landscape in Blue
The Vase Project celebrates the art of copying and the role of the usually anonymous artists in Jingdezhen.
Tibetan Festival
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents a festival.
Traditional Chorus of the Dong Dimen
Citi Series on Asian Arts and Culture presents the Dimen Dong Folk Chorus: a centuries-old tradition of unaccompanied polyphonic singing.
The Universe Within: Art by Govinda Sah 'Azad'
The Tibet House presents Govinda's early paintings featuring the figure in a Himalayan landscape, an element that came to inspire his visual explorations of cloud formations as symbols of creation, fertility, and heaven.
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Featured Articles
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?