On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
Film/TV/radio
Screening: Deep in the Clouds (CAFF 2011)
The 2011 Chinese American Film Festival presents a screening of Deep in the Clouds.
Hong Kong Film Festival: "My Young Auntie"
Kara Wai won her first Hong Kong Film Award for her effervescent performance in this delightful kung fu comedy. She plays a young student who marries her dying teacher to keep his inheritance away from his untrustworthy relatives.
A Disappearance Foretold
Olivier Meys and Zhang Yaxuan's A Disappearance Foretold will be screened at UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Chen Shaoxiong: Ink. History. Media
The Seattle Art Museum presents Chen's two recent video works—Ink History and Ink Media—as well as their companion ink drawings.
Film 50: History of Cinema, In the Mood for Love
The UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive present Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" as part of its film-lecture course, Film 50.
Perfect Life
Emily Tang's second feature tells the bleak stories of female migrant workers in China.
2018 Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference
The Asia Program at Washington State University invites college and university faculty, K-12 schoolteachers, independent scholars and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, or individual papers to the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) 2018 Conference held June 8-10, 2018 at WSU, Pullman.
China Onscreen Biennial: Are We Really So Far From The Madhouse? (我们离疯人院有多远) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, this documentary is a representation of the "mysterious chaos" of a band on the road that captures the restlessness of contemporary China.
Night Train
Award winning director Diao Yinan uses his hometown Xi'an as the setting for a story of contemporary provincial Chinese life.
Snow Meets Mao: in Red Star Over China
The US-China Peoples Friendship Association of Long Beach hosts a video presentation moderated by Sheng-tai Chang and Elizabeth Kraft.
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Events
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 4:00pm PST
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 4:00pm
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?